Messenger

Hi, We have the messenger installed on our website and we now need to 1) create the companies available in our product 2) associated the users to each company.I know that both points are possible via the intercom API but I was wondering if these two steps can be achieved directly by passing the company_id and name (for 1) and some sort of link in the payload sent by the messenger like we do for the user_data:user_data{"email":"myemail@google.com","user_id":"github|blabla","user_hash":"d5c0534625a6ec7ad75bc5b2a9f231b1febb226ff37bde15df3e6693c0130677"}it’s probably not the most secure way but I was wondering if it’s something that can be done instead of doing all this back-end side  thank you

Hey Team, so we integrated Intercom into our apps, we rely on React Native V0.72.9 and we @intercom/intercom-react-native v5.3.1and we did already select Camera, Media, Files, GIFs on the Attachements in conversations settings for our apps. but still when starting conversation we can only see Gifs and Images only. do we miss something here ? thank you

I have a real problem because on mobile devices, my app displays a bottom navigation/tab bar. As you can see in the picture attached, the standard mobile layout that you impose means that the messenger obscures the mobile menu:  Even if I adjust the bottom spacing to say, 60px, it has no effect on mobile devices.This is a real annoyance and I can't immediately think of a way to solve it. Surely other customers have experienced this issue before?

I didn’t see a section for phone so posting here. We have a need to transfer a call to another phone number for another business unit.  Use case: call comes in call answered realize it is for other business unit who do not use Intercom need to transfer to that phone numberWe don’t see a way to do this.I can transfer a call in a workflow, before it gets to the agent.Anyone solved this?Zendesk supports this. 

Anyone experiencing this? I’m able to replicate internally after a customer brought this up. Possibly related to the last updated as they have no issues on Chrome.Verified the following:No browser extensions or plugins are being used No plugins (other than the standard present) Cleared cache/cookies Tried in Private browsing mode No errors in the browser console or network tab (ctrl + shift + i)Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!Michael

I followed the example for how to create a Messenger Canvas App, and I got it to work. The problem is that it creates a button. After pressing that button, it displays some text. I cannot figure out how to reset the program to go back to the button so that I can begin making and testing my own changes to the program. The only way I’ve been able to do it is to change browsers, but there are only so many of those. I’ve tried deleting cookies and the cache, changing the APIs, resetting the project. I’m getting desperate here.  The example code is completely changing what is on the canvas:app.post("/submit", (request, response) => {  const body = request.body;  response.send({    canvas: {      content: {        components: [          { type: "text", text: "Someone just clicked something!", style: "header", align: "center" },        ],      },    },  });});I can’t try changing anything, because nothing happens at this point.

In Salesforce, there are ways to create Categories and multiple sub catergories to these data points. So lets say you have two categories: Category 1 and 2.  In Category 1, you have the option to choose from X amount of options. When you choose one option, it will show specific data points to choose from in Category 2. The reason we are looking for this is to have more consistent data chosen in Intercom while also offering more data to choose from. We would love to have more specific data chosen in drop down lists but don't want to add too much to them right now as it just becomes too much to choose from.  Just curious if there's been any demand for this.

Hi,I’ve got a problem with opening articles in the messenger. You can test this problem on this website: https://community.intercom.com/Click on an article in the list under “search for help” The article opens, click on the back icon Click on another article in the list under “search for help” The article doesn’t open, the messenger is blank and doesn’t respondI’ve also got the same problem with opening articles with window.Intercom(“showArticle”, 12345), sometimes the messenger doesn’t open the article and is blank and doesn’t respond. I think this might be the same problem.Step 1:Step 2:Step 3:Step 4: 

Hi All, Hoping someone can help or provide some direction as how to prevent SPAM bots starting conversations on our Intercom Messenger on our Public Website.We have the Intercom Messenger on our Public facing website (Visitors/Leads) https://freshtrack.comWhen someone starts a conversation they need to provide Name, Email and Contact Number (which they do). However, the conversation is SPAM.  The email and phone number are fake and the message is generally “How do I register?”  or most recently “Where may I find a food bank” or similar.   The phone set to USA number.The volume of these messages is increasing and we want to prevent them as it is causing issues when our marketing automation runs and the emails just bounce back. Sometimes we get replies with exactly the same original conversation message  “How do I register”, “How can I book a appointment” etc. Is there a {I’m, Human} tool for Messenger when it is public facing?  Or dose anyone have any other ideas?Thank you all in advanc

Currently, in our android app is configured such that whenever a user clicks on the Intercom button, it initiates a new conversation.This setup, although functional, is not ideal for our users who often return to continue previous discussions. How can we modify this so that clicking the Intercom button opens the most recent conversation with that user instead of starting a new one every time.

I’m getting an error for identified users with `user_hash`, using the javascript APIThe Intercom.booted is true, but I can’t show it even with Intercom(‘show’) from the console, other events like shutdown throws this error which breaks other parts of our code is this a known issue? or is there a debug mode or something that can help me figure out the cause of the issue, it used to work just fine and it works perfectly for visitors 

Hi there, I'm hoping to find a way in my web app to insert a link that could open the Messenger directly to a specific Collection of help articles. We're hoping to draw attention to a category of resources without forcing the user to open a new tab. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks!

We have created a custom launcher for our web application to access the Intercom Messenger. We are implementing our own custom badging as well and using the onUnreadCountChange Javascript API method. However, when testing the badging functionality, the count seems to be inaccurate. For example, if an user has only one active conversation and our agent sends them 4 messages, is the expected return value from unreadCount supposed to be 4? From what we observed, if an user has multiple active conversations, then the unreadCount will then be 2.We are expecting and would like the unread count to be the total number of unread messages for a customer’s conversation(s). However, it seems as if the unread count is only associated with the number of unread conversations instead.Could you help clarify this, thanks! Best,Jonathan

We use react native sdk v6.20 and we set “Let users start a conversation” to false to prevent users from starting new conversations. But they still have the button “Send us a message”. I read that this should be fixed in v6.20 issue seems to be only for users with no conversations. if Let users start a conversation is falseuser with 0 conversations can see the button to start new conversations in the middle of the screen “Send us a message”user with 1 conversation doesn’t see the button but only their previous conversationsif Let users start a conversation is trueuser with 0 conversations can see the button to start new conversations in the middle of the screen “Send us a message”user with 1 conversation also sees the button at the top of the modal to start new conversation.so this means that if you don’t have conversations you can start new conversations regardless of the Let users start a conversation settingand if you do have conversations then the setting works as expected

Hello We’ve integrated Intercom SDK on Android (15.5.1) & iOS (16.3.1) platforms. We found several differences in the implementation between Android & iOS, could you help us to understand the reason of this case?  “Powed by Intercom” label is visible on Android, on iOS - no No close or create messages buttons on Android, on iOS - yes No close chat button, only get back to messages on Android  

We have conversations that will start on our pricing page, but we’ve noticed existing users visiting that page first then logging into our product, and the message will follow them unless they close it. Is it possible to add a rule to a workflow to close the message if they visit certain page? While we exclude users from getting this message, sometimes leads/visitors are actually users and we don’t know until they login to the product, which the message follows them through.

Hello,In our web application, we’re trying to display a specific news items based on button clicks using Intercom(‘showNews’, 1234). We’re currently facing an issue though as soon as we try to open two different news items (by clicking on each button one after the other). When we do this action, the first news item will somehow be cached and displayed again. Then no matter which button we click, the first item will always be the one displayed. We’ve tried to call Intercom(‘showSpace’, ‘news’) to see if it would solve the issue but to no avail.You can reproduce it by going on community.intercom.com and running the following in the console:Intercom('showNews', 31822)Intercom('showNews', 28469)Could you help me here ? I believe this might be a bug.

Hi,The situation is like this.We have a page that is already integrated with Intercom web chat. I would like to know if there’s any way that we can enter this page by URL with some query parameters, and the chatbox can automatically show up and prefill with the specific wording.  Thanks in advance!!

How do I set-up a text bubble around my messenger launcher, as per the examples you can see on the screenshots? 

We need to be able to remove or at least change the text on the bot messenger that says ‘Ask a question’. Can anyone explain how to do this please? We’re only using intercom for outbound communications so people can’t ask us a question,  Also, how can I remove the typical reply time. I’ve turned off the ‘share your typical reply time’ in the bot settings.  Thank you!

For my Zoom integration to work they require a URL for real-time support. Is there a way to get a URL that directs to our company’s intercom chat?

Intercom gives me the ability to create multiple Help Centers.  However in the Messenger settings I can only specify one Help Center, with no way to apply any sort of audience rule on which one gets used? What am I missing?  Is there a programmatic way to specify which Help Center a User is directed to?  

We want to engage customers better and make them feel like they been cared for by a real human being once they sign up for our system. Optimally we’d love to open up a conversation where we ask them 3 questions so we get some basic information about them, but also showing that there’s a person taking care of them.Any ideas on how to use the power of intercom to achieve this?

Can able to send images but when i try to send Screenshots in Pixel, Some of Samsung devices, It failing?  We are using v14.0.0 and kotlin version is 16.1.0.

I would like to have the ability to have a few simple question mark icons available on my site, when clicked, they would load specific articles from our help center within the messenger window. The goal is to deep link specific articles in the messenger. I've seen other chat bots provide this functionality but haven't found a way to do this with Intercom (happy to use the JavaScript API if needed). Thanks!