Changelog

a year ago

Search all messages, a fresh activity dashboard, and more

Highlights

Search all messages and conversations

You can now include a search box in your chat, to allow users to search all their messages and conversations. 

Overview of the top of the conversation list on the left side of the Inbox pre-built chat UI. At the top is a toggle with the label ‘Browser notifications’, below that is a search box with space to add search terms and a magnifying glass to initiate the search. Below that is the first conversation from the conversation list.

If enabled, the search box appears at the top of the conversation list of the user's inbox in the Inbox pre-built chat UI. 

To enable the search functionality, go to the Settings page of your dashboard. In the Search section, check the Search enabled checkbox.

Section in the Settings page of the TalkJS dashboard with the header ‘Search’. Next to the header is a green label stating ‘Growth plan feature’ with a check mark. Below the header is a check box with the text ‘Search enabled’. At the bottom is a button with the text ‘Index all messages’, with the associated text ‘Messages since April 15, 2024 are indexed and searchable’.

Once you’ve enabled search, all new messages are directly searchable. To also be able to search older messages, select the Index all messages button.

The search messages feature is available on the Growth plan or higher.

Fresh new activity dashboard

With a fresh new Activity overview, it has just become yet easier to analyze chat activity and monitor conversations.

Overview of the Activity page of the TalkJS dashboard. At the top is a header ‘Activity’, with below that a ‘Timeframe’ dropdown menu to select a timeframe, and a list of the number of active users, conversations created, active conversation, and messages in the selected timeframe. Below that is a header ‘Conversation history’, with a table with columns for ‘ID’, ‘Last message’, ‘Subject’, ‘Participants’, ‘Messages’, and ‘Details’, the latter with a button labeled ‘View’ to view the conversation details.

On the Activity page of your TalkJS dashboard, you immediately have an overview of the number of messages sent, active users, as well as conversations created and active. 

You also have direct access to the conversation history of all conversations in your app. To access the details for a specific conversation, select View in the conversation’s row.

Overview of other changes

Added

  • Added the option to separate email notification replys based on a regular expression (regex). 

Changed

  • The sort filter in the TalkJS template language now accepts a key to sort by.
  • React Native SDK (version 0.8.1): The ConversationList no longer highlights the first conversation by default.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where audio playback would produce a crackling sound when using Android WebView.
  • Fixed an issue where voice messages wouldn’t correctly play back on iOS 17.3 and lower.
  • React Native SDK (version 0.8.3): Fixed an issue where getNotificationHandler was undefined.
  • React Native SDK (version 0.8.2): Fixed an issue where errors didn’t show up in debug mode.
  • Flutter SDK (version 0.10.2): Fixed an issue where push notifications didn’t work correctly on Android when an app had been terminated.
  • Flutter SDK (version 0.10.2): Fixed an issue where MessageFieldOptions didn’t work correctly.



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