Hi! I have been searching but have yet to find an answer to this. I have a comments component set up on the chat within my app. I have having issues however because a user cannot edit or delete a comment and the names being displayed are all mixed up. Has anyone come across a tried an alternative …

Hola @Jen_NYCP Have you looked at this thread? It might give you some ideas. [image] Glide's Community Built Messenger Project Showcase A Private Messenger app similar to the ones that come native on your phone. I’ve created an entirely different way of submitting a cha…

The alternative would be to use addrow functionality where each row is a new line in the chat. Works REALLY well, but has potential to use up your row quota fast.

Thanks! Just read through it all, seems rows being used might be an issue. I have another feature in my app where I have to delete rows that are a few months old, and probaly only want that job once. I saw there was a discussion about a sheet kind of like an archive of chats which I think will be he…

Thanks! And you display this as an inline list?

Yep. Something like this: [Screen Shot 2021-03-16 at 10.52.30 PM]

Oooh! Hmm…this looks alot better. Let me look into the archive thing. Is that floating button connected to a form?

Thanks! I’m stuck on the part where I have to pull in data of the user writing the message, (their business name and featured image). I have a chat sheet that shows the two users in a specific chat and their information, but I don’t know how to link it to the signed in user since its just listed as …

Business name is the info by which to link the user, right?

I’m thinking if that’s the best thing to use. Business Row ID might be better. I created a separate messages sheet. The chat sheet holds the initial requests and identifying information. Kind of how comments worked. I am trying to figure out how to connect the two sheets, so I can use that data in t…

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Hola @Jen_NYCP

Have you looked at this thread?

It might give you some ideas.

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