Direct Messaging Feature

[Jamar_Johnson1]

Hi everyone! I’m trying to add a direct messaging (user-to-user) feature to my app. Can anyone provide suggestions on a buildout or provide a link to a previous or similar question on the community board?

[nathanaelb]

I wrote this a few months ago, the information might still be relevant but I’m not sure.

Chat function

With the new comments collection, you can achieve both a global chat and 1:1 chats. Data Editor In both cases, in the Data Editor, you’ll need one Comments table. All messages of all chats will appear in this Comments table. [CleanShot 2023-06-28 at 15.57.06@2x] For the global chat, 4 basic columns: Comment, Timestamp, User Name, User Photo For 1:1 chats, 3 additional basic columns: ChatPerson1, ChatPerson2, ChatID. In the ChatPerson columns, write the email addresses of the people chattin…

[ThinhDinh]

You can use the Chat component to do so.

https://www.glideapps.com/docs/essentials/components/collection/chat

Just make sure only the relevant people can see the content of a chat.