Multiple Group Chats

Feature Requests
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Hello,

I am keen to build a chatroom feature around multiple topics, allowing users to invite others into their private room.

Thank you for any light shed.

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If consuming rows is not a big problem for you, then you can have a setup like below.

  • Each original row contains a room ID and an array of emails containing the creator and his/her first invitees, let’s say 4, so we have Email 1, Email 2,…, Email 5.

  • Create a template column joining those emails, let’s say “Email Combined”.

  • In the chat room details view, have a form button that would write to an invites sheet the room ID and the email that the user wants to invite to the room.

  • Create a multiple relation from the chat rooms sheet to the inviites sheet, then a joined list column to return all invited emails in a comma-separated style, let’s say “Invitees Combined”.

  • Show chat room when signed-in user’s email is included in “Emails Combined” or is included in “Invitees Combined”.

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I would sincerely appreciate any examples you’ve done or video. Thanks for taking time to explain.

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Sorry I won’t have time to do a detailed walkthrough or an app, but here’s how the data structure should look like in the Sheets.

User Profiles: Email | Name | Image
Groups: Group ID | Group name | Email 1 | Email 2 | Email 3 | Email 4 | Email 5
Group invites: Group ID | Email 1 | Email 2 | Email 3

In Glide:

Groups: Invite Rel (Groups.Group ID to Group invites.Group ID), Joined List (Invite Rel > Email Template), Email Template (E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 replaced by the 5 email columns)

Group invites: Email Template (E1, E2, E3 replaced by the 3 email columns)

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I do something similar here:

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Thanks. I’ll try this out!

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I’ve been able to build private chats via invite code and/or leader approval.

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I’m very new here and can’t figure out how to start building my chat. I’d like to set it up where users can all chat in a public room or in private rooms. Admin should be able to override and offer the chat options to a user or not.

Can you help me accomplish this?.

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The public room can be the Chat tab that Glide built for you natively.

For the private room, you can watch the tutorial here: Need help on creating private chat

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Thank you! I’ll check it out and give it a go.

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Let us know if you need help and don’t hesitate asking questions!

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Welcome! A very kind community member posted this recently. Hope it helps and good luck!

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