Need help on creating private chat

Hello Lisa,

At 1:10 seconds of the video, the pathway to the Form is button>chat. My pathway goes from the chat button, to the chat page, the Form does not appear where I can configure the component and columns. What am I doing wrong. I have attached a picture so that you can see what is happening when I click on the chat with ---- button.

Can you show the full screen?

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With the new features you can simply use the action "add a row, that way you don’t need a form. Choose the destination to be the chat’s tab

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Add a row?

Go to the component features, click on the action. Then, create action.

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Hope it helps @Paige_L_Martin

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Thank you Pablo! This is extremely helpful. One question though. The screen that is pictured in the video, and you click on your chat button, it goes to a component screen that looks completely different than mine. Yours has just the Layout and Edit buttons at the top. When I click on my chat with Paige Martin button on my screen, it takes me to a different components screen as shown in my picture attached. How do I get to the component screen without the features button option in the middle that looks like yours?

Hope it solves your issue, if not send me a private message and I’ll try help you

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Hi Lisa, this is great! How did you get the Chat ID? Did you just create a ROW ID and change the title of the header? Thank you!

Thanks @Jen_NYCP. On the form, I used the Unique Identifier component to generate an Id. But you could use the Row ID for the same purpose.

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Ah, I see got it. Thanks!

Good thing is that you don’t need a form anymore! You can do create row with the same result as @Lisa with the new actions! Not trying to be better than Lisa here :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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You’re 100% right! Actions have made everything better. Hopefully I’ll have some to update the Glidegram template with things like you just mentioned :wink:

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@Lisa How can i filter only the last message of the user to show. I have it set up like text messages. i keep getting stuck at this last part where i need to only show last user.
criteria for send; if user is sent user Email. > If message is fingerprinted message in User - multi user col > Now i want it to show only last message per user in the sheet.



That can be done a couple of ways but they aren’t simple requests. I would suggest using one of our templates available on the site I created a community chat app that we as a community continue to evolve and is 100% free. Here’s the link.

You want it to showcase the last message of the chat overall, or the last message sent by the specific user?

Last message of a specific user

The community app will show you the last message sent between 2 people.

I copied your app, The issues is not in the messenger itself. it’s here, Before i click on the message. Look at img in your app and mine. You represent the same issue i am having.

Update i was thinking of a new meted that will by bass that create message thingy. Give me a day or 2 to try it out. going to start now. thank you.