Just to be clear, we donāt have users per se who own the listings as we have rapidly onboarded them by manually creating their listings in our Sheet. Each listing contains their email.
Presumably private chat wouldnāt work unless they are also created as users? i.e. we would need to create a separate sheet for them as users, and make a relationship with their listing?
The āstart new chatā button injects userIDs and the like to make the relation happen. You could probably just copy/paste the userIDs/emails into the correct columns in the Google Sheet to prepoulate the chats.
Awesome app, hopefully glideapps will integrate private messaging as a components soon or a feature since if we create our own chat system using the sheets. Privacy is the number one concern. because we can basically read all their conversations. which is fine if we are only the admins but for multiple administrator / mods I think that will be a concern.
Iām doing a similar approach for my community thank you for sharing this wonderful app keep it up
Hi Lisa, Thanks for responding.
I run Gratitudespace.com. For example, If I were to buy your design, Iād want to make it a positive and gratitude only post place. The design of everything that I post or initiate out into the world is the element of sharing it on other platforms. So for example, if someone shared a picture of a handwritten letter to someone, they then would share it with that person or post it on the persons social media feed on twitter or Facebook. Basically what Facebook and Instagram do right now. Iāve thought about this and maybe this isnāt possible because you are using spreadsheets and not individual URLs. Iām curious to hear your thoughts.
Thanks, Chris
Great work, I really like the design and features you added !
Iām trying out glide for some app And I would like to add a direct message functionnality. Could you share what you have done here or explain it a little bit further (Iām not really technichal, sorry)
I suppose the method Lisa taught us was designed so that each new topic creates a new discussion, kind of what we have here on Discourse but not what you expect. You want something like Messenger where there is only one 1v1 discussion between two users, right?
In that case, I think we can use some logic to hide the āSending a chat formā button when a discussion has been kicked off. An idea is to have a template column joining the email of signed-in user and the second user, then have the same template column in the āTopicsā sheet. Make a relation column matching them, if the relation is not empty then donāt show the button.
Hi Lisa, rather new to Glide. Thanks for archiving your chat video. Iām keen to do something of the sort. Would you mind explaining how you populated the various columns you declared? It probably has something to do with setting up user accounts. If so, how did you achieve the dummy accounts? Basic question for an expert Thx for any suggestions and setup videos you may think are helpful. Have a blessed day. - EBU