Messaging

• Link authenticated Messaging users email to existing profile
• Make Messaging conversations available as comments in Side Conversations
• Assign Messaging Conversations to specific group based on context (e.g. choice in Flow Builder or URL visited)
• Show Messaging Conversations in Shared Tickets
• Have an API to get offline/online chat status of the instance

Flow Builder

• Separate Flow Builder flows per locale
• Skip Flow Builder Steps
• Collapse Tree in overview to have better overviews of structure (or have a vertical list of the structure similar to H1,H2,.. in Google Docs)
• Exclude words from Auto Translation (Aircall >> Luchtbel)
• Allow for Prefilling of Fields in Get Details Form
• Reusable Blocks to use in multiple steps: link to other intern at end of a flow.
• Make Federated Search content available
• Turn API results in parseable arrays and carousels if multiple objects are returned
• Conditional Step: if the details are a dropdown field, make values selectable in a dropdown
• Allow for more than 5 options in conditional flow. (Customer with 10 venues)
• Use parameters from API call in Images and Buttons of return messages
• Use URL info as items for conditions. E.g. When launches on the Dutch website show different flow than the French customer.

Proactive Messaging

Rules and Conditions

One item I would love is to get access to a users' logged-in state to trigger different messages. This would make the VIP flow above a lot nicer, or would prevent us from annoying logged in customers, while still targeting visitors.

Alternatively, rules would benefit nicely from allowing regex matches for more complex parsing and the ability to read localStorage cookies to have more nuanced triggers.

API

One omission I find curious is the complete lack of any API or developer toolkits for this.

I would love to be able to trigger a proactive message or intent client side via e.g. zE('messenger:proactive', 'message', 'type:intent','tag')  

Simlarly, a way to create, update, (dis)able or delete proactive messages via API would make it possible for tools like Hubspot to schedule and deploy campaigns automatically.

Similarly, I'd love to be able to schedule messages. E.g. launch our proactive campaign next monday.

Tags

While exploring flows for this article one of the ideas I had was to create a few Proactive Messages tagged with distinct tags (e.g. apple, pear, orange).

My idea was to combine those tags with the new Conditional Step in Flow Builder to automatically select the right path based on the assigned tag.

Sadly, Tags are only applied once a conversation starts, so there is no way for pro-active messages to filter intents.

Answer Bot

• Answer Bot ignores language set by the classic widget.
• Filter Answer Bot in email on Category (possible via Widget)
• Expose Federated Search content in Answer Bot
• Filter email results by category or section instead of only labels