Blocks allow BOTS to augment the capacities of a chat message. At the moment only one block is available: `actions`, accepting only one type of element: `button`.
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# Usage
```ruby
Chat::CreateMessage.call(
params: {
message: "Welcome!",
chat_channel_id: 2,
blocks: [
{
type: "actions",
elements: [
{ value: "foo", type: "button", text: { text: "How can I install themes?", type: "plain_text" } }
]
}
]
},
guardian: Discourse.system_user.guardian
)
```
# Documentation
## Blocks
### Actions
Holds interactive elements: button.
#### Fields
| Field | Type | Description | Required? |
|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| type | string | For an actions block, type is always `actions` | Yes |
| elements | array | An array of interactive elements, maximum 10 elements | Yes |
| block_id | string | An unique identifier for the block, will be generated if not specified. It has to be unique per message | No |
#### Example
```json
{
"type": "actions",
"block_id": "actions_1",
"elements": [...]
}
```
## Elements
### Button
#### Fields
| Field | Type | Description | Required? |
|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| type | string | For a button, type is always `button` | Yes |
| text | object | A text object holding the type and text. Max 75 characters | Yes |
| value | string | The value returned after the interaction has been validated. Maximum length is 2000 characters | No |
| style | string | Can be `primary` , `success` or `danger` | No |
| action_id | string | An unique identifier for the action, will be generated if not specified. It has to be unique per message | No |
#### Example
```json
{
"type": "actions",
"block_id": "actions_1",
"elements": [
{
"type": "button",
"text": {
"type": "plain_text",
"text": "Ok"
},
"value": "ok",
"action_id": "button_1"
}
]
}
```
## Interactions
When a user interactions with a button the following flow will happen:
- We send an interaction request to the server
- Server checks if the user can make this interaction
- If the user can make this interaction, the server will:
* `DiscourseEvent.trigger(:chat_message_interaction, interaction)`
* return a JSON document
```json
{
"interaction": {
"user": {
"id": 1,
"username": "j.jaffeux"
},
"channel": {
"id": 1,
"title": "Staff"
},
"message": {
"id": 1,
"text": "test",
"user_id": -1
},
"action": {
"text": {
"text": "How to install themes?",
"type": "plain_text"
},
"type": "button",
"value": "click_me_123",
"action_id": "bf4f30b9-de99-4959-b3f5-632a6a1add04"
}
}
}
```
* Fire a `appEvents.trigger("chat:message_interaction", interaction)`
In certain locales like English (GB), If a user posted 2 subsequent messages, the first would have a date displayed in 24 hour format, while the second message would be shown in 12 hour format (when hovering the message).
This change forces both messages to display in 12 hour format, the first message showing the am/pm, and the second showing the smaller version without am/pm.
On the chat channel settings page, we want to show a single Send push notifications setting instead of the current Desktop notifications and Mobile push notifications settings.
For existing users, use the Mobile push notifications setting value for the new Send push notifications setting.
This commit converts the current chat plugin UI into the
new "show plugin" UI already followed by AI and Gamification.
In the process, I also:
* Made a dedicated /new route to create new webhooks
* Converted the webhook form to FormKit
* Made some fixes and improvements to the `AdminPluginConfigPage`, `AdminPageHeader`,
and `AdminPageSubheader` generic components, so more plugins can
adopt the UI guidelines too. This includes adding a header outlet so plugins
can add action buttons to the plugin show page header.
* Fixes the submit button loading state for FormKit (by Joffrey)
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Co-authored-by: Joffrey JAFFEUX <j.jaffeux@gmail.com>
A new setting attribute is used to define the areas (separated by `|`).
In addition, endpoint `/admin/config/site_settings.json` accepts new `filter_area` data.
This change introduces a new thread notification level allowing users to get notified when someone replies to the thread.
Users who watch a thread will get a green notification on the chat icon and a user notification (blue). User notifications are consolidated based on thread id to prevent cluttering the original users notification area.
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Co-authored-by: Régis Hanol <regis@hanol.fr>
This commit introduces a new frontend API to add custom items to the "Site activity" section in the new /about page. The new API is called `addAboutPageActivity` and it works along side the `register_stat` serve-side API which serializes the data that the frontend API consumes. More details of how the two APIs work together is in the JSDoc comment above the API function definition.
Internal topic: t/128545/9.
* FIX: Remove chat default channel being applied to mobile chat and drawer
* DEV: removing chat_default_channel_id setting
* DEV: add migration to remove chat default channel id
* DEV: remove default_channel_validator and tests
* DEV: rename chat preferred mobile index to chat preferred index
* UX: change routing to be consistent with mobile
* DEV: change migration file to use script
* UX: show footer only if more than one option is available
* UX: Remove desktopView only checks for chat
* DEV: Remove unused imports
* UX: Update chat footer checks and Add rerouting to chat drawer
* UX: Add margin to chat row in desktop and update chat drawer logic
* UX: Change chat in desktop to use flexbox
* UX: Add drawer actions to chat navbar
* DEV: Update page object with new chat css classes
removed `.open-browse-page-btn` usage in 7bd65006d7
* DEV: rename `browse/open` in chat url to `channels`
* UX: Adjust css for when in threads mode
* DEV: change css class name in no_sidebar_spec.rb
* DEV: rename tests to be more descriptive with the action they are testing
update chat template to not rely on `:has`
* DEV: update test and add method to chat page object
* DEV: update no_sidebar_spec for chat changes
* DEV: remove tests from navigation_spec that no longer apply
* DEV: revert typo in test
* DEV: change url path for mobile chat in test specs
* DEV: Add check for when is desktop in rerouting
* UX: Removed footer from desktop.
Made `hasThreads` and `hasDirectMessages` methods in chat-drawer public
* UX: remove sidebar on desktop full page if dm list is empty
* DEV: Address review comments
* DEV: Adjust reroute logic for chat browse
remove unused code
* UX: Adjust rerouting to go to browse.open
* UX: Change rerouting to be more consistent
Add chat_default_channel_id routing
* UX: Update rerouting configuration for chat routes
* DEV: Update tests with the new chat behavior
* DEV: revert changes made in tests and bring back toggle for drawer
* DEV: revert classes in page objects
* DEV: Add tests to new chat navigation behavior
remove unused stylesheets
revert deleted lines in tests
update concat class logic in chat dm template
* DEV: update css on test
Prior to this fix we would show the message after a round trip to the server. If you had a too long message error, at this point your input would be empty and we would show an error in chat. It's important to have this server side safety net, but we can have a better UX by showing an error on the frontend before sending the message, that way you can correct your message before sending it and not lose it.
I am changing many of these to notes or resolving them as is,
most of these I have not actively worked on in years so someone
else can work on them when we get to these areas again.
When chat is enabled, there's a scheduled job that runs every 5 minutes to check whether we need to send a "chat summary" email to users with unread chat messages or mentions.
On Discourse with a large number of users, the query used wasn't optimal and sometimes taking minutes. Which isn't good when the query is called every 5 minutes 😬
This PR reworks the query in `Chat::Mailer.send_unread_mentions_summary`.
Instead of starting from the `users` table, it starts from the `user_chat_channel_memberships` table which is the main piece tying everything together.
The new query is mostly similar to the previous one, with some bug fixes (like ensuring the user has `allow_private_messages` enabled for direct messages) and is also slightly simpler since it doesn't keep track of the `memberships_with_unread_messages` anymore. That part has been moved to the `user_notifications.chat_summary` email method.
The `UserEmailExtension` has been deleted since that was using to N+1 update the `user_chat_channel_memberships.last_unread_mention_when_emailed_it`(quite a mouthful 😛) but that's now done directly in the `user_notifications.chat_summary` email method.
The "plat de résistance" of that PR - the `user_notifications.chat_summary` method has been re-worked for improved performances 🚀
Instead of doing everything in one query, it does 4 tiny ones.
- One to retrieve the list of unread mentions (@something) in "category" channels
- One to retrieve the list of unread messages in "direct message" channels (aka. 1-1 and group discussions)
- One to load all the chat messages for each "category" channels from the last unread mention
- One to load all the chat messages for each "direct message" channels from the last unread message
All the specs for both `Chat::Mailer` and `UserNotification.chat_summary` have been rewriten for easier comprehension and faster execution (mostly by not using chat services which makes the specs go 10x slower...)
Internal ref - t/129848
Adds a placeholder image + CTA in chat, for empty channel and DM lists.
On desktop with drawer mode, we split chat into tabs (like mobile).
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Co-authored-by: Joffrey JAFFEUX <j.jaffeux@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: David Battersby <info@davidbattersby.com>
Co-authored-by: Régis Hanol <regis@hanol.fr>
For both `chat_allowed_groups` and `chat_message_flag_allowed_groups`,
this commit removes the `is_staff?` guardian check, and instead
adds both `moderators` and `admins` auto groups as `mandatory_values`
to those settings, as part of an ongoing effort to do this for
group-based setting values.
