Discourse Chat

[evanhamilton]

@mentioning individual users or groups will give the option to invite them to the channel if they aren’t participants already

Does this imply there’s no way to send people a link to a chat? Or could we @mention and then send a link?

[evanhamilton]

Is this accessible by the API at all? I can see a world where we want to automatically generate and close chats for cohorts.

[putty]

You could give them a link that automatically adds them to a group with access to the chat. Perhaps the “Arrive at topic” can be a topic explaining what the chat is and contain a link to the chat/how to use it.

[Lilly (Lillian)]

there is no official documentation on chat api, but it is accessible

@j.jaffeux

To get the channel information the endpoint is: /chat/api/channels/:id.json

If you want to access the messages: /chat/api/channels/:id/messages.json with available params being:

fetch_from_last_read=true
page_size=10
target_message_id=23323
direction=past/future

[evanhamilton]

If they’re already in a group can we point them to the chat directly, though?

[Lilly (Lillian)]

Introducing default chat channels (automatically add users)

Automatically add users to channel While creating a new channel, admins will now see a preference to add all new and existing users to it. Using this, admins can configure “default channels” for groups of users to be included in automatically. [image] For an existing channel, admins can toggle this behavior in Channel Settings. In all cases, a confirmation dialog will appear to indicate the number of users being added. Users auto-join a channel when: they are added to a…