# Putting a button into Chat for Jitsi calls
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-button-into-chat-for-jitsi-calls/241000
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** chat, completed, jitsi-video
**Created:** [October 5, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-button-into-chat-for-jitsi-calls/241000 "2022-10-05T10:01:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-button-into-chat-for-jitsi-calls/241000/1 "2022-10-05T10:01:04Z")
I’m thinking of making a Theme component that inserts a videocall (Jitsi or similar) button into the chat header.
It looks a bit tricky as the HTML is pretty different between the full page and the drawer view (haven’t even checked out mobile yet).
And it might be too early to mess with the Chat plugin, as nobody else seems to have done so yet. Therefore there is nobody to copy!
However, it is a very attractive target for this as it is fairly easy to ensure both parties (for one:one) are in the same place / context when they are chatting, completely removing the need to ‘schedule’ a call.
Anyone got any thoughts about how to go about it?
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### Author:  [@asirota](https://meta.discourse.org/u/asirota)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-button-into-chat-for-jitsi-calls/241000/2 "2022-10-05T15:30:20Z")
Could be a great way to do a huddle. Or maybe have a video support upgrade for people doing support. We do something like this on [https://newpathconsulting.com/hero](https://newpathconsulting.com/hero)
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-button-into-chat-for-jitsi-calls/241000/3 "2022-10-05T18:50:50Z")
> [@nathankershaw](#):
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> And it might be too early to mess with the Chat plugin, as nobody else seems to have done so yet. Therefore there is nobody to copy!
The other risk here is that things are still moving quickly so you may have to accept customizations breaking without warning for a while longer.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-button-into-chat-for-jitsi-calls/241000/4 "2024-01-23T03:46:59Z")
We’ve got a PR for this at the moment:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-jitsi/pull/22](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-jitsi/pull/22)
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-button-into-chat-for-jitsi-calls/241000/5 "2024-02-28T16:30:58Z")
I just merged the PR, thanks!
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-a-button-into-chat-for-jitsi-calls/241000/6 "2024-07-15T23:21:12Z")