Hi,
I'm excited to see the new chat API. I see it's possible to send messages via Corvid.
But how do channels get created? Is it possible to create a new channel via Corvid? Is it possible to read and display messages outside of the chat box?
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Hi Shan,
1. About channel creation we are aligned and its in the pipeline but don't have a due yet,
2. About the None site member I assuming you are looking for chatting between visitor and the business. For that you can do by sending message from the client to the Business type. This will create automatically the channel and the participantId. Try it and let me know if you need more info ....
3. About the Channel vs Chatroom, we change all our terminology to channel this is why it documented this way. We still have some left overs of chatroom that will be deprecated soon (So please don't use it)
4. We are never retention and chat discussions. So its there but currently we don't have an API that exposed it out (Assuming you are looking for this as well :-)
Ciao, Erez
Hi Whisky man,
Actually with the current release you can create your own chat room with business (You have the client send message and the onMessage ..... event).
In the coming future you will able as well to create private chat as well (member to member) and this should cover your request.
and eventually we will like to introduce the full group chat integration but this is not planed yet.
So I don't know what type of chat you will like to create but you should have some of the needed solutions.
About Example its great idea I will try to create some and to publish to the Corvid example page,
10x, Erez
Hi Plon,
If its business chat its created automatically following the first message that will be send from the visito.
For Social chat we still don't have the ability to create a chat room (Channel) but if there is one that already exists you can focus and enter it. (As well you can see all existing channel ...)
Is this helping you?
10x, Erez
https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/$w.Chatbox.html
The Wix Chat application lets you communicate with site visitors via a chatbox. The chatbox sends messages over a chat channel, which connects 2 or more chat participants.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/about-wix-chat
You won't be able to create your own channel through Wix Corvid as it is still a Wix app and will only create the new channels through the app itself.