The Chat Collection is a special type of Collection Component that allows users to chat with each other directly in your app. Users can send and receive chat messages instantly in a shared chat screen.
Adding Chat Collections
In the Data Editor, Create a table to house the chat messages
Create columns to save the chat text and time stamp of the message.
In the Layout Editor, select the tab you want to edit.
Click on the plus symbol in the Components panel.
Select Chat.
Choose the Data Source table where you want your chat messages to be stored.
Give the component a title.
In Save Text, choose which column should store the chat messages that are sent.
You can also choose Chat as a style for the Comment Collection.
Configuring Chat Collections
Chat collections are specifically designed for chat threads with the following Display fields:
Text: The user’s chat text.
Timestamp: The date and time the chat was sent.
User photo: The photo of the user who sent the chat.
User name: The name of the user who sent the chat.
After mapping the fields you want to display with columns in the data source, populate Additional Columns for each new message. This will store the values that you want to display in the data source.
Timestamp: The date and time the chat was sent.
User photo: The photo of the user who sent the chat.
User name: The name of the user who sent the chat.
{A Unique Identifier}: We recommend storing at least one unique value for the thread in which you want this chat to appear. This will allow you to set up a Relation or Filter to segment your chats.
In addition to the standard options available with collections, the chat collection also comes with an Empty screen option. This is the message that will be displayed when there are no previous chats to show.
Optionally, you can limit the number of chats that will appear on a page.