Frequently asked questions
- Creation and integration
- How can I create the chat?
- How can i configure my chat?
- How to integrate chat and configure authorization in a chat so that used the site's information about user, such as nickname, avatar, path to the profile?
- How to add my authorization method to the existing one? For example a link to the authorization block of my site?
- How to sign out of the chat?
- What if I need a chat for every product, broadcast, blog, etc.?
- How do I make chat rooms?
- Sync up with messengers
- How to sync up Telegram group/supergroup with the web chat?
- How to link the Telegram channel with the web chat?
- Why can't I add a bot to a channel?
- Can I add my bot to synchronize messages?
- Is your service suitable for broadcasting the Telegram channel to the website?
- How to sync VK conversation with the web chat?
- Why the Bot stopped synchronizing messages or synchronized in one direction?
- How to remove the synchronization of the web chat with a telegram or VK?
- How to make automatic synchronization?
- Administration
- How to add new administrators to the chat?
- How to add new moderators to the chat?
- How to allow chatting to authorized users only?
- What are the methods for dealing with spammers, trolls?
- How to configure message filtering on a server side?
- How to ban users and delete messages?
- What is a hidden ban?
- How to unban a user?
- What is the spoofing protection and how to use it?
- Errors
- Why does the mismatch domain error occur?
- Why does the signature error occur?
- Why does not the chat appear on the page?
- I'm having trouble displaying chat.
- Common
- Do you have documentation?
- How to make a sound in the chat?
- How can I send a private message to another user in a chat?
- What load can your servers hold?
- How to make full screen chat?
- I do not like the design. It does not harmonize with my site.
- I have a couple of great ideas for the chat, with whom to share?
- I want to see the chat in my language, how to help with this?
Creation and integration
How can I create the chat?
You can create the chat in several ways:
1) The easiest and most convenient - via the chat constructor.
2) Using our WordPress plugin.
3) On-the-fly creation.
How can i configure my chat?
There are two ways. The first way is setting in the chat editor. The second way is to pass special parameters to the chat's calling function named ChatbroLoader.
How to integrate chat and configure authorization in a chat so that used the site's information about user, such as nickname, avatar, path to the profile?
How to add my authorization method to the existing one? For example a link to the authorization block of my site?
Configure it in the chat editor (Users authentication -> Custom login link) or use ChatbroLoader's parameter named "customLoginLink".
How to sign out of the chat?
There is a "logout" button in the chat menu. If the chat is integrated into a website, it's enough to log out from a website.
What if I need a chat for every product, broadcast, blog, etc.?
To do this, it is convenient to use the dynamic creation of chats. Create and customize one chat, then use it to create others like it automatically.
How do I make chat rooms?
We do not yet have such functionality. You can create a chat for each room by dynamic creation, but code that will navigate users to rooms you will should to implement by yourself.
Sync up with messengers
How to sync up Telegram group/supergroup with the web chat?
Add @ChatbroBot to telegram group or supergroup. The bot will send a link in a private message where you can link the web chat and the telegram group/supergroup. If you don't have contact with our bot until this moment, it will not be able to send you a private message and will send a link to the group/supergroup.
How to link the Telegram channel with the web chat?
Add @ChatbroBot to the telegram channel as an administrator and type "/sync" in the channel. The bot will send a sync link to this channel.
Why can't I add a bot to a channel?
Use the desktop version of Telegram. Add the bot as an administrator (you can not add the bot as a common user).
Can I add my bot to synchronize messages?
Yes you can. It will work just like the our one and you will can to control over it.
Custom VK Bot.
Custom Telegram Bot.
Is your service suitable for broadcasting the Telegram channel to the website?
Our service is great for this. To send messages to one side (channel -> web chat), configure the web chat so that it does not allow sending messages. Additionally, you can configure the bot so that it can not write to the channel.
Why the Bot stopped synchronizing messages or synchronized in one direction?
If you have some sync problems with telegram, make sure that your bot's privacy mode is disabled. You can check it with BotFather. Contact us by email or telegram if you still have problems.
How to remove the synchronization of the web chat with a telegram or VK?
There are a couple of ways to do this:
1) Delete the bot from the conversation/group/supergroup/channel. Synchronization will be automatically deleted, an alert will be sent to the private messages.
2) In the chat editor in the "Synchronization with messengers" block, you can see all active links and delete it.
Administration
How to add new administrators to the chat?
The administrator in the chat can be only one. But you can add moderator. He be able to ban users and delete messages.
How to add new moderators to the chat?
Moderator can be appointed in two ways:
1) Find the message of the right person in chat, call the message menu. Then click "make moderator". Please note that a guest cannot be appointed as a moderator.
2) Pass to the ChatbroLoader the required set (permissions: ['ban', 'delete']) of rights for a particular person. Used only when spoofing protection is enabled. Usage example and detail info.
How to allow chatting to authorized users only?
In the chat editor (Users authentication -> Internal methods) disable "Anonymous with temporary name".
What are the methods for dealing with spammers, trolls?
You can set up flexible message filtering on our server side or use a send delay. All these options are found in the chat editor in block "Restrictions".
How to configure message filtering on a server side?
In the chat editor (Restrictions -> Message processing) find a button "edit function". Clicking will open the editor with an example.
How to ban users and delete messages?
Only the administrator and moderators can to ban users and to delete messages. Place the cursor to the desired message, via the menu that appears, you can take the appropriate action.
What is a hidden ban?
If you ban a user and indicate a hidden ban, the intruder will not suspect about it. He will also continue to write in the chat, but only he will see his messages.
How to unban a user?
The administrator has a link to the list of all banned in the chat menu, where he can unban them. The second way - to ban a user again for a minute.
What is the spoofing protection and how to use it?
Spoofing is the situation when a person or a program successfully masks under another way of falsifying data and receives illegal benefits. For example, in the chat one person can write under the guise of another. The spoofing protection excludes such situations. Chatbro allows you to make sure that the chat is not displayed on other sites besides yours and exclude sending messages from other resources. This is described in detail here.
Errors
Why does the mismatch domain error occur?
You entered an incorrect siteDomain or siteDomain does not match the referrer. Correct the siteDomain and the error will disappear.
Why does the signature error occur?
You have anti-spoofing enabled (Chat editor -> Users authentication -> Single Sign-On -> Spoofing protection), bot you incorrectly calculated the signature parameter or did not pass it at all. More information about Single Sign-On and Spoofing protection.
Common
How to make a sound in the chat?
There is no built-in mechanism in the chat, but you can do this.
How can I send a private message to another user in a chat?
There are no personal messages yet. If a user is authorized in the chat via the social network, his name and avatar will be a link to the profile in the social network and you can contact him.
I do not like the design. It does not harmonize with my site.
The chat does not use an iframe. This means that the original styles can be overridden to fit your needs.
I want to see the chat in my language, how to help with this?
Help us to translatethe chat to your language.