Getting started with the Chat Conversations API

Hi there!

I have created in NodeJS a service following your example of Chat Conversations API.

Everything works fine, but I can't do 2 things:

- How do I get or generate the value of {chatMessage.channel.id} to start a conversation automatically?

- I do not receive messages in (sender .__ typename === TYPE.AGENT) if they are generated by an Answerbot (with or without flowbuilder). I only receive “Live Agent” type messages. Can this be done?

Thanks a lot!! Alex

Hi Cong, good questions! The answer is yes, once you upgrade to Enterprise, you will see the Chat scope in your OAuth token. The Basic plan is a legacy version from a couple of years ago and the correlated plan is now "Lite", which is the current free version. 

Hope that helps!

Hi Greg, another questions by the way,

1. when I set the client's scope by "read%20write%20chat", and then check its scope by "

curl https://www.zopim.com/api/v2/oauth/clients

", the result shows my client's scopes are "read write", there is no "chat".  Does this because my Zendesk chat plan is "basic", not "Enterprise or Premium (legacy) plan"?    As I can see that "The Conversations API is available on Zendesk Chat Enterprise or Premium (legacy) plan.", your engineers do the access control when the client is authenticated.

2. I checked my Zendesk plan and the chat is 'Basic'. When I plan to upgrade my Zendesk plan to ENTERPRISE，I found that there is no 'basic' plan in Chat? Is this an old version? After I finished to upgrade to ENTERPRISE plan which cost $70/month, will I be able to  set the scope with 'chat' and use the chat conversational API?

Hi Jorge, it is mandatory to use Zendesk widget because Chat Conversations API allows you to act as a Zendesk agent, which can converse with visitors that started a chat from the Zendesk widget.

One possible setup that I can suggest is to make a bot agent using the Conversations API (it can use IBM Watson Assistant APIs), put the bot agent in a department and route all incoming chats from the widget to that department (reference). This way, all incoming chats will be served by the bot first. And then, the bot can transfer the conversation to a live agent using the transferToDepartment mutation. You can check the getting started guide above for more information.

Hi there!

My use case:

We created a chatbot in angular, also we are using IBM Watson Assistant APIs and we are looking for to transfer the conversation to the live agent in some point using the ZenDesk APIs.

Question:

It's possible to use a customized chatbot created in angular in order to transfer a conversation to live agent with ZenDesk or it is mandatory the use of ZenDesk Widget?

Regards,

Jorge

Hi Bliss ໃ_າ! 

That's correct, this capability is available on the Chat Enterprise plan only. The Real-time API is different from the Chat Conversations API. In order to leverage chatbots in Zendesk Chat, you would need to be using the Chat Conversations API that is available on the Enterprise plan. 

Hope that helps! 

This API is great and we were able to use it from a stand-alone Zendesk Chat account.

Unfortunately, we did not succeed to use the OAuth authentication when the Zendesk Chat account was created in Zendesk Support.

When we try to follow the OAuth documentation (https://developer.zendesk.com/rest_api/docs/chat/auth), we are asked to login to account.zopim.com for which we have no credentials.
When we change the OAuth URL to use the Zendesk Support OAuth on a subdomain, we receive an error saying that the scope is invalid (for the "chat" permission).

Can you please help us to solve this issue?

Many thanks,

Hi Cristophe!

For Chat account that was created in Support, the authorization page URL should contain subdomain query string. For example, if your account subdomain is donut_store.zendesk.com, the URL will look something like this:

https://www.zopim.com/oauth2/authorizations/new?subdomain=donut_store&<other query string stated in https://developer.zendesk.com/rest_api/docs/chat/auth#authorization-code-grant-flow>

Hope it helps!

Is subscription message from user chat a feature only available for Enterprise tier? Does the demo from the gist works with account with Professional? From the pricing Tier is "Real-Time API" the service required for doing this example?