Manage chats kChat

This guide details the principle of conversations kChat, organized within the Channels of discussion private and public, and direct discussions between users.

Start a conversation

To write to a user in your organization, click on the + right of the Direct Messages to select it:

Send your message; if necessary attach files up to 100 MB. You can also usereactions”.

Mention another user

To solicit one of the members of the organization (or a whole Task Force) via a message, type the arobase @ to display the persons or channels to be mentioned. Attention, depending on the type of channel concerned, the mention of a user displays a message allowing you to add it to the discussion otherwise it will not see the mention.

Asking for a read accused

So that users can acknowledge receipt of your message and thus report having read the message, activate a read acknowledgment before sending the message on the channel, by clicking on the icon (!) then by activating the toggle switch:

Once the message is sent, the result will be as follows:

 

Edit or Remove Message

To edit a message (which will then include an edited message mention), click on the action menu to the right of the message to edit. In the same place, you can also delete your message which will then disappear from the discussion in all users:

Organize conversations in kChat

The sort type for the items you manage on the left of the screen is very important.

Imagine opening kChat after several days of absence, unread conversations will appear under each other. After reading these, you may want to find information read among one of them, so a sorting by recent activity e.g. (see below for other possibilities) allows you to find the last conversations that concern you.

This selection of sort type is available for all elements: chat channels, categories, direct messages, etc.

Search for a conversation

The search for elements (word, participant, file) can be found at the top of the window:

Once the results are found, they appear on the right of the window.

Thread

Whatever the channel or private chat with another user, you can start a thread from another simply by choosing Reply on the desired message.

A thread will open on your right allowing each channel user to bring his comments into this specific wire without disturbing any new topics of the current channel:

These threads are then centralized to be read and read in the discussion thread part of the left sidebar.