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Online visitors tutorial

My operators can not see online visitors, what I'm missing?​

By default if user does not have assigned "All departments" in user departments assigment management window he won't see anything. Here is basic flow what you should do

  • If user should see all departments online visitors (with department and without) to him should be assigned "All departments". 
  • If operator should see only some departments users, just select these departments.
  • Also you can assign to user "lhchat" => "sees_all_online_visitors" so it will ignore assigned departments and will show all online visitors.

My users loose chat session then they navigate through the site, duplicate online users records​

There is just few things which can be incorrectly configured

  • Your site is switching between http and https mode, but you have enable HTML5 storage. HTML5 storage is different for each http and https site
  • You have entered site domain in back office, but embeded code in site with different domain.
  • Checked that Live Helper Chat should use ssl but site in which you have embeded widget does not use https
  • In embed code generation window you have entered domain where Live Helper Chat is installed, but not the site it is embeded. It has to be site domain where Live Helper Chat is embeded.

So basically that's the things which can go wrong. The more flexibility I give, the more errors users does. So change these values if you know what you are doing!

How to send a manual message to online visitor?​

  • Generate code with checked option "Check for messages from operator"
  • Enable online users tracking on online users section. Most likely it's already enabled 😄
  • Then you see online user just click send message to a user.

Sending message to the online visitor​

Send message to the visitor contains of two scenario.

  • Sending invitation - chat won't be started
  • Send invitation and start a chat - chat will be started

Sending invitation without starting a chat​

This is preferred way to send an invitation to chat. As we won't create a dummy chats if visitor does not reply.

  • Assign the chat to me if the visitor replies means chat will be assigned to the operator who send an invitation if visitor replies or after bot workflow chat becomes pending.

    • This will happen even if operator become offline after sending an invitation.
    • If you have auto assignment happening and operator does not accept a chat, chat will be forwarded to next available operator.
    • If operator has Automatically accept assigned chats option enabled in his account, and he is logged in back office chat will be assigned to him first.

  • Skip bot - chat will skip a bot and will go directly into pending state. If Assign the chat to me if the visitor replies is checked chat will be assigned to operator who send an invitation.

    • This will happen even if operator become offline after sending an invitation.

In summary, chat will always be assigned first to operator who send an invitation independently on his onfline/offline and visibility status.

Sending invitation and start a chat​

This will start chat automatically as soon operator send a message to visitor.

  • Chat will be automatically assigned to operator who send an invitation independently on his onfline/offline and visibility status.