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Managing kChat Conversations
This guide details the concept of conversations on kChat, organized within private and public discussion channels, as well as direct discussions between users.
Starting a Conversation
To write to a user in your organization, click on the + to the right of Direct Messages to select them:
Send your message; if necessary, attach files up to 100 MB.
To mention one of the organization's members via a message, type the "@" symbol to display the people or channels to mention. Note that depending on the type of channel involved, mentioning a user displays a message allowing you to add them to the discussion; otherwise, they won't see the mention.
Requesting a Read Receipt
To allow users to acknowledge receipt of your message and thus indicate that they have read the message, enable a read receipt before sending the message on the channel by clicking on the ⦅!⦆ icon and then toggling the button :
Once the message is sent, the result will be as follows:
Editing or Deleting a 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 for all users:
Organizing Conversations in kChat
The sorting type for the elements you manage on the left side of the screen is very important.
Imagine opening kChat after several days of absence, the unread conversations will be displayed one below the other. After reading them, you may want to find information read among one of them, so sorting by recent activity, for example (read below for other possibilities), allows you to find the last conversations that concerned you.
This choice of sorting type is available for all elements: discussion channels, categories, direct messages, etc.
Searching for a Conversation
The search for items (word, participant, file) is located at the top of the window:
Once results are found, they appear on the right side of the window.
Threaded Discussion
Regardless of the channel or private chat with another user, you can start a threaded discussion from another by simply choosing Reply on the desired message.
A threaded discussion will open on your right, allowing each user in the channel to contribute to this specific thread without disturbing any new topics in the ongoing channel:
These threaded discussions are then centralized to be read and reread in the Threaded Discussions section of the left sidebar.