Manage kChat Conversations

This guide details the principle of kChat conversations, organized within private and public chat channels , and direct chats between users.

Start a conversation

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

Send your message; you can also attach files up to 100MB.

To solicit one of the members of the organization via a message, you can type the at sign "@" to display the people or channels to mention. Please note, depending on the type of channel concerned, the mention of a user displays a message allowing you to add him to the discussion, otherwise he will not see the mention.

Edit or delete 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 be edited:

In the same place, you can also delete your message which will then disappear from the discussion among all users.

Organize conversations in kChat

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

Imagine opening kChat after several days of absence, the unread conversations will be displayed one under the other. After reading these, you may want to find information read from one of them, so sorting by recent activity , for example, allows you to find the last conversations that concerned you:

This choice of sorting type is available for all items: chat channels, categories, direct messages, etc.

Search for a conversation

The search for items (word, participant, file) is on the top of the window:

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

Thread

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

A discussion thread will open on your right allowing each user of the channel to contribute their words in this specific thread without disturbing the possible new subjects of the current channel:

These threads are then centralized for reading and re-reading in the Threads section of the left sidebar: