Participants
A participant is a User that is a member of a Conversation.
Participants can get notifications of activity in a conversation and are listed in the conversation's member list.
All the conversations that a user is a participant of are shown in the conversation list of the Inbox, ordered by last activity.
To add a participant to a conversation with JavaScript, use setParticipant. To add, remove or edit a participant, use the REST API.
You can control participant behaviour using the following fields:
Specifies the participant's access permission for a conversation.
| Option | Result |
|---|---|
"Read" | The participant is allowed to read messages in the converstion The participant is not allowed to post new messages The participant is listed in the header |
"ReadWrite" | The participant is allowed to read messages The participant is allowed to post new messages The participant is listed in the header |
"None" | The participant is not allowed to read messages The participant is not allowed to post new messages The participant is not listed in the header |
Access rights are described in more detail in the section on group chat access rights.
If the participant meets the condition to get a notification, the notify setting will be used to determine if notifications will be send.
When mentions are used, you can set it up, so that users will only receive a notification once they are mentioned.
| Option | Result |
|---|---|
true | The participant will receive notifications |
false | The participant will not receive notifications |
"MentionsOnly" | The participant will only receive notifications once they are mentioned in the conversation |