User

class User

A user of your app. TalkJS uses the id to uniquely identify this user. All other fields of a User are allowed to vary over time and the TalkJS database will update its fields accordingly.

Method Overview

Constructor

Create a TalkJS User

Properties

availabilityText
: string | null

Availability acts similarly to welcomeMessage but appears as a system message.

custom
: { [name: string]: string | null } | null

Allows you to set custom metadata for the User

email
: string | Array<string> | null

One or more email address belonging to the User. The email addresses will be used for Email Notifications if they are enabled.

id
: string

The unqiue ID which is used to identify the user in TalkJS

locale
: string | null

The locale field expects an IETF language tag. See the localization documentation.

name
: string

The User's name which will be displayed on the TalkJS UI

phone
: string | Array<string> | null

One or more phone numbers belonging to the User. The phone number will be used for SMS Notifications (this feature requires standard plan and up).

photoUrl
: string | null

An optional URL to a photo which will be displayed as the user's avatar

role
: string | null

TalkJS supports multiple sets of settings, called "roles". These allow you to change the behavior of TalkJS for different users. You have full control over which user gets which configuration.

welcomeMessage
: string | null

The default message a user sees when starting a chat with that person

Deprecated configuration
: string | null

Deprecated.

Please use role instead.

Constructors

new User(options)
Create a TalkJS User

Use this constructor to synchronize user data with the TalkJS backend.

The fields id, name and email are required. A warning will be emitted if role is not specified.

Set email to null if you want to use TalkJS without email fallback.

Parameters

options
: UserOptions
interface UserOptions
availabilityText (optional)
: string | null

Availability acts similarly to User​.welcomeMessage but appears as a system message.

custom (optional)
: { [name: string]: string | null } | null

Allows you to set custom metadata for the User

email (optional)
: string | Array<string> | null

One or more email address belonging to the User. The email addresses will be used for Email Notifications if they are enabled.

id
: string | number

The unqiue ID which is used to identify the user in TalkJS

locale (optional)
: string | null

The locale field expects an IETF language tag. See the localization documentation.

name
: string

The User's name which will be displayed on the TalkJS UI

phone (optional)
: string | Array<string> | null

One or more phone numbers belonging to the User. The phone number will be used for SMS Notifications (this feature requires standard plan and up).

photoUrl (optional)
: string | null

An optional URL to a photo which will be displayed as the user's avatar

role (optional)
: string | null

TalkJS supports multiple sets of settings, called "roles". These allow you to change the behavior of TalkJS for different users. You have full control over which user gets which configuration.

welcomeMessage (optional)
: string | null

The default message a user sees when starting a chat with that person

Deprecated configuration (optional)
: string | null

Deprecated.

Please use role instead.

new User(id)
Create a TalkJS User

Only use this constructor if you're sure that a user by the given id already exists in TalkJS (for instance, because you synchronized it via the REST API). Otherwise use the new User(options: object): constructor instead.

Parameters

id
: string | number