Introduction
Knowing how to quickly search for your customers or conversations in [Chat] is very helpful for improving the chat order rate and response efficiency. This article will mainly introduce the functions of filtering and searching conversations and customers in the [Chat] module.
Search and Filter Conversations
1. How to Search and Filter Customers
You can filter and search for conversations/customers in the upper left navigation bar, which will double your search efficiency in actual work.
Keyword Search:In the search box at the top of the chat list, you can search for customer names and nicknames; the system will match relevant conversations in real time.
Advanced Filter:Click the filter icon next to the search box to accurately locate content by contacts or session type:
- Customer:Visitor Tag, Social Media Account, Mail, Phone Number
- Conversation:Reception members, Last Reply Time, Session generation time, Visitor's Last Reply Time, Session type


2. View basic session information
2.1 Session status description
| Conversation Status | Description |
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| Mine | Displays only the conversations assigned to you. This is the default view when you sign in. |
| Bots (Legacy Chat) | Displays only the conversations handled by Bots. |
| AI Agent (New Bot Experience) | Displays only the conversations handled by AI Agent. |
| Unassigned | Displays only the conversations that have not yet been assigned to a customer service agent. |
| All | Displays all active conversations that have not been ended, including conversations handled by Bots and Unassigned conversations. |
| Teams | Allows you to view conversations assigned to other team members. |

2.2 Basic session information display
You can view the basic information of the current session in the session display column to facilitate your subsequent session reference.

2.3 Setting basic session information
When the session list setting is turned on to show contact tags , the contact tags in the visitor information bar will be synchronized to the session list.

When the conversation list setting is turned on to show the remark name first , the visitor's note name will be displayed in the conversation list.

- Enabled: The conversation list displays only the timestamp of the last message in the conversation. System notifications, such as members joining or leaving a group, are not included.
- Disabled: The conversation list displays the timestamp of the latest activity, including system notifications such as group join or leave events.

3. Chat list annotation
3.1 Marking a read conversation as unread
By marking the chats hosted by the robot and in the assigned list as unread, merchants can be reminded of which chats have not been responded to, making it easier for merchants to deal with unread chats later! Similarly, unread chats can also be marked as read. When there are many chats that need to be marked, merchants can also mark them in batches.

3.2 Batch Selection
You can perform batch operations such as ending sessions,session assignmant, unread/read, hosting settings , etc.
- Session Assignment: Depending on your permissions, you can assign the current conversation to a specific agent or assign an unassigned conversation.
- Unread/Read: Change the conversation to unread/read.
- Hosting Settings: Click to turn on/off robot hosting. When robot hosting is turned on, FAQ auto-reply and automated processes will be enabled to automatically reply to customer messages.
- Do Not Disturb Settings: Enable or disable Do Not Disturb for the current conversation. When enabled, you will no longer receive notifications for new messages in this conversation.
- Add Contact Tags: Add tags to the current contact for easier customer categorization and filtering.
- Add to Blacklist/Remove from Blacklist: Add the current contact to or remove them from the blacklist.
- End Session: Change the session status to the end session state. In the ended session state, the session will not appear in the chat interface and can be viewed in [ Client-Session Management ].

3.3 Top session
Each customer service representative can pin some of the conversations they are responsible for to the top, so that they can respond to key customer conversations in a timely manner. Administrators can pin other customer service representatives' conversations to the top.
Note: Ordinary members can only pin their conversations, while administrators can pin other members' conversations.
Click ... on the right side of the conversation > click Pin

4. View: Create Custom Work Groups
The view list is used for custom group management of messages. Users can create customer message groups according to their needs, so that users can locate conversations more accurately and quickly.
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What is a view?
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4.1 Create a view
On the left side of the chat box of [Inbox] is the view bar. Click [Create View] and a pop-up window will pop up to create a list. Enter [View Name], add Filter Criteria and click OK.

Filter by:
(1) Visitor tags: You can filter based on the visitor tags set for the customer.
(2) Last reply time: You can filter by the period when the customer last replied.
You can choose one or both of the filtering conditions. Click [Or]/[And] in the red box in the figure below to switch.

4.2 Edit view
If you need to change the filtering conditions of a group, you can move the mouse to the group, and then a three-dot icon will appear on the right. Click it and select [Edit ].

The system will pop up an [Edit View] pop-up window, just make changes on it and click [Ok].

4.3 Deleting a view
If you need to delete the group, you can move the mouse to the group, and then a three-dot icon will appear on the right. Click it and select [Delete ].

The system will pop up a second confirmation window. Click [Sure] to successfully delete it.

4.4 Hiding views
If you do not need to use the view (custom grouping) function, you can choose to hide the view column.
Move the mouse to the layout icon on the right side of the view,and two options will appear: [Show icons only] and [Hide Group].

(1) Show icons only
The view bar will become a logo with only the first letter of the group name. You can directly click the logo to select the group.
Click the layout icon above to restore the page before hiding.
(2) Hide Group
Completely hide the view bar. If you want to select a group, you can move the mouse to the layout icon to display the group.
Click the layout icon to restore the page before hiding.