React to messages on enabling reactions extension
Messaging is a great way to communicate with just one person or with a group of people. Now, we’re introducing a new feature that improves group conversations and makes them more fun and useful.
Reaction to messages
The ability to react to an individual message with a specific emotion, quickly showing acknowledgment or expressing how you feel when you read or see a message
For example, if someone shares a funny message, you could respond to them with a laughing out loud smiley reaction or, when someones requesting you to perform a task, you could use a reaction like a thumbs up or down.
Before you get started, we got to make sure we enable the Reactions extension. Please follow the steps required as you read along.
1. Add Reactions extension
Please follow these steps below
Sign in/Sign up on https://app.cometchat.com
Create/select your chat app
Head to extensions section on dashboard
Select reactions extension > Add extension
2. Setup settings for reactions extension
Please follow these steps below
Click on installed extensions
Select reactions settings
Enter the CometChat REST Api Key
Click on SAVE button to enable the reactions extension
3. Enable reactions in your chat
Please follow these steps below
Click on Chat widgets section on dashboard
Choose/Create your Chat widget
Click on main settings
Head to Emojis, stickers and reactions > enable React to messages
Click on Save & Done button
On following all the above steps, you will now see a smiley icon enabled for each message.
To add a reaction, click on the smiley icon which shows up on each message, and then choose your reaction to express love, smile, wow, sad, angry, yes, and no to express effortlessly.
You’ll be able to see how people have reacted to a message in the lower corner of the message. There, you’ll see the reactions people selected alongside a number indicating how many people reacted to the message. Tapping on the emojis will show you which members of your conversation reacted in which way.
We provide support of reaction to messages for Web, iOS and Android platforms.
Feature availability
Reactions extension is available only for Asteroid, Moon, Planet and Nebula plans.
To quickly integrate reactions of messages in your chat
Sign in/ Sign up on CometChat dashboard
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Harsha Patil
CometChat
