- 03 May 2023
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Drift
- Mis à jour le 03 May 2023
- 3 Minutes à lire
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- SombreLumière
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Drift is a conversational messenger platform you can add to your website, knowledge base, or online business.
Integrating your Document360-powered Knowledge base with the Drift chat application gives you an additional edge when providing support or answering your customers' queries. You can share relevant articles and information from your knowledge base without leaving the Drift conversation page.
To enable this extension, you should have a registered Drift account. If you don't have one, you can create one following the signup instructions on the application website https://app.drift.com/
Basic setup guide
If you're an existing user of Drift or have it added to any of your company websites or Document360 home page, you can skip the 1st and 2nd sections of the Basic setup guide.
Continue from "3. Configuring your Document360 knowledge base with Drift composer" below
1. Acquire custom JavaScript from the Drift portal
1. If you are a new customer to Drift:
a. You will get the code assistant during the initial account setup
b. After signup, now login to your Drift account on Drift app website
Login and go to your Drift Dashboard
Click on the Settings and select the App settings tree-view menu
Click on the Drift assistant and select the Install option
Select the JavaScript option and a code window would be displayed
Click on the Copy button to copy the script to your clipboard
2. If you are an existing customer in Drift:
You can follow step 2 outlined for the new customer
The copied JavaScript would come in handy on the Document360 portal.
2. Setting up Drift chat on Document360
To set up the drift chat window on your Document360 page.
Go to your project in the Document360 portal
Go to Settings → Knowledge base site → Custom CSS & JavaScript
Click on the Custom JavaScript tab
Paste the copied script in the Custom JavaScript field in Document360 and click on the Save button
Now the Drift chat icon appears on your Document360. Your customers can use this assistant chat window to interact with you. You can continue conversing with your customers but need to look up and share articles from your knowledge base before leaving the drift chat response.
3. Configuring your Document360 knowledge base on Drift composer
Only when document360 is authorized and configured can you search for and share articles from your knowledge base with your end users.
Go to Settings → Knowledge base portal → Extensions → Team Collaboration tab
Drift would be listed among the other external integration platforms and apps
Click on the Add to Drift button
The page would be redirected to an authorization page on Drift
Click on the Authorize App button
After successful integration, you can access the connected knowledge base on Drift conversations using slash commands (/doc360)
Feature Highlights
Search and share articles in Drift conversations
Once the knowledge base has been integrated and authorized, you can search for articles from your knowledge base using keywords.
In the admin chat response window type in /doc360 then a space followed by the Search term
Press enter, and a relevant article search list appears
Now you have three buttons below each of the listed article
- Share – Sends the article link along with the meta text provided to your end-user chat
- Edit – Allows you to edit the text or link and then press 'Enter'
- Cancel – aborts the article search
During real-time conversations, this would make so much sense and cut back on the response time, as the service provider (your support agent) doesn't have to navigate to a separate window or browser tab to search the articles from your knowledge base and then share the link.