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Map Lync/Skype for Business user presence to Mattermost
Hi,
We use Lync/Skype for Business as the primary communications tool at my company, but for small project/team communications we use a self-hosted Mattermost server, because it's obviously 9000 times better than SFB.
However, Mattermost (especially the desktop client) does not integrate very well with Windows regarding the user's presence.
Short Scenario:
If I lock my computer, SFB immediately sets my presence toAway, meanwhile Mattermost doesn't.On the other way around, if I minimize the Mattermost Desktop client to the tray, and I have an other application running on full-screen, after a short period, Mattermost goes to mark me as
away, which is not true -- I'm still at my computer, but in an another application.
This is super inconvenient -- or are we doing something wrong?Now, our workaround for this (which is super uncomfortable) is checking our colleague's status on SFB/Lync, then alt+tab back to Mattermost, and start/continue our conversation if they're available.
My proposal:
I did a little research, and I was happy to find out that SFB/Lync indeed has got a public API resource for querying user presences.
I put together a little python script (no golang competence yet, sorry) to test Microsoft's UCWA (https://ucwa.skype.com/about-ucwa), and I could easily get the presence of anybody in my organization/on my partner list.My suggestion would be adding a new attribute to the User model class in Mattermost to map the existing users in Mattermost to their Skype for Business SIP address.
Also, write a server-side function which would query the presence of online Mattermost users each x seconds, and would return this presence info on the GUI (another small circle next to the internal Mattermost status, maybe?)Also a question:
I do not know golang and I also don't know Mattermost's architecture yet, so please help me in this question:
If you decide not to implement this feature, would it be possible to integrate this into our instance as a 3rd-party plugin, and
can 3party plugins change the look of the GUI for all users -- what's are the main limitations?Cheers!
Hi,
We use Lync/Skype for Business as the primary communications tool at my company, but for small project/team communications we use a self-hosted Mattermost server, because it's obviously 9000 times better than SFB.
However, Mattermost (especially the desktop client) does not integrate very well with Windows regarding the user's presence.
Short Scenario:
If I lock my computer, SFB immediately sets my presence toAway, meanwhile Mattermost doesn't.On the other way around, if I minimize the Mattermost Desktop client to the tray, and I have an other application running on full-screen, after a short period, Mattermost goes to mark…
10 votesHi Kristóf, thank you for suggesting this feature!
Sounds that what you are experiencing is similar to this Help Wanted ticket: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/7721
Would you be open to help contribute to it? If so, we’d be more than happy to guide you through the process. The change would be in our Desktop App which uses Javascript instead of Go.
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Unsubscribe from email notifications directly from the email
Currently when you receive an email notification, you cannot unsubscribe from the notifications directly from the email. Instead, you must log in, then go to Account Settings > Notifications to turn them off.
Propose providing a link in the email which allows you to unsubscribe from the notifications without logging in, similar to Discourse.
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Status over name (Working locations)
something which i liked about Slack was you could put a 'status' which would appear by hovering over someone's name. I and a lot of others used to put their locations for the week which was quite useful.
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Ability to Reply to Message with Webhook
It would be awesome for us, when something like this could be achieved:
I use a slash command in a thread (right side), the triggered post will include the parent message id.
Add the parent message id to incoming webhooks. So I can reply to a thread with webhooks.
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Make notifications for multi-person direct messages work the same as for single-person direct messages.
Make notifications for multi-person direct messages work the same as for single-person direct messages.
Scroll down to the bottom of the Direct Message section in the channel bar and click More...
Choose 2 names to send a message to and click Go
Type a message in the chat window
Expected behavior
On the recipients' clients, the taskbar icon should show a red dot with a number (eg: 1)
imageOn the system tray icon, a red dot should appear.
imageObserved behavior
On the recipients' clients, the taskbar icon shows a red dot with a white dot in the middle
imageOn the system tray icon, a blue dot appears.
imageAdditional Information
I find that users respond to direct messages more readily than group channels. The way the notifications are currently working, the notifications for multi-person DMs look more like channel notifications and people aren't getting back to them as quickly. Sometimes, not at all.I've opened a ticket in the MM GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/mattermost/desktop/issues/572
Make notifications for multi-person direct messages work the same as for single-person direct messages.
Scroll down to the bottom of the Direct Message section in the channel bar and click More...
Choose 2 names to send a message to and click Go
Type a message in the chat window
Expected behavior
On the recipients' clients, the taskbar icon should show a red dot with a number (eg: 1)
imageOn the system tray icon, a red dot should appear.
imageObserved behavior
On the recipients' clients, the taskbar icon shows a red dot with a white dot in the middle…71 votesRelated ticket here: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-10109
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add support for custom server storage via SSH.
Currently the pull down menu for "File Storage System:" on /admin_console/files/storage only offers Local Storage and Amazon. I want to use my file server. So SSH access. (I guess WebDav for some people?)
That means that you would have a third option in the pull-down that says "Custom Server (SSH)" and the fields below it would be:
- Username
2a. Password OR
2b. Paste your public RSA key here
Server URL (ex - 'myfileserver.mycompany.com')
SSH port (default: 22)
root directory (default: ~)
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Login with QR code
I have a very long password and I would like to keep it. To make it easier to login on the phone it would be great if a QR is code shown on the computer which I can scan. (Where I am already logged into Mattermost.) Similar to Whatsapp where you login like this on the computer.
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Regex sound Alerts
Regex sound Alerts
Ability to create unique sound alerts based on text of message coming in.
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Add support for Adaptive Icons on Android 8
Android 8 introduced a featured called Adaptive Icons; it lets users pick the shape of icons on their home screen. Supporting this is extremely easy, and only requires 4 lines of XML code. Please add support for this feature in a future release.
Documentation is available here: https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive.html
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add "android auto" support
I'ld really like to see android auto support.
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Better AWS S3 Integration
AWS S3 is a great option and I've gotten it working using an IAM role w policies to access that specific S3 bucket. What I'm suggesting is that instead of S3 being used as just a file "dump", there could be an optional setting for "Serve content directly from S3" (as well as perhaps another option available for "serve directly using cloudfront" - which would have a notice on the extra cost).
The idea is that instead of serving assets from the Mattermost instance itself, the objects in S3 could have presigned URL's set on them (with another setting for default expiry) ensuring that only the users who have access to the specific object (image) can access it.I was going to look over the source and see if I could implement this in a branch and submit a pull request, but if anyone else is interested in working on this do let me know!
AWS S3 is a great option and I've gotten it working using an IAM role w policies to access that specific S3 bucket. What I'm suggesting is that instead of S3 being used as just a file "dump", there could be an optional setting for "Serve content directly from S3" (as well as perhaps another option available for "serve directly using cloudfront" - which would have a notice on the extra cost).
The idea is that instead of serving assets from the Mattermost instance itself, the objects in S3 could have presigned URL's set on them (with another setting for…6 votes -
Make Mattermost recognize jira links to show issue information
One thing you need the whole time when really working with Mattermost is pasting links from other applications like Jira. Because there is no tight integration, either the other person has to open the link all the time or I have to copy the issue title besides the link.
The only way I could solve this party was with a slash command (because it works for every channel) (https://github.com/mattermost-jira-info/mattermost-jira-info)
But it would be nice to extend the link parser (link preview) to be able to connect it to other applications....51 votes -
add the ability to preview messages, or a larger editor in the RHB
It would be really great to be able to have a preview of a message before it's sent. Putting a full-size, WYSIWYG-able editor available in the right-hand bar would make it easier to compose longer messages, especially if you need to reference other posts inside of Mattermost.
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Have favourite channels visible from other teams
Private messages and their favourites are visible regardless of team. It would be nice if favourite channels are also available from any team, regardless of the team they belong to. This would make communication across teams faster and easier.
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Allow consecutive emoji's in the Emoji Picker
When typing a message, sometimes I want to insert consecutive emoji's. Instead of typing them manually, I would rather use the Emoji Picker. However, as soon as I click on an emoji to insert it, the Emoji Picker closes. I think it would be really nice if there was a way, like holding the Shift key, to keep it open so that I can insert other emoji's in a row.
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Add GPG signed and encrypted notifications (end to end)
As administrator I want to restrict notification messages sent from my self-hosted mattermost server to be GPG signed and encrypted.
That means, if a user hasn't uploaded a GPG public key to his account, notifications sent to him only contain some metadata or nothing at all.
If a user has uploaded a GPG public key, then the notification message is encrypted for him as receiver, so only he can read it.
The notification message shall be signed in any case with the private key that I configured in my mattermost server.Motivation: transport layer security between the mattermost server and clients is a great thing for transfering confidential information, however, if the receiver happens to be offline/away and notifications are configured to contain the content of the message it results in a leak of this sensitive information because the data lands in plain text on foreign mail servers.
As administrator I want to restrict notification messages sent from my self-hosted mattermost server to be GPG signed and encrypted.
That means, if a user hasn't uploaded a GPG public key to his account, notifications sent to him only contain some metadata or nothing at all.
If a user has uploaded a GPG public key, then the notification message is encrypted for him as receiver, so only he can read it.
The notification message shall be signed in any case with the private key that I configured in my mattermost server.Motivation: transport layer security between the mattermost server…
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Method to get/export channel member list
Sometimes it would be handy to export a list of channel members for example to form an emailing list or something. Can't find a way to do this either on UI or with commandline tools. Ideally it would be configurable to get Name or Email or both.
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Build a thread system similar to Twist
As plenty of companies around there we find Slack/Mattermost a bit too chatty at times. More importantly, it sometimes makes it really hard to follow discussion around a specific topic. For now we have two choices :
- Create a specific channel around a topic. But you can start to have a lot of channels really fast
- Use "threads". But to be frank threads implementation is really lacking and not practical for complex discussions
A new player,https://twistapp.com/, has an interesting take on this problem. Real time channels still exists, but there is another category of channels, entirely based on threads.
It would be great to see something similar in Twist. A Twist thread is basically a discussion channel focused on 1 topic. The organisation of threads inside big "thread groups" is sweet.
As plenty of companies around there we find Slack/Mattermost a bit too chatty at times. More importantly, it sometimes makes it really hard to follow discussion around a specific topic. For now we have two choices :
- Create a specific channel around a topic. But you can start to have a lot of channels really fast
- Use "threads". But to be frank threads implementation is really lacking and not practical for complex discussions
A new player,https://twistapp.com/, has an interesting take on this problem. Real time channels still exists, but there is another category of channels, entirely based on…
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send message later
I'd find it realy useful to be able to send a message later at a given date and time (e.g. like Buffer).
Often, I'd find some useful or interesting info I want to post to the team chat at off-hours, and the message could either be overlooked because the timestamp will be quite old during work hours, or I'd disturb team members who have hot keywords defined and get notified automatically.353 votes -
Edit default emojis
We use the default emojis and the custom emojis in our Mattermost. To custom it even more, we would like to edit the full set of default emojis (not create new ones) e.G.
:D.The proposition could be done in several parts:
- setup in the administration panel a way to edit the picture for one default emoji
- setup a way from the administration panel to import a set of emojis to replace the default ones
- setup in the administration panel a way to reset the default emojis to the original ones
- update mobile applications to display the edited default emojis instead of mobile's emojis.Thank you!
We use the default emojis and the custom emojis in our Mattermost. To custom it even more, we would like to edit the full set of default emojis (not create new ones) e.G.
:D.The proposition could be done in several parts:
- setup in the administration panel a way to edit the picture for one default emoji
- setup a way from the administration panel to import a set of emojis to replace the default ones
- setup in the administration panel a way to reset the default emojis to the original ones
- update mobile applications to…109 votes
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