Messages
Corteza makes Messaging your colleagues intuitive and user friendly.
Dealing with Messages
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Enter a message into the message bar at the very bottom of the screen
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Hit "Enter"
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Hover over the message with the cursor and click on the plus (“+”) sign that appears at the end of the message.
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Select “edit message”. This method works for all your messages
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Alternatively, while you’re in the message bar, hit the Page Up key and edit a message. This method only works for your most recent inputted message.
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Hover over the message with the cursor and click on the plus (“+”) sign that appears at the end of the message.
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Select “delete message”.
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Hover over the message with the cursor and click on the speech bubble icon that appears at the end of the message.
Replying to a message opens a side bar on the right of the screen called a message “Thread”. The unread message count in a thread appear in red underneath the original message.
Reactions
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Hover over the message with the cursor and click on the emoticon (smiley) icon that appears at the end of the message.
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Click on the sign and choose from the emoticon menu presented.
User Mentions
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Type the “@” sign and a user list will appear.
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Continue typing the first letters of the name of that person beside the “@” sign (with no spaces) and the list will reduce alphabetically to the name of the individual you wish to mention.
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Hit ENTER when you wish to select the user.
The mentioned user gets sent a notification from you when they are mentioned.
Unread Messages
The number of unread messages in a channel appears beside the channel name in the left sidebar.
Bubble icon instead of number indicates you have unread messages in one of the threads inside the channel.
To mark messages as read click on "Mark as read" button on the bottom right corner.
Bookmarks and Pins
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Hover over the message with the cursor and click on the bookmark icon that appears at the end of the message.
Bookmarked messages are visible only to you.
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To view your bookmarked messages in any channel, select the channel controls in the top right hand corner (three vertical dots) and select “Bookmarked Messages”.
Bookmarked messages are highlighted with a green vertical bar on the right of the message in any channel.
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Hover over the message with the cursor and click on the pin icon that appears at the end of the message.
Pinned messages are visible in the right sidebar to every member of the channel.
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To view your pinned messages in any channel, select the channel controls in the top right hand corner (three vertical dots) and select “Pinned Messages”.
Pinned messages are highlighted with a yellow vertical bar on the right of the message in any channel.
File Upload
You can upload files and share them with other members of the channel. To upload the file click on the plus icon (+) in the left corner of the Messaging input and select the file or simply drag and drop the file to the channel.
Maximum file size can be set in the Admin panel.
Markdown Support
For rich message formatting, Corteza supports Markdown inputs. A Markdown cheat sheet can be found here.