This feature provides you with an additional tab in the right-hand panel on the edit pages of the sections where it’s available.

It’s currently available only in the edit of CVs received in response to a job ad (Recruiting / Job Ads section).

Below you’ll find the component’s features.

1. Information shown for each message

• (Optional) Box with the message you’re replying to.

• (Only for users linked to employees) Employee photo.

• (Only for users linked to employees) Employee first and last name, or Username and—only if different—email.

• Message send date.

• Message text.

2. New message

• You’ll find the new message box at the bottom of the chat.

• You can enter multiple lines with Shift + Enter.

• Press Enter or click Send new message to create the message.

• Formatting is not supported.

• The message is created under your name with the current date and time.

• You can’t edit or delete messages after sending.

3. Replying to messages

• Next to each message you’ll find the Reply button.

• When you reply, you’ll see a box above the new message with the text you’re responding to.

• You can remove the association by clicking the X in the reply box.

• After sending:

  1. The message will show the sender, send date, and a link to the message you replied to (no longer editable).

  2. You’ll have an icon to preview the original message.

  3. Clicking the box opens the original message; if needed you’ll enter Message history mode.

4. Pagination

• On load you see the first 15 messages, with the most recent at the bottom.

• When you create a new message or click Refresh (next to the search box at the top), the 15 most recent messages are reloaded.

• Scrolling up shows Show more to load the previous 15 messages.

5. Message search

• At the top of the chat you have the search field.

• You can search across all messages in that chat.

• The search starts automatically shortly after you start typing, or immediately by pressing Enter.

• Once a search is applied, you enter Search results mode.

6. “Search results” mode

• You see the first 15 results, with the most recent at the bottom.

• To exit this mode, click the X in the search box.

• Scrolling up shows Show more to load the previous 15 results.

• In this mode you can’t create new messages.

• For each result you can:

  1. Reply to the message: you’ll exit the results and switch to the view of the latest 15 messages.

  2. Open the original message (click the result text): you’ll exit the results and switch to the standard view or, if the message is older than the latest 15, to Message history mode.

7. “Message history” mode

• Clicking a message older than the latest 15 takes you to Message history.

• In this mode you view the context (the “page” of 15 messages) where it was sent.

• There’s no time limit on messages you can view.

• You can reply to a displayed message or create a new one; in both cases you’ll exit History and return to the latest 15.

• Scrolling up shows Show more for the previous 15; scrolling down shows Show more for the next 15.

• When you reach the latest 15 messages, you automatically exit History.

8. Security

Read

• You can view a CV’s chat messages only if you have read access to that CV.

• Within a CV’s chat, you can view only the messages that were sent while the CV had a status/outcome for which you have read permission.

Write

• You can create new messages in the chats of all CVs for which you have read permission.

• Write permission on the CV is not required to create chat messages.