Chat window and customisation

The six settings that make the chat window yours.

The chat window is what your visitors see: a button at the bottom right of the page that opens the chat. The Chat window tab of the admin has the six settings that make it yours.

01 · The six settings
Title

At the top of the chat window, and the tooltip of the chat button.

Default
Ask this site
Length
Required, up to 100 characters
Text of the chat button

Shown next to the icon of the button that opens the chat, for example Ask us. Empty: the icon only. On screens up to 480 pixels wide, phones included, the button shows the icon only.

Default
Empty
Length
Up to 40 characters
Greeting

The first message in the chat, shown before the visitor writes anything and again after New chat. Line breaks are kept, and Markdown works: **bold** and links written as [text](https://your-site/page).

Default
Empty: no greeting
Length
Up to 1,000 characters
Placeholder

The grey text in the empty message box, followed by (type / for commands), on one line: a longer text is cut at the edge of the box. When a conversation has used all its questions, it is replaced by a note to start a new chat.

Default
Ask a question…
Length
Up to 200 characters
Logo

Your logo on the chat button, in place of the chat icon, and in the header of the chat window. Tick Remove the logo and save to go back to the icon. The file is checked to be a real image before it is kept, in your data folder.

Files
PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP
Size
Up to 1 MB and 4,096 pixels on each side
Accent colour

The colour of the chat button, the header of the window and the links in the answers (a source pill takes it when the mouse is over it), written as a hex code like #c05520. Pick one your white text reads well on: the button and the header carry white text and icons.

Default
Empty: #c05520
Format
# and six hex digits

Write the title, the button text, the greeting and the placeholder in your site’s language: they are shown exactly as you write them. A change reaches visitors on their next page view.

Everything you can change is on the Chat window tab; there is no theme file to edit. What your visitors get with it, the window, typing, ratings and the conversation kept in the browser, is on What your visitors get.

The hosted chat has the same six settings, on the Chat window tab of its Control Panel: Chat window: look and words.

The admin

The Opensolr Chat Bot Client is open source and MIT licensed. Questions about your Opensolr account, index or plan go to opensolr.com/contact; questions about the client itself belong on GitHub.

Opensolr Chat Bot Documentation