/**
* This module contains tools and helpers to open HelpScout "Beacon" -- a popup which may contain
* an email form, chat, and help docs -- and to include info relevant to support requests.
*
* Usage:
* import {Beacon} from 'app/client/lib/helpScout';
* Beacon('open')
* Beacon('prefill', {...})
* It takes care of initialization automatically.
*
* This is essentially a prettified typescript version of the snippet for the HelpScout Beacon
* available under Beacon settings in HelpScout. It offers the API documented at
* https://developer.helpscout.com/beacon-2/web/javascript-api/
*/
// tslint:disable:unified-signatures
import {AppModel} from 'app/client/models/AppModel';
import {reportWarning} from 'app/client/models/errors';
import {IAppError} from 'app/client/models/NotifyModel';
import {GristLoadConfig} from 'app/common/gristUrls';
import {timeFormat} from 'app/common/timeFormat';
import {ActiveSessionInfo} from 'app/common/UserAPI';
import * as version from 'app/common/version';
import {dom} from 'grainjs';
import identity = require('lodash/identity');
import pickBy = require('lodash/pickBy');
export type BeaconCmd = 'init' | 'destroy' | 'open' | 'close' | 'toggle' | 'search' | 'suggest' |
'article' | 'navigate' | 'identify' | 'prefill' | 'reset' | 'logout' | 'config' | 'on' | 'off' |
'once' | 'event' | 'session-data';
export type BeaconRoute = '/ask/message/' | '/answers/';
export interface IUserObj {
name?: string;
email?: string;
company?: string;
jobTitle?: string;
avatar?: string;
signature?: string;
[customKey: string]: string|number|boolean|null|undefined;
}
interface IFormObj {
name?: string;
email?: string;
subject?: string;
text?: string;
fields?: Array<{id: number, value: string|number|boolean}>;
}
interface ISessionData {
[key: string]: string;
}
/**
* This provides the HelpScout Beacon API, taking care of initializing Beacon on first use.
*/
export function Beacon(method: 'init', beaconId: string): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'search', query: string): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'suggest', articles?: string[]): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'article', articleId: string, options?: unknown): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'navigate', route: string): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'identify', userObj: IUserObj): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'prefill', formObj: IFormObj): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'config', configObj: object): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'on'|'once', event: string, callback: () => void): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'off', event: string, callback?: () => void): void;
export function Beacon(method: 'session-data', data: ISessionData): void;
export function Beacon(method: BeaconCmd): void;
export function Beacon(method: BeaconCmd, options?: unknown, data?: unknown) {
initBeacon();
(window as any).Beacon(method, options, data);
}
// This is essentially what's done by the code snippet that HelpScout suggests to install in every
// page. In Grist app pages, we only load HelpScout code when the beacon is opened.
function _beacon(method: BeaconCmd, options?: unknown, data?: unknown) {
_beacon.readyQueue.push({method, options, data});
}
_beacon.readyQueue = [] as unknown[];
function initBeacon(): void {
if (!(window as any).Beacon) {
const gristConfig: GristLoadConfig|undefined = (window as any).gristConfig;
const beaconId = gristConfig && gristConfig.helpScoutBeaconId;
if (beaconId) {
(window as any).Beacon = _beacon;
document.head.appendChild(dom('script',
{
type: 'text/javascript',
src: 'https://beacon-v2.helpscout.net',
async: true,
},
// Report when the beacon fails to load so that the user knows something is wrong, and we
// have a log of the error. (Note: might not report all failures due to ad-blockers.)
dom.on('error', (e) => {
reportWarning("Support form failed to load. " +
"Please email support@getgrist.com with questions instead.");
}),
));
_beacon('init', beaconId);
_beacon('config', {display: {style: "manual"}});
} else {
(window as any).Beacon = () => null;
reportWarning("Support form is not configured");
}
}
}
let lastOpenType: 'error' | 'message' = 'message';
let lastRoute: BeaconRoute|null = null;
/**
* Helper to open a beacon, taking care of setting focus appropriately. Calls optional onOpen
* callback when the beacon has opened.
* If errors is given, prepares a form for submitting an error report, and includes stack traces
* into the session-data.
*/
function _beaconOpen(userObj: IUserObj|null, options: IBeaconOpenOptions) {
const {onOpen, errors} = options;
// The beacon remembers its content, so reset it when switching between reporting errors and
// sending a message.
const openType = errors?.length ? 'error' : 'message';
if (openType !== lastOpenType) {
Beacon('reset');
lastOpenType = openType;
}
const route: BeaconRoute = options.route || (errors?.length ? '/ask/message/' : '/answers/');
// If beacon was and still is being opened for help articles, avoid the 'navigate' call
// altogether, to keep the beacon at the last article it was on.
const skipNav = (route === lastRoute && route === '/answers/');
lastRoute = route;
Beacon('once', 'open', () => {
const iframe = document.querySelector('#beacon-container iframe') as HTMLIFrameElement;
if (iframe) { iframe.focus(); }
if (onOpen) { onOpen(); }
});
// Fix base-href tag when opening an article.
Beacon('once', 'article-viewed', () => fixBeaconBaseHref());
// We duplicate this check for 'ready' event, because 'open' and 'article-viewed' events don't
// trigger on page reload when a beacon article is already open (seems to be a HelpScout bug).
Beacon('once', 'ready', () => fixBeaconBaseHref());
Beacon('once', 'close', () => {
const iframe = document.querySelector('#beacon-container iframe') as HTMLIFrameElement;
if (iframe) { iframe.blur(); }
Beacon('off', 'article-viewed');
});
if (userObj) {
Beacon('identify', userObj);
}
const attrs: ISessionData = {};
if (errors?.length) {
// If sending errors, prefill part of the message (the user sees this and can add to it), and
// include more detailed errors with stack traces into session-data.
const messages = errors.map(({error, timestamp}) =>
(timeFormat('T', new Date(timestamp)) + ' ' + error.message));
const lastMessage = errors.length > 0 ? errors[errors.length - 1].error.message : '';
const prefill: IFormObj = {
subject: `Application Error: ${lastMessage}`.slice(0, 250), // subject has max-length of 250
text: `\n-- Include your description above --\nErrors encountered:\n${messages.join('\n')}\n`,
};
Beacon('prefill', prefill);
Beacon('config', {messaging: {contactForm: {showSubject: false}}});
errors.forEach(({error, timestamp}, i) => {
attrs[`error-${i}`] = timeFormat('D T', new Date(timestamp)) + ' ' + error.message;
if (error.stack) {
attrs[`error-${i}-stack`] = JSON.stringify(error.stack.trim().split('\n'));
}
});
} else {
Beacon('config', {messaging: {contactForm: {showSubject: true}}});
}
Beacon('session-data', {
'Grist Version': `${version.version} (${version.gitcommit})`,
...attrs,
});
Beacon('open');
if (!skipNav) {
Beacon('navigate', route);
}
}
function fixBeaconBaseHref() {
// HelpScout creates an iframe with an empty 'src' attribute, then writes to it. In such an
// iframe, different browsers interpret relative links differently: Chrome's are relative to
// the parent page's URL; Firefox's are relative to the parent page's .
//
// Here we set a explicitly in the iframe to get consistent behavior of links
// relative to the top page's URL (HelpScout then seems to handle clicks on them correctly).
const iframe = document.querySelector('#beacon-container iframe') as HTMLIFrameElement;
const iframeDoc = iframe?.contentDocument;
if (iframeDoc && !iframeDoc.querySelector('head > base')) {
iframeDoc.head.appendChild(dom('base', {href: ''}));
}
}
export interface IBeaconOpenOptions {
appModel: AppModel|null;
includeAppErrors?: boolean;
onOpen?: () => void;
errors?: IAppError[];
route?: BeaconRoute;
}
/**
* Open the helpScout beacon to send us a message. Calls optional onOpen callback when the beacon
* has opened. The topAppModel is used to get the current user.
*
* If includeAppErrors or errors is set, the beacon will open to submit an error report. With
* includeAppErrors, it will include stack traces of errors in the notifier into the session-data.
* If errors is set, it will include the specified errors.
*/
export function beaconOpenMessage(options: IBeaconOpenOptions) {
const app = options.appModel;
const errors = options.errors || [];
if (options.includeAppErrors && app) {
errors.push(...app.notifier.getFullAppErrors());
}
_beaconOpen(getBeaconUserObj(app), {...options, errors});
}
function getBeaconUserObj(appModel: AppModel|null): IUserObj|null {
if (!appModel) { return null; }
// ActiveSessionInfo["user"] includes optional helpScoutSignature too.
const user = appModel.currentValidUser as ActiveSessionInfo["user"]|null;
// For anon user, don't attempt to identify anything. Even the "company" field (when anon on a
// team doc) isn't useful, because the user may be external to the company.
if (!user) { return null; }
// Use the company name only when it's not a personal org. Otherwise, it adds no information and
// overrides more useful company name gleaned by HelpScout from the web.
const org = appModel.currentOrg;
const company = org && !org.owner ? appModel.currentOrgName : undefined;
return pickBy({
name: user.name,
email: user.email,
company,
avatar: user.picture,
signature: user.helpScoutSignature,
}, identity);
}