How to change conversation status in Front

Organizing your inboxes by conversation status is one of the key tools to working efficiently in Front, and reaching inbox zero. A horizontal conversation status bar spans across the top of your message list and message view. The conversation status bar contains:

• Archive or Reopen

• Snooze or Unsnooze

• Trash or Restore

• Mark as spam

• Inbox tabs on the left of the conversation status bar to filter your inbox

Take the conversation status actions listed above by navigating to the conversation status bar at the top right of a conversation. The bar will specify which inboxes or sections will be affected by your action.

Click the inbox tabs on the left of the conversation status bar to filter your inbox by conversation status. For more details on inbox tabs, see our How to use inbox tabs to filter conversations article.

After you archive, snooze, trash a conversation, or mark it as spam, you will always see it moved to the corresponding Archived, Snoozed, Trashed, or Spam tab within the inbox or section that you updated the conversation status action from.

If you are ever unsure how changing the conversation status will affect your teammates’ views, you can hover on the action to see the impact, and you may also see a dialog pop up when you change the status.

Learn more below about what exactly happens when you change a conversation’s status from various locations within Front.

• When performed from a shared inbox, archiving, snoozing, trashing, or marking as spam impacts anyone viewing it in the shared inbox. It will appear in the corresponding Archived/Snoozed/Trashed/Spam tab of the shared inbox, regardless of which teammate changed the conversation’s status.

• However, this will not change the conversation’s status for any teammates following the conversation. The conversation will remain in the Open tab of followers' Shared with me sections.

• If a teammate who is not the assignee changes a conversation’s status from a shared inbox, then the conversation will stay open in the assignee's Assigned to me section.

• If a conversation lives in more than one shared inbox, any action taken in the conversation status bar of one inbox will have the same affect in any other shared inbox(es) the conversation lives in, granted that you have not enabled the setting to keep actions separate between shared inboxes.

• When you change the conversation status of a conversation assigned to you, it will move to the corresponding Archived/Snoozed/Trashed/Spam tab of both your Assigned to me section, and the Archived/Snoozed/Trashed/Spam tab of the shared inbox itself.

• Changing the conversation status as the assignee has the same impact as archiving from a shared inbox- it impacts everyone viewing in the shared inbox, but does not change the conversation status for any teammates following the conversation.

• When performed in your own Shared with me section, archiving, snoozing, trashing, or marking as spam will only impact your follower copy.

• The conversation will be moved to the corresponding Archived/Snoozed/Trashed/Spam tab of your own Shared with me section, but will not affect the conversation status in any other inboxes/sections, nor for any other teammates following the conversation.

• In your individual inbox, archiving, snoozing, trashing, or marking as spam will only impact you.

• If you've shared this conversation with any other teammates, it will not change the conversation status in your teammates’ Shared with me sections.

• If a conversation is shared between your individual inbox and a shared inbox, and you change the conversation’s status in your own individual inbox, this will not affect the conversation status in the shared inbox, unless you are the assignee.

• For internal discussions, archiving, snoozing, trashing, or marking as spam will only impact your copy of the discussion.

• If you change the conversation status of an internal discussion, this will not affect the other followers of the discussion.

• If a teammate has delegated their inbox to you, and you archive, snooze, or trash a conversation from their individual inbox, the impact will be the same as the inbox owner changing the status themselves.

• It will only impact their individual inbox. It will not affect the conversation status in any followers’ Shared with me sections.

• For example, if you archive a conversation in your teammate’s delegated inbox, then look at your teammate's inbox, you'll find the conversation in the Archived tab of their individual inbox. However, if you are personally following this conversation, it will not archive the conversation in your own Shared with me section.

⚠️ This is a legacy feature. Front accounts created after Jan 26, 2023 use Views.

• If you archive, snooze, or trash a conversation when viewing another teammate's Assigned conversations, it has the same impact as changing the conversation status from the shared inbox.

• It will move to the corresponding Archived/Snoozed/Trashed/Spam tab of the shared inbox for everyone viewing the shared inbox, but will not affect the conversation status in the assignee’s own Assigned to me section.