• Adding users to Hijack

    In order to administer Hijacks and answer questions, your users will need to be added by SMILE, or a partner agency. There are two available roles: Hijack Publishers Live Q&A Participant Live Q&A Participants cannot create, delete or modify Hijacks, or Hijack content, but can engage with users in the…

  • Roadmap

    Weā€™re developing Hijackā„¢ quickly to keep up with demand. You can find out our plan for how we are prioritising new features over on our roadmap.

  • Approving and un-approving messages

    It is important to us that our customers have the power to moderate their own live chats. For this reason, all questions asked by your audience come through ā€˜Unapprovedā€™ by default. This means that no question will be published within your Hijack without your say so. Within chat threads, unapproved…

  • Filtering chats by Hijack and Chapter

    Using the ā€˜Filter by Hijackā€™ and ā€˜Filter by chapterā€™ drop-downs when viewing any list of threads on the platform, you are able to customise this list depending on which view you find most useful to the task at hand. Some use cases are outlined below: You want a general overview…

  • Filtering chats by question status

    Every thread list on the platform can be filtered by three drop-downs at the top of the screen. The drop-down furthest on the left filters threads by question status and is set to ā€˜Allā€™ by default. Using this filter you are able to customise your view with some very handy…

  • Finding Live Chat in the adminstrative backend

    If you have enabled Live Chat for your Hijack, it is likely your audience are using the Chat interface on the front end in order to ask you and your staff questions relating to your Hijackā€™s subject matter. You can view, manage and respond to Live Chats in the backend…

  • Replying in a thread

    The Thread Overview screen conveniently displays the initial ā€˜Messageā€™ that kickstarted a thread and also shows the ā€˜Latest Replyā€™ to that topic.Ā Weā€™ve describedĀ how you can add a reply from this overview screen. However, when Live Chat is busy and the ā€˜Number of Repliesā€™ begins to stretch into double figures, you…

  • Replying to a question

    Click on the speech bubble next to your event in the Hijack list in order to visit the list of threads for that event. Hover over a question to reveal a set of clickable actions underneath. Click on ā€˜Replyā€™ in order to respond to a question. On the next page, you will…

  • Adding course entries

    In order to feature Courses as part of your Hijacks, you first need to build a database of Course entries which can be ā€˜pulledā€™ into your individual events as and when required. The two main advantages of this are: Featuring Courses within a Hijack will eventually be as easy as…

  • Adding testimonal entries

    In order to feature Testimonials as part of your Hijacks, you first need to build a database of Testimonial entries which can be ā€˜pulledā€™ into your individual events as and when required. The two main advantages of this are: Featuring Testimonials within a Hijack will eventually be as easy as…