Chats

OfficeSuite's Chats feature allows you to communicate with your friends and colleagues via exchange of documents and messages. Chats are a very practical and quick way of coordinating team projects and exchanging important files without the need of writing emails.

Starting a new chat is quick and easy. One way is to simply send a specific document with the 'Send' button while inside of the document. Another is via the document lists (in Home and Drive), and lastly you can just tap on the icon at the bottom right side of the screen, followed by the icon and type in the name of the person you wish to begin a chat with. Alternatively, if the person is not an OfficeSuite user you can invite them via the Invite friends icon using a number of sharing options on your device.

After a Chat has been started you can begin sending files by tapping on the Select file icon at the bottom right corner of a specific chat. Doing so will allow you to navigate through your Internal Storage, MobiSystems Drive, Google Drive and Cloud accounts, as well as in FTPs, Local Networks or your default Downloads folder to find the specific document you wish to send.

The upper right corner of the Chat screen holds several important feature for managing your contacts and chats, including:

	Search - Using the Search options while in the Chats menu will show chats and documents matching the criteria.
	Contextual menu - Tapping this will open a drop-down menu holding two more options, including:
	Block list - Here you can view which users have been blocked and unblock them if desired. Help - Opens this help page.

Additionally, long pressing on a specific chat in the chats list will provide you with option to Delete or Mute it.

A number of other options are available in the upper right corner of the screen once you're in a chat with someone, these include:

	Search - Using the Search options while in a Chat will show documents matching the criteria.
	Chat Info - Tapping this will provide additional information about the specific chat, as well as several others options to manage it, including:
	Add people - Allows you to add more people in the chat. Below this options is a list of the people that are currently in the chat. Mute Chat - Choose whether to receive notifications for the chat by toggling this option on/off. You can easily enable/disable it with a long press on the specific chat in the chats list. Leave and delete chat - Leave the current group chat and delete it from your list of currently active chats. Block - Block a specific user from the chat and stop receiving files and messages from them. When you block a contact they won't be told they've been blocked. If there are group chats in which the blocked contact is present it's advisable you leave those so they cannot send you messages or files.

Additionally, a tap and hold on a document sent in chat will open a drop-down menu featuring a number of further options for it, these include:

	Send - Provides the option to send the document to another OfficeSuite user.
	Remove from chat - Deletes the file from the current chat.
	Save a copy - Will save a copy of the document in your default document downloads folder. The default downloads folder can be changed at any time from the Settings menu.
	Add to favourites - Will add the documents to your Favourites list, found in the Recent files menu. Tapping on the icon again will remove the document from the Favourites list.
	Show in folder - Will open the folder the document is stored in.
	Properties - Will provide you with detailed information about the document, such as Location, Type, Size, as well as when it was Created and Modified. Additionally, at the bottom you can view who has access to the file and change as needed.