Initiate User

To start using the LikeMinds Chat and enable personalized experiences for your users, you need to initiate them within the system. This process associates a user in your application with a user in the LikeMinds Chat, allowing for seamless integration and realtime messaging in your application.

Steps to initiate a User

1. To initialise a user, use the method initiateSDK() provided by the LikeMinds client you created.
2. Pass in the required userUniqueId and userName to the function. An optional parameter isGuest to be provided if the logging profile is of the guest user.
3. Use the response as per your requirement

//Set userId to custom user ID present in your database,
//or keep it blank to get one generated by the SDK
const userUniqueId = "YOUR_USER_UNIQUE_ID";
const userName = "YOUR_USERNAME";

const payload: any = {
  isGuest: false, // true for guest user
  userUniqueId: "", // user unique ID you get from dashboard
  userName: "name", // user name
};
const response = await lmChatClient.initiateUser(payload);

if (response.success) {
  // your function to process the response data
  processResponse(response);
} else {
  // your function to process error message
  processError(response);
}

Initiate User Request

List of parameters provided by initiateUser()

Variable	Type	Description	Optional
userUniqueId	string	Unique ID for the userId
userName	string	Name of the userName
isGuest	boolean	Is the user a guest?	✔️

Initiate User Response

List of parameters for the response

Variable	Type	Description	Optional
success	boolean	API success status
errorMessage	string	Error message in case of failure	✔️
user	object	User details
community	object	Community details

Member State

When building out your chat experience, you might want to moderate some actions based on the state of a community member. That's where member state comes in. With a single getMemberState() function you can determine if a member is a CM, or not.

const payload: any = {
  memberId: 23233, // id of the current user
};
const response = await lmChatClient.getMemberState(payload);

if (response.success) {
  // your function to process the response data
  processResponse(response);
} else {
  // your function to process error message
  processError(response);
}

Get Member State Payload

List of parameters provided by initiateUser

Variable	Type	Description	Optional
memberId	string	ID for the user

Get Member State Response

List of parameters for the response

Variable	Type	Description
success	boolean	API success status
error_message	string	Error message in case of failure
member	object	Member details
member_rights	object	Member rights