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by mwcampbell 1919 days ago
Pardon the second top-level comment, but I have a few questions about the product:

1. Have you considered making the guided-tour functionality available for developers to integrate into the live app? That way applications can guide the user through the process of getting started with real data in their real account.

2. What about applications that have different UI entry points for different kinds of users? Can you do a guided tour where the user starts at entry point A, goes through a couple of screens, then switches to entry point B and sees what that side of the app is like? Maybe we can get into more specifics privately; I don't want to make this thread about _my_ product.

3. Do you support dynamic, server-initiated page updates, e.g. sent via a WebSocket in the real app?

1 comments

1. We do believe that this is a big opportunity, but it's quite a developed market (it's formally known as Digital Adoption Platforms). In order to compete in the space, there are a few more critical features that we need to develop. We would like to provide this for our customers so they can use the same guides throughout the early customer experience.

2. Yes. You can accomplish this by triggering guides to appear on pages matching certain patterns (such as url). You can also use guides to link between each other.

3. If that update results in an update to the UI, then it can be captured with DOM serialization.