Glance Networks, Inc.

Overview

The Glance NPM package is a react-based plugin that allows developers to create agent-side integrations into Glance. This package provides an interface that allows agents to join Glance Cobrowse, Mobile SDK, and Mobile Camera Share sessions in third-party platforms.

High-Level Overview

Complete prerequisites
Set up authentication to Glance
Install the package and host it in a web application
Enable Presence
Enable Reporting

License

See License file and https://ww2.glance.net/terms/ for Glance terms of service.

V.1.3.0 (LATEST) - November 6, 2023

Enhancements

Adds ability to authenticate via SAML

Adds ability refresh loginkey after it expires

Adds user interface enhancements:

Improved user interface styling and error messages

Updated interface with new Glance logo

Adds the ability to end sessions from the agent interface

Improvements and Fixes

Improved Readme documentation

URL-Encoded credentials

Prerequisites

You must have a Glance Admin account, and have access to your Glance API KEY.

You will need to setup an authentication URL. See Authentication section below.

Provision Glance Users - Each agent/app user has a Glance Account with a PUID set. Please see https://help.glance.net/account-management/manage_users/ for help managing users/puids.

A website tagged with Glance cobrowse or use the Glance cobrowse injector on a website.

Authentication

Glance uses a form of authentication for external applications we call LoginKey https://help.glance.net/integrations/login-key/integration_loginkey/. LoginKey's are temporary keys (think JWT) that allows access to Glance services from external platforms and are included in the request body when making a POST request. A requirement of using this package is to provide a URL that can be called to retrieve a loginkey for use by a user.

Definitions:

Glance Group - This a numerical value assigned by Glance for your enterprise or BU.

PUID - Partner userid, this is a unique value per user, shared between Glance and a remote system. This value must be unique per user within a Glance group. This is often the user's SID or SSO account ID.

Glance API Key - This can be found in your Glance admin section, it is secret and should NOT be used in any client-side code! https://help.glance.net/integrations/saml/public-key-update/#changing-your-api-key

When using this plugin, authentication is fully up to your system/scenario. Glance has provided some example code to get you started https://help.glance.net/integrations/login-key/integration_samples/ , yours can be written in any language you like, but upon successful authentication of the requesting user, your auth url should return a valid loginkey to be used with this component. A simple example of this is to wrap the code below in a simple "is the requesting user logged in" logic check, if true, return the loginkey, if not send 403 etc. You can verify your LoginKey result using the validator on this page https://help.glance.net/integrations/login-key/login_check//

You will need to setup a service such as a node express POST request to generate a Glance loginkey. The loginkey will give your agent access to the AgentJoin page for Cobrowse.

Example Node Express.js POST Request:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();

app.post('/loginkey', cors(corsOptions), (request, response) => {
    try {
        const version = 1;
        const expires = (Math.round((new Date()).valueOf() / 1000)) + parseInt(environmentVariables.GLANCE_EXPIRATION, 10);
        const keystring = environmentVariables.GLANCE_GROUP_ID + request.query.partneruserid + version + expires;
        const CryptoJS = require('crypto-js');
        const hmac = CryptoJS.HmacSHA256(keystring, environmentVariables.GLANCE_API_KEY);
        const hmacb64 = hmac.toString(CryptoJS.enc.Base64);
        const loginkey = "$" + version + "$" + expires + "$" + hmacb64.substr(0, 43).replace(/\+/g, '-').replace(/\//g, '_');

        response.json({
            'loginKey': loginkey,
            'groupId': environmentVariables.GLANCE_GROUP_ID,
            'expiration': expires
        });

    } catch(error) {
        // handle error
    }
});

In the above example we have made GLANCE_GROUP_ID > GLANCE_EXPIRATION and GLANCE_API_KEY environment variables.

Install

npm i @glance-networks/agent-plugin

Usage

import { Glance } from '@glance-networks/agent-plugin';

<Glance
    groupid={GLANCE_GROUPID}
    authurl={URL_TO_LOGINKEY}
    puid={GLANCE_PUID}
    openlocation={'tab' | 'window' | 'iframe' }
    iframeid={IFRAME_ID}
    gicon={true}
    presence={true | false}
    glancebaseurl={'beta' | 'production'}
    visitorid={VISITOR_ID}
    debugmode={true | false}
    custominvoke={{
        func: "customFunctionName",
        args: {
            dataParameter: "dataValue"
        }
     }}
    presession
/>

Props

Prop	Type	Description
groupid	integer	Required. Enter your Glance Group ID (unique ID assigned to your company by Glance).
authurl	string	Required. Enter the URL to your login key service.
puid	string	Required. Identifies the Glance user.
openlocation	string	`tab` (default) opens agent viewer in new tab.`window` opens agent viewer in new browser window. `iframe` opens agent viewer in an iframe.
iframeid	string	Optional. The id of the iframe used when `openlocation` is set to `iframe`. If no id is given, a new `iframe` is created.
gicon	boolean	Required. In order to show the Glance logo next to the `Join` button, set this to `true`. If `gicon` is not set, or it is set to `false` (default), then the logo will not appear.
presence	boolean	Optional. Determines if presence is enabled. If undefined, presence is set to off. `false` (default) pressence is off, `true` presence is on.
glancebaseurl	string	Optional. Used if testing early release features on the glance beta platform. `production` (default) or `beta`
visitorid	string	Required when pressence is set to `true`. Unique identifier that is used to lookup the visitor and change the state of the Join button.
debugmode	boolean	Optional. `true` turns on console logs to assist in debugging. `false` (default) turns off console logs.
custominvoke	object	Optional. A Presence Agent can invoke Javascript functions defined on the Visitor's web page by providing an object that defines the following parameters: `func` name of the function, `args` function arguments. See below for more detail and an example.
presessionfunc	function	Optional. In case you need to do some work before a signaling the visitor to accept terms, you can pass a javascript function to this property. See below for more detail and an example.
openwindow	function	Optional. Use this to support the ability to open a Glance Cobrowse session in a new window or tab when the buttons are iframed in an Agent Desktop.
authheaders	Object	Optional. If using authmethod=loginkey you can further customize your loginkey endpoint by passing headers to your function (e.g. Authorization header).
authbody	function	Optional. If using authmethod=loginkey you can optionally pass data to your function via the POST request body.
authmethod	string	Optional. Default = loginkey. loginkey OR saml (requires you have set up SAML with Glance).
reportingCallback	function	Optional. Specify a function that will be called at the end of each cobrowse session to return session data.
mobileCameraShare	boolean	Optional. true enables a Mobile Camera Share button called Video (SMS), which allows agents to send an SMS message to the visitor to share their camera stream to troubleshoot physical devices. To conduct Mobile Camera Share sessions, you must already have this feature enabled in your account by Glance Customer Service .false (default) disables this button from the interface.

Example `reportingCallback` function

reportingCallback={(data) => console.log(data)}

Example `reportingCallback` response

{
    "sessionStart": <number>,
    "sessionEnd": <number>,
    "duration": <number>,
    "sessionKey": <string>
      
};

Example `openwindow`

const exampleOpenWindowCallback = (url: string): void => {
  // Opens a new window when a Glance Cobrowse session starts.
  window.open(url, 'Glance', 'width=800,height=800');
};

Example `authheaders` and `authbody`

authheaders={{
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer <token>',
}}
authbody={
    new URLSearchParams({
      Token: <token>,
    })
}

Presence

In order to allow for agent initiated sessions, Glance has created its Presence services framework. This service allows agents to "signal" visitor browsers to do things like start sessions, execute custom code, and so on. Each visitor is unqiuely identified within a Glance groupID using a unique vistor_id value. Visitors are "present" when they are actively focused on a browser tab that has Glance Cobrowse enabled and active or when focused inside a mobile app (Android/iOS SDK). An agent can click on the Join button when a visitor is present to initiate a session request to that user. This concept is usually invoked when an agent in the app/crm is contextually "looking" at a record such as an account/contact/lead etc. for that visitor and wants to cobrowse with that user.

Definitions:

VisitorID - This is a unique value for the web visitor. This can be up to 62 digits in length, generally a hashed customer UUID format. This value is shared between the web property and the agent CRM for a given user.

Join Button - This is the UI component the Agent interacts with. It has a few states such as visitor present and not present. The button will be Blue when a visitor is not present currently, this allows teh agent to use the code methods to cnnect with a visitor/guest.

The VISITOR_ID should be set dynamically as a prop to the React component based on a known value that is attached to a customer profile. Following React lifecycle methods, the UI state will update when a new value appears as the VISITOR_ID. You can set this property dynamically when an agent is viewing a record such as a case or contact record that is specific to a customer or action they are working on. The visitor side (browser) publishes a visitor_id, the agent side subscribes to that same string in order to determine if the user is available. More detail can be found here https://help.glance.net/glance-cobrowse/glance-cobrowse-customizing/presence/presence_visitor/

Custom Presence-Invokable Functions

Visitor's Page:

GLANCE_COBROWSE.Custom = {
    customFunctionName: function (params) {
        // Do custom things on visitor's page.
    }
}

Agent's Glance Component:

<Glance
    custominvoke={{
       func: "customFunctionName",
       args: {
            dataParameter: "dataValue"
       }
    }}
/>

Pre Session Function

Agent's Glance Component:

<Glance
    presessionfunc={functionName}
/>

You can pass a reference to a function into this prop if you want to handle some work prior to signaling the visitor's page to show terms. For example, if you need to fetch some user information from a database or generate a custom key to set on the visitor's session.

Changelog

V.1.3.0 - November 6, 2023

Enhancements

Adds ability to authenticate via SAML

Adds ability refresh loginkey after it expires

Adds user interface enhancements:

Improved user interface styling and error messages

Updated interface with new Glance logo

Adds the ability to end sessions from the agent interface

Improvements and Fixes

Improved Readme documentation

URL-Encoded credentials

v1.2.0 - June 9, 2023

Adds Mobile Camera Share functionality, see Properties table for enabling this feature.

Improves event handling

v1.1.8 - May 15, 2023

Adds ability to dynamically set a visitor id via the visitorid prop.

v1.1.7 - May 9, 2023

Fixes a bug when using the authmethod and authurl props.

Fixes a bug when displaying presence state.

v1.1.6 - May 4, 2023

Removes joinSession from presenceStartSession to allow for using a custom openViewer method, and to provide a custom callback for opening a tab/window.

Adds a behavior file to create the desired OnDetect behavior from presence events.

Modifies GCommon add eventlisteners method to only allow a single event to be added of each type.

Adds a state variable check in the presence behavior file to only listen for the presenceStartSession when no session has started.

v1.1.5 - April 21, 2023

Added a reporting prop to specify a callback for reporting cobrowse data at the end of each session.

v1.1.4 - April 10, 2023

Fixes package to remain in root directory

v1.1.3 - April 7, 2023

Improves the Agent's presence experience by switching between states based on the visitorConnect event.

Adds optional authheaders and authbody props to further customize the loginkey authmetod service.

v1.1.2 - April 3, 2023

Adds additional customization with a new prop openwindow to support the ability to open a Glance Cobrowse session in a new window or tab when the buttons are iframed in an Agent Desktop.

v1.1.1 - March 31, 2023

Bug fix - prop glancebaseurl was not optional.

Bug fix - changelog link in readme.md was broken.

v1.1.0 - March 30, 2023

Updated Presence and Browser Agent Api scripts.

Improved the performance of the presence 1-Click Connect experience.

Refactor to use latest version of React 18.2.0.

Refactoring to separate components.

Minor bug fixes to improve the Cobrowse experience.

v1.0.15 - March 17, 2023

Fixed a bug that prevented agents from entering a key into the join field.

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