I. Intro

"Message field shortcuts" is an efficient way of information exchange and transmission that helps you quickly open, create or share app contents in a Lark conversation, which allows to improve your teams' communication efficiency.

In "message field shortcuts", you can not only add apps in Lark App Directory, but also add a custom app to meet your personalized demands.

As of now, many active Lark users have connected their custom apps to "message field shortcuts". Why has this feature attracted so many Lark users? We have summarized the following two advantages of "message field shortcuts".

II. Steps

1.A convenient tool to share information

Convenience is one of the core pursuits of Lark. "Message field shortcuts" can minimize operation steps, so that you can quickly open related apps without leaving the conversation, and share contents to the conversation with one click.

Take the internal cloud drive tool as an example: when you want to send a file to others in the conversation, you can open the cloud drive in "message field shortcuts" and quickly send the corresponding files without leaving the conversation.

2.A stress-free information creation tool

When using Lark, we often interact with bots of certain apps in group chats to create and send specific messages. For example, we will @mention the bot in the group and send instructions to it to create a collaborative task.

The interactions with bots allows us to use apps more conveniently in group chats. But sometimes, our interactions with bots inadvertently bring unnecessary noises to other group members. After apps have enabled "message field shortcuts" feature, we can open apps and create information in the conversation via "message field shortcuts", which replaces original interactions with bot and no longer disturbs others.

Are you excited about the efficient communication feature of "message field shortcuts"? At present, "message field shortcuts" is open to custom apps, you can enable this feature as long as your custom apps have enabled the gadget.

If you are a developer of a custom app, you can log in to the Lark developer console, open your custom app, and click Features - Extensions - Message Field Shortcuts in the navigation sidebar to enable this feature.

If you are not an app developer, but feel that it is helpful to connect your team's custom apps to the "message field shortcuts", you can also forward this article to relevant personnel to promote team communication and collaboration.