Feature Request: Hide send box input without hiding suggested actions

Feature Request

Describe the suggestion or request in detail

At the moment, customers can hide the Send Box through Web Chat’s style options; however, the hideSendBox option also hides suggested actions. It would be beneficial to have the ability to hide the side box while still displaying the suggested action so that the user has to select one of the actions to continue the conversation.

The SuggestedActions component would have to be moved outside of the SendBox to accomplish this.

Describe alternatives you have considered

Additional context Original ask here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58116813/while-showing-button-choices-at-that-time-i-need-to-hide-sendbox-in-bot-framewo/

Ideally customers should be able to hide or disable the input field when Web Chat is displaying suggested actions. The code below is functional, but it also hides suggested actions.

const [hideSendBox, setHideSendBox] = useState(false);
const store = createStore(
  {},
  () => next => action => {

    if (action.type === 'DIRECT_LINE/SET_SUGGESTED_ACTIONS') {
      if (action.payload.suggestedActions.length) {
        setHideSendBox(true);
      } else {
        setHideSendBox(false);
      }
    }
    return next(action);
  }
)

return <ReactWebChat directLine={directLine} store={store} styleOptions={{hideSendBox}} />

[Enhancement]

[Edit by @corinagum] Please add +1 to this thread if this is something you are looking to have available in your version of Web Chat.

[corinagum]

Alright, sounds good. Let’s see what kind of traction we get on this, and go from there.

If anyone is looking for this feature, please add your +1 to this thread so we know that people want this feature.

[sw353552]

Is there an update on this yet? ‘hideSendBox’ flag is also hiding the suggested actions.