Start the chat session with a default user message

[fstrazzante]

We want to guide users toward asking specific prompts by pre-populating the chat input.

Goal: Start the Flowise chat with a pre-inserted user message and automatically send it.

Issue: I'm attempting to achieve this using JavaScript. I can successfully insert the user message into the input field (textarea), but I cannot trigger the chat to send. The send button appears to be unclickable when triggered programmatically via JS.

[SyncWithRaj]

Hey @fstrazzante ! 👋

I've just opened a PR ( #373 ) that implements a native solution for this, so you won't need to rely on hacky DOM manipulation via JavaScript anymore!

It introduces a new autoSendInitialMessage property to the embed configuration. Once this gets merged, you can easily pre-populate and auto-send your message just by passing it into the theme settings like this:

theme: {
    chatWindow: {
        autoSendInitialMessage: 'Your specific prompt here',
    }
}

Hope this helps solve your use case once it's merged in! 🚀