# Live Chats workspace

> [HTML Version](chat_lines.html)

The **Live Chats** workspace is a versatile chat support center that allows you to communicate with employees, partners, and customers.

With live chats, you can process messages from internal BRIX users as well as communicate with external users by connecting popular [instant messengers](connection_to_line.md) or setting up an integration with your [email inbox](inbox.md).

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To allow users contact the company’s support team, create and configure a **live chat**. Requests in live chats are processed by [operators](create_line.md#operators). These are users specified in a live chat’s settings.

For example, you can create a live chat for the HR department. Your employees, who are BRIX users, will be able to write their questions about vacations, compensations, sick leaves, etc. without having to search for the employee responsible for their issue.

For clients and partners, you can set up a customer service live chat for external users and connect it with the [corporate email](inbox.md) or instant messengers, for example, [Telegram](telegram.md) and [WhatsApp](whatsapp.md). The clients will be able to communicate with you through the messenger they prefer, while your operators will receive all the messages in the BRIX interface. The chat history for every client will be stored in the system.

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**Useful articles**

To learn more about the Live Chats workspace, see [How the Live Chats workspace is organized](live-chats-structure.md).

Setting up live chats for receiving requests and the administrator workflow are described in the following articles:

- [Groups of operators and supervisors](live-chat-groups.md).

- [Create a live chat](create_line.md).

- [Configure session parameters](session-settings.md).

- [General live chat settings](general-live-chat-settings.md).

- [Export session parameters](export-session-parameters.md).

For information on employee activities within live chats, see the following articles:

- [Operator statuses in live chats](operator-status.md).

- [Process a request](working_in_chat.md).

- [Initiate a session with an external user](create-session.md).

- [Live chat performance reports](chat_reports.md).

User inquiries to a live chat are described in the following articles:

- [Send messages to a live chat in BRIX](chatdesk_internal_users.md).

- [Send messages to a live chat from an external channel](chatdesk_external_users.md).

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