Programmatically open or close the Copilot widget #1638
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Use case is displaying the copilot with eg a user satisfaction survey when the page loads/after a preset delay. This is not currently possible (or at least, is not documented and is not obvious from inspecting the source code).
Describe the solution you'd like
Adding "show_copilot" and "hide_copilot" class methods (or similar) to enable the copilot to be shown/hidden from JS loaded on the page.
Describe alternatives you've considered
1: Sending click events to the relevant elements to simulate user interaction. Hack-y and potentially unstable if changes are made to the copilot code (eg in widget.tsx) which change the id of the relevant elements (these should not be breaking changes).
2: Examining the widget.tsx code for events related to setIsOpen which can be piggybacked off to deliver this functionality (unsuccessfully).
Additional context
Additional functionality such as a "with_first_message" optional param (enabling a conversation to be started programmatically with a "starter" message, eg if a user clicks a button) and/or passing a dictionary of key-value pairs to the server would broaden the use cases for this feature.