[New] Reply privately to group messages

app/ui-utils/client/lib/MessageAction.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import _ from 'underscore';
+import { FlowRouter } from 'meteor/kadira:flow-router';
 import moment from 'moment';
 import toastr from 'toastr';
 import mem from 'mem';
@@ -317,13 +318,33 @@ Meteor.startup(async function() {
 			if (Subscriptions.findOne({ rid: message.rid }) == null) {
 				return false;
 			}
-
 			return true;
 		},
 		order: 6,
 		group: 'menu',
 	});
 
+	MessageAction.addButton({
+		id: 'reply-privately',
+		icon: 'chat',
+		label: 'Reply_in_direct_message',
+		context: ['message', 'message-mobile'],
+		action() {
+			const { msg } = messageArgs(this);
+			roomTypes.openRouteLink('d', { name: msg.u.username }, { ...FlowRouter.current().queryParams, reply: msg._id });
+		},
+		condition(message) {
+			if (Subscriptions.findOne({ rid: message.rid }) == null) {
+				return false;
+			}
+			if (roomTypes.getRoomType(message.rid) === 'd') {
+				return false;
+			}
+			return true;
+		},
+		order: 7,
+		group: 'menu',
+	});
 
 	MessageAction.addButton({
 		id: 'ignore-user',

app/ui/client/views/app/room.js

@@ -1255,3 +1255,10 @@ Template.room.onRendered(function() {
 	});
 
 });
+
+callbacks.add('enter-room', async (sub) => {
+	const isAReplyInDMFromChannel = FlowRouter.getQueryParam('reply') && sub.t === 'd';
+	if (isAReplyInDMFromChannel && chatMessages[sub.rid]) {
+		await chatMessages[sub.rid].restoreReplies();
+	}
+});

app/utils/client/lib/roomTypes.js

@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ export const roomTypes = new class RocketChatRoomTypes extends RoomTypesCommon {
 	getUserStatus(roomType, roomId) {
 		return this.roomTypes[roomType] && typeof this.roomTypes[roomType].getUserStatus === 'function' && this.roomTypes[roomType].getUserStatus(roomId);
 	}
+	getRoomType(roomId) {
+		const fields = {
+			t: 1,
+		};
+		const room = ChatRoom.findOne({
+			_id: roomId,
+		}, {
+			fields,
+		});
+		return room && room.t;
+	}
 	findRoom(roomType, identifier, user) {
 		return this.roomTypes[roomType] && this.roomTypes[roomType].findRoom(identifier, user);
 	}

packages/rocketchat-i18n/i18n/en.i18n.json

@@ -2406,6 +2406,7 @@
   "Replied_on": "Replied on",
   "Replies": "Replies",
   "Reply": "Reply",
+  "Reply_in_direct_message": "Reply in Direct Message",
   "ReplyTo": "Reply-To",
   "Report_Abuse": "Report Abuse",
   "Report_exclamation_mark": "Report!",