> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Customize the prompt

> Use the built-in host prompt or render your own prompt for pending React Native interview invites.

Event-triggered interviews and synced audience prompts show an in-app popup
before opening the interview. By default, `InterviewHost` renders
that prompt for you.

```tsx AppRoot.tsx theme={null}
<InterviewHost client={interviews} />
```

The prompt appears when a configured tracked event or synced audience match
creates a pending invite. Accepting the prompt starts the invite. Dismissing it
clears the invite without opening the interview.

## Customize copy

Prompt copy is configured on the [Study Launch Rule](/interviews/targeting-rules)
in UserJourneys. The app does not need a release when the prompt title, body,
primary action label, or dismiss label changes.

## Render your own prompt

Use `useInterviews` when you need a custom native prompt component.
Disable the built-in host prompt so the app does not render two prompts.

```tsx theme={null}
import {
  InterviewHost,
  useInterviews,
} from "@userjourneys/interviews-react-native";

export function InterviewInviteSheet() {
  const { pendingInvite } = useInterviews(interviews);

  if (pendingInvite == null) return null;

  return (
    <InviteSheet
      title={pendingInvite.prompt?.title}
      message={pendingInvite.prompt?.body}
      startLabel={pendingInvite.prompt?.primaryActionLabel}
      dismissLabel={pendingInvite.prompt?.dismissLabel}
      onDismiss={() => interviews.dismissPendingInvite()}
      onStart={() => void interviews.startPendingInvite()}
    />
  );
}

export function AppRoot() {
  return (
    <>
      <AppNavigator />
      <InterviewInviteSheet />
      <InterviewHost client={interviews} showPrompt={false} />
    </>
  );
}
```

The prompt fields map directly to the [Study Launch Rule](/interviews/targeting-rules)
fields you set in the dashboard: `title` is the rule's title, `message` is its
body, `startLabel` is its primary action label, and `dismissLabel` is its dismiss
label, so changing the dashboard copy updates your custom prompt without an app
release.

Keep `InterviewHost` mounted once near the app root. The prompt
only controls whether a pending invite starts; the host owns the full-screen
WebView after the invite starts.

## Direct link rules do not show a prompt card

A [Study Launch Rule](/interviews/targeting-rules) can use either the
`SDK prompt` surface or the `direct_link` surface. A `direct_link` rule makes the
study available without showing a prompt card at all, so no pending invite is
created and neither the built-in nor a custom prompt renders. Use `direct_link`
when you drive the user into the interview yourself — for example from your own
in-app entry point — instead of asking the SDK to show an in-app prompt.

## Link invites do not use the prompt

HTTPS invite links open from a user tap in Intercom, email, push, or another
channel. Because the user already selected the invite, `handleLink`
resolves the link and opens the in-app WebView or browser fallback directly.