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Silent Messages Confused about "Silent Messages"?
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LAST EDIT Feb 24 2021
Sometimes you want to add system or transactional messages to channels such as: "your ride is waiting for you", "James updated the information for the trip", "You and Jane are now matched" and so on.
You may not want these messages to mark a channel as unread or increase the unread messages for users.
Silent messages are special messages that don't increase the unread messages count nor mark a channel as unread. Creating a silent message is very simple, you only need to include the silent field boolean field and set it to true.
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const text = 'You completed your trip';
const message = {
text,
user: systemUser,
silent: true,
attachments: [{type:'trip', ...tripData}]
};
await channel.sendMessage(message);1
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val message = Message(
text = "You and Jane are now matched!",
user = systemUser,
silent = true,
)
channelClient.sendMessage(message).enqueue { /* ... */ }1
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Message message = new Message();
message.setText("You and Jane are now matched!");
message.setUser(systemUser);
message.setSilent(true);
channelClient.sendMessage(message).enqueue(result -> { /* ... */ });1
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let channel = Client.shared.channel(type: .messaging, id: "general")
let message = Message(text: "You and Jane are now matched!", silent: true)
channel.send(message: message) { (result) in
// handle result
}1
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final text = 'You completed your trip';
const message = {
text: text,
user: systemUser,
silent: true,
attachments: tripAttachments,
};
await channel.sendMessage(message);Existing messages cannot be turned into a silent message or vice versa.
Silent messages do send push notifications by default. To skip our push notification service, mark the message with skip_push: true, as described here.