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Pinned messages
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Pinned messages allow users to highlight important messages, make announcements, or temporarily promote content. Pinning a message is, by default, restricted to certain user roles, but this is flexible. Each channel can have multiple pinned messages and these can be created or updated with or without an expiration.
Pin and unpin a message
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An existing message can be updated to be pinned or unpinned by using the channel.pinMessage and channel.unpinMessage methods. Or a new message can be pinned when it is sent by setting the pinned and pin_expires fields when using channel.sendMessage.
| name | type | description | default | optional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pinned | boolean | Indicates whether the message is pinned or not | false | ✓ |
| pinned_at | string | Date when the message got pinned | - | ✓ |
| pin_expires | string | Date when the message pin expires. An empty value means that message does not expire | null | ✓ |
| pinned_by | User | The user that pinned the message | - | ✓ |
PinMessage permission. You can find the list of permissions and defaults in Permission Resources and Default Permissions sectionsRetrieve pinned messages
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You can easily retrieve the last 10 pinned messages from the channel.pinned_messages field:
Search for all pinned messages
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Stream Chat also provides search filter in case if you need to display more than 10 pinned messages in specific channel.