I'm looking for a way to get a daily message post with all the pinned messages as a thread. We use pinned threads to track issues and want to get a daily message of pinned items. Haven't found a way yet.
Thanks All!
If you are thinking about creating a custom app to capture this data, 'pin_added' event can help you to keep track of pinned messages in a channel.
For regular slack usage,
you can just view the pinned messages in a channel, it does not tell when the message was pinned.
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Whenever my app posts ephemeral message to Slack channel (in response to a query by a user), I am unable to get the timestamp of my Slack app response. As I want to delete it once the user has made a selection using one of the buttons. Although I have subscribed to 'message.channels' event, I don't get a notification to my app whenever my app posts in the channel (in response to the user input), therefore, I am unable to get the timestamp of the message which I'll use to delete it. All I want is the timestamp of the message posted by my app so that I can delete it but I am unable to receive the timestamp. Please help!
For e.g. in Giphy app for Slack. Let's say the user invokes the app by calling '/giphy [dog]' where 'dog' is just an example of a search term. The app responds by sending a gif and user can either send it, shuffle to the next one or cancel it. I want a similar capability of cancelling the app response but I need the timestamp of the message in order to do so therefore I am asking for help.
Thanks.
Your approach can not work, because Slack is handling ephemeral messages differently from "normal" messages. They are only visible by one user and can not be modified by API methods (e.g. deletion).
But of course its possible to replace ephemeral messages. Here is how:
Your app can just reply to the interactive message request from Slack with a new message. That new message will by default override the original message including ephemeral messages.
You can reply in two ways:
Directly reply to the request from Slack with a message within 3 seconds
Send a message to the response_url from the Slack request within 30 minutes.
See here for the official documentation on how to respond to interactive messages.
This approach works both with interactive messages and slash commands.
See also this answer for a similar situation.
Is there a way, by means of some setting or programmatically, to allow a user on Slack to confirm that the user really wants to send a message before the message is sent? Often times we end up sending messages on the wrong channels or DMs. How can we prevent these?
Assuming by "send a message" you mean "post a message" to a channel.
Via Settings
No. There is no Slack setting to enable confirmation before a message is posting.
Programmatically
No. Its possible to retrieve all messages that are posted to a channel with a Slack app (e.g. via Events API) and then react to them, but only after the fact. To the best of my knowledge it is not possible to insert some kind of confirmation logic into the standard process of posting a message.
I am trying to introduce a messenger (chat) feature in my application.
I ma unable to figure out how to make the feature sync on multiple devices.
Let's say I am using the chat on my phone, and then I login to my desktop and start chatting there. How would I get the messages on both devices and how will both be in sync with each other. Additionally, for the sender to get a read confirmation, the message should be read from either one of the device, but the notification of unread should be shown on sender's device on which the message in unread unless he opens and reads it.
For First Part of the question you want to do Like FB Messenger where you loggin you will find your whole messages found not related to a device. To Achieve that you can have at the device app Last Login time which will be posted to the server, and all messages from that time will be retrieved to the user. But imagine the user has read all his messages from the mobile but he didnt open the computer since one Month. IF you didnt mark the message as read, he will find enourmous amount of messages coming as unread but he actually read on his mobile which will cause you huge usability issue.
For your Case I feel you need to do exaclty what FB Messenger does. Retrieve your latest messages from your conv with their actual status. And while scrolling up load by demand.
So Your Message will have only 1 Status(Read or UnRead) And date where you can match with Device Last Sync time.
Why is sinch sending old deleted messages in onMessageSent of MessageClientListener? These messages were deleted in my Parse backend. I've deleted data of the app on phone, so sinch should n't have this locally. From where is Sinch bringing in all these messages and what should I do to avoid this?
hi sinch evangelist here.
I am going to try and explain this. Parse and Sinch has nothing to do with each other (we have a tutorial where we show how you can save messages to your own backend like parse) So the fact that you delete from parse has nothing to do with Sinch.
Regarding delivery of messages, we keep all messages for delivery to all devices a user might have for 30 days.
So if you i.e install your app on a new device and login we will ship those messages to that device. And we consider this to be a feature :D
I can agree with you that it might be confusing sometimes, since if you uninstall and app you will get all messages again.
I can see a couple of workarounds for this delete of app and deletions of messages.
You could either mark messages as deleted in parse and not display to the user, or look at timestamps.
I’m looking to get information about individual messages in chat threads in Messages.app.
I can get individual chat threads:
set firstChat to first chat
I can get everything I ever wanted to know about file transfers (media sent/received via iMessage):
get properties of the last file transfer whose direction is incoming
I can handle messages as they arrive (which is pretty magical):
on message received msg from bud
processIncomingMessage(msg, bud)
end message received
I just can’t figure out how to get information about individual messages. I’ve pored over the dictionary for Messages.app. It’s been super helpful up until I reach chat, then it seems I can’t get more specific than a chat thread.
The incoming message handler is great, but it doesn’t give me anything interesting in the message parameter. I can’t even get an index of the message.
Have I missed something, or is it not possible to get information about individual messages?
I have officially declared “f**k it” and given up on finding an AppleScript-y way of getting messages. Everything I need is encased in glorious SQLite (~/Library/Messages/chat.db). Thank you all for your help, I couldn’t have done it without you, keep up the good work, etc. etc.
tell application "Messages" to set lastmessage to subject of first text chat