Actions › Messages
Send Direct Message
Sends a direct message to a member
- 2 credits
- Outputs: Success, Failure
- Undone after a test
Fields
What you set in Properties. The grey name is the one in the Blueprint's JSON.
| Field | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
User userId | The member this action applies to | required |
Content content | The message text | optional |
Allow @everyone and @here allowEveryone | Without this, @everyone and @here written in the text notify no one. A mention inside an inserted value never notifies. | optional |
Silent message silent | Sends no notification, even to the members it mentions. | optional |
Hide link previews suppressEmbeds | The message's links show no preview. Its own embeds stay. | optional |
Poll poll | A native Discord poll under the message, set in the Message Builder. | optional |
Files files | Images or files attached to the message, by their https address (10 at most, 8 MB each). A reference to an attachment works too. | optional |
What it passes on
On the Success output, for the nodes after it. Click a value in the editor to copy its reference.
| Data | Path | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | message.id | Text | |
| Content | message.content | Text | can be empty |
| URL | message.url | Text | |
| Created At | message.createdAt | Date | can be empty |
| Edited At | message.editedAt | Date | can be empty |
| Author ▸ ID | message.author.id | Text | can be empty |
| Data | Path | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author ▸ Username | message.author.username | Text | can be empty |
| Author ▸ Display Name | message.author.displayName | Text | can be empty |
| Author ▸ Is a Bot | message.author.bot | Yes/No | can be empty |
| Channel ▸ ID | message.channel.id | Text | |
| Channel ▸ Name | message.channel.name | Text | can be empty |
| Mentions ▸ Members | message.mentions.members | List | |
| Mentions ▸ Roles | message.mentions.roles | List | |
| Mentions ▸ Mentions @everyone | message.mentions.everyone | Yes/No | |
| Attachments | message.attachments | List | |
| Replying to ▸ ID | message.replyTo.id | Text | can be empty |
| Thread ▸ ID | message.thread.id | Text | can be empty |
| Thread ▸ Name | message.thread.name | Text | can be empty |
| Pinned | message.pinned | Yes/No | can be empty |
When it fails
The Failure output receives success (false) and error: error.code, error.message in the server's language, and error.detail, what Discord said. The possible causes are in Errors.
Discord permissions
None: the bot needs no server permission for this node.