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Last Modified: 30.08.2022

Sends message from chatbot

Attention! restCommand function is used here for illustration purposes only. It is taken from the EchoBot example. You can send a REST command with your own function, or use the BX24.callMethod or bitrix24-php-sdk methods.

Note: These methods of message processing are usually employed when the user is typing something, that is why the ONIMBOTMESSAGEADD event must be processed.

Method call

$result = restCommand('imbot.message.add', Array(

     'BOT_ID' => 39, // ID of chatbot that sends request. Is optional, there is only one chatbot
    'DIALOG_ID' => 1, // Dialog ID: it can be either USER_ID, or chatXX - where XX is chat ID, transmitted in events ONIMBOTMESSAGEADD and ONIMJOINCHAT
    'MESSAGE' => 'answer text' // Message text
    'ATTACH' => '' // Attachment, optional field 
    'KEYBOARD' => '' // Keyboard, optional field 
    'MENU' => '' // Context menu, optional field
    'SYSTEM' => 'N' // Display messages as system messages, optional field, by default 'N'
    'URL_PREVIEW' => 'Y' // Convert links to rich-links, optional field, by default 'Y'

), $_REQUEST["auth"]);

You can post message on behalf of bot in private dialogues (they will be shown as system message). To do it, specify FROM_USER_ID and TO_USER_ID instead of DIALOG_ID.

Return

Message identifier: MESSAGE_ID or an error.

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Possible errors:

Code Description
BOT_ID_ERROR Chatbot not found.
APP_ID_ERROR Chatbot is not part of this application: you can only work with chatbots, installed within application framework.
DIALOG_ID_EMPTY Dialogue ID is not transmitted.
MESSAGE_EMPTY Message text is not transmitted.
ATTACH_ERROR Complete transmitted object was not validated.
ATTACH_OVERSIZE Maximum permissible attachment size was exceeded (30 Kb).
KEYBOARD_ERROR Complete transmitted keyboard object was not validated.
KEYBOARD_OVERSIZE Maximum permissible keyboard size was exceeded (30 Kb).
MENU_ERROR Complete transmitted menu object was not validated.
MENU_OVERSIZE Maximum permissible menu size was exceeded (30 Kb).
WRONG_REQUEST Something went wrong.




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