Post to channel as admin
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Overview
This task is used to post a message as an admin to any of the channels that you are a part of, using the channel name in Zoho Cliq. The channel members will receive your message in the channel and the sender will be displayed as admin.
This task is based on Zoho Cliq API - Post message in a channel.
Syntax
<variable> = zoho.cliq.postToChannelAsAdmin(<channel_name>, <message>, <connection>);
where,
Params | Data type | Description |
<variable> | KEY-VALUE | is the variable which will hold the response returned by Zoho Cliq. |
<channel_name> | TEXT | is the channel's name in which the message will be posted. |
<message> | TEXT | is the message to be posted. The different types of content that can be posted in a channel can be found here. |
<connection> | TEXT | specifies the link name of the Zoho Cliq connection. Note:
|
Example
The following script posts a message Hello as an admin in the channel - DelugeChannel.
response = zoho.cliq.postToChannelAsAdmin("DelugeChannel","Hello", "cliq_connection");
(or)
response = zoho.cliq.postToChannelAsAdmin("DelugeChannel",{"text":"Hello"}, "cliq_connection");
where,
response
"DelugeChannel"
"text"
"Hello"
"cliq_connection"
Response Format
The following is a sample success response:
{"status":"success"}The failure response returned for a non-existent channel name is of the following format.
{
"message":"Whoa! Looks like this channel does not exist.",
"code":"channel_not_exists"
}
Related Links
- Zoho Cliq API
- Common error codes can be viewed here