Ephemeral messages

Ephemeral messages are messages that can only be seen by the user invoking a Post command trigger. Ephemeral messages can be posted to a user by using a Workbot Post command reply action.

Ephemeral message delivery is not guaranteed — the user must be currently active in Slack. By nature, ephemeral messages do not persist across reloads, desktop, and mobile apps, or sessions.

Use ephemeral messages to send users context-sensitive messages, relevant to the channel where the Post command trigger is invoked.

Configuring ephemeral messages

Ephemeral messages can be configured in a Workbot Post command reply action, under the Send only to the user section.

When set to Yes, only the user invoking the command will see the reply. If set to No, everyone in the channel will see the reply. This field defaults to No by default.