Remove before message or edit it

[tuanngocptn]

Hi,
First, Thanks for your wonderful bot, That help me a lot in my group to produce the event weekly easily.
But I saw the problem when everyone /in and /out or /maybe in the consecutive time. Then /whosinbot log list of peoples in, out, maybe multiple time.
And I hope bot can edit before message or delete before message and log only 1 time .
Thanks you very much.

[col]

Very happy to hear that this bot has been helpful for you.

I don’t really understand your issue though. Can you please provide some more info and maybe an example of the problem?

Thanks

[tuanngocptn]

Hi Col,

With image, you can see the bot log the list of user many time, I know we have /shh option for making bot log only the number of person in-out-maybe. But with this option user alway use /louder for show the list to view other attendance people.
So, I would like WhosIsIn bot can remove all older logs and log the new message everytime when anyone using /in, /out, /maybe or /louder.

The result that I expect in the below picture

Thanks.

[col]

Hi @tuanngocptn - Ok I understand the feature request now. Unfortunately this is not supported by the Telegram Bot API. Once the bot sends a message it cannot delete or edit it as far as I know.

[tuanngocptn]

Hi @col
I just found this thing. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#updating-messages. I think that is the answer for this feature.
Thanks

[col]

Interesting. That API wasn't available last time I checked. Good find.

I don't have a lot of time to work on the bot these days but I'll try to look into this feature. Will be nice to write some elixir code again. 😄

[col]

The API you've pointed out only allows for editing the message. Not sure if I can completely delete a message. I'll give it a try but if not I may just revert the message to the /shh version.

Alternative suggestions are welcome.