# Crazy idea to use link calls from Blockly nodes

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**Created:** [27 October 2023 19:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/crazy-idea-to-use-link-calls-from-blockly-nodes/82409 "2023-10-27T19:02:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![marcus-j-davies](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/marcus-j-davies/32/103435_2.png) [@marcus-j-davies](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/marcus-j-davies)\
**Post date:** [30 October 2023 17:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/crazy-idea-to-use-link-calls-from-blockly-nodes/82409/3 "2023-10-30T17:18:06Z")

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Yes!

But it's a secret, and could be seen as corporate espionage (unless I have it wrong? - extremely possible)

> [@Send a message from a custom function node without output option](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-a-message-from-a-custom-function-node-without-output-option/82308/22):
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> Yes, but it's a secret shushing_face The link out node communicates to a link in node using this. In theory, a link-in node could be targeted by: const event = "node:xxxyyyzzz" const msg = {} msg.\_event = event node.emit(event, msg) Where xxxyyyzzz is the ID of the link node.

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