Create a title for telegram messages

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Hi all,

I am new to node-red i have home assistant and i wanted to transfer many of my automation to node-red

in HA you have the ability to create a title when you are sending a message (it's just a bold line before the text)

i tried to achieve the same thing in node-red but i don't know how to do it
this is my code

msg.payload.chatId = 530000000;
msg.payload.type = 'message';
msg.payload.content = 'text';
return msg;

and i am using node-red-contrib-telegrambot

any help for newbie will be gladly appreciated

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You can do this by indicating to Telegram that it should use markdown enhanced messages. The markup is very limited but you can do bold, italic and fixed-width font.

On my generic Telegram output flow, I use a simple JSONata change node to change the payload before sending:

{ 
    "chatId": chatId,
    "content": "*" & $replace(topic, "_", " ") & "*\n" & $join($split(payload, "<br>"), "\n"),
    "type": contentType,
    "options": { 
        "parse_mode": "Markdown"
    }
}
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Have you tried the examples?

Node-red - menu - import - examples.

A quick look at the source for this node suggests you can make msg.content an object and one of the properties is title. So there may be a format that permits sending rich/html or text with .title set? Pure speculation.

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Thanks that's solved my problem
I've added the code for future people to see :slight_smile:

msg.payload.options = {parse_mode : "Markdown"};
msg.payload.chatId = 530000000;
msg.payload.type = 'message';
msg.payload.content = '*Title* \r\n Text';
return msg;
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