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# Send ephemeral message
Sends a message that arrives in the channel but is visible only to a specific user


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`Function SendEphemeralMessage(Val Token, Val Channel, Val Text = "", Val User = "", Val Blocks = "") Export`

 | Parameter | CLI option | Type | Destination |
 |-|-|-|-|
 | Token | --token | String | Bot token |
 | Channel | --channel | String | Channel ID |
 | Text | --text | String | Message text |
 | User | --user | String | User ID |
 | Blocks | --blocks | Array of Structure | JSON array of block descriptions |

 
 Returns: Map Of KeyAndValue - Serialized JSON response from Slack

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```bsl title="Code example"
 
 Channel = "C070VPMKN8J";
 Block = OPI_Slack.GenerateImageBlock("https://opi.neocities.org/test_data/picture.jpg", "Image");
 
 Response = OPI_Slack.SendEphemeralMessage(Token, Channel,, User, Block); //Map
 Response = OPI_Tools.JSONString(Response); //JSON string
 
```
	


```sh title="CLI command example"
 
 oint slack SendEphemeralMessage --token %token% --channel "C070VPMKN8J" --text %text% --user %user% --blocks %blocks%

```

```json title="Result"
 {
 "ok": true,
 "message_ts": "1714146540.000300"
 }
```