Question - how to send the "typing.." message?

I tried:

cient.emit('userTyping', userID, channel);

and:

channel.startedTyping(userID)

both didn’t work. Is there an example somewhere I can use?

[clavin]

To answer the question about sending a message to indicate the bot is typing, use rtm.sendTyping:

rtm.sendTyping(channelId);

However, given that rtm._send didn’t work, you likely are running into an issue with your channel ID not being correct or the RTM client not being connected yet.

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How can you access the underlying RTM mechanism to do things that aren’t officially supported by the SDK

Although this isn’t the current case, if you wanted to send an unsupported message type through the RTM client, I’d suggest using rtm.send and not rtm._send as rtm.send has some helpful error checks (and could have more stuff in the future).

[clavin]

I answered how to do it earlier: rtm.sendTyping.

As noted in the botkit issue that references this issue, this only works with the RTM API currently. Why, I can’t tell you, and it doesn’t revolve around an issue with this repository.

If you’d like to question it then your best bet may be contacting Slack support and hoping to get to one of the super-cool Slack Engineers. They might already know about this, however.