# Add text in message cell without sending it

**URL:** <https://community.sendbird.com/t/add-text-in-message-cell-without-sending-it/4043>\
**Category:** iOS\
**Tags:** ios, uikit\
**Created:** [March 1, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/add-text-in-message-cell-without-sending-it/4043 "2022-03-01T11:18:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Vdias97](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/aeb1de/32.png) [@Vdias97](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Vdias97)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/add-text-in-message-cell-without-sending-it/4043/1 "2022-03-01T11:18:07Z")

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I wanted to implement a way that when a user presses a button this button will redirect the user to the group channel chat screen and a message should already be written in the text box but should be not sent.

A similar behaviour is used in WhatsApp when you’re trying to contact a business and is redirected to the business page’s WhatsApp with a placeholder message.

I’m trying to do the following:

```auto
userMessageCell?.message.message = "TEST"

```

but this does not work since this variable is get only.  
Can I implement this using sendbird? Thank you for the help!

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**Author:** ![Dhaval\_Patel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/dhaval_patel/32/1956_2.png) [@Dhaval\_Patel](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Dhaval_Patel)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/add-text-in-message-cell-without-sending-it/4043/2 "2022-03-01T18:33:29Z")

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Hi @Vdias97,

To achieve the above use-case, what you can do with SendBird SDK is send the message but only show it for the user that joins the channel and not Business.

You will need to fetch **group\_channel:join** webhooks each time a user joins a channel with a Business and then [send a message](https://sendbird.com/docs/chat/v3/platform-api/guides/messages#2-send-a-message) as the Business to that new channel. When sending the message, set the **mentioned\_user\_ids** parameter with the **user’s id** , and set the **custom\_type** parameter so that it can be used later in the front-end to hide these messages for Businesses.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Best,  
Dhaval.