# Chatbot message head shows numeric value as link

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chatbot-message-head-shows-numeric-value-as-link/50160>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [May 12, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chatbot-message-head-shows-numeric-value-as-link/50160 "2021-05-12T21:04:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![richard.harper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/richard.harper/32/20091_2.png) [@richard.harper](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/richard.harper)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chatbot-message-head-shows-numeric-value-as-link/50160/1 "2021-05-12T21:04:52Z")

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We are developing a Chatbot app to send messages to our Zoom users. I need to put a file number in the header (see screenshot) but the file number shows as a link. This could confuse our users. Maybe Zoom thinks this number is a meeting number? Is there a way to code the Header so that file number does not render as a link?  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/7/9/79795eeba39bf434e9f9df3db8ce1a0c788996b0.png)

Hers is the message code:

```
 var model = new ZoomMessage
            {
                Content = new Content
                {
                    Head = new Head
                    {
                        Style = new Style
                        {
                            Bold = true,
                            Color = "#000000",
                            Italic = false
                        },
                        Text = $"DEV Task Created {messageData["FileName"]}"
                    },
                    Bodies = new List<Body>
                    {
                        new Body
                        {
                            Style = new Style {Bold = false, Color = "#000000", Italic = false},
                            Text = $"Description: {messageData["Description"]}",
                            Type = "message"
                        },
                        new Body
                        {
                            Style = new Style {Bold = false, Color = "#000000", Italic = false},
                            Text = $"Task Due Date: {messageData["DateDue"]}",
                            Type = "message"
                        },
                        new Body
                        {
                            Style = new Style {Bold = true, Color = $"{priorityColor}", Italic = false},
                            Text = $"Priority: {messageData["Priority"]}",
                            Type = "message"
                        }
                    }
                }
            };
```

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**Author:** ![MaxM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/maxm/32/42303_2.png) [@MaxM](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/MaxM)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chatbot-message-head-shows-numeric-value-as-link/50160/2 "2021-05-13T23:05:47Z")

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Hey @richard.harper,

Thank you for reaching out to the Zoom Developer Forum. It doesn’t look like there is a setting, either via the Zoom Web Portal settings or via the Chatbot messaging format that will prevent this meeting/phone number highlight feature.

If you would like this feature to be considered for a future release, I recommend posting in the #feature-requests category.

Thanks,  
Max

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**Author:** ![donte.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/donte.zoom/32/24412_2.png) [@donte.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/donte.zoom)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chatbot-message-head-shows-numeric-value-as-link/50160/3 "2021-05-13T23:14:39Z")

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Hi, @richard.harper,

Thank you for posting in the developer forum. Have you tired to create an escape function and then parse the array like suggested [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29350737/escaping-html-characters-in-a-javascript-array)?

Please give that a try and let us know how it goes.

Best,  
Donte

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**Author:** ![richard.harper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/richard.harper/32/20091_2.png) [@richard.harper](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/richard.harper)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chatbot-message-head-shows-numeric-value-as-link/50160/4 "2021-05-14T14:50:40Z")

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Thanks for the reply, donte S. I am not sure what I would replace? The string I pass in is, for example “0123456789”. Apparently, per MaxM, Zoom is rendering this string formatted as a “meeting/phone number highlight”.  
Please let me know if you think I am missing the point.

Thanks,  
Richard

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**Author:** ![donte.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/donte.zoom/32/24412_2.png) [@donte.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/donte.zoom)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chatbot-message-head-shows-numeric-value-as-link/50160/5 "2021-05-14T18:58:53Z")

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Hi, @richard.harper,

Correct, Zoom is rendering the string formatted as a “meeting/phone number highlight”. My thought behind the suggestion was that perhaps wrapping the object, which returns the meeting number, in an escape function may transform the numbers into a string – similar to the strings that come before it. You would not need to change anything except add a call to your escape function like so : escape ({messageData[“FileName”]} ). As a test, copy the numbers and append it to the end of ‘DEV Task Created’, to see if the numbers are rendered as expected. If wrapping the number in a escape function does not work, then @MaxM recommendation to post in the #feature-requests category is the best path forward.

Please let me know if you have questions about this.

Best,  
Donte

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/chatbot-message-head-shows-numeric-value-as-link/50160/6 "2021-06-14T04:59:28Z")

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