# Get chat messages sent before user joined

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-chat-messages-sent-before-user-joined/61905>\
**Category:** Web\
**Created:** [December 27, 2021, 10:17am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-chat-messages-sent-before-user-joined/61905 "2021-12-27T10:17:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jetonthaci.88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/jetonthaci.88/32/33602_2.png) [@jetonthaci.88](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/jetonthaci.88)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 10:17am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-chat-messages-sent-before-user-joined/61905/1 "2021-12-27T10:17:26Z")

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**Description**  
If a user joins the session, does he have access to chat messages that were sent before he joined?

**Which Web Video SDK version?**  
1.1.6

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**Author:** ![vic.yang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/vic.yang/32/24656_2.png) [@vic.yang](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/vic.yang)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-chat-messages-sent-before-user-joined/61905/2 "2021-12-28T02:13:16Z")

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Hey @jetonthaci.88

Thanks for your feedback.

The user cannot send a chat message before he joins the session. In the VideoSDK Web, there is status checking within the APIs.

Thanks  
Vic

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**Author:** ![jetonthaci.88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/jetonthaci.88/32/33602_2.png) [@jetonthaci.88](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/jetonthaci.88)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-chat-messages-sent-before-user-joined/61905/3 "2021-12-28T09:41:01Z")

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Hi Vic,

Thanks for the response.

I didn’t mean to **send** a message before joining. I meant **get/read** the messages sent by others before he joined.

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**Author:** ![vic.yang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/vic.yang/32/24656_2.png) [@vic.yang](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/vic.yang)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-chat-messages-sent-before-user-joined/61905/4 "2021-12-28T10:03:06Z")

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Hi @jetonthaci.88

In my understanding, you mean to get the existing messages before the time the user joined the session, is that right? As the messages are not persistent, we cannot offer you a way to obtain the previous messages.

Thanks  
Vic

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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:** [January 27, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-chat-messages-sent-before-user-joined/61905/5 "2022-01-27T20:03:16Z")

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