Closed KenwoodFox closed 3 years ago
Hi @KenwoodFox! Great question! I'm Sorry to say there is no way to do that. Since installables could potentially be pushing sensitive/personal information to a given board (think calendar for the day, or a personal private message to a loved one), you cannot retrieve information from the board; it's a one-way street. This is a privacy decision on the part of Vestaboard. I do know, though, that the Vestaboard team was looking into adding a way to retrieve a message ID, though, which may help depending on your use case. Essentially you would get back a message ID as a confirmation when pushing a message to the board, then you could check the currently-displayed message ID, and if they match then the board is still displaying the message you just sent, otherwise either the user has changed it or another installable has sent a message overriding yours. Hope that helps!
That's unfortunate but understandable~ I was hoping that a user could input a custom layout/string into the webgui, and then save it into a list to repeat later at specific times using a custom installable. Ill work around the limitation though, thanks for your response.
Id like to be able to save the text currently displayed on the board.
Im wondering if there is a way to collect and return the data (perhaps in the same format as raw)
Ive checked through the docs, im not sure if theres a way to read back the displayed text. Is there?