Last user message variable in Pabbly chatflow

[Viswanatha Reddy]

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I am looking to send the last message received from the user.

I want to capture it, compare it and send it to Pabbly Connect.

Usecase:

User send a message --> if number send to Pabbly connect
else --> run the flow in chatflow.

 

[ArshilAhmad]

Hi @Viswanatha Reddy,

It’s not possible to determine whether the message received is the last message from the user, so this particular use case doesn’t appear to be possible.

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Arshil Ahmad
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[Viswanatha Reddy]

I do nt what you understood.
What I mean is the most recent message form user.

I also do not know what will be the last user message.

is there anything for most recent message?

 

[ArshilAhmad]

No, there is no trigger step that automatically checks for and triggers the flow based on the most recent message. A flow can be triggered when a specific keyword is received, when a user starts a conversation, when a user replies using a quick reply button, when a WhatsApp template is sent, and so on. There is no trigger available that checks for the most recent message and triggers the flow based on it.

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Arshil Ahmad
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Pabbly.com
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[Viswanatha Reddy]

Forget it.
You're not getting my point.

 

[Preeti Paryani]

Hi @Viswanatha Reddy,

If your goal is to process the user's message in Pabbly Connect when it contains a phone number, you can achieve this using a webhook approach.

Steps you can follow:

1. In Pabbly Chatflow, go to API & Webhooks.
2. Add a webhook for the Message Received event and connect it to a Pabbly Connect webhook trigger.
3. In the workflow, add Text Formatter (Pabbly) → Extract Pattern.
4. Use the following regex to detect a phone number:

(\+?\d[\d\s\-]{7,}\d)

1. If a number exists in the message, it will appear in the Result field.
2. Add a Filter step and check that the Result field is not empty.
3. After the filter passes, you can proceed with the required actions in the workflow.

For the other scenario (when the message does not contain a number), you can handle it directly in Pabbly Chatflow by creating a flow with the trigger Keyword/Regex Match and using the following regex that ensures the text does not contain a phone number:

^(?!.*(\+?\d[\d\s\-]{7,}\d)).*$

This way:

• Messages containing a phone number → processed in Pabbly Connect
• Messages without a phone number → handled in Chatflow flow

 

[Viswanatha Reddy]

there is challenge that Pabbly connect trigger for every incoming message. It preceeds Pabbly chatflow.