🖼️Embeds

Design rich Discord messages in a live preview, save them under a name, and post them to any channel, forum or thread, or update messages already in Discord, in place. Everything Discohook does in its message editor, the Embed Builder does too, and Discohook JSON, links and backup files import as they are.

#How it works

A saved message is a design of one or more Discord messages (up to 10), posted in order, stored under a name your staff choose. Each message has optional text, up to 10 embeds, link buttons, and its own posting options. Build it once, post it, and later change a line and press Update last post: readers see the edit in the original messages instead of a second announcement.

Everything in the editor maps one-to-one onto what Discord renders. The Preview panel shows the result the way Discord lays it out: your bot's name and avatar (or the profile a message posts under), markdown, #channel and @role mentions resolved to real names, timestamps in your own timezone, attached files, image galleries and buttons. Messages from the same name and avatar run together, as they do in Discord.

#Build a message

1. In Saved messages, choose New message (or pick an existing one to edit).
2. Give it a Name. It is required, up to 80 characters, and must be unique in the server. Only your staff see it: it labels the message in the library and in /embed post.
3. In Messages, fill in Message 1. Add message adds another Discord message after it; each card can be collapsed, moved with ↑ / ↓, Duplicated, or Removed.
4. Press Save, or Save & post to save and send in one go.

The save bar at the bottom counts unsaved changes, and switching to another saved message warns you before dropping them.

#Text tools

Every text box has a toolbar: B, I, U, S, spoiler and code wrap the selected text; @ Role, # Channel and Emoji insert a mention or one of the server's custom emoji; Timestamp inserts a <t:…> time that every reader sees in their own timezone, in the format you pick (date and time, short date, relative, and so on).

#What a message can hold

A message with nothing in it cannot be sent: it needs text, an embed, a link button or a file.

#What an embed can hold

Each embed card is split into the same sections as Discohook's: Author, Body, Fields, Images and Footer.

Every image box (image, gallery, thumbnail, author and footer icons) takes a hosted https:// link, or a file attached to the message: pick it from the box's Attached file menu and Discord shows that upload inside the embed (attachment://name). A file used in an embed is not shown a second time below the text.

A few rules the builder checks as you type, and enforces when you save:

• Up to 10 embed slots per message, and each extra gallery image takes one. Up to 6,000 characters across a message's embeds, counting titles, descriptions, author names, footer text, and field names and values. The counter on each embed card tracks it.
• Every link box needs a full http:// or https:// URL, up to 2,048 characters.
• Inline fields sit side by side, up to three per row; a non-inline field takes the full width.
• An embed you add but leave completely empty is dropped when you save, so an untouched card never blocks a save.
• A gallery needs Discord to see its images as one group, which it does through the title link. Without a title link of your own, FiveUnity uses a link to fiveunity.com.

Problems show at the top of the message card (and as a count on its header) before you save or send, worded the way the bot would refuse them.

#Post it

Choose where it goes under Post to, then press a button:

After a send, the list under the buttons shows each message: where it was posted or edited, with an open link, or why it could not be sent. A send that reaches one channel but not another keeps what went out and lists the rest.

Deleting a saved message removes it from the library only; anything already posted in Discord stays up.

#Edit messages already in Discord

Every message card has a Message link box. Right-click a message in Discord, choose Copy Message Link, and paste it:

• Load pulls that message's current text, embeds, link buttons, flags and profile into the card, so you can change it rather than rebuild it. Its existing files stay on the message unless you attach new ones, which replace them.
• While the link is set, sending edits that message in place instead of posting a new one. Unlink turns it back into a new post.

FiveUnity can edit messages it posted itself, including its replies to slash commands. A message posted through a webhook (FiveUnity's own, or another one the bot can use) can be edited when you hold Manage Webhooks in that channel, the same as using that webhook in Discord, so nobody can reword a message posted under someone else's name without it. Anything else (a message a member wrote, another bot's message, a post from a followed channel) loads as a copy, which posts as a new message. Messages built with Discord's newer component layout are edited in Embed Studio instead.

Editing a FiveUnity panel (a ticket, verification or self-role message, for example) changes its text and embeds but leaves its buttons and menus exactly as they are; the send results say so.

To start from Discord instead, right-click any message, choose Apps → Open in Embed Builder, and follow the link: the message opens in the dashboard ready to edit. You need to be able to read that channel yourself.

#JSON, code and sharing

Each message card has three more tools at the bottom:

• JSON editor shows the exact JSON Discord receives, in the same shape Discohook uses. Edit it, paste a Discohook message over it, or Download it; Apply changes checks it and brings it back into the card.
• Code generator writes the message as discord.js, discord.py or raw JSON, for your own bot.
• Copy JSON copies the message's JSON in one click.

At the top of the editor:

#Backups

Saved messages moves whole libraries in and out:

• Export on a row downloads that design as a backup file; Export all downloads every saved message in one file. The files use Discohook's backup format, so they import into Discohook as well.
• Import backups takes a backup file exported from Discohook (discohook.org or discohook.app) or from FiveUnity. Every backup in it becomes a saved message; a name that is taken gets a number, and anything that cannot be imported is listed with the reason.

#In Discord

Posting from Discord follows the same rules as the dashboard: a design that pings @everyone needs Mention Everyone, and one that posts under a profile needs Manage Webhooks, from the person running the command.

/embed also has a personal set of saved embeds, separate from the dashboard library; each staff member only sees their own:

/embed and the two message actions are staff tools: who can run them is set in Permissions. /echo is not on the ladder at all; only the server owner can run it, because a plain message sent by the bot is indistinguishable from one the bot sent itself. Both can be restricted to certain channels or given a cooldown in Slash commands.

#Coming from Discohook

Discohook's bot-side extras (button flows, scheduled sends, link previews, custom bots) are separate products and not part of the Embed Builder. For Discord's newer block-based layouts (Components V2), use Embed Studio (Dashboard → Content → Embed Studio).

#Tips

#Related

• Custom commands: canned replies your staff trigger with a message command.
• Documentation: longer guides published on your own FiveUnity link.
• Permissions: who can use the embed commands.