I've cocked up and ended up in a situation where my Slack App is installed on some workspaces that it shouldn't be and all I know is those workspace Team IDs. Is there any way to delete your app from a workspace other than through the apps.uninstall API method?
I'm getting inundated with traffic from those workspaces and I need to find a way to sever the connection!
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I would like to create a Microsoft Teams chatbot app for a self-hosted service. Each customer will different settings and configurations. These are basic configurations
URL
Token
One app needs to be usable to multiple organizations. When they install it, their URL where the solution lives is an integral part of the app's configuration to connect with it. How do we configure such a setting inside the chat app after the installation? Or Is it possible to configure the settings when installing the chat bot? I see some sample apps but i couldn't see the examples to set the configurations like this.
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It's not possible to change the bot URL based on the tenant. This is by design. You can install it to multiple tenant organization by approving it in Application registration in Azure. Please go through this documentation.
I am working on adding support for our cloud storage solution to MS Teams but there is no central server you can send http messages to and get meaningful relies back from. I have no experience with creating Teams apps so I was hoping someone with Teams apps experience could tell me if this is even possible. At this point I only need my app to work on Windows and OS X.
This is how I would like my Teams App to work:
Each member of the team already has our cloud storage app running locally on their machine which provides access to the files.
Within MS Teams the user adds a file reference to a message via a message extension that would result in a link unfurl creating a card that contains an 'Open' button. The URL in the card would be one generated by our locally running cloud storage app. Other members of the team could then open this file by clicking the 'Open' button. The action of the open button would be to send the URL to our cloud storage app that would then open the local copy of the file on that team members machine.
Is it possible to do something like this within a Teams app? The communication between the Teams app and our cloud storage app would be done over our own protocol.
If it weren't for the fact that all bot communication must be done over https rather than http the local cloud storage app could act as the server.
All the communication in Teams with 3P apps needs to happen over https public endpoint. You could use ngrok to tunnel to local.
I've been following Microsoft's Teams C# tutorials found here, and have been successful for the most part. However, I cannot seem to get my app to work when I host the messaging endpoint myself rather than via their Azure service, which is not an option for me ultimately as the pricing is outrageous for what we need it to do.
I'm hosting the endpoint myself by publishing the sample project and ensuring it's externally available via HTTPS. I can access a custom tab within Teams, so I know that it's online, it's just the messaging endpoint that seems to fail with an "unable to reach app" error when I try and use the messaging extension via a chat window.
When debugging using dev tools, I get 502 error: Bot returned unsuccessful status code Forbidden, error code 1008. Every potential solution I've seen for similar issues hasn't worked for me thus far, though I still feel like it's something incredibly obvious. Are there special steps that need taking when hosting the endpoint yourself? The docs do a very lousy job of explaining the process, probably because Microsoft want you to pay to host the app on Azure.
This is usually caused by the app id / app key not being registered or used correctly in your app, so it's not authenticating to the bot framework service properly. Where/how you do that depends a bit on what sample code / project template you started with, but it's usually somewhere in a .config file (or previously in a .bot file).
The information that you need will be in:
App Id: The Bot Settings page in Azure
App Key: from the Bot settings page, where you got the AppId above, it links to the App registration itself - within there you'll find the section on keys, and you can create a new key (if you've lost the original one)
I know it's generally an error when AppID validation fails. The bot app requests Azure AD to verify the identity.Could your web server access to Azure AD? If you deny to access to outbound with firewall, you should allow Azure IP range.
Turns out it was purely a network issue, that as of yet we still haven't actually figured out. But we tried hosting the app elsewhere and it was fine. That's my recommendation if anyone else has the same problem!
We are planning a Slack app but we need local storage, we do not want to store any data of user/channel at our server, we want to save it permanently or temporary on local machine of user or in Slack server.
Is there anyway to do it?
Thanks
Here are my thoughts on the topic:
Local storage solution
You would need to implement a "local" helper-app that every user needs to install. Keep in mind that Slack works on many different platforms. So you would either need to limit your app to certain platforms (e.g browser only), or develop a "helper-app" for all platforms that Slack is currently supporting (e.g. Browser, Windows desktop, Apple desktop, iPhone, Android).
You would still need to host your Slack app on a server. Slack requires you to provide a fixed URL to connect to your Slack app, e.g. to invoke a slash command or after pressing a button. Your app would then need to manage the connection with the local helper-app to access the local data storage.
So, I guess it would be technically possible, but would require a lot of effort. And since you will need to host your app on a server anyways, it might be more feasible to also put your user data there.
Storing data on the Slack server
It is possible to store user data on the slack server through the user profile. There one can add custom key/value pairs through users.profile.get and users.profile.set
However, this will not work for slack team related data, like the individual Slack token that is received during the app installation process and needed by the Slack app to use those API methods. So your app needs to at least store the app token centrally together with the slack app itself.
I have created a web app in ASP.NET. I want to deploy this on Microsoft Azure. I have been given an account from my IT company. We need subscription to deploy on Azure, for sure. Then, I have been added as co-admin to subscription by my company, but still I am not able to integrate my account with Visual Studio. Do I need to do any setting? Or, this permission is also not enough ?
Co-admin on subscription is definitely enough. You are allowed to do anything in the subscription. Have you tried logging in to https://portal.azure.com with the account?
EDIT: Try opening a new Incognito/InPrivate window with no logins active, and try again with the credentials, making sure they are the ones that are co-admin.