I am using power automate to post a message to a teams channel. The message cannot be edited by admin of that teams channel or any user in that channel. I could not find an option to make the teams message editable or make it editable only by admin of that channel. Any pointer on making power automate teams message editable by admin of the group?
In general messages sent from one "user" (or bot) can't be edited by other users, even an admin - that would be a disaster for things like auditability. However, messages sent from a bot (e.g. the Flow bot) -can- be edited by the bot. However, in the case of Power Automate, it does not offer this as an action for the "post a teams channel message" Action, only for the Action that sends an Adaptive Card message. If you can change your flow to send this kind of message, there is an action to then update it later, using the message id.
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Is there a possibility to send a user message to specified user(s) in MS Teams?
Elaboration:
My current flow triggers a message to a user, but it is always sent via FlowBot and appears in the Power Automate chat of MS Teams.
Flow: (Outlook; Trigger) "When a new email arrives (V3)" → (MS Teams) "Post message in chat or channel" → (Outlook) "Mark as read or unread" (v3)
Can individual users be set as recipients of direct messages with the message sent in the already existing chat with the user?
If yes, is it possible without a value chain?
Thanks!
As I see it, there are kind of a few different questions in your post, so I'll try deal with each of them:
In order to send a message directly to a user, the user has to come "from" someone/something, and in Teams that basically means a Bot. The easiest way, therefore, to do this is to use the out-of-box FlowBot. If that's fine for you, you're good to go. If you want it to come from another Bot (i.e. one you own) then you need to create a Bot somehow. Two main options are:
Code it from scratch using Microsoft Bot Framework - code in a regular language (C#, Python, etc.) or using Bot Framework Composer
Use Power Virtual Agents - ala "Power" family, it's kind of a "Drag and Drop" bot capability. You don't need to actually have the bot DO anything though, if you don't want it to handle user responses (you can do most of that visually in your Power Automate flow. For this option, you'll be able to select the bot from within Power Automate designer as the "send from" bot
You can choose to have the bot send a message directly to the user (i.e. in a 1-1 chat, like what you're seeing with FlowBot) or you can choose to have it send to a particular Channel inside Teams - either is fine. Be aware that Channels have threaded conversations, if you want to use them, but 1-1 chats do not.
You can try these Power Automate steps to create the 1:1 chat between you and the user, then send a message to it.
How is this class used? If there is a submit button using Action.Submit on an adaptive card, how does the Microsoft Bot get this message?
So this question doesn't get flagged as too generic, there is a Webex adapter connected to a Microsoft bot using this exact demo.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-adapter-connect-webex?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
The OnMessageActivityAsync message gets the message from the bot, for example, if the user types "Hello", and the bot responds back with an adaptive card that has the action "Action.Submit" that will give the user a card with a submit button. Now, if the user clicks "submit", Webex should send something back to the bot. I don't think it's a message, because I never receive a message. Webex has, on it's side of documentation, a webhook with ActionAttachments. But after creating this webhook and clicking submit, what is the bot supposed to receive?
The answer to this was to change the Webex access token from the auto-generated token to the bot's access token. After doing this, the Action Attachment was working and the bot received the Event Activity.
I am making bot works for Microsoft Teams.
Goal: To make bot to detect reaction posted for any messages in the user's MS teams channel.
Problems:
Using onReactionsAdded in activityhandler(MS BotFramework) , my bot detects the reaction posted only for the bot messages
Is there any possible way to make trigger action by posting reaction for users' posts in MS Teams?
This is similar to the fact that you Bot won't receive every single message posted in the channel / group chat - only those that "#mention" your bot. It's different in a 1-1 chat with the bot though - there it will receive everything. If you want to make sure you get every single reaction, you'd need to call the Graph for that. See Get a reply to a channel message as an example - right near the bottom of the page it shows "reactions" (it's empty in that example).
#Cambria a Bot receive's the reactionAdded event only when there is a reaction on a message the Bot itself posted. Reacting on a user's post does not trigger an event with the Bot.
In a Slack conversation, is it possible to click on a button to send a message to the Slack channel?
The Slack conversation could be:
The user types a word (or message)
A slackbot shows some text and two buttons
The user clicks on a button to send a TEXT message to the Slack channel
The Slackbot reacts on the 'action' message.
It is not possible to create an REST service for my Slackbot, because the Slackbot is behind a firewall. So, registering commands is not possible.
So sending a message as the result of a button click is needed. The Slackbot can react on that message.
I read that attachments could be a good way to do this, BUT the is 'outmoded'.
I tried to send an secondary attachment, which is outmoded, but that was not possible.
The next approach was adding a webhook. So pushing a button resulted in using the url, but that is of course not possible because I cannot send a POST request via a simple (get) url.
Please give a short example.
This will not work.
Every interactive feature (e.g. buttons) require your app to be able to receive POST requests from Slack through the public Internet. Since you say you can not provide that (e.g. behind a company firewall) you will not be able to use any interactive features.
See also this answer: How to integrate internal APIs (Not accessible outside office network) to slack slash commands
In Teams, it's possible to create a bot with a team scope. When this happens, at install time the user is prompted to choose a team, and then specify a channel "where you want to use the app".
When the users chooses a Team, I see the conversationUpdate message with the MembersAdded list containing the bot, but when the users choose the specific channel, I don't see any message. Is it possible to catch this event and respond to it?
Use case is: I don't want to put a welcome message in the General channel, I want to put it into the channel the user just chose.
Currently, this is not supported. We have added feature request for this.