So I know there is a dataverse for teams that is automatically created when you create an app in teams through power apps. But Im creating an app through app studio(also with visual studio with ms teams extension) and my app needs a database(cds) for saving the records. I tried to research about it I dont see any documentation. Does anyone know how can I use database in teams development? Or does any one know a documentation about it? I will really appreciate it. Thank youu.
Within Teams, you are doing Web development and you can query any database that exposes a Web API. Dataverse should work, while Dataverse for Teams won't as currently it doesn't offer an API.
If you really need to store the data along with Teams, you could consider SharePoint libraries (for files) and Microsoft Lists (for list items).
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I hope I may ask this in stackoverflow:
I'm looking a way in Microsoft-Team or Sharepoint to build a list of features/functionality where audience can vote up, to sort the list based on user vote. Can you give me hints/ideas?
Many thanks in advance, Steve
you can implement your Microsoft Teams tab using SharePoint Framework. Using SharePoint Framework significantly simplifies Teams tab development process as Teams tabs can be automatically hosted within SharePoint without any need for external services. .
We are building a custom tab application for Microsoft Teams. The data is stored in our database.
We have looked extensively at ways to get search to work, and short of creating a personal tab with our own search implementation, there doesn't appear to be a way to do this. We need our users to be able to use the standard search features in Teams to find the content they have created both in Teams' native tools and in our tab application.
One option we explored is implementing a Microsoft Search Connector to surface our content, but Teams seems to use its own search implementation instead of integrating with the rest of Microsoft's search ecosystem.
Developing custom search implementation for MS Teams isn't supported as of now. To add this feature for future considerations you can raise a user voice here
I am a Software Engineer and working on developing an integration of my company's product with Microsoft Teams. The idea is that the product will send messages/notifications/alerts to a chat channel in Microsoft Teams. At the moment we are only working towards developing this integration with Microsoft Teams and not other office 365 products.
After researching on MSDN, Microsoft developer platform, google etc. I came to know that I can set up an incoming webhook which gives me a URL against a channel in Microsoft Teams and I can send messages to it. However, I came across another method which is having a connector in the Microsoft store. I would like to add a connector because it provides a nice front end and also gives us a presence on the store for external users. I found out that I can register a connector from the connector developer dashboard. Here is the documentation link that I was referring to:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/connectors
To test it out I referred to the following example on the MSDN blog:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2017/01/24/part-3-office-365-groups/
However, I am unable to see Microsoft Teams groups in the drop down. I am the owner of these groups on Microsoft Teams side. At my organization only I am using Microsoft Teams to test this integration because I am the only developer working on this. Please, see the screenshot below:
Then I read about sideloading your connector to Microsoft Teams to test it out which meant uploading the manifest.json file from the connector developer dashboard. Please, see the below screenshot:
But, after I download the manifest file and follow the instructions mentioned on this link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/apps/apps-package I am still running into problems testing the office 365 connector with Microsoft Teams when uploading the manifest file. This is the error that I get, please see the screenshot below:
Also, I do this from my developer trial account and this is because from my company's paid developer enterprise account I do not see an option to upload a custom app. Please, see the screenshot below:
This is a product issue and I have been in touch with the product support for the past three weeks. We have tried various things over this course of time and nothing has worked. They have also ran recovery diagnostics on my account as well but, I saw no changes. All they tell me is that "this is bizarre, this should not be happening and that maybe Teams is a fairly new product and nobody develops for it etc. etc. " Although I do feel many enterprises are using it. Please, see the screenshot below:
I have not heard back since then. Please, help me regarding this issue. I would really love to start developing the actual integration with our product since it would be of great value to our customers.
Thanks,
Maria Shoaib.
Please use App Studio to create manifest file and test your connnector so that there are no errors while creating an app package. Also, please ask your tenant admin to enable the sideloading of external apps for Upload Custom App link to appear in Microsft Teams.
I'm trying to create some application for Windows Phone >= 7.1
During plannin my work and specyfiong technical requirements I've come across one problem.
I wan't to have free application with basic functionality. And then it should be extendable with some non-free extensions (dlls?, databases?, SaaS?)
Is it possible at the moment to use some MS api/app/etc. to be able to publish such extensions and sell them? What is the best way to do this if there is more than one solution?
Thank you for any help.
As of right now (June 2012), in-app purchases are not supported. Your only choices, then are being a paid app and supporting trial mode.
The only way you can do this at present is to handle the additional purchases yourself.
You'd have to set up a website which customers could create an account on and purchase extensions through, then have them also log into your app with those account details to determine what additional data to download or functions to enable.
You could be smart and include the website functionality into your app with a browser control. Take a look at the Amazon Kindle app for an example of how they accomplish it.
At our company we offer a CRM platform for leasing companies and it includes task management. Some of our clients would like to sync those tasks with outlook so they do not have to switch between applications.
I do not have lots of experience with outlook, so I don't know about its extensibility features.
What options do we have?
Live syncing possible with some uri? (.ics, .xml?)
Writing some kind of extension?
What do you guys suggest is the most simple solution to this problem. Remember it's just syncing simple tasks, nothing more, nothing less.
Thanks!
I guess this depends on how your CRM system works. At my company we develop a webbased CRM system which means that the client can't really access the database outside of the web application. Our customers also wanted the ability to sync appointments with our activity calendar, so what I did was to write a simple web service from which data could be downloaded to the client. I then created an Outlook add-in using VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) that took this data and created/updated Outlook appointments.
But as I said it all depends on how your system works.