I have a lot of questions about getting started. I currently have a sample bot I built in Composer that works for my teams/slack channels and works in the testing Bot Framework Emulator without issue.
I am not sure how to make the bot send a direct message/private message to a user in a channel instead of it replying directly in the channel itself. Any one have any ideas of how to accomplish this?
You can send messages from the bot to any user (or channel) by using the Azure Bot Service REST API (using the Send an HTTP Request action in Composer as described here. As you'll see in the documentation, the main limitation is that the recipient must have had a previous conversation with your bot from which you've recorded the conversationID (and activityID if you want to reply to a thread).
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I am struggling with a problem that I have to integrate sending message to Skype users in daily. I've tried using API (https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/pages/http-api#operation/executeConversationAction) to run action and trigger intent but it didn't work. I think the problem here is botframework is not supported output channel because it worked on Telegram.
This is the result when output channel is botframework but it doesn't appear when I set it by telegram
How can I do this task? Thanks.
I believe that the botframework channel is not supported because it doesn't implement a get_output_channel method, which is used for the intent injection.
However, I'm not sure why that is the case, as I'm not familiar with the channel. It would be dependent on the type of communication connection, i.e. if in botframework Rasa is able to send messages to the channel without having received one first. In the channel code, sending a message looks like a POST request, so I would assume that is the case.
I think you could open an enhancement request in the Rasa repo for this.
I have created a bot by following the steps mentioned in the doc.I have authenticated user using oauth 2.0 (auth code grant) as mentioned in the doc and in reverse I got a access token. But when I send message to channel in the teams using (/teams/{id}/channels/{id}/messages) API the message was sent on behalf of me. But I want my bot as the sender of message. Here is the image of the message that I have sent using the above API. and is there any way to send direct message to user as a bot?
Instead of using the Graph, there's another approach using the Bot Framework itself, to send a message to a team channel, a group chat, or a 1-1 conversation. The code doesn't even need to live inside the bot itself, it just needs to leverage the bot framework under the covers (for example, I have several Azure Functions that pro-actively message users). This idea is called "Proactive messaging" and you can read more about it in the docs here.
You do need to get certain fields when the user first installs the bot though, or any time the bot receives a message. I've described that more at Programmatically sending a message to a bot in Microsoft Teams. You haven't said what language you're using, but there are examples for a bunch of them - I can send you links if you let me know what you're using.
I have a bot, a client start a conversation with it using directline 3.0.
The bot follow a waterfall flow and at one step start an external process that do something. The process, finished the task use directline to start a new connection. i would like to send a message to the bot using a specific connection as the bot receive the message and can continue the flow. Is it possible?
Yes, this is possible using proactive messages. There is no need to use direct line, specifically, to create a new connection to send an activity. In short, in your bot's you will create a new API that external services can ping. As part of the process, when the API is hit, a conversation reference is created that, in short, allows you to pass any received data as an activity to the bot. When the bot receives the activity, you can setup logic to determine what the bot does next.
There is a SO post here that addresses this issue that you can reference. Additionally, you can refer to the BotBuilder-Samples GitHub sample for additional clarification.
Hope of help!
I have a bot deployed to our Azure subscription. Using the webchat channel, I can interact with the bot using the url:
http://mybotname.azurewebsites.net/
We have added the bot to Slack as an app. We followed all the instructions given by the documentation on how to add a bot into Slack - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-channel-connect-slack?view=azure-bot-service-3.0
When I send a message to the bot in the Slack channel we have created, I get no response. There is not error message, or in fact anything, returned.
Whereabouts can I start looking to see what the problem could be? Suggestions for error logs, traces, etc would be appreciated. I enabled App insights for the Azure Web App which the bot runs under, but nothing comes up as an error, or warning, or anything. I'm a bit lost here, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Note that I was made aware that, for Slack, I may need to tailor the responses in order for Slack to render them e.g. FormFlow define options for string field
I'm not sure how to do that, or even if this is a case that my bot simply isn't working in Slack regardless of how I'd format the responses.
Is there an easy configuration way of only receiving messages when the bot is mentioned in Group chats?
I want it to respond to 1on1 messages without needing a mention as well.
Is there an easy way to handle this?
So far, I've noticed that this happens on GroupMe, Telegram, and Slack.
This seems specific to the Microsoft Bot Framework. I feel like this should be configurable... Here's the entirety of my code on github: https://github.com/mtntop/mtnbot