I have a MS Team bot, and I'd like to greet user when they start using the bot again.
So I try to use the ActivityTypes.Typing to do so, but it seems MS Teams hasn't supported it yet.
Is there anyone has experience with it or can suggest other solution?
Thanks.
no, user installs the bot as an app so user doesn't uninstall it but
stop using it for a while and then they want to use it again. I think
their behavior would be click to the bot app, start typing, and send
message. I'd like to greet them before they send the message
Unfortunately, this is not possible. For sure not with Teams. onMembersAdded only ever gets fired once. There is no event that would be sent to the bot to tell it that the user is going to be sending a message. I'm not sure which, if any, channels/clients that would send a typing indicator to a bot. I don't know of any that do. Bot's don't typically receive typing activities, only send. You might be able to get that to work, but that wouldn't really help unless the channel/client supported that feature.
I think the best you could do is to have logic to store the last time the user messaged or the bot responded. Then, when the user sends their new message (after that predetermined amount of time away), then the bot could respond with a message before its response.
For example:
last message/active time for this user was 2 days ago
user messages bot with "i'd like to rent a car"
code logic determines it has been long enough to warrant a comment on that:
bot messages with "It's been a while since we chatted, welcome back!"
bot messages with response to intent: "Sure! what make of car would you like to rent?"
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I have a Microsoft bot app that can be installed in Teams on a team.
For now, I save the tenant ID + team id in our DB when the app gets installed, via a received activity on our end point.
What happens if my prod is not up at the moment of the installation? (for whatever reason, could be an update or just a technical downtime...)
Is it lost forever? Is it retried?
Same question with a 500 error?
This activity is an example, it could be any other activity. Ex: a user is added/removed, a message has been sent etc...
For OnMembersAddedAsync; unfortunately there is no retry from the Teams side, it fires and forgets.
The information in that Activity will be included in any subsequent send from Teams - so the bot can recover, if the user interacts with the bot again. Messages would just be sent when the bot recovers.
You can find a bit more info on Teams and events here:
How do I send a 1:1 welcome message?
I have developed a bot in MS Teams and i want to fetch the channel Ids where the bot is installed and can send the messages.
Any ideas how to do this, thanks a lot
You can only really do this when there's an interaction from the user, so for example when the user sends your bot a message. The best time of all, however, is when your bot is actually installed, because then you have it right from the beginning. You use the ConversationUpdate event, as described here.
If it's too late for that (your bot is installed already), then I'm only aware of waiting for the next message - I'm not sure if it's possible to get things like the conversation id another way.
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.
I developed a welcome bot using the Microsoft Bot Framework. I want to add it to Teams. In teams I want the bot to send welcome messages to only certain members belonging to a particular team or group. Please provide me advice or steps how to do it.
You can only send a welcome message to a specific user if that user first contacted your bot. This is done purposefully to minimize the possibility of spam bots being created. Once a user has contacted your bot you can capture the user's Id and, coupled with the conversationId, you can send future (proactive) messages.
I have successfully setup my slack bot app, have enabled events etc. I want to receive any direct messages that the members of my slack team send to my bot. For this, I have only enabled Bot Events and No Team Events like below
However, I do not get any event on my webhook on this setting.
If I enable message.im event under Team Events, then I start getting events. But then, I get every message that the user (who has installed the app) sends to any other user in the team.
How do I get only the messages that are sent to my bot user?
Update 1
Based on this SO question I created a private channel with the bot user. Even then, the messages in the private channel do not arrive in my webhook with the above event subscriptions.
Update 2
After reinstalling the app, it seems to be working fine. I have only used it for few minutes after the reinstall so far. I will keep posting here how it goes. It would still be interesting to know what went wrong where.
It is normal behavior that your script receives all messages (for every channel your bot is a member of), not only the messages sent directly to your bot. At this time you can not filter further in the event configuration. So you need to filter out any unwanted message in your script handling the event.
See also this answer.