Is it possible to send a notification message to users to navigate to the Personal Tab app in Side rail from the "Activity" or "Chat" window in MS teams?
The notification message in Activity and Chat should have a link that would navigate to the New Personal Tab installed.
Yes, you can do this by sending a Deep Link to your app's Personal tab. See more about this at Create Deep Links.
To actually send the message you have a few options, including:
Create a Bot
Use an incoming Webhook
Use the Microsoft Graph
Use Power Automate (Flow) (there's an app in Teams called the "Flow Bot" which enables you to send messages from Flows directly to a user.
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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.
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.
I am working on a slack app that can be installed in any channel. It is possible or is there any slack method that allows you to open the slack app home tab from the channel. I mean a method that can navigate the user from the channel to the slack app home-tab
Send a slack message to users with #appname. For example "Click here to open the #ACME Dashboard" (assuming "ACME Dashboard" is the name of your app). #ACME Dashboard will turn into a clickable link that jumps to the app home page. It'll also add the app for users that haven't already added the app.
At least, this worked for me in limited testing with myself and one other person, so I hope it works for you. I haven't tried to figure it out, but I'm sure there's a way to send the '#app name' as part of a message from the API.
Im new to MS Teams application development and looking for suitable solution based on the following requirements. Can I have some guidance from experts?
I have a web service, which sends emails to users based on certain activity. Eg: "Survey started", "Reminder for those who didn't complete the survey" and "when the survey results are out". On top of the email notifications, I also want to send a notification to those individuals who opt-in to receive the notification in MS Teams.
My requirements are,
My web service should be able to send the notification to those
opt-in users in MS Teams as a private message and not as a message in
groups/channels.
In MS Teams, the users should have control over which notification
they wants to receive. For eg: "User A" can opt-in to receive a
notification when a survey starts & survey reminders but can opt-out
of survey results notification where as "User B" can opt-in to
receive notifications for all three.
opt-in and opt-out settings for specific notification should be
configurable in the MS Teams. My web service irrespective of the
settings, will always send the notification to MS Teams but it will
be controlled in the MS Teams side whether to show the notification
to the user or not based on the individual user settings.
Based on the above requirements, please advise what should I build in MS Teams. Whether "Tabs" is enough or "Bot" needs to be built or anything else.
Any guidance or suggestions are really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Please find below suggestions as per your requirements:
You can use the activity feed notification APIs in Microsoft Graph
to extend this functionality or SDK methods:
Reference doc link, Reference sample link
Also you can send proactive notifications via bot to user:
Send proactive messages
You can create a configurable page and add it to your Tab, which
will be visible to all users who install the bot.
There is no way in MS Teams which will filter or control the
notification to send it to different users without any custom
configuration or condition check.
When I receive a notification In Teams from Bot A and I click on the popup the system does not navigate to the Bot A chat section, but to the generic Feed.
clicking on this take me to generic feed i.e
We got an update from the engineering team, this is expected behavior. The left side panel will just stay at "Feed", which is by design.