When setting the timestamp format to 'absolute', the webchat with locale set to fr-FR prints the time portion of the timestamp using the 'short' time format of globalizejs library as 8:36 AM. See: https://github.com/globalizejs/globalize/blob/master/doc/api/date/date-formatter.md.
Can I override the time format to display the time in 24-hour notation, i.e. instead of 8:36 AM to print 8h 36?
Web Chat is integrated into a webpage using JavaScript (not React):
v. 4.8.1, https://cdn.botframework.com/botframework-webchat/latest/webchat.js
If you are using the non-React version of Web Chat, then, no, there isn't an in-built method for updating or changing the timestamp.
However, you can use Web Chat's store for accessing the activity's timestamp to overwrite the HTML element, as shown below. My example is updating the element with only the time. You will want to add functionality to capture any other bits (date, day, time offsets, etc.).
Also, you will need to account for the in-built auto-updating of the time element by Web Chat. For instance, when a minute has passed following an activity's arrival, the time element changes to "1 minute ago", then to "2 minutes ago", and so on.
You may be able to utilize an event listener that looks for changes to the time element which, when triggered, continues to update the time element to fit your needs.
Please note: There are inherent risks in manipulating the DOM directly. The biggest risk is your bot becomes subject to breaking changes should the Web Chat team decide to update, remove, or otherwise alter some underlying component in the future. I would recommended you consider switching to the React version of Web Chat that, among many other features, allows this change while functioning within Web Chat's space.
Lastly, any refreshing of the page will reset the time elements back to Web Chat defaults (in case you have your bot setup for persistent chat across sessions).
<script>
( async function () {
const store = window.WebChat.createStore( {}, ({dispatch}) => next => action => {
if (action.type === 'DIRECT_LINE/INCOMING_ACTIVITY') {
const { activity } = action.payload;
if (activity.type === 'message') {
console.log('MESSAGE ', activity);
setTimeout(() => {
const webChatRow = document.querySelectorAll('.webchat__row');
const rowLen = webChatRow.length;
const timeParent = webChatRow[ rowLen - 1 ].children;
let timeText = timeParent[ 0 ].children[ 1 ].innerText;
let time = new Date(activity.timestamp);
let hours = time.getHours();
let mins = time.getMinutes();
timeParent[ 0 ].children[ 1 ].innerText = `${hours}:${mins}`
console.log(timeText)
}, 300);
}
}
next(action);
} );
const res = await fetch( 'http://localhost:3500/directline/token', { method: 'POST' } );
const { token } = await res.json();
window.WebChat.renderWebChat(
{
directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine( {
token: token
} ),
store: store
},
document.getElementById( 'webchat' )
);
document.querySelector( '#webchat > *' ).focus();
} )().catch( err => console.error( err ) );
</script>
Hope of help!
Take a look at the Customize activity status Web Chat sample. It shows how you can use the activityStatusMiddleware to customize the timestamp.
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I am building a slackbot that will remind people in my organisation to perform certain admin (hours expenses etc) every week. I know this can be very easily done by each person creating a recurring reminder. What i want is to create a bot that will send a preconfigured message to people every week. I've looked online extensively, and haven't yet found out how slackbot can send a message without an event or being otherwise prompted.
I'm currently testing this on a local ngrok server with the following backend:
const { WebClient } = require('#slack/web-api');
const { createEventAdapter } = require('#slack/events-api');
const slackSigningSecret = process.env.SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET;
const slackToken = process.env.SLACK_TOKEN;
const port = process.env.SLACK_PORT || 3000;
const slackEvents = createEventAdapter(slackSigningSecret);
const slackClient = new WebClient(slackToken);
slackEvents.on('app_mention', (event) => {
console.log(`Got message from user ${event.user}: ${event.text}`);
(async () => {
try {
await slackClient.chat.postMessage({ channel: event.channel, text: `Hello <#${event.user}>! Have you completed your Time sheets for this week yet?` })
} catch (error) {
console.log(error.data)
}
})();
});
slackEvents.on('error', console.error);
slackEvents.start(port).then(() => {
console.log(`Server started on port ${port}`)
});
Once this reminder is done, i intend to build upon it (more features, just need a beginning) so please don't recommend alternative ways my organisation can send reminders to people.
You can try using the chat.scheduleMessage method instead (https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.scheduleMessage). Since you won't rely on an event you may want to store the necessary conversations ids so that they're ready when the app needs to call the method.
I am attempting to get the basic tutorial for the AWS Chime SDK to work in our application and the meetingSession.audioVideo.listVideoInputDevices() always returns nothing/null.
I am running this on lastest chrome, my operating system is a windows 10 workspace instance. I have headphones plugged in; but that shouldn't make a difference.
My expected result is to return at least one device for the video. Here is the output from the Logger.
2020-08-26T15:29:19.127Z [INFO] MyLogger - attempting to trigger media device labels since they are hidden
chime-bundle.js:1 2020-08-26T15:29:19.133Z [INFO] MyLogger - unable to get media device labels
chime-bundle.js:1 2020-08-26T15:29:19.134Z [INFO] MyLogger - API/DefaultDeviceController/listVideoInputDevices null -> []
chime-bundle.js:1 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'deviceId' of undefined
*Note. The video and audio elements are not hidden.
I have tried the code snippits from various demos. Which are all just a copy of AWS's walkthrough. So pretty much zero information. I have researched how the audio devices work in html5 and looking through the files provided in the sdk-js, I am even more confused. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Here is the basic code, you can get it, and a description from the link above.
var fetchResult = await window.fetch(
window.encodeURI("<our endpoint for backend (running c# instead of node)>",
{
method: 'POST'
}
);
let result = await fetchResult.json();
console.log("Result from Chime API:", result);
const logger = new ConsoleLogger('MyLogger', LogLevel.INFO);
const deviceController = new DefaultDeviceController(logger);
const meetingResponse = result.JoinInfo.Meeting;
const attendeeResponse = result.JoinInfo.Attendee;
const configuration = new MeetingSessionConfiguration(meetingResponse, attendeeResponse);
// In the usage examples below, you will use this meetingSession object.
const meetingSession = new DefaultMeetingSession(
configuration,
logger,
deviceController
);
console.log("MEETING SESSION", meetingSession);
//SETUP AUDIO
const audioElement = document.getElementById('notary-audio');
meetingSession.audioVideo.bindAudioElement(audioElement);
const videoElement = document.getElementById('notary-video');
// Make sure you have chosen your camera. In this use case, you will choose the first device.
const videoInputDevices = await meetingSession.audioVideo.listVideoInputDevices();
// The camera LED light will turn on indicating that it is now capturing.
// See the "Device" section for details.
await meetingSession.audioVideo.chooseVideoInputDevice(videoInputDevices[0].deviceId);
const observer = {
audioVideoDidStart: () => {
console.log('Started');
},
audioVideoDidStop: sessionStatus => {
// See the "Stopping a session" section for details.
console.log('Stopped with a session status code: ', sessionStatus.statusCode());
},
audioVideoDidStartConnecting: reconnecting => {
if (reconnecting) {
// e.g. the WiFi connection is dropped.
console.log('Attempting to reconnect');
}
},
// videoTileDidUpdate is called whenever a new tile is created or tileState changes.
videoTileDidUpdate: tileState => {
// Ignore a tile without attendee ID and other attendee's tile.
if (!tileState.boundAttendeeId || !tileState.localTile) {
return;
}
// videoTileDidUpdate is also invoked when you call startLocalVideoTile or tileState changes.
console.log(`If you called stopLocalVideoTile, ${tileState.active} is false.`);
meetingSession.audioVideo.bindVideoElement(tileState.tileId, videoElement);
localTileId = tileState.tileId;
},
videoTileWasRemoved: tileId => {
if (localTileId === tileId) {
console.log(`You called removeLocalVideoTile. videoElement can be bound to another tile.`);
localTileId = null;
}
}
};
meetingSession.audioVideo.addObserver(observer);
meetingSession.audioVideo.start();
I have an app where I want to select a person from contacts and then send a text to that person. It works as expected for the first user, but after that the app never receives control after the contact is selected. I've isolated the problem to the Nativescript-phone plugin. If you simply call phone.sms() to send a text, and then call contacts.getContact(), the problem occurs. I see this on both Android and iOS.
I've created a sample app that demos the problem at https://github.com/dlcole/contactTester. The sample app is Android only. I've spent a couple days on this and welcome any insights.
Edit 4/21/2020:
I've spent more time on this and can see what's happening. Both plugins have the same event handler and same request codes:
nativescript-phone:
var SEND_SMS = 1001;
activity.onActivityResult = function(requestCode, resultCode, data) {
nativescript-contacts:
var PICK_CONTACT = 1001;
appModule.android.on("activityResult", function(eventData) {
What happens is that after invoking phone.sms, calling contacts.getContact causes control to return to the phone plugin, and NOT the contacts plugin. I tried changing phone's request code to 1002 but had the same results.
So, the next step is to determine how to avoid the collision of the event handlers.
Instead of using activityResult event, nativescript-phone plugin overwrites the default activity result callback.
A workaround is to set the callback to it's original value after you are done with nativescript-phone.
exports.sendText = function (args) {
console.log("entering sendText");
const activity = appModule.android.foregroundActivity || appModule.android.startActivity;
const onActivityResult = activity.onActivityResult;
permissions.requestPermissions([android.Manifest.permission.CALL_PHONE],
"Permission needed to send text")
.then(() => {
console.log("permission granted");
phone.sms()
.then((result) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 4));
activity.onActivityResult = onActivityResult;
})
})
}
I'm trying to add a new comment to a work item which mentions a user, but using the traditional "#adamh" as you would do on the website does not seem to work via the API.
The data updates fine, however the "#adamh" is just plain text, I need to be able to somehow chuck an identity into here. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
A snippet is here
const vsts = require('vso-node-api');
const item = require('vso-node-api/WorkItemTrackingApi')
const ti = require('vso-node-api/interfaces/WorkItemTrackingInterfaces');
// your collection url
const collectionUrl = "https://myArea.visualstudio.com/defaultcollection";
// ideally from config
const token = "helloWorld";
async function run() {
let authHandler = vsts.getPersonalAccessTokenHandler(token);
let connection = new vsts.WebApi(collectionUrl, authHandler);
let itemTracking = await connection.getWorkItemTrackingApi();
//Add all task data to new array
let taskData = await itemTracking.getWorkItems([15795,15796])
let newData = taskData[0]
let wijson = [
{
"op": "add",
"path": "/fields/System.History",
"value": "#adamh"
}
];
const updateItem = itemTracking.updateWorkItem(null, wijson, 15795).catch(err => {
console.log(err)
}).then(() => console.log("updated"))
return newData
}
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
app.get('/', async (req, res) => {
let data = await run()
res.send(data)
})
app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!'))
You can use the format shown here as part of the text value for your new comment:
...
This will create a mention link to that user. The link text can be the person's name or any other text you choose to put there. An email alert will be sent to the mentioned user if your system is configured to do so (same as in the UI).
To get your users' userid strings, you can follow the method shown here.
You can use the # to notify another team member about the discussion. Simply type # and their name.
It's using the #mention control , the person you #mention will receive an email alert with your comment and a link to the work item, commit, changeset, or shelveset.
There is not any public API shows how this work in VSTS, you could try to use F12 in google browser to track the process. Another workaround is directly using API to send a notification to the user you want to mention at.
i would like to implement a way of managing a user sending many messages in a time interval (for example 3 seconds), so that the chatbot only responds to the last one.
Example of inputs (in a gap of 3 seconds):
-Hi
-Hi
-Hi
-Help
Result: The chatbot only responds to the Help message.
Thanks in advance.
You can leverage Middleware feature to intercept every message, with which you can store every user's every message in cache, when your bot receive a new message, you can compaire with those info in cache, then dicide whether the flow needs to go forward.
Npde.js code snippet for quick test:
const moment = require('moment');
let lastMessage = null;
let lastMessageTime = null;
bot.use({
receive: (session, next) => {
let currentMessage = session
if (currentMessage.text !== lastMessage) {
lastMessage = currentMessage.text;
lastMessageTime = currentMessage.timestamp;
next();
} else {
if (moment(currentMessage.timestamp) - moment(lastMessageTime) >= 3000) {
lastMessageTime = currentMessage.timestamp;
next();
}
}
}
})
What needs you paying attention is that, in production env, you need to store the message with session/user id. E.G. Using session/user id as prefix of message and timesamp key in cache.
Please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-middleware for how to intercept messages in C#,
and refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/nodejs/bot-builder-nodejs-intercept-messages for Node.js version.
Hope it helps.