My scenario is: I send card attachments each with an AcceptButton to users. When 1 user clicks on that button, ideally I want to disable all similar buttons (of the same offer) for all users. I am storing conversation details of each user, and I know the ActivityId of each message-with-said-button (it follows a certain string format).
My issue is similar to this and this but for WebChat not Teams.
I did try those solutions but I got the error "Method not allowed" for both UpdateActivityAsync() and DeleteActivityAsync(). Then I read here that UpdateActivity is not supported in WebChat. (But might be available in the future?)
I would like any visual indication that the offer is no longer available. (Right now, they receive an "Offer was already accepted by {UserX}" which would still be in place on top of changing the card/message.)
Is there a way to do this via backChannel? I can trigger an event and pass the ActivityId (tested by showing a simple alert()) but how do I apply changes to that specific activity?
Per this comment in Web Chat's source code and this open issue in the Web Chat repository for adding support for deleteActivity and updateActivity, Update Activity events are not currently supported in Web Chat. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to really update an activity in Web Chat.
Hope this helps!
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I have a problem with creating a script that creates/forwards an email in outlook to a constant recipiant.
the plan was to select keywords from checkboxes in its form. by pressing an inplemented button, the add-in should forward the opened email with a new subject from the checked checkboxes.
since i am very new to webdesign and js i would like to know if the idea could be realized without further ado. i have already browsed several forums and found out that sending email requires a web server and email client, which is out of the question due to the dynamic use and data security. also
I have already created the form of the add in. since this has no functions yet, i save posting a code/progress.
Any feedback?
OfficeJS doesn't provide anything for moving/forwarding items in Outlook. The web add-in is working under the currently selected item only. But you may consider using EWS or Graph API for implementing the required functionality.
I'm building my first Teams app which will have two primary functions:
Proactively send a message to the channel (the bot is installed into) when a specific event occurs on my backend.
Members of the channel reacts to the message via actions.
I finally have a pretty good idea of how to set this up (I think) - but one part I'm missing is that in order to identify the specific app installation as belonging to one of my customers, I need to be able to allow the installing user to supply extra information like e.g. an API-key so that I can associate the specific channel with my specific customer.
Is there any way of doing this with a bot app? I've found examples for creating a configuration page, but they all seem to be associated with tab apps?
I could of cource have the bot ask the user for the information - but maybe there's a "cleaner" way?
Any examples or tutorials would be greatly appreciated as I find it rather hard to get stuff working using Microsoft's own examples etc. :)
Thanks a lot!
When you receive any message from the user, either by typing to your bot, or even installing it into a channel, group chat, or personal context (where you get the conversationUpdate event), you are able to get specific details off of the activity object. If the user sends a message, for instance, then the text property on the activity object will have a value. Incidentally, this is the same activity you will use to get the conversation details you need for the Proactive message.
With regards your question, the activity class also includes a tenantId property, hanging off the conversation property. This is the unique Microsoft 365 Id for the tenant, which would be what I'd suggest to uniquely identify them for your API, or licensing, or similar.
we have an app for MS Teams which users can start a conversation and send messages to. The app does some processing and returns the response back. I am looking for the ability to open an precreated conversation using a link. I have needed information like conversation id etc. How do i create a link that can be used for this navigation?
To be more specific this doc is not helpful https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/build-and-test/deep-links#deep-linking-to-a-chat
The link i need is for the conversation. Currently it is possible to manually copy that link by right clicking on any conversation and use "Copy link". Is there a way to get it or generate it when user creates the conversation. A sample link copied from looks like below
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:a0a0088174a644cb91409f4d8f79d888#thread.tacv2/1612324568748?tenantId=04e930f3-0866-4a6d-b07c-a4737e8f9865&groupId=087bf290-deb5-4790-b159-bf86914765b4&parentMessageId=1612324568748&teamName=Sales%20Team&channelName=FlashCX%20Sales&createdTime=1612324568748
So trying to see if i can either get this the URL using apis or can generate with the parts involved
#Moblize - Currently you can create Deep-link to chat for particular conversation. You cannot create a link which will redirect to a particular message in channel. Please check this docs for info.
ISSUE:
Today my chat bot stopped working and started giving the following error. No changes were made on my end when this started happening.
I could not find any error in console log. Then I tested the bot with Emulator and in Azure Portal's Test in Webchat feature and the bot worked fine. This bot is using webchat (iframe embed) as well as DirectLine channel. The DirectLine channel works fine it is only the webchat that is not working.
So to test my theory that I am getting the error because of webchat getting updated by Microsoft. I used the embed code in Azure Portal to use the latest webchat and the webchat channel started working.
BRIEF HISTORY:
To modify the UI of the webchat I used this method to modify the UI of the IFrame of my bot. This method requires to download the source of IFrame, create an HTML page and use that page as a source of your IFRAME in your website (you can see the customization in the image).
Now that I started getting the issue I mentioned above, I tried to do the same thing with the latest version of webchat but it is not working. The webchat is not sending messages and I cannot find what CSS file this new version of webchat is using.
WHAT I NEED GUIDANCE ON:
Either a way to continue using the old webchat with the proper UI
OR
How to update the UI of this new webchat version?
I can't advise on fixing the iframe version, but this already wasn't officially supported, and with the latest webchat update Microsoft is moving more to recommending botframework-webchat (directline) to format the UI. A good place to start is the branding sample.
That sample doesn't spell out the options in the code, but if you take a look at the default options file, that should give you everything you need to customize the chat the way you want.
What this does not do is set up the header that used to be present in ootb webchat (and which I see you customized in your example). Now the best way is to do this in html/css, and you probably can just reuse what you did for your custom option. I just created an additional DIV, set it to height: 40px;, then set the webchat DIV to height: calc(100% - 40px);. Anyone who's good with HTML can probably come up with better than this, essentially you just build your page however you want at that point and the webchat implementation just controls the chat area itself (essentially send box and response/bubble area). I also added a custom button to my header.
<div id="chatbotTitle"><h3 style="padding-left:10px;">OEM CSC Support Bot</h3><button class="btn" id="transcriptButton">Email Transcript</button></div>
<div id="webchat" role="main"></div>
The error you are receiving is not a web chat issue. It is an issue in your bot that is being reported via web chat because that is the client being used.
Usually, this error is referring to an incoming activity that your bot doesn't know how to handle (i.e. your bot logic). For example, you have a waterfall step in your main dialog that, depending on the user's response, opens a component dialog. That dialog gets user information (name, age, etc.) that, when complete, returns to the main dialog. However, the next step isn't prepared as perhaps the user exited that dialog prematurely or didn't answer all the questions as expected.
Whatever the case may be, because it isn't setup to handle the incoming activity, it isn't returning the dialog's turn status. You will need to debug your code, stepping thru it, to see which "step" is the root cause.
For me, I have experienced this when I set up Web Chat to send an event back to my bot. My bot didn't know what to do with the incoming event-type activity and would produce that error.
Hope of help!
I have a requirement of maintaining chat history and loading them back in a window after a page refresh or close and opening of the window.
ISSUE : Buttons/carousel/Adaptive cards/Hero Cards events/ properties are not loading (ie; when I click on button or any event, actions are not happening).
DESCRIPTION:
In order to achieve the requirement i had 2 options.
BotFramework _ Directline JS
I guess using this we can only get conversation history and where we couldn't load back the conversation history in chat window.
Though we can get the conversation history we have to send all the messages to bot again.
So i had opted 2nd one.
Store the html controls and Load it in the bot div: When sending or receiving message action is happening from bot am storing the html controls(i.e; controls under wc-message-groups class in local storage) and binding back to the div on page load if data exists.
This works for me to show conversation history in a chat window. But I am not able to get the events/actions for buttons.
Can we do this with Directline JS or is there any option to load properties/events to controls?
Please help me with this issue.
Thanks in Advance
I would start by taking a look at this thread out the Webchat GitHub repo. There is a good discussion going on about how this may be accomplished.
I also created this project in C# using webchat which will provide chat history in the webchat control. The project uses this pull request branch which you would also need to use. Hope this helps, good luck.