I need to launch outlook calendar appointment in bot application. I found the below code in Microsoft documentation for launching outlook email.
var message = context.MakeMessage() as IMessageActivity;
message.ChannelData = JObject.FromObject(new
{
action = new { type = "LaunchUri", uri = "mailto:someone#example.comsubject=This%20is%20the%20subject&body=This%20is%20t e%20body"
}
});
await context.PostAsync(message);
And also i tried the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook to add appointment , it also doesn't work for me.
Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.Application(); // creates new outlook app
Outlook.AppointmentItem oAppointment = (Outlook.AppointmentItem)outlookApp.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem); // creates a new appointment
oAppointment.Subject = apt.Subject;
oAppointment.Body = apt.Body;
oAppointment.Location = apt.Location;
oAppointment.Start = Convert.ToDateTime(apt.StartTime);
oAppointment.End = Convert.ToDateTime(apt.EndTime);
Is there any better way to launch outlook calendar appointment.
Your code must call oAppointment.Save.
What exactly are you trying to do? Silently create an appointment (then you code above needs to call oAppointment.Save) or display it to the user (then call oAppointment.Display)?
If your code is running on a server, create an iCal file and let the user download and open in (local) Outlook - it will be happy to display the appointment.
Steve mentioned you could use Microsoft Graph.
You might be able to send an ics file as a media attachment (I haven't tried).
Or you can investigate if the protocol handler outlookcal: supports deep linking.
I think this link tells you how it works in Teams
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/deep-links
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I'm trying to add a timeout Dialog using proactiveMessages. If user doesn't reply to [A dialog], [timeout dialog] comes out. So I think timeout dialog should be the current dialog. But do I to close other dialog [A dialog]?
According this, it seems context.EndConversation was not working in MS Teams. Of course I have tried again. It is still not working.
I also tried the way below. But it seems not working either.
using (var scope = DialogModule.BeginLifetimeScope(Conversation.Container, context.Activity.AsMessageActivity()))
{
var botData = scope.Resolve<IBotData>();
await botData.LoadAsync(default(CancellationToken));
var stack = scope.Resolve<IDialogStack>();
stack.Reset();
await botData.FlushAsync(default(CancellationToken));
}
Any suggestions about changing the dialog?
There are two methods of redirecting dialog flow within a C# bot.
you can use context.Forward() to send a user to a new dialog starting with a message that you are currently processing:
await context.Forward(new NewOrderDialog(), this.ResumeAfterNewOrderDialog, message, CancellationToken.None);
or you can use context.call() to send a user to a new dialog and start from scratch there:
context.Call(new AgeDialog(this.name), this.AgeDialogResumeAfter);
The "ResumeAfter" functions can be defined anywhere (including a function within the new dialog itself) and setting these to where you would like to redirect the user after they have finished with your timeout dialog will allow you to determine the flow.
I have following problem:
We have an Outlook Addin (VSTO), with which we archive emails (orders) in SAP.
Now the plugin should be implemented for Outlook 365. I already looked at the new api and i get die subject or maitext but there seems no way to get to the raw .msg file.
So my question now is, is there a way to get an mailitem as an .msg file (or any other format)?
There are two ways may be you can try
Use the process to run the .msg
string file= #"C:\PWS\myMail.msg";
Process.Run(file);
Use OpenSharedItem to open it:
var app = new Outlook.Application();
var item = app.Session.OpenSharedItem(msgfile) as Outlook.MailItem;
//Do stuff with the mail.
item.Close(OlInspectorClose.olDiscard);
app.Quit();
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(item);
How can I use the new authentification feature in Bot Builder with MS Teams?
There seems to be an issue with Teams (see Login user with MS Teams bot or https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/issues/2104), seems if this is not considered in GetTokenDialog?
Is there any chance to get around this?
Just found the reason why it won't work with Teams. In method Microsoft.Bot.Connector.Activity.CreateOAuthReplyAsync(), Parameter asSignInCard has to be set to True for MSTeams, then, the line new CardAction() { Title = buttonLabel, Value = link, Type = ActionTypes.Signin } has to be changed to new CardAction() { Title = buttonLabel, Value = link, Type = ActionTypes.OpenUrl } because MS Teams can obviously not deal with Action type Signin. Hope, the MS developers will fix that method soon.
There are a few things you need to do to get this to work. First you need to create a manifest file for your bot in teams and whitelist token.botframework.com. That is the first problem.
From teams itself in AppStudio you create a Manifest. I had to play around with this a little bit. In AppDetails... Let it generate a new ID. Just hit the button. The URLs really don't matter much for testing. The package name just needs to be unique so something like com.ilonatag.teams.test
In the bots section you plug in your MS AppId and a bot name. This is a the real MSAPPID from your bots MicrosoftAppId" value=" from web.config in your code.
Ok now in "finish->valid domains" I added token.botframework.com and also the URL for my bot just in case. so something like franktest.azurewebsites.net
This part is done but you are not quite done... in your messages controller you need to add this since Teams sends a different verification than the other clients.
if (message.Type == ActivityTypes.Invoke)
{
// Send teams Invoke along to the Dialog stack
if (message.IsTeamsVerificationInvoke())
{
await Conversation.SendAsync(message, () => new Dialogs.RootDialog());
}
}
It took me a bunch of going back and forth with Microsoft to get this sorted out.
This is a known problem using OAuthCard in MS Teams. To solve it, you can change the Button ActionType from signIn to openUrl using this solution on github
I'm trying to quit outlook.application after I'm done with the object like the following
//variables intialisation
var outlookApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
RDOFolder store;
RDOStore mailbox;
RDOSession session;
session = Redemption.RedemptionLoader.new_RDOSession();
session.MAPIOBJECT = outlookApp.Session.MAPIOBJECT;
mailbox = session.GetDefaultFolder(rdoDefaultFolder.olFolderInbox).Store;
store = session.GetDefaultFolder(rdoDefaultFolder.olFolderInbox).Parent;
//...code goes on
//Quitting
session.LogOff();
outlookApp.Quit();
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(store);
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(mailbox);
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(session);
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(outlookApp);
What could be the problem? I trying to wait for a couple minutes to make sure they were nothing going on in the outlook process bloking it to quit but it never close itself. When I click on the outlook icon to close it manually I get the following error:
Outlook cannot display this view
But If I break before session.LogOff(), open outlook in full mode and restart the code then it will close without problem.
Thanks!
You are killing the Outlook MAPI session by calling RDOSession.Logoff. Don't do that - the session belongs to Outlook, you just borrowed it by reading the Namespace.MAPIOBJECT property.
I am trying to send an email from a client PC (i.e. Windows) with an attachment and have the attachment saved to a local folder on the same client PC. I have looked at a couple of alternatives, such as MailDrop (email to dropbox) and Outlook 2003 Interop library - but want to make sure I am implementing this the best way.
Does anyone have any different ideas on a simple/elegant solution?
As long as you know Outlook will be installed on all the clients the Outlook solution works very well. You can create a file and save it, then in your outlook interop you just attach and send. You didn't specify what tools you are using but here's the basic email creation method I use for Outlook in C# (Where OutlookSetup.OutlookApp is just a static method that returns the currently open instance of the Outlook application or creates a new one if Outlook isn't open). Otherwise there are several examples here on SO of using SmtpClient to achieve similar ends.
public EmailMessage(EmailInfo emailInfo, string filenameToAttach=null)
{
Message = OutlookSetup.OutlookApp.CreateItem(OL.OlItemType.olMailItem);
Message.To = emailInfo.To;
Message.CC = emailInfo.Cc ?? "";
Message.Subject = emailInfo.Subject;
if (filenameToAttach != null)
{
Message.Attachments.Add(filenameToAttach);
}
}