Right now I have a small group of people beta testing MS Teams in hopes that it would be a good team collaboration/communication tool.
But, I need one important feature to really make it most useful and I can't find it.
I know you can mention everybody with an #team or #channel, or a single user with #username. But can I create subgroup names that include a subset of the entire team?
Let's say I have a big team of 25 users. I want to create certain subgroups, like #group1 that only includes 10 of those users or #group2 that only has 5 of those user.
I need to have a one mention way to contact this subgroup without having to individually mention each person or using #channel to mention to a lot of people who aren't interested.
Is there a way to do this?
Make 2 channels:
#group1
#group2
Ask people to join a channel or add them manually.
Now you can mention them by that channel name i.e. #group1 or #group2
For example, imagine you have developer and operations teams in your "Adme Inc" company.
You create a Team "AdmeInc".
General channel is created automatically.
You create a channel Dev in that team and add all developers to it
You create a channel Ops in that team and add everyone in operations team to it.
Now everyone can chat in General about all kind of stuff.
Anyone can mention #Dev anywhere and everyone in developers team is notified.
Or they can mention #Ops anywhere and everyone in operations team is notified.
In the meantime, MS Teams offers tags to achieve this. Tag the team members using your own defined tags. Then simply #-mention the tag name in a standard channel (or in a chat).
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-tags-in-teams-667bd56f-32b8-4118-9a0b-56807c96d91e
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My company wants to conduct a pilot to see if providing doctors with certain risk information about their patients would help them make better decisions. Before we build a full scale app, we just want to determine if the information is useful to doctors, it helps patients, and if generating the data and getting it to doctors is even feasible. Unfortunately, due to institutional data security and privacy rules, I have to use Microsoft Teams messaging to test this. Otherwise, I'd use Microsoft Access VBA, loop through a list of emails, and send the tailored information that way. However, because I won't be able to easily encrypt emails like this (and it prone to people forgetting - unless there's a way to set up encryption from MS Access VBA) I can't use MS Access/Outlook.
So bottom line, say I have a dataset with 20 emails/Teams contact information of doctors, along with unique medical information about 1 of their patients. Aside from copying and pasting the data into a message, and sending it in Microsoft Teams for each doctor, is this a more automated way to do this? Think of this as sort of a Microsoft Teams mail merge.
You can do it with Company communicator app template. Company Communicator is a custom Teams app that enables corporate teams to create and send messages intended for multiple teams or large number of employees over chat allowing organization to reach employees right where they collaborate. Please go through this sample.
Hope that answers your question!
I have a feeling I'm missing something v obvious here, or perhaps I'm just using the wrong tools in the wrong order, or any combination of the above.
My company uses Blue Prism, and I'd like to build a virtual sales assistant that I can integrate into MS Teams. The idea being, the sales team can ask this bot to carry out a number of different tasks. The user thinks the bot is doing it, but in reality, the bot will be calling Blue Prism and triggering a separate process that has been built. We would integrate LUIS to attempt to split out all the different entities in the question and gradually narrow down what is what by replying to the original user question if it can't split them straight away.
I've built a brief knowledge base and integrated into Teams, however what I'm struggling with is learning how to actually have a central source read the messages asked by users within teams. I'd like to try and go directly to Blue Prism, but I'm aware that something like Flow or Automate may be an option, even if just to use this to trigger blue prism rather than it happening directly from Teams.
Any ideas? An example of a request may be - 'Log 100k pipeline app for the new product for mr smith.'
Thanks
I think you might be getting a bit of crossed lines between LUIS and QnAMaker. QnAMaker, as the name implies, is specifically where you have Questions, and want to maintain a knowledge base of likely answers. In contrast, LUIS would be used here to more accurately identify the instruction being passed, and extracting the values from it. It certainly possible to combine the two into the same bot, i.e. having a bot that handles both commands and questions, but that doesn't sound like what you're trying to do.
As a result, you should be focusing more on LUIS, and defining the relevant entities and intents. As an example, "log pipeline" would be an "intent", whereas "100k", "new product", and "mr smith" would be entities that the bot would know to work with.
What the bot does behind the scenes with that intent+entities combination is of course totally up to what you choose as an implementation, Blue Prism or otherwise.
We have a Slack workspace within a small (~400) scientific community who are discussing multiple ideas (to help solve the current COVID-19 crisis, so lots of conversations and topics. :-) Currently using one channel and wouldn't want to create 50.
What's the best way to spin off discussions into sub-topics. Slack doesn't support sub-channels (yet) does it?
Would a task management plug-in to Slack help here? Want to separate and localize topics and discussions, not track individual responsibility, so "task management" might not be the right paradigm.
Other suggestions?
Slack doesn't have sub-channels but you can mimic by using some conventions.
Eg.
`#covid-19-symptoms -> All discussions related to symptoms
`#covid-19-symptoms-respiration -> Symptoms related to respiration
`#covid-19-symptoms-respiration-topic-3 -> Symptoms related to respiration
If you using this Slack workspace exclusively for discussing Covid-19 you may remove the covid prefix which may be redundant.
You need to have one moderator who can review all the messages, repost/remove/shift across channels to make them more relevant.
Teams stores channel conversations in a hidden folder in an Office 365 group. I’m looking for a programmatic way for us to access/log all of that data in as near real time as possible. I've looked at going through Exchange, the eDiscovery API and also the Graph API and I can't find any way of doing this.
If this is something a bot could do that’d be best, but I don’t think bots can actually follow channel conversations. They only seem to be called when they are # mentioned.
After a lot of looking around and playing with APIs, it looks like the best way to do this kind of thing is going via the Microsoft Exchange API.
https://github.com/OfficeDev/ews-managed-api
There are 2 different things I'm using this for- one is just regular archiving of channel information and private messages. The EWS API makes this not too challenging. The other is to give a bot insight into a conversation preceding it being mentioned. This is a little slow, can take up to a minute from the original message being input into Teams.
I really wish this was a part of Teams to begin with, and clearly I am not alone: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16940815-ability-to-archive-channels-and-chats
You have to be careful not to be too aggressive as you can get throttled.
I can't find much about this online so I was wondering if someone knew here.
Is SSRS 2005 if a user creates a subscription, will other users be able to view and edit those subsciptions? If not, is it possible to make subsciriptions visible to everyone?
Thanks
Quick answer is no.
Long answer is:
AFAIK, there is no site-wide subscription management functionality. The best you can do within Report Manager is site-wide schedule management, which allows admins to set up schedules at preferred times and let users choose those schedules when creating their subscriptions.
Our solution for controlling/centralising subscriptions was to set up a generic Windows user, log in to Report Manager and use that user to create all subscriptions. This means that all requests for subscriptions go through the IT department (+ or - depends on your situation. We didn't want users creating subscriptions themselves). All users who know the generic username/password can manage subscriptions in one place. Not ideal but it works for us.
Another option is that all the data for subscriptions is held on the Server, either in the Reporting Services database or in the Jobs themselves. If you are brave you can delve in and set up some sort of interface to access this.
This is definitely an area in which I find SSRS lacking.
Update:
You live and learn. I've just found that (provided you have sufficient privileges) if you open a report, then go to the subscriptions tab, you can view and edit any subscriptions that are set up on this report by any user. Still not ideal as you don't get an overview of the subscriptions across the system but better than the bleak picture I painted previously!