I am using Node.js to create Skype bots. I want my bot to answer calls automatically from selected contacts and create a group voice chat consisting of bot, caller, and me. I couldn't understand the documentation much. Is there a way to do it? If yes, can you give me a brief example?
Thank you.
Bots are not supported in group calls right now because of privacy reasons.
Group calling for media bots has been disabled because the Skype clients do not have currently have the appropriate privacy controls in place to inform the participants that a bot can hear and/or see them.
There is no timeframe available regarding when calling/real-time media bots will be supported in group calls. For now, calling and real-time media bots are allowed only in 1-to-1 Skype calls.
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Can anyone offer guidance on how to call an external API from within MS Teams chat/posts initiated by an #mention or #hastag? The service I want to build would use the mention/hastag to call an API and return various types of meta data that would then be added to the chat, post, etc. Wondering if Flow or Yo Teams is the best way to go.
The best approach for this would be to create a bot, which gets a name that can be '#' mentioned (e.g. if you bot is called MyBot, you could mention #MyBot in a Teams channel, and it will get notified). Once it receives the notification, the bot can do anything you need it to do.
If you have development skills available (yourself or someone on your team), have a look at the Teams Bot development documentation to get started. If not, Power Virtual Agents could suit your needs (it's like a "drag and drop" bot creator.
Trying to parse through the Microsoft Documentation of this is a bit of a challenge.
Our use case is that we want the app to receive broadcasts from an external service. On that broadcast we want it to send a personalized message to every person in the team/org.
Is that at all possible? Doing this in Workplace and Slack was fairly straight forward but i'm going nowhere fast with Teams. Connectors seem weird and user-based, not team based, requiring you to set up a config page for it? Bots seem centered around AI interactions and on demand features and general apps? Not sure.
So yea the question is, is it possible. If so i would appreciate to know where to look for how to do this.
Yes, this is definitely possible. If you're wanting to send to a Team (i.e. a Channel within a Team) you can use either a bot or a webhook. If you want to send to individuals or to group chats, then you'd be looking to use a bot.
For webhooks, see Post external requests to Teams with incoming webhooks. For bots you can start here, and in that case you'd want to look into something called "Pro-active messaging", where the bot is sending a message on it's own, rather in response to a user's initial message.
The Pro-active messaging can be a bit tricky, so if you do want to go that approach (1 to 1 messaging), let me know in the comments and I give you some more guidance. However, I'd suggest rather looking at messaging the Team, and creating/using a relevant channel, rather than sending every user a 1-1 message.
Our internal employees are all using Teams. I'm researching how feasible it would be to use certain features of Teams for a custom web chat app. The actual back and forth conversation would not take place in Teams...it would be something I would build, possibly using SignalR.
The custom web chat application should allow our customers the ability to:
See the Teams status of an employee (Online/Offline)
Click on the employee to enter a chat room. (This chat room would be something I would create, possibly using SignalR)
I was wondering if it is possible to do the following with Teams:
Get the Online/Offline status of a user in Teams and display that in a custom web app.
Send data to a specific Teams user from a web app. (For example: when a customer clicks on an employee in the custom web app to start a chat, send a link to the employee that would send them to the chat room.)
Are these two things possible using Teams?
Wow, this is an unusual scenario, had to think a bit about that! In terms of (1) I'm not sure about anything for that it Teams (it might exist, but not something I'm aware of), but perhaps the Microsoft Graph has a capability for that. This might help.
Regarding item 2, do the customers have Teams? If so, you can deep link directly into a chat with the specific employee. If not, are you wanting the end user to use, say, a bot on the web app, but the employee to be using Teams? If so, who would they be "Chatting" to? Would it be ok for the chat to be with a custom bot inside Teams? If so, you should look more at the concept of "Pro-active chat" in Teams (to initiate the new/latest conversation from the bot to the user). The only drawback is if they are "chatting" to multiple people at once this wouldn't work, because each customer's interaction would come in to the same chat window in the Bot.
I have a bot-framework bot integrated to MS Teams, and I need it to create groupChats of members in it's team, with the bot in the chat as well.
Is there any way to achieve that?
I could not find any mention of creating or in any other way interacting with group chats using bots.
You could use Azure Logic Apps or Power Automate flow. It has Teams actions that I think could help you ("Create a chat"). You could trigger the flow with an HTTP request that would contain necessary data!
I'm thinking about creating sort of helper application for friend to enjoy paper RPG through internet.
I was thinking about using Hangouts API, however I have.
Is there a way of temporarily exclude some of the participants from running conversation? They can see other data on app, but should hear nor see other participants.
Is there a way of creating a private conversation within group conversation? So private participants will disappear from group, and after finishing the would automatically be reconnected to group conversation?
I'm reviewing Hangouts API, but I'm not finding answers. Or maybe I should look into WebRTC instead of Hangouts?
Thanks
What you're describing is... another Hangout or WebRTC session ;). You could always develop your own Hangout Extension to share specific info with selected participants who are also using your extension.
You could also have your Hangout session be the main conversation with all parties, while you use Join.me, Zoom.us or WebRTC to screenshare privately with your friend.