I am trying to send messages from my bot to a conversation and i need to know the base url for sending the /v3/conversations/activities
It depends on the channel.
https://kik.botframework.com/api/V3...
https://slack.botframework.com/api/V3...
https://skype.botframework.com/api/V3...
etc.
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I am building a slack application.
I added "incoming-webhook" to oauth scopes that let me choose the channel I want the App to post messages. However unless I ping the app in the channel to add it. I get a "channel not found" error.
Is it possible to add the app to a channel when installing app via oauth ? Without adding it manually by #app-name or /invite app-name ?
When you add an incoming-webhookscope to your app, the option to add a channel during authentication is specific to incoming webhooks not bot messages. So any messages you send via the incoming webhook will send to the channel you selected during authentication. Messages sent via [chat.postMessage][1] will require your bot to be a member of the destination channel, via invite. Incoming webhooks can only be linked to a single channel. You will have to create a new webhook for every channel you want to post to using webhooks. For that reason, I'd recommend using chat.postMessage instead. If you request the chat:write.public scope your bot will be able to post into any public channel without invitation.
I have a lot of questions about getting started. I currently have a sample bot I built in Composer that works for my teams/slack channels and works in the testing Bot Framework Emulator without issue.
I am not sure how to make the bot send a direct message/private message to a user in a channel instead of it replying directly in the channel itself. Any one have any ideas of how to accomplish this?
You can send messages from the bot to any user (or channel) by using the Azure Bot Service REST API (using the Send an HTTP Request action in Composer as described here. As you'll see in the documentation, the main limitation is that the recipient must have had a previous conversation with your bot from which you've recorded the conversationID (and activityID if you want to reply to a thread).
I have created a bot by following the steps mentioned in the doc.I have authenticated user using oauth 2.0 (auth code grant) as mentioned in the doc and in reverse I got a access token. But when I send message to channel in the teams using (/teams/{id}/channels/{id}/messages) API the message was sent on behalf of me. But I want my bot as the sender of message. Here is the image of the message that I have sent using the above API. and is there any way to send direct message to user as a bot?
Instead of using the Graph, there's another approach using the Bot Framework itself, to send a message to a team channel, a group chat, or a 1-1 conversation. The code doesn't even need to live inside the bot itself, it just needs to leverage the bot framework under the covers (for example, I have several Azure Functions that pro-actively message users). This idea is called "Proactive messaging" and you can read more about it in the docs here.
You do need to get certain fields when the user first installs the bot though, or any time the bot receives a message. I've described that more at Programmatically sending a message to a bot in Microsoft Teams. You haven't said what language you're using, but there are examples for a bunch of them - I can send you links if you let me know what you're using.
I want my bot to respond only if anyone mentions its name like #mybot.
How to achieve this?
For that you need to use the Events API and subscribe to the event app_metion.
That way your app will receive all message that directly mention your bot with #mybot.
Those messages will be sent as request from Slack to the endpoint provided for receiving events.
We are building a bot which would require each of our customers to have their own SMS channel (unique phone number for them). From everything we can tell with the documentation of the bot framework is there is no way to do that. We want each of our customers to be able to add the bot to their own SMS number through twilio. Is this possible?
From everything we can tell with the documentation of the bot framework is there is no way to do that.
Yes you're right.
We want each of our customers to be able to add the bot to their own SMS number through twilio. Is this possible?
No, actually it's not possible :)
Shortly, BotFramework consist of three parts :
your bot logic which is a Web API service that exposes an endpoint
the channels (Skype, Facebook messenger, SMS etc)
the bot connector, where you create your bot by specifing the endpoint and one or multiple diiferent channels that the bot can use for conversations.
Because each channel can be associate only one time per endpoint hence per bot then you can't do multitenancy through the bot connector.
One solution is to create the multitenancy through the Web API service side by creating an endpoint for each customer. Maintenanbility will be difficult because of multiple endpoints you'll end up with the same number of bots into the bot director to manage. Each bot wil be associate to your customer number.
Updates: (I didn't test it but I'm pretty sure it can work)
Another solution is to use DirectLine channel and its Rest API that it exposes. If you opt for this solution it means that you will need to do a lot of things to make that work correctly after creating Direct Line channel:
you must create a client application to communicate with Direct Line channel through its REST API.
each customer can have their own number that you manage through Twilio
each message that a customer send using their SMS number and received via Twilio should trigger a call to the service of your client application
your client application will start a new conversation with Direct Line channel when a SMS is received.
each conversation started by your client application must take care about the SMS number who started the conversation by saving the state. Bot data per conversation and per user can help a lot.
when you receive a reply from the Direct Line Channel, your client application read the SMS number stored into the bot data and use this number to answer to the associated customer.
Hope it helps.
You can definitely do this.
You implement ICredentialProvider which is responsible for looking up appPassword by AppId and validating that the password is correct. This means you can have a database of bot AppId/Passwords that one endpoint services, and you look up the appid/secret and validate calls.
[ BotAuthentication(CredentialProviderType=typeof(SimpleCredentialProvider))]
Here is a simple sample implementation
https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/csharp/builder/sdkreference/d3/dde/_credential_provider_8cs_source.html