I am looking for a solution where a team can contact a single user via chat.
Adding that user to the team and then removing could be a possible solution - but not that good. Also, if team A wants to connect person B and person C separately.
Microsoft Teams allows users to bring bots into their channel or group chat conversations. By adding a bot to a team or chat, all users of the conversation can take advantage of the bot functionality right in the conversation. You can also access Teams-specific functionality within your bot like querying team information and #mentioning users.
Chat in channels and group chats differ from personal chat in that the user needs to #mention the bot.
Please refer below doc:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/resources/bot-v3/bot-conversations/bots-conv-channel
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I am trying to use Microsoft.Graph to send add a message to a chat. I have successfully found my team and created a channel for the messages to go into but when I try to actually send the message, I get a Forbidden error message. This is covered by the ticket:
Microsoft Graph API for Teams: Send Channel/ Chat messages and I am getting the same problem that #Koelier originaly got.
The reason that this is not fixed is that following the answer does not fix my problem. Indeed, the ChannelMessage.ReadWrite.All does not appear in my list. I am looking for the app to run as a service, in the background so the Application Permissions is the method I need to use.
I note that I am not alone in this as #johnnycardy notes that he has had exactly the same problem as me. Furthermore, I linked to the document referenced by #nastassiar and it did not reference the ChannelMessage.ReadWrite.All at all. I can assume it did once but not anymore.
Any guidance would be gratefully received.
Just checked the permissions to perform the same using graph explorer and the below are the ones that I had to add.
ChannelMessage.Send - Allows the app to send channel messages in Microsoft Teams, on your behalf.
Chat.ReadWrite - Allows an app to read and write your 1 on 1 or group chat messages in Microsoft Teams, on your behalf.
ChatMessage.Send - Allows an app to send one-to-one and group chat messages in Microsoft Teams, on your behalf.
Group.ReadWrite.All - Allows the app to create groups and read all group properties and memberships on your behalf. Additionally allows the app to manage your groups and to update group content for groups you are a member of.
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Looking for the best course of action that would have the least impact on users to be able proactively message users with teams app (bot) installed but where they have not messaged the bot and the conversation reference was not captured at time of install.
The scenario is that have an enterprise bot that has been operational for over 3 years servicing 10s of thousands of employees. The bot is auto installed for all users in the tenant, but conversation references were only being stored in the last 2/3's of the applications life, and the install event was not being captured until recently. This was not an issue in past as all proactive functionality was predicated on some interaction with the bot.
I now have a need to be able proactively messages all users within tenant regardless of if they have messaged the bot or not, or if they last messaged the bot before conversation references were being stored. There are only a small subset of users the fall into this category.
Hoping some way to generate a conversation update, be it through graph or other means. The installationUpdate event through app update seemed promising as can update the application but seems only triggered if bot is added or removed
Review the information provided here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/graph-api/proactive-bots-and-messages/graph-proactive-bots-and-messages?tabs=dotnet
Here is what we do
If we have the conversation ID in our cache/persistent store, we use
it to send the message
If we dont have, we use GET
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{user-id}/teamwork/installedApps/{teamsAppInstallationId}/chat
to get the chatid (the app id here is not the bot application ID, but the ID generated when the app is installed in the org app store and is available from the Teams Admin interface)
If the user does not have our app installed, we
install the app using the teamsAppInstallationId ID. This automatically generates a event without user intervention that
is sent to the bot which you can then use to capture the conversation ID.
POST /users/{user-id | user-principal-name}/teamwork/installedApps
This approach does require an Application Permission: TeamsAppInstallation.ReadWriteSelfForUser.All
You might look into using the List Teams functionality in the Graph API. You can use Graph to get teams and list their members, assuming you can grant your bot the necessary permissions. There are many features in the Graph API which might help you accomplish this.
To send a proactive message to user the bot requires the conversation reference. The conversation can be only retrieved when bot installed.
Without conversation reference you cannot send a proactive message using bot.
You can use Send message in a chat API to send message to chat with delegated permissions.
Could you please raise a uservoice for your case
I am working on SPFx web part where a user will see the presence of other users and I want to let them click on the picture and start a TEAMS conversation with that other user.
I was expecting MS graph to have that option but all I can see is chat to a channel and or team.
My need is to be able to chat between users of any teams within the same 365 organization (AAD)
Any one knows a JavaScript way to do it?
Thanks in advance
This is something we are working on. Currently there are no Graph API available to send message to a user in personal scope. We don't have ETA to share with you. You can have a Bot which can help to send messages in personal scope, Group chat or channel conversation.
I know it's very long after the original post, but in case this is still a requirement - it sounds from your question like a simple deep link would work fine, as you can "deep link" to a chat with another user - see here for more. If the users have not chatted before, the deep link will actually start the chat for the first time, when the first message is sent.
I have a logic app which posts a channel chat message to teams automatically when a new item is created in SharePoint. This I have working but our client requires that all the team members receive a banner alert and activity feed which I am having a lot of difficulty with.
What I've already tried...
Using a Incoming web hook on the teams channel - this was a very simple way to post from the logic app but the incoming webhook don't seem to support mentions.
Using the msft graph api - The /team/channel/message endpoint can post messages and user mentions but the this endpoint doesnt support channel or team mentions. It also appears that the graph API needs to use delegated permissions to post messages in teams. I'm using application permissions as this is a logic app. The logic app HTTP post connector doesnt offer the "connect as username#tenant.com" some of the other connectors use.
Using the flowbot post message - Like the above channel and team mentions are supported here so the post is added to the channel but with no notification to the team members
Using a notification only bot - I thought I nearly had it with this one. Microsoft's node bot sample number 57 looked like it can do most of what I want, it iterates through the users in the team and messages them this a customisable alert message...
https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/samples/javascript_nodejs/57.teams-conversation-bot
However I can't see how this bot can be triggered from my logic app as it seems to require an existing conversation context or an #mention from within teams to start communicating with users.
What I'm considering trying next
Iterating users within the logic app - Next I plan to try and get team membership from the graph API and iterate the members in the Logic App, posting a message to each user separately. I had hoped to utilise the group #mention feature as a simpler way so I'd be grateful if anyone had any thoughts on other ways of doing this, or maybe there's something wrong with what I've already tried that you could give me some expertise on.
Thanks in advance ;)
Andy
You're on the right track with the Bot, but you're wanting to send something called a "Pro-active" message. You need the bot registered in the channel in order to get access to a few key properties (conversation id, service url, etc.), but you can use those to send a message from -outside- your bot (e.g. in an Azure Function). You might be able to do this directly from a Logic App, but I haven't tested that specifically.
To find out more, see my answer at Programmatically sending a message to a bot in Microsoft Teams but I've also got a recent blog post that you might find interesting for background on this at How Bots Actually Work.
Hope that helps
You can use Graph to post a message in 1:1 chat as long as you have the chat it. You can find the answer in this post Send message to personal Chat via Graph API
You can also call Graph API from Logic Apps. (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/integrations-on-azure-blog/calling-graph-api-from-azure-logic-apps-using-delegated/ba-p/1997666#:~:text=Calling%20Graph%20API%20from%20Azure%20Logic%20Apps%20using,Manage%20-%3E%20Certificates%20%26%20secrets%20More%20items...%20)
The channel.join api in the slack web api does not have a slack userid field. The problem is since there are lot of channels in our slack team user gets confused on which channels to join. So we have segregated channels based on internal teams. And if an user selects his team he should be able to auto-join all the channels which are related to him.
As an admin of the slack team is it possible to add other users to different slack channels using Slack API?
You can use the Slack API method channel.invite to invite users to any slack public slack channel. It allows you to specify the channel and user by ID.
See here for the documentation.