Is there a way to send a message on behalf of a user either in private chat or channel. In my case, the admin gives both application and delegated permission for the app. When the admin is part of the chat/channel, the messages are delivered correctly using MS Graph API but when the chat happens between 2 other signed-in users where the admin is not involved, I am not able to send the message as any of the user. I get UnknownError/Unauthorized since the token which is generated is related to admin user.
If we cannot send a message on behalf of a user using MS Graph is there any other way to achieve this. Can MS Bot take care of this scenario? Will each user have to install the bot so that it can send the message even if the Bot is not part of the conversation?
If we cannot send a message on behalf of a user using MS Graph is
there any other way to achieve this.
You can send chat message using Graph APIs. To send message on behalf of a user, your app must get consent from each individual users. Application permission is currently not supported.
Will each user have to install the bot so that it can send the message
even if the Bot is not part of the conversation?
It's a good idea to build Bot and send notifications instead of sending it from one of the user's account. You can use Proactive message to send message. In order to send message, your Bot needs to be installed for each user.
Could you please elaborate more on scenario? Are you looking for something similar to Company Communicator?
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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
We have tried to send notifications to Microsoft teams. We have created a bot using this we can send but users want to initiate the conversation.
Also tried graph API shows 401 error.
We want to send notifications to Bot or API without the user initiating the conversation. i.e. sending notification direct to user chat.
Please help?
You can send message to user with out user interaction using graph API. Proactive messages are initiated by bots to start conversations with a user. They serve many purposes including sending welcome messages, conducting surveys or polls, and broadcasting organization-wide notifications. Proactive messages in Teams can be delivered as either ad-hoc or dialog-based conversations. Please check Proactive installation of apps using Graph API and send messages
The organization that I work for previously used Slack as our collaboration tool. With Slack, I was able to register an app in the workspace and use the provided access tokens to invoke the API to send a message to a user from our external web application. It was very straightforward. There was no intermediate app that needed to be coded to enable this messaging.
Recently, we've transitioned from Slack to MS Teams, and in looking over the Graph API documentation, there does not currently appear to be a way to proactively send a message from an external application to a user. The available permissions for the chatMessage endpoint indicate the availability of only a delegated permission to send a message on behalf of a specific user; no permission exists to send a message on behalf of an external application.
Is it possible to use the Graph API to directly send a message from an external application to a user? Or must a bot application be created in order to achieve this?
It must be a bot application to achieve above mentioned requirement. ChatMessage endpoint works to send a message on behalf of user only.
Trying to send out chat message from Bot with sender as a current logged in user. I am able to implement this with graph api using On Behalf of flow. However the API is still in Beta and don't think we can use it in production setting.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/chat-post-message?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http
Is there a different way? Can we use ConnectorClient? Tried this, but the chat message is sent by the bot instead of the current logged in user. I am not able to create user token with botframework.com. It is always bot or the registered app.
Do anyone know if there is a way to accomplish this avoiding the graph beta api?
I have a Slack bot application that needs to authenticate messages received. Instead of receiving a token from Slack, my application will provide a token to Slack. Slack would then send the token to my application during each request. My application can then authenticate who the message came from.
Is there a way on Slack's platform to be an Oauth provider to Slack or some way to authenticate messages?
Thank you
Ah I see! So, again, this is not precisely what you are looking for, but it comes pretty close:
What you can do is use your own OAuth system external to Slack and then tie the users in that system to the user_ids from your Slack team.
On request from a particular user, your bot could DM this user a unique URL that is tied to your own (slack-external) OAuth system. Once the process is complete you can associate your way of identifying users with that of Slack (ie. team_id and user_id)
As a result any message that your bot receives, which would include the user_id of the user that sent it, can now be checked against your own User model to see if this particular user has the required permissions or anything of that nature.
This way you can essentially use any OAuth system in conjunction with Slack's methods of identifying users. It's a bit hacky, but it works.
I built something like this a few months ago. Here we are using the Mondo API's OAuth on top of Slack's own OAuth: Mondobot
The file with the relevant code is this one.