Response with a BOT to all message in a teams channel

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Response with a BOT to all message in a teams channel

Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1

Hello,

We are currently trying to implement a Teams BOT and we try to make him respond to any message in a channel, like a group channel in a team and without being mentionned. We have seen that it was possible with "channel messages with rsc" available in public developer preview currently. We followed the documentation but it didn't work : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/conversations/channel-messages-with-rsc

The BOT respond perfectly when it is ping, like it should but when we don't mention the bot we don't see any reply nor any log in our code.

We already tried to fix it by looking at the bot configuration and settings with the correct permissions in the manifest file and log every part of the code.

We've also seen that the question has already been asked but even if follow the answers it doesn't work for us: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/539475/what-is-the-status-and-roadmap-of-39for-receiving.html

There is also the fact that when we try to add "applicationPermission" in the manifest in version "devPreview" we got a warning telling us that "applicationPermission is not allowed".

We have seen incoherence between documentation too:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-app-schema/preview/DevPreview/MicrosoftTeams.schema.json
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/resources/schema/manifest-schema-dev-preview#sample-full-manifest

Furthermore, we have seen that the "applicationPermission" is always override when we run the app. We even tried to upload the manifest directly in teams.

Does anyone have an idea of where the problem can come ?

Anonymous

2021-10-08T16:40:06.117+00:00

We are looking into it. We will update you.
Anonymous

2021-10-14T15:21:00.787+00:00

We also observe that the bot is not responding when do not mention it in the channel. We are checking this internally. We will update you.

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Anonymous

2021-10-08T16:40:06.117+00:00

We are looking into it. We will update you.
Anonymous

2021-10-14T15:21:00.787+00:00

We also observe that the bot is not responding when do not mention it in the channel. We are checking this internally. We will update you.

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Anonymous

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - We discussed this internally. The bot responds to the messages even without mentioning the bot. Please make sure developer preview mode is on while testing your app.

Please check if RSC permission is enabled for the teams using - Check your app for added RSC permissions

Thanks,
Meghana

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Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-11-09T09:58:31.357+00:00

Hello @ Meghana-MSFT,

Thank you for your reply. We tried the solution you sent us but it didn't work.

We have seen that the bot is already in developer preview mode and RSC authorization is enabled. We will double-check it and keep you informed of the results.

Thank you,
Tanguy
Anonymous

2021-11-10T05:11:14.007+00:00

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - Please switch to developer preview on teams as well.
Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-11-10T15:46:18.57+00:00

Hello @Anonymous ,

So as we said we were already switched on developer preview mode on Microsoft Teams. We checked that the Team we are running the apps on has the RSC permissions enabled.

We know that the problem is coming from the fact that we are using Virtual Studio Code with the Teams Toolkit to start the application because it overrides our manifest file during the compilation of the application and remove for our example the "ChannelMessage.Read.Group" permission.

We also tried one more time to create a new app with the Azure portal and to upload directly the app package with the manifest of this new application but it's still not working and the bot is only responding when mentionned.

So, did you try starting the application from the Teams Toolkit in Virtual Studio Code to see if you have the same problem as us ? Maybe could we have a call with someone of Microsoft to check with him that we did everything fine and how to fix this problem that is very annoying for the development of our project.

Thanks,
Tanguy
Anonymous

2021-11-15T07:41:31.463+00:00

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - We have checked this on Visual studio and it was working fine. Could you please confirm if you mean visual studio code or virtual studio code?
Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-11-17T08:30:02.343+00:00

Hello @Anonymous ,

We start the application from Teams Toolkit in Virtual Studio Code. Maybe we could have a call with someone from Microsoft to check with them that we did everything right and how to fix this problem which is very annoying for the development of our project.

Thanks,
Tanguy
Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-11-17T09:16:31.383+00:00

Sorry I mean Visual Studio Code *
Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT 981 Reputation points

2021-11-18T19:43:37.217+00:00

We are trying to repro this issue using Visual studio code. I will let you know if we are also facing the same issue.

Thanks
Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT 981 Reputation points

2021-11-23T15:03:18.207+00:00

Could you please check by running these samples directly without Teams Toolkit and see if it working.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/conversations/channel-messages-with-rsc#code-sample - Just to be make sure that the configuration is not causing this issue.

Meanwhile we are checking it from our end.

Thanks
Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-12-01T13:55:47.19+00:00

Hello,

I tried to run the project without the help of Teams Toolkit but with the help of TeamsFx CLI but it did not work either.

I started to try your solution with your sample but it is not possible to run it for a simple reason that the messages-with-RSC folder does not exist. There is also an error in the documentation.
"In a console, navigate to samples/bot-message-with-RSC/nodejs" and next line "cd samples/tab-stage-view/nodejs"

Also for the creation of a resource with Azure Portal, it says "2. In the search box enter "bot". And in the drop-down list, select Bot Channels Registration." but "Bot Channels Registration" does not appear in the list and does not exist.

I also tried another solution which was to follow this documentation: (https://github.com/OfficeDev/TeamsFx/wiki/Enable-Preview-Features-in-Teams-Toolkit). But it did not work for the TeamsFx CLI part. For the VS Code Teams Toolkit part, the documentation is not up to date because "Insider Preview" does not exist in the extension section.

Wishing you a nice day.
Tanguy
Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-12-08T11:36:29.063+00:00

Hello,

I'm making this post to get back to you on the subject and to see if you have any new information. If you do, will it be possible to be informed?

Thanks,
Tanguy
Anonymous

2021-12-10T17:49:11.847+00:00

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - Apologies for the delay in response. We checked the C# sample and it worked fine. We are now checking Node.js sample without toolkit. We will update you soon.
Anonymous

2021-12-15T14:47:07.047+00:00

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - We tried setting up the Node.js sample as well. It is working fine at our end. Could you please run the sample using npm run server. We have followed the steps exactly as mentioned in the document.
Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-12-16T10:55:34.237+00:00

@Anonymous - Hello, I tried the stample again using "$ npm run server", I followed all the steps exactly as mentioned in the document too. But at the end, when I try to upload the manifest.zip, I got this error. And "aka.ms/teamsdocs" does not exist.
Anonymous

2021-12-17T09:06:05.81+00:00

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - Can you please validate your manifest in App Studio/Dev portal and check for the errors?
Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-12-17T12:47:17.927+00:00

@Anonymous - I did it and the errors come from the icons :

InvalidColorIconHeightAndWidth Color Icon is not as per the required dimension.
InvalidOutlineIconHeightAndWidth Small icon should be 32x32 with only white and transparentInvalidOutlineIconTransparency Outline icon is not transparent.It's Alpha,R,G,B: 45,73,90,107

I didn't change these icons, so they are in the wrong format in the template.

So I tried to put icons in the right format instead of the basic ones and the app studio validates the manifest without any error.

However, the "Something went wrong" problem is still present when I want to add a custom application to a team.
Anonymous

2021-12-20T11:45:51.167+00:00

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - Could you please share your manifest with us?
Tanguy Boyard-Hebting 1 Reputation point

2021-12-27T08:59:37.443+00:00

@Anonymous - Here is the manifest. I put 'x' in ngrok's URL so as not to share it.

160646-manifest.txt
Anonymous

2021-12-31T16:00:31.387+00:00

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - Apologies for the delay in response and Thanks for providing the manifest. We are getting an error while uploading the manifest. I am checking this internally. I will get back to you.
Anonymous

2022-01-06T14:51:05.707+00:00

@Tanguy Boyard-Hebting - We tried uploading this Manifest with our color and outline icons. It worked fine. Could you please share the entire manifest zip file with us?

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