Connect Microsoft teams bot with websocket to Microsoft teams

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Connect Microsoft teams bot with websocket to Microsoft teams

Anonymous

Hey

I have a simple microsoft teams bot which is run on my server. It receives a message, processes and sends the response back.

However, I want to be able to continuously update the message. Let's say it is a counter that I want to increment every second for some time, so I want to be able to update the existing message every second.

I know that there is a possibility to connect with a web socket using Direct Line API, but it is used for other clients and not Microsoft Teams.

Question:

Is there a way to connect with a websocket to Microsoft Teams, so I can constantly update the message for the user?

Thanks

Sayali-MSFT 4,001 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2023-05-11T03:58:40.1366667+00:00

@Andrii Verveha- Thanks for reporting your issue.

We will check this at our end and will get back to you.

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Sayali-MSFT 4,001 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2023-05-11T03:58:40.1366667+00:00

@Andrii Verveha- Thanks for reporting your issue.

We will check this at our end and will get back to you.

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S.Sengupta 24,956 MVP

Microsoft Teams WebSocket API

Sayali-MSFT 4,001 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2023-05-15T08:25:15.4833333+00:00

@Andrii Verveha-Did you get chance to check the above document?
Anonymous

2023-05-16T10:55:35.95+00:00

Hey @S.Sengupta ,

Thank you for your response.

But this looks like is used for managing calls.

Is there something similar for updating messages using Microsoft Teams Bot? Or in general, to have a web-socket with Azure Bot service instead of sending HTTP requests?

I know that there is a Direct Line API, but I'm not sure whether it's what I need.

I need to be able to update messages in Microsoft Teams in a 1-1 chat with Microsoft Teams bot using web-sockets.

Thanks.
Sayali-MSFT 4,001 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2023-05-25T09:05:04.2933333+00:00
@Andrii Verveha- Your bot can dynamically update messages after sending them instead of having them as static snapshots of data. Messages can also be deleted using the Bot Framework's DeleteActivity method.

Reference Document-1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/update-and-delete-bot-messages?tabs=rest

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/rest-api/bot-framework-rest-direct-line-1-1-receive-messages?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
Anonymous

2023-05-25T09:47:20.24+00:00

Hi @Sayali-MSFT ,

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I've read about the updating of the messages. What I would like to ask, is if I can connect with a web-socket to Microsoft Teams (not direct line) using my Bot in order to stream messages updates and not send them via HTTP requests.

Thanks.

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