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Is it possible to communicate with a bot from Tab app in meeting chat?
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Leo Messi
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I have a notification bot which I added to meeting X. I created the bot using this sample- https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples/tree/main/samples/meetings-notification/nodejs.
I also have a tab app which I added to the same meeting X. I created the Tab app using this sample-
https://github.com/OfficeDev/TeamsFx-Samples/tree/v2.1.0/graph-toolkit-one-productivity-hub
We can communicate with the bot in the chat by mentioning the bot and specifying a command like the screenshot below which then results in the bot carrying out an action:
My question is:
Is it possible to make the same communication with the bot using our tab app in the meeting chat? I believe it is possible since the bot is essentially an API that accepts posted messages. I want to be able to send a message from the tab app to the meeting chat such that the message will include i)mention/call to the bot, and ii)a command to the bot
just like how we sent a message to the bot by manually typing in the meeting chat.
How can I achieve this functionality?
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Sayali-MSFT 3,991 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator2023-08-30T05:25:21.8633333+00:00 @Leo Messi - Thanks for reporting your issue.
We will check this at our end and will get back to you.
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Leo Messi 20 Reputation points
2023-08-31T02:54:40.83+00:00 @Sayali-MSFT I was trying to make the POST API call to the bot API work from postman and I am getting error with 400 status code. Below is the screenshot of the error details. The endpoint where I tried to send the post request is http://localhost:3978/api/messages .
Below is how my code looks in the index.js file and meetingNotification.js file from the "meetings-notification" project inspired from this sample project provided by Microsoft- https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples/tree/main/samples/meetings-notification/nodejs
From my understanding, it is the context which could be causing the issue. In the api request that I sent from postman, I tried adding a body which is pretty much the context converted into json. I got the context by printing the context in the meetings-notification app when we called the bot from within the meeting chat. Is it not possible to make the api request from postman look like that it is coming from the meeting chat if we provide the meeting details in the body of the request sent from postman? If so, what are the changes that I would need to make to get this API call working from postman? If I can get the API calls to the bot to work from postman, this would allow me to do the same from the tab app.
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Leo Messi 20 Reputation points
2023-08-31T03:25:17.45+00:00 .....
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Sayali-MSFT 3,991 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2023-08-31T07:51:01.96+00:00 @Leo Messi - As shown in your screenshots in Postman, you added the bearer token in the wrong place. You need to add the token in the 'Authorization' section and select 'Bearer Token'.
Like below-
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Leo Messi 20 Reputation points
2023-09-01T02:13:47.19+00:00 @Sayali-MSFT I have tried adding it there and still get the below error. I think it is something related to the context of the call. It would be great if I could get some clarification on how this could be working.
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Sayali-MSFT 3,991 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2023-09-01T10:22:32.64+00:00 Hello Leo,
Could you please look into this thread-https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56979665/botframeworkadapter-missing-activity-type-debug-messenger-locally
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Leo Messi 20 Reputation points
2023-09-04T06:28:17.32+00:00 @Sayali-MSFT I have been able to get rid of the validateAndFixActivity(): missing activity type (status:400) error by adding "type": "message" in the JSON object added to the body of the API call.
I am getting another error now "BotFrameworkAdapter.processActivity(): 500 ERROR BotFrameworkAdapter.sendActivity(): missing conversation id."
I am basically trying to generate a dialog in the meeting by making call to the API using Postman. I feel I am missing out on something in the JSON object which is leading to the error of "missing conversation id".
Below are screenshots of how the json object of my request look like. I am still using the same project sample(https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples/tree/main/samples/meetings-notification/nodejs) and my previous comments in this thread describe the changes that I have made.
Can you please confirm me what am I missing out in the JSON object which is leading to this error?
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Sayali-MSFT 3,991 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2023-09-07T06:25:51.4433333+00:00 @Leo Messi- The error message indicates that the conversation ID is missing when trying to send an activity using the BotFrameworkAdapter. To resolve this issue, you need to ensure that you have the conversation ID before sending the activity.
In the given context, it is mentioned that you can create a conversation and store the conversation ID or conversation reference object. The conversation ID is available in the conversation update events. You can use the
CreateConversationAsyncmethod to create a conversation and get the conversation ID.
Reference sample-https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples/tree/main/samples/bot-conversation/csharp -
Leo Messi 20 Reputation points
2023-09-11T01:26:36.26+00:00 @Sayali-MSFT Thanks for the reply. Given that I am trying to make the API call to the bot endpoint([http://localhost:3978/api/messages]) from Postman, is it possible to provide a sample of how the JSON object in the body of the POST request should look like from Postman? I do have a valid, conversation ID of a meeting chat that has been already created and already has few messages in it through interaction with the bot from the meeting chat. A sample showing the structure of the expected JSON object for API call to the bot from Postman to trigger "targetedMeetingNotification" would be really helpful.
This would help me to ensure that I get
context.activity.value.Type == "SendTargetedMeetingNotification"when I make the API call to send message to the bot and hence allow me to generate the targeted notification dialog in the screen of the targeted users just like this Microsoft Sample- https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples/tree/main/samples/meetings-notification/nodejs.
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Sayali-MSFT 3,991 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2023-09-12T10:13:04.05+00:00 please track the above query from here-
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1359396/calling-bots-api-from-postman-giving-error-botfram
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