Can we use the edit message option of teams in bot

Question

Hi Team,

I wanted to use the same team edit message option for a chatbot. We have personal chats and team channels. Personal chat users can send messages to teams channels.

In normal personal chat, we can send messages and edit afterward.

The same can be done in bot, but the edited message will not be resend to the teams channel or to personal chat.

Can we implement the same feature in bot also

Answer 1

When a message is edited by a bot, the edited message will not be automatically resent to the Teams channel or personal chat.

You can use the updateActivity method from the Bot Framework SDK to edit message. This method allows you to update the content of a previously sent message.

public async Task OnMessageActivityAsync(ITurnContext<IMessageActivity> turnContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    // Get the original message
    var originalMessage = turnContext.Activity;

    // Update the message content
    originalMessage.Text = "This is the updated message.";

    // Update the message using the updateActivity method
    await turnContext.UpdateActivityAsync(originalMessage, cancellationToken);

    // Send a confirmation message
    await turnContext.SendActivityAsync("Message updated successfully.", cancellationToken: cancellationToken);
}

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/update-and-delete-bot-messages?tabs=dotnet

Thanks, 

Prasad Das

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Answer 2

Hello lakshmi -
You can capture edit message activity:
When you edit a message, the bot gets a notification of the edit message activity.

To get an edit message activity notification in a bot, you can override OnTeamsMessageEditAsync handler.

Also, based on it, you can again send the appropriate message to the target audience.

Reference doc link:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/conversations/conversation-messages?tabs=dotnet1%2Capp-manifest-v112-or-later%2Cdotnet2%2Cdotnet3%2Cdotnet4%2Cdotnet5%2Cdotnet#get-edit-message-activity