Clarification on Response Requirements for One-Way Communication Bots in Microsoft Teams

Ankit Kumar 0

Hello Microsoft Learn Team,

I am seeking clarification regarding the publishing requirements for bots in Microsoft Teams, specifically concerning one-way communication bots. We have developed a bot designed solely for sending notifications to users without any user interaction.

Upon submitting our bot to the Microsoft Teams Store, we received the following error: "The bot is not responding to command Hi." This raises a question regarding the necessity for a one-way bot to respond to user commands.

Given that our bot is explicitly designed for one-way communication and does not engage in a two-way conversation or handle user commands, I would like to understand why the bot is required to respond to user input during the publishing process.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Prasad-MSFT 6,891 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-04T11:45:21.85+00:00

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LiweiTian-MSFT 20,810 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-07T02:01:20.75+00:00

Hi @Ankit Kumar

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Ankit Kumar 0 Reputation points

2024-10-07T05:10:21.9933333+00:00

Hi @LiweiTian-MSFT

I gone through the post by clicking on the you have shared and I found that in the reply, it's advised to enable isNotificationOnly but in our case we have enabled isNotificationOnly and the input box is also disabled for user's input however I am still getting the error mentioned in the post during Team Store Validation from the Developer Portal, kindly refer the below screenshot of app manifest for your reference.

What I believe is that Microsoft is able to send messages to the bot despite having input box disabled for user's input.

kindly advice for the same.

Prasad-MSFT 6,891 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-11T10:14:07.35+00:00

Is there any bot command added in your app manifest?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/resources/schema/manifest-schema#botscommandlists

If not, could you please share your manifest JSON, so that we can verify at our end?

Ankit Kumar 0 Reputation points

2024-10-14T09:33:40.99+00:00

Below is the manifest json

{"$schema":"https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/json-schemas/teams/v1.17/MicrosoftTeams.schema.json","version":"1.0.0","manifestVersion":"1.17","id":"ae99832f-a88d-4c2e-b4c6-a560afc52009","name":{"short":"NotifyTestNew","full":""},"developer":{"name":"Nandhini","mpnId":"","websiteUrl":"https://www.test.com","privacyUrl":"https://www.test.com/privacy","termsOfUseUrl":"https://www.test.com/termsofuse"},"description":{"short":"test","full":"test"},"icons":{"outline":"outline.png","color":"color.png"},"accentColor":"#FFFFFF","staticTabs":[{"entityId":"conversations","scopes":["personal"]},{"entityId":"about","scopes":["personal"]}],"bots":[{"botId":"b1460ba2-7161-4913-8fdd-39062fc0336e","scopes":["personal"],"isNotificationOnly":true,"supportsCalling":false,"supportsVideo":false,"supportsFiles":false}],"validDomains":[],"webApplicationInfo":{"id":"dec0d4eb-f0d1-4af4-9bce-9ee736f73185","resource":""}}

Prasad-MSFT 6,891 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-22T06:05:55.26+00:00

Ankit Kumar, apologies for delay in response. The manifest schema seems to be fine. We are currently checking this with engineering team regarding the necessity for a one-way bot to respond to user commands while publishing. Thanks for understanding.
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Ankit Kumar 0 Reputation points

2024-10-07T05:57:19.41+00:00

The post you have referred suggests enabling isNotificationOnly we have enabled the same and the input box is also disabled however we are still getting the error mentioned in question, we are getting the error while testing the app in developer portal.

What I believe is Microsoft is still able to send the command to the bot somehow.

Kindly see the below screenshot of my app manifest and advise accordingly.
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