Need clarity for one way bot

Question

we need clarification regarding the publishing requirements for bots in Microsoft Teams:
We have a one-way communication bot, our bot is designed to send a notification to users without responding to user commands

However while testing the app in developer portal we received the following error from the teams store "The bot is not responding to command Hi." Since our bot is intended for one-way communication and does not support any commands from the user. We are not sure if it is necessary for our bot to respond to user command

Could you provide guidance on whether it is required for a one-way notification bot to respond to user input to adhere teams store validation guidelines.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If your bot's sole purpose is to deliver notification to users and isn't conversational, you can enable the isNotificationOnly field in your app manifest. This produces the following changes:

• Users can't message your notification-only bot.
• Users can't @mention the bot.

Please follow below document for more details:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/resources/bot-v3/bots-notification-only?tabs=true

Thanks, 

Prasad Das

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