VS Code - Teams Toolkit Notification bot query

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VS Code - Teams Toolkit Notification bot query

Rishikesh Rai 105

Hi,

I'm new to the Teams toolkit and exploring it to create a notification bot. The template pre-builds a demo bot with a scheduled time to send notifications every 30 seconds. My queries are:

Is there a way to schedule the notifications at specific times, like 9:00 AM, and to schedule them 2 to 3 times a day?

I want to send personalized messages to users based on their user ID/email. For example, I want to send notifications to 2,000 Teams users, but each user will receive a different message, this message will get from an Api.

Any insights or guidance on this would be helpful.

Thank you!

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Prasad-MSFT 10,496 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/build-notification-capability?tabs=ts1%2Cts2%2Cts3%2Cts4%2Cjsts%2Cts5%2Cdotnet#customize-notification

You can schedule notifications at specific times, such as 9:00 AM, and multiple times a day by using Azure Functions with a timer trigger. This allows you to set up a cron expression to define the specific times when the notifications should be sent.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-bindings-timer?tabs=python-v2%2Cisolated-process%2Cnodejs-v4&pivots=programming-language-csharp#ncrontab-expressions

Example	When triggered
`0 0 9 * * *`	at 9:30 AM every day

Anonymous

2024-12-11T06:43:24.05+00:00

Hi @Rishikesh Rai

Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. If the reply is helpful to you, please try to mark it as an answer to help others who encounter the same issue and read this thread. If you have any further updates on this issue, please feel free to post back.
Rishikesh Rai 105 Reputation points

2024-12-11T07:15:29.4966667+00:00

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for your reply, this really help.

If possible could you please help me with my second query -
'I want to send personalized messages to users based on their user ID/email. For example, I want to send notifications to 2,000 Teams users, but each user will receive a different message, this message will get from an Api.'

Thanks!!
Prasad-MSFT 10,496 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2024-12-11T07:31:35.4233333+00:00

Rishikesh Rai, glad to hear that it helped. If the response was helpful, could you please share your valuable feedback via Microsoft Teams Developer Community Response Feedback link?

Regarding the #2 query:

You can send a new chatMessage in the specified chat. This API can't create a new chat; you must use the list chats method to retrieve the ID of an existing chat before you can create a chat message.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/chat-post-messages?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

However, sending each user different personalized message in bulk doesn't seem to be feasible.
Rishikesh Rai 105 Reputation points

2024-12-11T08:14:21.0533333+00:00
Hi @Prasad-MSFT

In the timerTrigger.ts file, I noticed the following commented line and thought to call my custom API with the list of all users, including their email IDs and messages, and loop through this line to send them personalized messages, hope this work.

/** You can also find someone and notify the individual person const member = await notificationApp.notification.findMember( async (m) => m.account.email === "******@contoso.com" ); await member?.sendAdaptiveCard(...); **/
Rishikesh Rai 105 Reputation points

2025-03-28T11:22:22.1366667+00:00
Hi @Prasad-MSFT ,

The below cron expression will schedule the app at 9:30 AM every weekday, could you please help me with the expression to trigger only on Monday and Friday,

0 30 9 * * 1-5 -> at 9:30 AM every weekday

Thank you

**Edited -
Hope this expression work -

0 30 9 * * 1,5

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