New MS Teams doesn't consider parameter "message", when creating a chat using deep link

Question

Hi All,

I'm using deep link described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/build-and-test/deep-link-teams.

According to the documentation, chat can be opened using the example URL as below:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=******@contoso.com,******@contoso.com&topicName=Prep%20For%20Meeting%20Tomorrow&message=Hi%20folks%2C%20kicking%20off%20a%20chat%20about%20our%20meeting%20tomorrow

It works, it opens a new chat with the selected persons, it also uses the topicName parameter to give subject to the chat, but it doesn't consider the message parameter. The opened chat doesn't have any draft message in it.

This stopped working since one of the update of new MS Teams. With old Teams the same deep link works properly and the draft message is populated based on parameter message.

Is this a bug in MS Teams? Or is the documentation outdated?

Thanks,

Rototti

Answer 1

Dear Rototti**,**

Good day! Thank for posting in the community.

We've received your query, and you can expect to receive response from one of our community moderators accordingly.

At this point, we appreciate your patience and cooperation. Thank you.

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Answer 2

Hello Rototti**,**

Good day! Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Community.

I understand that you are experiencing an issue with the message parameter not working when creating a chat using a deep link. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Regarding your concern, I would like to inform you that the message parameter is not currently supported in Microsoft New Teams.

It's not a bug. The documentation you referred to is not outdated but the feature has problem working with New Teams, as a result the Microsoft development team is still working on it.

Here is the Microsoft Road Map link for deep link improvements: Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365

For the moment only work around it to work with previous version of teams.

And we apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

I hope this helps! If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to ask.

If none of these step's work, please let me know and we can explore other options.

Thank you for choosing the MS community.

Looking forward to your response and having a great day ahead!

Sincerely

S M Nazmun Nur | Microsoft Community Moderator