Is there a way to render a hyperlink in a new chat window via a deeplink url

Question

Hi,
I am building an app and I need to share some details via the MS Teams deep link url,

Currently I am passing a URL in the format, [ClickHere](https://www.clickhere.com] from the following deep link URL as shown below,

I have a question:

1. How can I prefill a new chat, created via the below deep link URL, with a hyperlink text, passed in the format as above.

The above deep link url, renders the message as shown in the image below,

but according to my requirement, it should be rendered as below,

Concerns:

1. I am able to create a new chat with the above deep link url, but the message window is not getting pre-filled with the msgText text which I am passing. Is it possible to populate the chat message with the msgText text for a new chat created via the above url.
2. Currently, I am only able to pre-populate the chat message from the above deep link url, if I give a valid list of users (users which are in the Azure Active Directory) and the message is not getting rendered as a hyperlink, rather it is getting rendered as Hello and when I explicitly, press a backspace followed by ')', then the text gets converted to hyperlink. Is there any way to render a hyperlink from the msgText attribute of deep link URL, where msgText contains a url which can be of size >200 chars.

Is it possible.

Currently for a new user, the chat window is empty even though I pass a valid message text.

Answer 1

We followed below steps and checked that the valid message is getting passed successfully.

1. Created a deep-link to open a new chat with valid message
   
2. Made that deep-link as hyperlink
   
3. Successfully opened a new chat along with prefilled message
   

If you are trying other way around i. e.

1. Deep-link to create a new chat in which the prefilled message will be of hyperlink format
   
2. Then it is rendering as below
   
   and on manually removing ")" and adding again its getting converted to hyperlink
   
   and there doesn't seem to any way to directly render hyperlink prefilled text

Thanks,

Prasad Das

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Answer 2

Hi Prasad,

Thanks for the detailed response.

However, my original request was:

I have to send, **Hello in the msgText attribute of the deep link URL, so that anyone whoever opens the deeplink url, the chat message window should be populated as,
Hello
and not,
Hello

Kindly, revert if you have any questions.