README.md

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sample	This sample shows the feature of bot configuration and reconfiguration for bots in team and group chat.	office-teams office office-365	nodejs	contentType createdDate samples 25-09-2023 23:30:17	officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-bot-configuration-app-nodejs

Bot Configuration

This sample demonstrates the features of bot configuration and reconfiguration for both teams and group chats, including a type-ahead search (static and dynamic) control on Adaptive Cards.

To get a configurable card with a static typeahead search control, add the bot to a Teams or group chat scope. Upon submission, the card will be updated to include a dynamic typeahead search control.

Included Features

• Bots
• Adaptive Cards
• bot reconfiguration
• Type ahead search

Interaction with bot

Try it yourself - experience the App in your Microsoft Teams client

Please find below demo manifest which is deployed on Microsoft Azure and you can try it yourself by uploading the app package (.zip file link below) to your teams and/or as a personal app. (Sideloading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

Bot Configuration: Manifest

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account
• NodeJS
• devtunnel or ngrok latest version or equivalent tunnelling solution
• Teams Toolkit for VS Code or TeamsFx CLI

Run the app (Using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code)

The simplest way to run this sample in Teams is to use Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.

1. Ensure you have downloaded and installed Visual Studio Code
2. Install the Teams Toolkit extension
3. Select File > Open Folder in VS Code and choose this samples directory from the repo
4. Using the extension, sign in with your Microsoft 365 account where you have permissions to upload custom apps
5. Select Debug > Start Debugging or F5 to run the app in a Teams web client.
6. In the browser that launches, select the Add button to install the app to Teams.

If you do not have permission to upload custom apps (sideloading), Teams Toolkit will recommend creating and using a Microsoft 365 Developer Program account - a free program to get your own dev environment sandbox that includes Teams.

Setup

Run ngrok - point to port 3978

ngrok http 3978 --host-header="localhost:3978"

Alternatively, you can also use the dev tunnels. Please follow Create and host a dev tunnel and host the tunnels with anonymous user access command as shown below:

devtunnel host -p 3978 --allow-anonymous

Setup for bot

In Azure portal, create a Azure Bot resource. - For bot handle, make up a name. - Select "Use existing app registration" (Create the app registration in Azure Active Directory beforehand.) - If you don't have an Azure account create an Azure free account here

In the new Azure Bot resource in the Portal, - Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel - In Settings/Configuration/Messaging endpoint, enter the current https URL you were given by running the tunnelling application. Append with the path /api/messages

Setup for code

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git

2. In a terminal, navigate to samples/bot-configuration-app/nodejs

3. Install modules

   npm install

4. Update the .env configuration for the bot to use the Microsoft App Id and App Password from the Bot Framework registration. (Note the App Password is referred to as the "client secret" in the azure portal and you can always create a new client secret anytime.)

5. Run your bot at the command line:

   npm start

6. This step is specific to Teams.

   • Edit the manifest.json contained in the appManifest folder to replace your Microsoft App Id (that was created when you registered your bot earlier) everywhere you see the place holder string <<YOUR-MICROSOFT-APP-ID>> (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json)
   • Edit the manifest.json for validDomains and replace <<domain-name>> with base Url domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be https://1234.ngrok-free.app then your domain-name will be 1234.ngrok-free.app and if you are using dev tunnels then your domain will be 12345.devtunnels.ms.
   • Zip up the contents of the appManifest folder to create a manifest.zip (Make sure that zip file does not contains any subfolder otherwise you will get error while uploading your .zip package)
   • Upload the manifest.zip to Teams (In Teams Apps/Manage your apps click "Upload an app". Browse to and Open the .zip file. At the next dialog, click the Add button.)
   • Add the app to team/groupChat scope (Supported scopes)

Running the sample

You can interact with this bot in Teams by sending it a message, or selecting a command from the command list. The bot will respond to the following strings.

Configurable Card A configurable card is used to modify data even after the bot has been installed. When the bot is added to a Teams or group chat scope, it utilizes 'config/fetch' and 'config/submit' invoke requests.

• Result: The bot will send the configurable adaptive card

• Valid Scopes: group chat, team chat

• Bot Interactions:

  Adding bot UI:

Added bot UI:

Show configurable card interaction:

• Bot description card Interactions:

Bot Descrption Card: Hover over the bot and a adaptive Card appears

Click the settings button in the card to invoke configurable card:

Deploy to Azure

Deploy your project to Azure by following these steps:

From Visual Studio Code	From TeamsFx CLI
Open Teams Toolkit, and sign into Azure by clicking the Sign in to Azure under the ACCOUNTS section from sidebar. After you signed in, select a subscription under your account. Open the Teams Toolkit and click Provision from DEPLOYMENT section or open the command palette and select: Teams: Provision. Open the Teams Toolkit and click Deploy or open the command palette and select: Teams: Deploy.	Run command teamsfx account login azure. Run command teamsfx provision --env dev. Run command: teamsfx deploy --env dev.

Note: Provisioning and deployment may incur charges to your Azure Subscription.

Further reading

• Bot configuration
• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• Send Notification to User in Chat
• Send Notification to User in Team
• Send Notification to User