How to get user name on Microsoft Bot Framework? - node.js

I am using Microsoft Bot Framework. How to get user name of user when they are chatting with Microsoft Bot on Microsoft Teams.I am using bot builder and node.js

You can probably get the name of the person using:
session.message.address.user.name
Though you may have to check that, as different channel exposes different kind of data to the framework. Also you can have a look in the channelData field as well. It contains data specific to the channel. You can find channel data using:
session.message.source

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Microsoft Bot Framework: How to add Bot to chat via messaging extension?

Let's assume a user chats with another user in a 1:1 chat. (Might also be a group chat.) The user adds a bot and continues to chat while the bot now adds value to the conversation.
We are searching for a way to make adding the bot to a chat as seamless as possible through a simple button click. It seems the closest we can get to a button is using a messaging extension action command.
When the user invokes the messaging extension our backend service runs and can respond e.g. with a card. Now instead of a card is it possible to generate a response to add a bot? There are special responses e.g. for authentication. Is there a response telling the Teams client to add a bot?
Any hints are appreciated.
JIT installation of bot is an option here. You will be able to add bot to user conversation. Check following sample application which helps to add bot instantly: https://github.com/SubbaReddi/89.teams-just-in-time-installation

Using the Bot Framework to post to a Microsoft Teams channel with NodeJS

Is there a way to send proactive cards from a bot to a Teams channel? The use case is a channel for service tickets. Once they get posted, a user will be able to interact with them with a few actions.
I’m looking at the documentation here for sending proactive messages. At the bottom, there’s a section for ”Creating channel conversations”, with a small reference to the startReplyChain(). However, the actual code and sample on GitHub still seem to reference a conversation with a member rather than sending something proactive to a channel.
There does appear to be documentation for incoming and outgoing webhooks, which is what I may end up doing. My only real concern is that it requires using Actionable Cards, which it references as legacy everywhere. This is despite saying that you can’t send Adaptive Cards with them. Perhaps they intend to enable these connectors to send Adaptive Cards, it’s not just very clear to me if this is a long-term solution I should be focusing on.
This is definitely possible, and it's important to note that you can even send from another process/application (e.g. on a schedule from an AWS Lamba). You can see a sample here for this.
The process of sending the message is just part of the story though - you need to have certain information already saved (e.g. in your database) to know how to contact the right user, group chat, or channel conversation, but there are a few ways to get that information. The most common is, when you bot is added to the conversation, to get it from the conversationUpdate event. You'll need conversation id, service url, tenant id, and your bot's App Id (what you get in the Azure portal for your bot, and which you're using already in your app's configuration, teams manifest, etc.). You can read more about the topic here and here.
Another option, if you don't have access to conversationUpdate (e.g. the user hasn't installed your app) is to call the Graph API to install your app. It's only possible to do this to a channel (on the v1 or beta api) (see here) or to a user (see here), but on the beta api only, and not (yet?) for a group chat.

How do I know Slack bot's user_id?

I'm making a slack bot (A) that responses to a message from another slack bot (incoming-webhook) (B).
I'd like to know the user_id of B so that its message will be a trigger for A, where I have some problem getting it.
I tried users.list method (https://slack.com/api/users.list?token=blabla) but the B didn't appear in a result.
Do you have an idea about what method to take to know the user_id of B?
Incoming webhooks appear as apps, not as bot users on Slack. So you won't find a bot user ID in the user list as you would for normal bot users.
Apps have a bot ID, but unfortunately there is no official API method to get the list of bots / apps in a workspace. But if you have control over a workspace and can generate a legacy token you can use the unofficial API method bots.list.
There also is the official bots.info method, if you already have the bot ID and just want to know which app it belongs to.
To create a legacy token for your workspace make sure you are logged in and then go to this page.

Microsoft Teams - read out channel messages (ReactJS, NodeJS)

in Microsoft Teams we have a Team called "BD" and this team has a channel named "Global".
Now I have a ReactJS app with a NodeJS backend and I would like to
display all the messages that are written in the Global Channel of the Team "BD"
I only need to show which messages are written in the channel (so readonly would be sufficient).
What is the easiest way to achieve this ? Even an iFrame would be ok, if somehow possible.
Please take a look at List channel messages Graph API. First try these APIs in Graph Explorer.
To implement this in a code, you need to follow either Get access on behalf of a user or Get access without a user
Before calling this API with application permissions (access without a user), you must request access. For details, see Protected APIs in Microsoft Teams.

How to Auth from an external service to the bot framework?

I have an external service with is own database where the users can log in.
Now I have a bot in NodeJS using Bot Builder and the Bot Framework.
I want to link them.
Is there anyway that the bot recognize the users from the other service everytime they open a new conversation and everytime they write something in the bot?
I've just tried with web chat before and I know that with channels that they support like Facebook, Telegram, Skype etc is easy to recognize the users every time they come back, but I don't know how if it is possible to do this with an external service where the users are already logged in and they want to talk with the chatbot.
I don't know how could I generate an authtoken or something that the bot framework read it and recognize the user.
You can use the DirectLine API to allow your bot and a custom client to communicate to each other, a sample can be found here, and here if you want to use WebSockets.
You can also add authentication to your bot via Azure Bot Service to use OAuth as stated here, where you will find samples too.

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