I have created many bots with MS Bot Framework and they worked correctly, following the instructions of the proper channel (in https://dev.botframework.com/ -> Add another channel -> Add).
They all, including Slack, worked properly, but now app creation in Slack (https://api.slack.com/applications/new) is different to the instructions, and the bot is not working anymore (neither the old ones nor the new ones).
After submitting the credentials in https://dev.botframework.com/to add the Slack channel, everything appears to be ok, but in Slack the bot is always off-line, and the messages don't get botframework neither the messaging endpoint after that.
The only message I get in my messaging endpoint is:
{ type: 'installationUpdate',
action: 'add',
sourceEvent:
{ SlackMessage:
{ type: 'bot_added',
After adding the bot, but nothing after that. Any hints?
After some hours not working, the messages started to come again (it was a Microsoft or Slack problem)
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I'm working on a chatbot with botframework.which has been deployed to teams channel.
In the microsoft teams app, my bot keeps typing for a longer time as compared with my webapp.
Any idea why that happens?
Code being used-
await stepContext.context.sendActivity({
type: 'typing'
});
Screenshot attached for reference.(The bot keeps typing even after intended reply has been received which doesnt happen in the case of webapp)
I'm using the Microsoft bot-framework to create a bot and integrate it into teams.
Part of the bot's requirements include proactively messaging users once per day. From what I understand, I can only message users that has been added to the team/groupChat after the bot, or that have messaged the bot directly.
My question is - can I somehow bypass this limitation?
A friend of my referred me to a new feature of graphAPI, as part of the new beta version - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-add-teamsappinstallation?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http.
To me it doesn't seem like it could be related to the solution since I'm not getting any data back in the response, so if I have no conversationReference object I still can't message the user.
At the moment my solution is to simply broadcast a message in the channel when it's added, asking users to "register" with it by messaging it. Anyone has any other suggestion?
The easiest way is to:
Install the bot for the team
Query the Team Roster -- The link in Step 3 has an alternative way to do this towards the bottom
Create a conversation with the user and send a proactive message
There's a lot of code in those links and it's better to just visit them than to copy/paste it here.
The end of Step 3 also mentions trustServiceUrl, which you may find handy if you run into permissions/auth issues when trying to send a proactive message.
Edit for Node:
Install Necessary Packages
npm i -S npm install botbuilder-teams#4.0.0-beta1 botframework-connector
Note: The #<version> is important!
Prepare the Adapter
In index.js
const teams = require('botbuilder-teams');
adapter.use(new teams.TeamsMiddleware());
Get the Roster
// Get Team Roster
const credentials = new MicrosoftAppCredentials(process.env.MicrosoftAppId, process.env.MicrosoftAppPassword);
const connector = new ConnectorClient(credentials, { baseUri: context.activity.serviceUrl });
const roster = await connector.conversations.getConversationMembers(context.activity.conversation.id);
Send the Proactive Message
const { TeamsContext } = require('botbuilder-teams');
// Send Proactive Message
const teamsCtx = TeamsContext.from(context);
const parameters = {
members: [
roster[0] // Replace with appropriate user
],
channelData: {
tenant: {
id: teamsCtx.tenant.id
}
}
};
const conversationResource = await connector.conversations.createConversation(parameters);
const message = MessageFactory.text('This is a proactive message');
await connector.conversations.sendToConversation(conversationResource.id, message);
Trust the ServiceUrl, as Necessary
Read about it. You'd want this before the message is sent.
MicrosoftAppCredentials.trustServiceUrl(context.activity.serviceUrl);
EDIT: The Graph API you've referenced is only necessary if you wish to proactively message a user who is not in a channel/groupChat where the bot is installed. If you need to proactively message only people who are in context where the bot is installed already, the answer from mdrichardson is the easiest possible method.
We've identified a couple of issues with the Graph API beta endpoint you referenced that should be fixed in the near term. In the meantime workarounds are as follows:
Calling:
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/teamwork/installedApps/
{"teamsapp#odata.bind":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/appcatalogs/teamsapps/APP-GUID"}
Will install an app in the personal scope of a user.
Known issue: Currently, if the app contains a bot, then installation will not lead to creation of thread between the bot and the user. However to ensure that any missing chat threads, get created, call:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/chats?$filter=installedApps/any(x:x/teamsApp/id eq 'APP-GUID')
Calling:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/chats?$filter=installedApps/any(x:x/teamsApp/id eq 'APP-GUID')
Gets the chat between a user and an app containing a bot.
Known issue: Calling this API will lead to sending a conversation update event to the bot even though there were no updates to the conversation. Your bot will essentially get two install events and you'll need to make sure you don't send the welcome message twice.
We'll also be adding more detailed documentation for the proactive messaging flow using these Graph APIs
I'm using Azure Bot Channels Registration for my bot, I have working endpoint and bot works well in Web Chat and My settings are:
Display Name: Engine Crave
Invocation Name: Engine Crave
Long Desc, Short Desc etc are all correct and filled and also organization at the last is also selected.
Also, My bot takes no user permissions. But when I save the Cortana Channel, I get a popup:
Unable to save.
There was an error saving the channel:
Failed to create bot module. Trace Id : 87140f58-46f8-4101-a849-17d63af6831c
Trace ID always keeps changing whenever I try.
Pls help!
Yayay! I found answer myself. Go-to settings and make display name same as your bot registration name when you registered on Azure! Mine was crave-engine.
Next goto Channels Registration -> Cortana -> Here you will see
Display Name: crave-engine
Invocation Name: crave-engine
Let these be like this and just click the "Register" button at the bottom. It's ok for now, You can however change these names When you register from https://knowledge.store .
I don't know these was some kind of bug or Azure Bot Team did this on purpose!
I have successfully hosted an instance of microsoft's Botframework web chat using directline on public domain, I want to make a chatbot in such a way that my customers can have their own channels completely separated from each other and I cannot find any kind of documentation anywhere, Kindly suggest me if this is possible and how?
I have written the complete code in Node.js and have very less idea about c#.
It seems that there is no such feature for uniform customized chat channel in bot framework. So we can leverage new builder.Message().address(address) to send messages to specific users from the official sample at https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/blob/master/Node/core-proactiveMessages/simpleSendMessage/index.js.
So I had a quick test which will save the users' addresses into an address list in server memory as a "customize channel", and trigger a key work to send message to these addresses in list as a broadcast in this "customize channel":
let channel_address = [];
bot.dialog('joinChannel',(session)=>{
channel_address.push(session.message.address);
}).triggerAction({
matches:/join/i
})
bot.dialog('broadcast',(session)=>{
channel_address.forEach((address)=>{
bot.send(
new builder.Message(session).address(address).text(session.message.text)
)
})
}).triggerAction({
matches:/^broadcast: .*/
})
Test Step:
Open two emulators connect to your local bot
in both emulators, type "join"
in either emulator, type text like broadcast: hi there
I'm creating a bot in slack using Microsoft's botframework and LUIS and in Node.js. Currently my bot will reply every time someone says something in the channel, however I want my bot to only reply when its name is mentioned in my slack channel. i.e. #my-bot do this
How would I approach this? Would I have to add slack api in order to do this?
One way I'm thinking is to create an entity to check for if #my-bot is mentioned, and if it is then reply and if not then don't. However, I feel there are better ways in doing this.
Thanks.
Edit:
dialog.onDefault(function (session) {
var msg = new builder.Message(session).entities();
console.log(msg);
console.log(session);
session.endDialog('Default Dialog');
});
I've looked through both msg and session and the Entities of both are empty.
I was able to use session.message.entities to use mentioned to know whenever the bot was mentioned.