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 … Read more
Hook into the conversationUpdate event and check when the bot is added. After that, you can just post a message or begin a new dialog (as in the code below I extracted from the ContosoFlowers Node.js sample, though there are many others doing the same). // Send welcome when conversation with bot is started, by … Read more
Using Adaptive Cards with Waterfall Dialogs Natively, Adaptive Cards don’t work like prompts. With a prompt, the prompt will display and wait for user input before continuing. But with Adaptive Cards (even if it contains an input box and a submit button), there is no code in an Adaptive Card that will cause a Waterfall … Read more
The key to this is making sure that when you use updateActivity(), you use the right activity ID that is created by the Teams Channel. You also need to make sure that the updated activity gets all of the Teams data set to it. In onTurn, capture outgoing activities so that you can easily save … Read more
Adaptive Cards send their Submit results a little different than regular user text. When a user types in the chat and sends a normal message, it ends up in Context.Activity.Text. When a user fills out an input on an Adaptive Card, it ends up in Context.Activity.Value, which is an object where the key names are … Read more
In order to initiate a FormDialog you can just do: var myform = new FormDialog<CreateNewLeadForm>(new CreateNewLeadForm(), CreateNewLeadForm.BuildForm, FormOptions.PromptInStart, null); context.Call<CreateNewLeadForm>(myform, FormCompleteCallback); Take a look to the PizzaBot for an example. To initiate new dialogs within a Dialog you can do: context.Call passing the instance of the new dialog and the completion callback (as in the … Read more
Basically you want to message the user directly at a specific point in time (like 24 hours later). I’m doing this in a few different bots, so it’s definitely possible. The link that Wajeed has sent in the comment to your question is exactly what you need – when the user interacts with your bot, … Read more
Yes, it should be possible to run your bot on IIS or in any other hosting service (including cloud hostings besides Azure) as explained here. You will have to make sure that your bot has an internet-accessible endpoint and a valid HTTPS cert. Regarding the requirements for the HTTPS cert, I’m copying the info for … Read more