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sample	This sample app demonstrates use of different bot conversation events available in bot framework v4 for personal and teams scope.	office-teams office office-365	javascript nodejs	contentType createdDate samples 07/07/2021 01:38:26 PM	officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-bot-conversation-quickstart-js

Bots/Messaging Extension

Bots allow users to interact with your web service through text, interactive cards, and task modules. Messaging extensions allow users to interact with your web service through buttons and forms in the Microsoft Teams client. They can search, or initiate actions, in an external system from the compose message area, the command box, or directly from a message.

Included Features

• Bots
• Adaptive Cards
• Teams Conversation Events

Interaction with app

Prerequisites

Dependencies

• NodeJS
• ngrok or equivalent tunneling solution
• M365 developer account or access to a Teams account with the appropriate permissions to install an app.

Setup

1. Register a new application in the Azure Active Directory – App Registrations portal.

2. Setup for Bot In Azure portal, create a Bot Framework registration resource.

   • Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel
   • For the Messaging endpoint URL, use the current https URL you were given by running ngrok and append it with the path /api/messages. It should like something work https://{subdomain}.ngrok-free.app/api/messages.

NOTE: When you create your bot you will create an App ID and App password - make sure you keep these for later.

• Click on the Bots menu item from the toolkit and select the bot you are using for this project. Update the messaging endpoint and press enter to save the value in the Bot Framework.

• Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel

3. Setup NGROK

   • Run ngrok - point to port 3978

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

4. Setup for code

• Clone the repository

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

• In a terminal, navigate to samples/bot-conversation-quickstart/js

• Build

  npm install

• Run your app

  npm start

5. Update the .env configuration for the bot to use the BotId and BotPassword (Note the BotId is the AppId created in step 1 (Setup for Bot), the BotPassword is referred to as the "client secret" in step 1 (Setup for Bot) and you can always create a new client secret anytime.)

6. Setup Manifest for Teams

• This step is specific to Teams.
  • Edit the manifest.json contained in the appPackage/ folder to replace with your MicrosoftAppId (that was created in step1.1 and is the same value of MicrosoftAppId in .env file) everywhere you see the place holder string {MicrosoftAppId} (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json)
  • Zip up the contents of the appPackage/ folder to create a manifest.zip
  • Upload the manifest.zip to Teams (in the left-bottom Apps view, click "Upload a custom app")

Note: If you are facing any issue in your app, please uncomment this line and put your debugger for local debug.

Running the sample

Deploy to Teams (Visual Studio Toolkit Only)

Start debugging the project by hitting the F5 key or click the debug icon in Visual Studio Code and click the Start Debugging green arrow button.