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Andri Már Sigurðsson
Andri Már Sigurðsson

Reputation: 13

Microsoft Teams: Is at all possible to create a app/connector/bot for broadcasting?

Trying to parse through the Microsoft Documentation of this is a bit of a challenge.

Our use case is that we want the app to receive broadcasts from an external service. On that broadcast we want it to send a personalized message to every person in the team/org.

Is that at all possible? Doing this in Workplace and Slack was fairly straight forward but i'm going nowhere fast with Teams. Connectors seem weird and user-based, not team based, requiring you to set up a config page for it? Bots seem centered around AI interactions and on demand features and general apps? Not sure.

So yea the question is, is it possible. If so i would appreciate to know where to look for how to do this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1636

Answers (1)

Hilton Giesenow
Hilton Giesenow

Reputation: 10844

Yes, this is definitely possible. If you're wanting to send to a Team (i.e. a Channel within a Team) you can use either a bot or a webhook. If you want to send to individuals or to group chats, then you'd be looking to use a bot.

For webhooks, see Post external requests to Teams with incoming webhooks. For bots you can start here, and in that case you'd want to look into something called "Pro-active messaging", where the bot is sending a message on it's own, rather in response to a user's initial message.

The Pro-active messaging can be a bit tricky, so if you do want to go that approach (1 to 1 messaging), let me know in the comments and I give you some more guidance. However, I'd suggest rather looking at messaging the Team, and creating/using a relevant channel, rather than sending every user a 1-1 message.

Upvotes: 2

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