csharp

page_type	sample
description	Sample which demonstrates how to archive groupchat messages and send it to user as a file using bot.
products	office-teams office office-365
languages	csharp
extensions	contentType createdDate samples 11/10/2021 11:35:25 PM
urlFragment	officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-bot-archive-groupchat-messages-csharp

Archive groupchat messages

Using this C# sample, a bot can archive chat messages of groupchat and send it to user.

This feature shown in this sample is currently available in Public Developer Preview only.

Included Features

• Teams SSO (bots)
• Adaptive Cards
• Graph API

Interaction with app

Prerequisites

• .NET Core SDK version 6.0

  determine dotnet version

  dotnet --version

• dev tunnel or Ngrok (For local environment testing) latest version (any other tunneling software can also be used)

• Teams Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account

Setup

1. Register a new application in the Microsoft Entra ID – App Registrations portal.

   Enter the following to Click Expose An API Menu and add a scope details to configure the admin and user consent prompts with values that are appropriate for the access_as_user scope.

   • Added the WebApplication Info Resource and Application ID URI in expose and API like: api://Tunnelbaseurl/App-id"
   • Admin consent display name: Teams can access the user’s profile.
   • Admin consent description: Teams can call the app’s web APIs as the current user.
   • User consent display name: Teams can access your profile and make requests on your behalf.
   • User consent description: Teams can call this app’s APIs with the same rights as you have.

   Instruction on setting connection string for bot authentication on the behalf of user

   • In the Azure portal, select your resource group from the dashboard.

   • Select your bot channel registration link.

   • Open the resource page and select Configuration under Settings.

   • Select Add OAuth Connection Settings.

   • Complete the form as follows:

   • Name: Enter a name for the connection. You'll use this name in your bot in the appsettings.json file. For example BotTeamsAuthADv1.

   • Service Provider: Select Azure Active Directory V2. Once you select this, the Azure AD-specific fields will be displayed.

   • Client id: Enter the Application (client) ID .

   • Client secret: Enter the Application (client) secret.

   • Provide Scopes like "User.Read Chat.ReadWrite ChatMessage.Read"

   Go to the Azure portal where app registration is created and click on API Permissions

   • Add this Delegated permission to app registration
   • Chat.ReadWrite
   • ChatMessage.Read

   Under left menu, select Authentication under Manage section

   • Select 'Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant)' under Supported account types and click "+Add a platform".
   • On the flyout menu, Select "Web"
   • Add https://token.botframework.com/.auth/web/redirect under Redirect URLs and click Configure button.
   • Once the flyout menu close, scroll bottom to section 'Implicit Grant' and select check boxes "Access tokens" and "ID tokens" and click "Save" at the top bar.

2. Setup for Bot

   • Also, register a bot with Azure Bot Service, following the instructions here
   • Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel
   • While registering the bot, use https://<your_tunnel_domain>/api/messages as the messaging endpoint.

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

3. Setup NGROK

• Run ngrok - point to port 3978

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

  Alternatively, you can also use the dev tunnels. Please follow Create and host a dev tunnel and host the tunnel with anonymous user access command as shown below:

  devtunnel host -p 3978 --allow-anonymous

4. Setup for code

• Clone the repository

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

• Modify the /appsettings.json and fill in the following details:

• {{MICROSOFT-APP-ID}} - Generated from Step 1 while doing Microsoft Entra ID app registration in Azure portal.

• {{ MICROSOFT-APP-PASSWORD}} - Generated from Step 1, also referred to as Client secret

• {{ Connection Name }} - Generated from Step 1, also referred as Instruction on setting connection.

• From a terminal, navigate to samples/bot-archive-groupchat-messages/csharp

  # run the bot
  dotnet run

  Or from Visual Studio - Launch Visual Studio - File -> Open -> Project/Solution - Navigate to bot-archive-groupchat-messages/csharp folder - Select FetchGroupChatMessages.sln file - Press F5 to run the project

5. Setup Manifest for Teams

   • This step is specific to Teams.

     • Edit the manifest.json contained in the ./AppManifest folder to replace your Microsoft App Id (that was created when you registered your app registration earlier) everywhere you see the place holder string {{Microsoft-App-Id}} (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json)

     • Edit the manifest.json for validDomains and replace {{domain-name}} with base Url of your domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be https://1234.ngrok-free.app then your domain-name will be 1234.ngrok-free.app.

     • Edit the manifest.json for "webApplicationInfo" resource "api://botid-<<MICROSOFT-APP-ID>>" with base Url of your domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be https://1234.ngrok-free.app then your resource will be api://botid-<<MICROSOFT-APP-ID>>.

       • Zip up the contents of the AppManifest folder to create a manifest.zip (Make sure that zip file does not contains any subfolder otherwise you will get error while uploading your .zip package)

   • Upload the manifest.zip to Teams (in the Apps view click "Upload a custom app")

     • Go to Microsoft Teams. From the lower left corner, select Apps
     • From the lower left corner, choose Upload a custom App
     • Go to your project directory, the ./AppManifest folder, select the zip folder, and choose Open.
     • Select Add in the pop-up dialog box. Your app is uploaded to Teams.

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

Running the Sample

• Sending archive chat messages text file of a groupchat to user

Interacting with the bot in GroupChat

Select a groupchat and add the bot to chat.

Send getchat message to the bot, you will recieve a consent card by the bot in your personal scope.

Deploy the bot to Azure

To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.