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This sample demonstrates using a bot to send multiple card types in Microsoft Teams, including Adaptive, Hero, Thumbnail, and OAuth cards. It covers setup, deployment, and app installation instructions.
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01/13/2023 05:00:17 PM
officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-bot-all-cards-nodejs

Types of Cards

This Microsoft Teams bot sample demonstrates sending various card types, such as Adaptive, Hero, List, and Thumbnail cards. It includes detailed steps for setup, app deployment, and using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio to run the app. Experience this versatile bot directly within your Teams client, complete with a manifest for easy sideloading.

Included Features

  • Bots
  • Adaptive Cards
  • Hero Cards
  • List Cards
  • O365 Connector Cards
  • List Cards
  • Thumbnail Cards
  • Collections Cards

Interaction with app

Types Of Cards

Try it yourself - experience the App in your Microsoft Teams client

Please find below demo manifest which is deployed on Microsoft Azure and you can try it yourself by uploading the app package (.zip file link below) to your teams and/or as a personal app. (Sideloading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

Different types of cards: Manifest

Prerequisites

  • Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account (not a guest account).
  • To test locally, NodeJS must be installed on your development machine (version 16.14.2 or higher).
  • dev tunnel or ngrok latest version or equivalent tunneling solution.
  • Teams Toolkit for VS Code or TeamsFx CLI

Run the app (Using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code)

The simplest way to run this sample in Teams is to use Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.

  1. Ensure you have downloaded and installed Visual Studio Code
  2. Install the Teams Toolkit extension
  3. Select File > Open Folder in VS Code and choose this samples directory from the repo
  4. Using the extension, sign in with your Microsoft 365 account where you have permissions to upload custom apps
  5. Select Debug > Start Debugging or F5 to run the app in a Teams web client.
  6. In the browser that launches, select the Add button to install the app to Teams.

If you do not have permission to upload custom apps (sideloading), Teams Toolkit will recommend creating and using a Microsoft 365 Developer Program account - a free program to get your own dev environment sandbox that includes Teams.

Setup

Note these instructions are for running the sample on your local machine, the tunnelling solution is required because the Teams service needs to call into the bot.

App Registrations

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

  2. Select New Registration and on the register an application page, set following values:

    • Set name to your app name.
    • Choose the supported account types (any account type will work)
    • Leave Redirect URI empty.
    • Choose Register.
  3. On the overview page, copy and save the Application (client) ID, Directory (tenant) ID. You’ll need those later when updating your Teams application manifest and in the appsettings.json.

  4. Navigate to Authentication If an app hasn't been granted IT admin consent, users will have to provide consent the first time they use an app.

    • Set another redirect URI:

Authentication

  1. Navigate to the Certificates & secrets. In the Client secrets section, click on "+ New client secret". Add a description (Name of the secret) for the secret and select “Never” for Expires. Click "Add". Once the client secret is created, copy its value, it need to be placed in the appsettings.json.

Bot OAuth Connection:

Installapp

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

  1. Setup for Bot
  1. Setup NGROK
  1. 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
  1. Setup for code
  • Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git
  • In a terminal, navigate to samples/bot-all-cards/nodejs

  • Update the .env configuration file for the bot to use the {{Microsoft-App-Id}}, {{Microsoft-App-Password}} and {{ConnectionName}}. (Note the MicrosoftAppId is the AppId created in step 1 (Setup Microsoft Entra ID app registration in your Azure portal), the MicrosoftAppPassword is referred to as the "client secret" in step 1 (Setup for Bot) and you can always create a new client secret anytime.)

  • Install modules

    npm install
  • Run your app

    npm start
  1. Setup Manifest for Teams
  • This step is specific to Teams.

    • Edit the manifest.json contained in the ./appManifest folder to replace your MicrosoftAppId (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 and if you are using dev tunnels then your domain will be like: 12345.devtunnels.ms.
    • 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

Install App:

InstallApp

Welcome Message:

Initial message

Adaptive Card:

Adaptive Card

Hero Card:

Hero Card

List Card:

List Card

Office365 Card:

Office365 Connector Card

SignIn Card:

SignIn Card

Thumbnail Card:

Thumbnail Card

Collection Card:

Collection Card

Oauth Card:

Oauth Card

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.

Further reading