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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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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.
- Bots
- Adaptive Cards
- Hero Cards
- List Cards
- O365 Connector Cards
- List Cards
- Thumbnail Cards
- Collections Cards
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
- 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
The simplest way to run this sample in Teams is to use Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.
- Ensure you have downloaded and installed Visual Studio Code
- Install the Teams Toolkit extension
- Select File > Open Folder in VS Code and choose this samples directory from the repo
- Using the extension, sign in with your Microsoft 365 account where you have permissions to upload custom apps
- Select Debug > Start Debugging or F5 to run the app in a Teams web client.
- 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.
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.
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Register a new application in the Microsoft Entra ID – App Registrations portal.
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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.
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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.
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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:
- Select Add a platform.
- Select web.
- Enter the redirect URI for the app in the following format:
- 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:
NOTE: When you create your bot you will create an App ID and App password - make sure you keep these for later.
- Setup for Bot
- In Azure portal, create a Azure Bot resource.
- Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel
- While registering the bot, use
https://<your_tunnel_domain>/api/messages
as the messaging endpoint.
- Setup NGROK
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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
- Setup for code
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Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git
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In a terminal, navigate to
samples/bot-all-cards/nodejs
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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
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Run your app
npm start
- Setup Manifest for Teams
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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 themanifest.json
) - Edit the
manifest.json
forvalidDomains
and replace{{domain-name}}
with base Url of your domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would behttps://1234.ngrok-free.app
then your domain-name will be1234.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 amanifest.zip
(Make sure that zip file does not contains any subfolder otherwise you will get error while uploading your .zip package)
- Edit the
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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.
Install App:
Welcome Message:
Adaptive Card:
Hero Card:
List Card:
Office365 Card:
SignIn Card:
Thumbnail Card:
Collection Card:
Oauth Card:
To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.