csharp

page_type	description	products	languages	extensions	contentType	createdDate
sample	Microsoft Teams tab sample app for demonstrating create conversation tab	office-teams office office-365	csharp		samples	06-10-2021 01:48:56

Conversational Tabs

This Teams tab app provides a way to allow users to have conversations about sub-entities in the tab Create conversational tabs

Key features

• Tab showing actions that can be performed

• Open Conversation - opens a new conversation

• Close Conversation - closes the conversation view

• Continue Conversation - continues old conversation based on conversation id

NOTE: We should save the subEntityId and conversationId to continue an existing conversartion.

• Deeplink to Conversation - opens the conversation in channel

Prerequisites

• Office 365 tenant. You can get a free tenant for development use by signing up for the Office 365 Developer Program.

• Publicly addressable https url or tunnel such as ngrok or Tunnel Relay

To try this sample

• Clone the repository

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

• In a console, navigate to samples/tab-conversations/csharp

  cd samples/tab-conversations/ch

• Run ngrok - point to port 3978

  ngrok http -host-header=localhost 3978

• This step is specific to Teams.

  • Edit the manifest.json contained in the appPackage folder to replace <<your base url>> with your ngrok url or hosted app url and also update the <<DOMAIN-NAME>> for allowed domains.
  • Zip up the contents of the appPackage folder to create a manifest.zip
  • 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 ./appPackage folder, select the zip folder, and choose Open.
    • Select Add in the pop-up dialog box. Your tab is uploaded to Teams.

Related Samples

• Proactive Tab Conversations, using a bot to create conversational tabs programmatically.

Further reading

• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• User Specific Views
• Sequential Workflows
• Up to date cards
• Universal Bot Action Model
• Azure Portal
• Activity processing
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• Azure CLI
• Azure Portal
• Language Understanding using LUIS
• Channels and Bot Connector Service
• dotenv
• Microsoft Teams Developer Platform