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Custom Link to a call with a certain Person in Teams
Hey all,
I want to include a link on a website which automatically redirects you to calling a certain person in MS Teams. Similar like the 'mailto:' syntax works. I cannot figure out though, how to do this in MS Teams. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
You have a couple of these that you can use. You want to use callto: that will open Teams and Teams will ask if you want to call that person.
callto: to call someone
tel: for phone numbers
im: for chat
Could be that you have to register these urls to Teams.
https://www.lync.se/2018/10/set-tel-url-association-for-teams/
- The usual syntax for this is
tel:[Number]
Try adding a hyperlink on the number with tel:[Number]. I just tested it on my site and it triggered a response in Teams asking me to call that number
Let me know how you get on
Best, ChrisThanks for the help! This probably solves my problem already. But I am wondering how this will work if someone has not included a phone number in teams. You can still call those people in teams. What do I list instead of the number then? Does the mail address work in that case?
- Hi JoDee35
They would have to have an assigned number - so that means calling plans and phone system functionality. If you don't have an assigned number then the only calls you can do in Teams is VOIP (video) calls between Teams clients and these don't have numbers.
Unfortunately, a hyperlinked phone number to an email address wouldn't start a call.
Hope that clarifies and answers your question!
Best, Chris
I was dealing with the same issue and have seen your question.
now I am using deep link to make voice/video calls inside my Teams-community and also phone/voip calls with external users(also outside Teams).
If you still need it. hope this link could help.
- callto: doesn't work for me, but teams.microsoft.com/l/call/0/0?users=userid@domain.ext does. Teams then gives you the option to start or cancel the call with the identified user.
- Is there in any way an option instead of a callto to make an immediate videocall?
