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Thomsch
May 12, 2023Iron Contributor
Chatbot (Bot Framework) without Teams chat module?
For most of our users the chat functionality in Teams is disabled. But since a Microsoft Bot (based on the Bot framework) is an individual app in Teams I have still hope that such a chatbot could wor...
- May 18, 2023
Thomsch - This seems to be possible. We tested this at our end by following the below steps.
- Created a messaging policy to disable chat as below
- Assigned this policy to a user
- User is still able to chat with bot even though chat is disabled(Chat section disappeared from left navigation bar)
- Created a messaging policy to disable chat as below
Meghana-MSFT
May 18, 2023Former Employee
Thomsch - This seems to be possible. We tested this at our end by following the below steps.
- Created a messaging policy to disable chat as below
- Assigned this policy to a user
- User is still able to chat with bot even though chat is disabled(Chat section disappeared from left navigation bar)
sowmyaseetha
Sep 07, 2023Copper Contributor
i have created a basic bot app using teams toolkit
how to disable input element so that user can't chat
how to disable input element so that user can't chat
- Meghana-MSFTSep 12, 2023Former Employee
sowmyaseetha - If your bot's sole purpose is to deliver notification to users and isn't conversational, you can enable the
isNotificationOnlyfield in your app manifest. This produces the following changes:- Users can't message your notification-only bot.
- Users can't @mention the bot.
Please refer below docs for more details: