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adamhouck
Copper Contributor
May 26, 2020

How to create a message Extension that does not require any additional parameters, no pop ups

I want to make a message extension that simply sends the message text to the Message Handler endpoint configured in the associated bot.  I would like to avoid showing the user additional popups as th...
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Lewis-H
Iron Contributor
May 26, 2020
Click on the menu icon (three stacked dots) on the top-right of the Chrome screen.
Click “Settings”.
Scroll to the bottom and click “Advanced”.
In the Privacy and Security section, scroll down and click “Content Settings”.
Click “Notifications”.
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adamhouck
Copper Contributor
May 26, 2020

Lewis-H.  Thanks for the reply but I think you are misreading my question. The popup is part of the teams flow right now, and I believe mandatory. 

 

Even if changing this setting in Chrome prevented the popup it would break the teams logic flow as far as I can tell. Also I wouldn't be able to force every customer who downloads the app to enable this. In addition, I assume most users would be on Mobile or use the Teams dedicated app. 

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    Gousia_Begum
    Former Employee
    May 27, 2020

    adamhouck A Message Extension can have two types of commands. Search-based and action- based. A search based command will let you search through a list and send the messages inside the compose box. An action based command opens up a popup that will take some action from the Message-Extension. If you do not want to have the pop-up experience you could use only search based commands.

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      adamhouck
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 02, 2020

      I was able to get the desired functionality by having the following in my manifest.json file

      "composeExtensions": [
    {
        "botId": "--Bot Id Here--",
        "canUpdateConfiguration": true,
        "commands": [
            {
                "id": "commandId",
                "type": "action",
                "title": "Command Title",
                "description": "",
                "initialRun": true,
                "fetchTask": false,
                "context": [
                    "message"
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
],
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        abhisheksrivastava
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 29, 2021

        adamhouckHi, i have created action based messaging extension in the same way as your post, it is working fine when i use the extension in group-chat/channel/team, but for one to one chat i'm getting both the popup and the submit response [which is the card pasted on message text area]. Could you please help me regarding this issue?

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