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Copper Contributor

Nov 27, 2019

How to generate or create chat id of MS teams using Graph API ?

I got the list of chat Id's. I did conversation in MS teams from GET - https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/chats/ using graph API (Graph Explorer) Is there any way to generate chat Id with the ...

Iron Contributor

Nov 28, 2019

Deepak1265 It is not possible to generate a chat id for the chat that never happened. Could you please elaborate more on your scenario what exactly you are trying to achieve?

Deepak1265

Copper Contributor

Nov 28, 2019

Gousia_Begum

I want to chat with a new user. with whom I never chat before

So that I want to send a message by using graph API

POST - https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/chats/

Request Body - {

"body": {
"content": " message "
}
}

for that, I need a chat Id

Gousia_Begum
Iron Contributor
Nov 28, 2019
Deepak1265 Currently there are no API's to send a message to the user personally. You can only send messages in a channel using Graph API.
- Deepak1265
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 29, 2019
  Gousia_Begum
  
  We can send a message to the user personally, I already did this using
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/chat-post-messages?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http
  - jayelbee
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 24, 2020
    Deepak1265 Can messages be sent to a MS Teams group chat using Graph API?