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Missing "Add" button in custom app
ChetanSharma-msft - Thank you for your response. I discovered the issue was that I needed to add a personal tab. Once I added a tab, I was able to install the app.
ChetanSharma-msft
I also have this issue, however it's a bit different due to App Studio being deprecated.
I'm trying to add a custom app that should only be a chat bot --no need for a custom tab. As far as I know, I set it up correctly. I have tried both publishing to my organization and manually uploading the manifest. It passes validation:
I added the bot:
The app is linked to an AD app registration:
It's published and allowed in the admin center:
It's also enabled for my organization:
But there's no add button when I try to install the app:
When I try updating the app with a custom personal app, the add button appears:
But when I click "add", it shows the message "App Not Found":
ChetanSharma-msftMicrosoft
jfmathews - Could you please let us know, if you need any further details from us?
Or shall we close it?Sayali-MSFTOutgoing webhooks aren't quite what I'm looking for. As far as I can tell, they only work with using @mention and are only publishable to your organization.
We decided to use the VSCode Teams plugin to create our bot as it seems to be the most comprehensive way of achieving what we want. The reason we were trying to create a webhook within the Teams development portal is because we didn't need all the bells and whistles that the Teams plugin provides.
Sayali-MSFTjfmathews - Outgoing Webhooks provide a simple way to allow users to send messages to your web service without having to go through the full process of creating bots via the Microsoft Bot Framework.
Outgoing Webhooks post data from Teams to any chosen service capable of accepting a JSON payload.
Once an outgoing webhook is added to a team, it acts like bot, listening in channels for messages using @mention, sending notifications to external web services, and responding with rich messages that can include cards and images.
Ref Doc:-Create an Outgoing Webhook - Teams | Microsoft Docs
Sample Doc:-Microsoft-Teams-Samples/samples/outgoing-webhook/csharp at main · OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples (github.com)Sayali-MSFT
When you create the bot from the teams development portal, you can configure a messaging endpoint, at least that's my interpretation of the UI.
All I am trying to do is have a bot send a user's chat message to a custom server (in this case a serverless endpoint). It shouldn't be that difficult.
Do you know if there is cohesive/up-to-date documentation on this anywhere? The help button within the Teams developer portal just directs me to Bing.- Sayali-MSFT
Could you please elaborate on what is "webhook to a server less function" in terms of bot?
- Note that the bot is simply a webhook to a serverless function