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smosche635
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Jan 05, 2024

Remove "Add to a meeting" from Bot app install scope?

I would like to prevent users from being able to install our Bot application into a "meeting". See the attached image. I have added "team" as the "defaultInstallScope" and my bot's scopes are defined as:

"scopes": ["personal", "team", "groupChat"]

Is there a way to remove "Add to a meeting" as an option here?

 

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  • Prasad_Das-MSFT's avatar
    Prasad_Das-MSFT
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    Jan 08, 2024

    smosche635 - 

    In your case, you have set the defaultInstallScope to "team" and your bot's scopes are defined as ["personal", "team", "groupChat"]. To remove the "Add to a meeting" option, you can set the defaultGroupCapability for the "meetings" scope to a capability other than "bot".

    "defaultGroupCapability": {
  "team": "bot",
  "groupchat": "bot",
  "meetings": "tab"
}

    In the above example, the default capability for the "meetings" scope is set to "tab". This means that when users try to install your app in a meeting, they will only see the option to add a tab, and the "Add to a meeting" option will be removed.

    Ref: Manifest schema reference - Teams | Microsoft Learn

     

     

     

    Thanks, 

    Prasad Das

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    • smosche635's avatar
      smosche635
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 08, 2024

      Prasad_Das-MSFT Thank you for the reply. I did try your suggestion but I am still seeing "Add to a meeting" in the dialog box when I "Upload a custom app"  to Microsoft Teams for testing.

      I have also tried to use "connector" in place of "tab" for the meetings value in `defaultGroupCapability` but I see the same options in the "add" menu.

       

       

      Here is the relevant portion of my manifest:

      "bots": [
        {
          "botId": "MY_BOT_ID",
          "scopes": [
            "personal",
            "team",
            "groupChat"
          ],
          ...
        }
      ],
      "defaultGroupCapability": {
        "team": "bot",
        "groupchat": "bot",
        "meetings": "tab"
       },
      "defaultInstallScope": "team"
       
      I do see that if, for example, I remove "personal" from the scopes array, then "Add for me" no longer appears in the install list. So my manifest changes are able to affect the list. I do still want the "personal" scope, but I would prefer to not have "Add to a meeting" as one of the allowed install options.

      Thanks for your help.

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