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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...
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
ChetanSharma-msft
Microsoft
MicrosoftThanks for raising your query.
We will look into it and let you know the updates.
We will look into it and let you know the updates.
Meghana-MSFTThomsch - 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)
- i have created a basic bot app using teams toolkit
how to disable input element so that user can't chat- Meghana-MSFT
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:
- Very nice. Thanks a lot!
- Meghana-MSFT
Thomsch - If the response is helpful, please share your valuable feedback via Microsoft Teams Developer Feedback link.
- Created a messaging policy to disable chat as below
