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Bot to create the group chat and send task notification using Azure service hook

This is a sample application which demonstrates how to create a service hooks on Azure DevOps and connect with Teams bot that creates a group chat and send workitems details.

Included Features

• Bots
• Adaptive Cards

Interaction with app

Prerequisites

.NET Core SDK version 6.0

# determine dotnet version
dotnet --version

• Publicly addressable https url or tunnel such as ngrok or Tunnel Relay

• Azure DevOps access to set up service hooks and add custom field in workitem.

Setup

Setup NGROK

1. Run ngrok - point to port 3978

# ngrok http 3978 --host-header="localhost:3978"

2. Once started you should see ngrok URL like https://xxxxx-xxx-e125.ngrok-free.app. Copy it, this is your baseUrl that will used as endpoint for Azure bot and webhook.

Register Azure AD application

Register one Azure AD application in your tenant's directory: for the bot and tab app authentication.

• Log in to the Azure portal from your subscription, and go to the "App registrations" blade here. Ensure that you use a tenant where admin consent for API permissions can be provided.

• Click on "New registration", and create an Azure AD application.

• Name: The name of your Teams app - if you are following the template for a default deployment, we recommend "Bot release management".

• Supported account types: Select "Accounts in any organizational directory"

• Leave the "Redirect URL" field blank.

• Click on the "Register" button.

• When the app is registered, you'll be taken to the app's "Overview" page. Copy the Application (client) ID; we will need it later. Verify that the "Supported account types" is set to Multiple organizations.

• On the side rail in the Manage section, navigate to the "Certificates & secrets" section. In the Client secrets section, click on "+ New client secret". Add a description for the secret and select Expires as "Never". Click "Add".

• Once the client secret is created, copy its Value, please take a note of the secret as it will be required later.

• At this point you have 3 unique values:

  • Application (client) ID which will be later used during Azure bot creation
  • Client secret for the bot which will be later used during Azure bot creation
  • Directory (tenant) ID We recommend that you copy these values into a text file, using an application like Notepad. We will need these values later.

• Under left menu, navigate to API Permissions, and make sure to add the following permissions of Microsoft Graph API > Application permissions:

  • Chat.Create
  • TeamsAppInstallation.ReadWriteForChat.All
  • AppCatalog.Read.All
  • User.Read.All

Click on Add Permissions to commit your changes.

• If you are logged in as the Global Administrator, click on the Grant admin consent for %tenant-name% button to grant admin consent else, inform your admin to do the same through the portal or follow the steps provided here to create a link and send it to your admin for consent.

• Global Administrator can grant consent using following link: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/adminconsent?client_id=<%appId%>

Setup for Bot

• Register a bot with Azure Bot Service, following the instructions here.

• Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel

• While registering the bot, use https://<your_ngrok_url>/api/messages as the messaging endpoint.

  NOTE: When you create your bot you will create an App ID and App password - make sure you keep these for later.

Setup Azure DevOps service hook

• Follow this document- Create Webhooks to service hook.

• Make sure to select trigger as Work item created

• Make sure to add URL as https://{baseUrl}/api/workItem. It will look somethihng as https://41ed-abcd-e125.ngrok-free.app/api/workItem. Here baseUrl is referred to URL we get in step 2.

NOTE: If you are not getting incoming request from Azure DevOps make sure that service webhook is in Enabled state.

Setup custom work item type

• Follow the doc to Add a custom field to an inherited process - Azure DevOps Services.

• Make sure to give name as StakeholderTeam and Type Text (Single line)

• Make sure to Apply the customized process to your project

• Go to Options and check Required and Add.

NOTE: Make sure you create a new task, click save and verify the stakeholderTeam value

Setup for code

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git

• Run the bot from a terminal or from Visual Studio:

  A) From a terminal, navigate to ReleaseManagement

  # run the bot
  dotnet run

  B) Or from Visual Studio

  • Launch Visual Studio
  • File -> Open -> Project/Solution
  • Navigate to samples/release-management/csharp folder
  • Select ReleaseManagement.csproj file
  • Press F5 to run the project

• Update the appsettings.json configuration for the bot to use the MicrosoftAppId, MicrosoftAppPassword and MicrosoftAppTenantId generated in previous steps 1 (Setup for AAD app registration). (Note the App Password is referred to as the "client secret" in the azure portal and you can always create a new client secret anytime.)

Setup Manifest for Teams

• This step is specific to Teams.
  • Edit the manifest.json contained in the AppManifest folder to replace your Microsoft App Id (that was created when you registered your bot earlier) everywhere you see the place holder string <<Your Microsoft App Id>> (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json)
  • Edit the manifest.json for validDomains with base Url domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be https://1234.ngrok-free.app then your domain-name will be 1234.ngrok-free.app.
  • Zip up the contents of the AppManifest folder to create a manifest.zip (Make sure that zip file does not contains any subfolder otherwise you will get error while uploading your .zip package)
  • Upload the manifest.zip to Teams (In Teams Apps/Manage your apps click "Upload an app to your org's app catalog". Browse to and Open the .zip file. At the next dialog, click the Add button.)
  • Add the app to personal/team/groupChat scope (Supported scopes)

Note: If you are facing any issue in your app, please uncomment this line and put your debugger for local debug.

Running the sample

Upload an app to your org's app catalog:

Install App:

Add Release Management:

WorkItem Card UI:

View UI:

Interacting with the bot

• Login into Azure DevOps and open the project where custom process was applied.
• Create a new workitem -> Tasks, provide comma seprated email ids in StakeHolderTeam (NOTE: The email should belong to tenant where we register Application in step 1
• Save
• Bot will create the group chat with members you added and send the Task details.

Deploy the bot to Azure

To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.

Further reading

• Integrate with service hooks
• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• Azure Portal
• Add Authentication to Your Bot Via Azure Bot Service
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• .NET Core CLI tools
• Microsoft Teams Developer Platform