The MS Teams communication extension provides a bot which can be triggered from Microsoft Teams to request information from the INETAPP server. The bot is connected using Outgoing Webhooks. Incoming Webhooks, provided by Microsoft Teams, can be set up for usage with the task planner - to send status or notification messages.
The Microsoft Teams bot allows to request information from the INETAPP server. The list of available commands is returned if the bot is triggered without a specific command - e.g. using @botname
.
Note: For connecting the INETAPP server with a Microsoft Teams outgoing webhook it is required that at least the server context /bot/msteams
is publicly available. For testing purposes you can use ngrok
The process of creating a bot connection is described here in addition to the support document by Microsoft:
https://your-server.com/bot/msteams
. You should check, that this address is available from the internet beforehand or the bot registration will fail.A Webhook is an alternative way of sending information to MS Teams. Webhooks are used, e.g. by the Task Planner to send notification messages to a given channel.
The configuration of incoming webhooks allows to have them re-used at various places and by the users. A web hook is created by a server administrator in Microsoft Teams.
incoming
in the panel and select "Add"