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From YouTube: Microsoft Teams community call - February 2021

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This month's community call featured Community Sample Showcase: Virtual Event Manager (Bot initiates a meeting call and captures attendance and notes/actions during meeting/Helpdesk session), Best practices and updates for bot lifecycle events in Microsoft Teams (conversation updates, Installation update events, and Changes to post uninstall behavior for bots in personal scope), and Latest features in Adaptive Cards for Teams (full width, static autocomplete). Join us at Spring Ignite – March 2nd – 4th. Q&A in chat and at end of session. The call was hosted by Jun Pak (Microsoft). Presenters include Sathya Raveendran, Arun Kumar Anaparthi, Ojasvi Choudhary (Microsoft). Recorded on February 16, 2021.

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A

So, just to kind of go over the agenda, real quick, you know we'll start off as usual, with a community sample showcase. We have our colleague satya and aaron, who will go over the virtual event manager. We'll then shift to ojazvi, who will be going over best practices and updates for bot lifecycle events and microsoft.

A

Teams and he'll also cover the latest with adaptive cards and teams as well and if time remains we'll have a short session for q a, but before we jump into the content, I did want to give a quick shout out that you know we do have spring ignite coming up on the 2nd through the 4th. So if you weren't aware of that, you know, please do come and register aka dot. Ms slash ignite, we're gonna have um some great content there for you all.

A

So please join us on the second through the fourth come check it out with that said, I will let satya and aaron go ahead and take it away.

B

Thanks everyone for joining I'm a product manager with teams insuring, I have with me my colleague, arun kumar as well. We are excited to take you through the features and capabilities of the latest app sample that we had published under the pnp teams. Dev samples, this sample app uh virtual event manager, as we call it, is extremely powerful in the sense that it bundles a variety of marquee teams. Platform capabilities in one single app specifically this sample app, will help you as a developer to get to play with a following key aspects.

B

The first one, of course, is the calling and meeting bots we have bots that can be registered and set up such that it can initiate peer-to-peer, calls invite more people into an existing or ongoing call by using graph apis for calling for calls and online meetings. We call them as communication apis.

B

This app sample that we have over here utilizes such a bot to initiate a call and pull participants into the call. The next one or the key capability that we are highlighting in this sample code is apps and teams meetings. I'm sure most of you would know about this, uh not so recently. I think it would be some four or five months back. We had announced about the availability of teams apps in the meeting surface.

B

You all know and are familiar with apps that are in the personal scope that are in a team or channel scope. Now you can have the goodness of teams apps on the meeting surface as well.

B

If you don't know about this, I strongly recommend that you check out the developer documentation around this. We have a good amount of information on the sample code, app as well that talks about how you can build apps, specifically for teams meetings and how that experience would look and feel like for the end users. This is a really interesting capability, and this unlocks a huge number of scenarios, so apps and themes meeting is definitely something that you should check out.

B

If you do, if you haven't heard about this so far, but this is old news right like what this sample does in addition to apps and teams meeting, is it uses a graph api to programmatically? Add an app that we want into a meeting with no manual intervention at all third capability. This app will also showcase a use of onenote graph apis that we use to save notes that you take during a meeting into a onenote section and a page of yours, your choice.

B

Finally, I think this is also very important, especially when you're developing apps and education sector education sector scenarios right the app provides a way for you to programmatically capture attendance of people who actually join the courts, not all the attendees, but people who actually joined the courts so be on the lookout. For these four points, these four capabilities in our demo. Now what what you see over here is basically a demo of the app and action we open the app- and this is primarily designed from a personal as a personal scope, app.

B

We have a tab sso that we are using for signing in and once we sign in, we use the personal scope, tab interface that you see over here to create a teams. Meeting this step uses a graph api called create even graph api that uses input parameters such as the subject, the participant information that we entered, which is by the way, uses a people picker, and we use the input parameters also the start date and time end date and time of a meeting to call the ap and schedule a meeting according to those parameters.

B

Now this gets added to all the attendees calendar on its own and creates a team's meeting join url as well as your familiar once. This event is created. This is a crucial step. If you see over here at the time of meeting the bot actually calls you there is an actual call that gets placed to the user. This is a meeting joint notification that typically appears for any team meeting, but in this case there's a bot calling all the attendees and when you click on answer, you get pulled into a meeting.

B

That's the way, a calling and meeting bot works, and once inside a meeting you can have a business logic such that you can have an ivr on entering a certain sequence. The uh the person is pulled into a meeting, that's up to your business logic, as you can see over here. The bot also is a participant. This is the other person also getting pulled into a meeting. If you see over here, the bot is also added as a participant in the meeting.

B

What this means is whatever we have in terms of audio or video discussions, as part of the meeting is something that a bot gets access to as well. While this is not something that we use as part of the sample app, this is potentially something that you can extend. You can take up and do some audio or video processing of the content that is presented in the meeting or discussions that happen in the meeting, a possible idea that I'm just throwing out there is, since the bot gets access to the audio stream as well.

B

You can potentially use some kind of audio processing to do live translations as well.

B

Now. The third capability that we talked about is adding an app as part of the meeting right. That's what you see over here now. In this case, we didn't add an app to the meetings manually. This has been programmatically added uh by the app by the business logic itself, using a graph api which we will cover in much more detail in a bit.

B

What you see over here is using this app surface on the side panel you are able to the users. The attendees in this particular meeting are able to capture notes that are happening during the meeting. Any team discussions, anything that you want to be added, as notes can be captured on the side panel and when saved or shared. This is calling the onenote graph apis in the backend and storing it in the in the onenote section and page that we create programmatically as well.

B

This is a beautiful integration across a meeting service, an app on teams, our team's platform and onenote all different uh different platforms within ecosystem coming together in one go the same way, you can also use not just one node graph, apis, think about using tasks and other apis as well and integrate taking notes and action items as part of a meeting right in one place.

B

The last part that I mentioned regarding capturing the attendee details to join the meeting right. This is also equally important when you think about education scenarios in a lot of education sector. One of the frequent ask that we hear from customers is the ability to programmatically capture who joined the meeting and when and then report it in some form of a dashboard. Now this sample app provides you a means to do that.

B

What it does is it periodically captures the snapshot of attending information every three minutes when I say periodically, it captures every three minutes and locks it in azure cosmos db. So you have all the list of attendees at three minute interval, which you can potentially merge all these snapshots and then do your own processing and analysis on top of it to come up with the meeting capture returns with that, I would want to hand over to my colleague arun to walk you through rest of the capabilities in much more detail in the technical layer.

C

Thanks sacha and myself arun, so I am working in teams, partner ecosystem as a full stack developer and supporting partners, as well as developing these sample codes. So whatever sacha showed it is already available in the pnp samples and in the github. As such, I said there are the four different sections on this. The first section is creating online event. So for that we used this graph api.

C

For all my samples, we used delegated permissions, but this is the graph apa we used for creating an event. So whenever you will create an event with the parameters like users and the subject and the participants it will, it will take that input and it will create a online event in your calendar, so that participants also can see that meeting in their calendars.

C

That's the first graph api which we used and the second one is once we created an online event based on the time or based on that schedule time my calling and online meeting bought in this case I used audio call and my calling and online meeting board will initiate the call to rest of all the folks and they can join the call once they can join the call. You know we also used a graph api called list of participants. That means whoever joining the meeting.

C

I want to capture all those people and you know, store it into one storage either. In my case, I stored in the cosmos db, but uh we can also store it in the like sql, also whenever wherever you require, but we used a graph apa to capture all the list of participants this one. This is a communication api. In that you need to pass the caller id. I mean call id. That means our meeting id. Then you can able to get all the participants information from that call.

C

So these are the three different sections. One is an online creating an event using this graph apa. Once we created an event, then used a calling and online meeting board after that we we used a list of participants now uh coming to that app in a team array how we developed a app in a tip. So this is the documentation which uh such as shared. So in our case, in our case, we used side panel experience.

C

So there are the four different experiences. uh If you want to develop a any app for a meetings, one is like a pre-meeting app experience. Another one is a pre-meeting tab and another one is the post meeting the other one is the other one is in meeting dialogue, so in meeting dialogue means it will use a notification apa and also it will pop up like a task model in a meeting the last one is the side panel, one which we used it this one. This is one is the side panel.

C

So if you, if you, if once you installed your app so that the app icon will you can able to see here and you can able to see all your window here, this is called a side panel. So in our sample we use the side panel app so that you can capture over all nodes information. You can capture onenote updates in the meeting as an owner or as a member.

C

I can update my nodes also so in in we took that concept and we added side panel app in our sample and how we can so earlier. We, we don't have a graph api to add any app into meeting, but recently there is a new, a graph api introduced, and this is the graph api for that. So, if you want to add any app into meeting, you can use a add a add a app to chart.

C

That means you can able to add a chart using a chart id using a in-person chart id or using a group chat id are using a meeting chart id. You can able to add your app into particular meetings. So in that case, in our case, we use this graph apa and we used a delegated permission for this. But this is also will support for application permissions, as once we so using that we are able to add our app into that particular meeting, whatever we created using online meeting.

C

So it is like a sequence, once we created an online event based on that meeting id, I can able to add a app which is already installed in my tenant. So there is a sequence like we followed like one once we created online event meeting after we created online, even meeting based on that meeting id based on the chart id, which I already installed my onenote app into my tenant. That app I installed into every meeting.

C

So imagine that if you have a like a doctor and patient condition like if you want to as a admin, if you want to schedule a calls so that you can shoot like also that in every in every meeting, if you want to add a meeting so that you can do you can use this automation or you can use this graph api to do all those things and finally, for our sample, we used a notebook graph apis to create a notebook on fly. So in.

C

In my case, I used a notebook called group, slash id because I binded for one particular group id that's why we created a onenote graph apis and once we created a onenote page as a owner as a meeting owner I'll create a first one note page once it is created. As a member, I can update the particular page and I can update my notes. So these are the different graph apis. We used as part of this sample.

B

Thanks for walking through the door uh in terms of uh in terms of the what you saw over here is just a framework right, a sample app right, as we rightly call it. It's a sample app. It's a base framework that has been given to you, which you can extend into multiple user scenarios, use case scenarios that you can build as a full-fledged app and you can take it to other customers or build for your own requirements now in terms of what scenarios can potentially be lighted up using the sample.

B

App is what you see over here. This is not a complete list. This is just a starting point, I'm just giving you some ideas or to think along these lines. Definitely like even like I don't mention right now. There is even a doctor patient scenario that can be lighted up now. What you see over here is in an education sector using the sample app.

B

You can extend some parts of it to build a solution to build an app that allows professors or teachers to create teams meeting for classes and have a bot listening and transcribe that meeting into a language of choice for students. It can even listen for keywords that need to be marked or tagged, and you can do further analysis based on that students.

B

Part of the same class who want to take notes together, can use the side panel and all notes that can be taken can also be grouped together in a particular location within teams and of course the attendance report feature is something that we saw already in an enterprise scenario. uh Take any enterprise. uh There is always manager team meetings that happen.

B

Definitely this could be used as a collaboration mechanism for teams to come together, uh keep track of nodes across different meeting instances and action items, and you can, like I mentioned earlier- even integrate tasks and planner into this. Collaborating on learning and development would also be made easier by this. By way of having questions posed during training session and gathering participant answers, the site panel, as you saw in the documentation, uh the opportunities are limitless in terms of help desk contact center. This is another area that calling and meeting what would be vital.

B

Imagine any contact center scenario right when, uh when someone raises a support request, it gets assigned to an available agent. The meeting that the meeting at the app that we have currently have calls the attendees that are explicitly mentioned. You can customize it such that when a user, when a support request comes through the bot, looks up a set of agents in a database, identify who's available based on their presence or shift timings or calendar availability, and then call an agent who is currently available. Who can answer that particular request?

B

So in this way you can use this sample app as a base and can actually build the contact center solution as well. These are some of the ideas that they want to put in front of you. Of course, there are more multiple other scenarios that you can imagine and build on top of this, and I'm happy to hear if you have any questions any anything around this and we can, we can take the questions in the q a section over to youtube.

A

Awesome though this was super, interesting and really great. Thank you. Satya and naren really appreciate it. Okay, moving on oh jazzy, I see you online. Do you mind presenting your screen and kind of walking us through? You know best practices and updates for the lifecycle, events and teams, as well as the updates to the adaptive cards.

D

Yeah sure, hey uh morning june, thanks satya naron for the presentation hey folks a week or two ago we released a new bot uh with some new updates to the about conversational uh lifecycle events, and I'm just gonna walk you through what those are, how you should think of using them and what are some best practices uh that you can put in place for your apps and then I'll quickly. Go over some new features that we're uh releasing with adaptive cards. It'll only cover the uh the features that are in depth, review or generally available.

D

Since the last time I spoke I'll be back with like more features as they're generally available. So what are conversation update events so many times inside your applications? You might want to know that when to trigger a welcome message, for example, when a bot has been added to a team or when you send a welcome message to a user when they've been added or removed to a team, so on the right you can see the icebreaker app, so the icebreaker bought the icebreaker board.

D

The icebreaker app is one of those sample templates that are available as part of the team's platform, so satya and arun just showcased one of the team's templates icebreaker is another one that is effectively used as a team building or as a team building app. What happens is you've got a bunch of members in a team and every week the bot matches up two people, so they can, you know, have a one-on-one conversation or go for a coffee or or something along those lines effectively helps with you know, team bonding and especially with everyone online.

D

It's it's a great tool to increase workpiece collaboration. Now what you would want to do as an application developer in the scenario is, let's say someone knew one of us joined the team. You would want to send them a proactive message in a one-on-one chat, letting them know that this bot, what this bot is, what team has it been added to? Who added it and like?

D

What's the context and all of this, and why are you sending in a notification how the users can expect the bot to behave over the coming period of time and that is actually fundamentally possible by the conversation update event, because every time a new user will join the team, you will get this event and, based on that, you can like initiate this workflow when it's inside your bot, you can also trigger notifications when a channel is created, renamed or deleted by the user.

D

If you are tracking those types of interactions, another example would be when a bot message is liked by user. uh This is an interesting one, so teams we have certain types of reactions. For example, people can like your message: they can heart it. They can give an angry reaction to it and you can potentially make use of it on your side. One interesting use case that we've seen is, for example, an acknowledgement.

D

Let's say that your bot sends a message to users and somewhere over there, it says: hey. If you've read this message, please acknowledge the message by liking it and that's one, that's one of the ways that we've seen certain people accomplish workflows. So it's some sort of feedback loop or on behalf of like users, and that is also a conversation update event, so that just sets a little bit of an example of like what these things are and how you can use that in teams.

D

Now here are some new conversation update events that we have added over the past few months, team deleted team, restore team, archived, unarchived and channel restored effectively what you can see with all of these. What we're trying to do is give you the uh give you the access to the entire end to end team and bot life cycles like from when I bought. This has been added to your team to when users have been added to a team users have been removed, your team that was all previously available.

D

You can go um and we'll link to the blog post, which uh has a lot more details about all of this, as well as the documentation with the block that goes out. I've also gotten in the slide, but all of those events were previously available. Now these events are filling in the filling in the little gaps that were there like, a user could have gone and potentially deleted the team after the team was deleted. In certain cases, the id admin could have restored it now.

D

What would have happened is that you know if the team got related and you weren't aware your bot would just be sending messages to this particular conversation, and you would just not get any uh reasonable response.

D

So now you can make use of this particular event and, uh like make some sense, asking.

C

What is happening.

D

With the team and like where we are in the conversation, life cycle and yeah and fundamentally right, like the the key ways I will see using, it, is uh want to clean up a team and channel data if there is anything that you are storing it, if you'd like to like clean that up for data retention purposes and secondly, to like pause notifications and messages to that team, because no one really is over there.

D

Okay, moving forward installation update events, so we've got a new type of event that we're calling the installation update event which effectively tells you when a bot has either been installed or uninstalled from a thread.

D

Previously, some of this was available at the conversation update event, where a bot would be added to a team, or let's say a group chat, you would get a conversation update event, but it wasn't holistic. There are other cases where a bot might be installed. uh The bot might be installed in the personal scope the bot might be installed by the graph so moving forward or all you know, you might add, a bot as part of an app upgrade where initially you ship an a tab.

D

But then you decide, you want to add a bot to that tab and then you you're pushing it upgrade. So there are all these neat scenarios and we decided that to make some progressive sense out of all of this, we need, like another event, uh update category type and we're gonna call these installation update events.

D

These are currently in developer preview, they haven't get and they will ga uh next month and the intended use would be to one send an introductory message from their bottom installation. So over here I've got the poly app and you can see that I'm in store and I'll say open, add to your team and once I've added to your team. This particular bot sends a welcome message to everyone in the team, letting them know that one of the teammates added it. What are some attributes of this bot?

D

What it can do, and so on generally good practice? So we recommend that moving forward these type of introductory messages that introduce the app in in the groups or whether it be a team or a group chat, come from the installation of data events.

D

Secondly, another very important use case of this will be to clean up and eat user and thread data when uninstalled, so some of you might have like privacy gdp gdpr compliance requirements, uh you might have data retention requirements on your side. uh The installation of databank is going to be the right way to use this, and this was also one of our primary motives to create like a separate event or just for this use case, because we wanted to make sure that we were covering all the edge cases.

D

So, if you're looking for that sort of a scenario which I'm assuming many of you would be, I would highly recommend you check out the installation update events.

D

Another change so changes to the post, install behavior for bots in personal scope. So you know, since we had an installation event, we're also making a few changes to how bots will behave when uninstalled and essentially what we've done is: we've aligned the behavior to that with. What's inside teams and personal group chat scopes so on the right I have the app studio bot and I have uninstalled the bot and upon uninstallation.

D

You see this little message over the compose box. You cannot send messages to the spot, so we effectively block conversation to and fro from from the board on upon uninstallation.

D

Previously we would not do this, like you, could, theoretically still uninstall a bot and for reasons you could still send messages to it and the bot to still chat with you. So we decided to like withdraw from that behavior and like align it across the board between like personal scope and group scope, because you cannot do this inside a team or a group chat like once, a bot has been removed from that conversation, it's been removed.

D

So if you do send messages in this case, you will see a 403 response code over here. This is the blog that we released. I have basically in this thread, gone ahead and shared uh in a concise manner. What I've, what we've expanded over and a lot more detail over there. Let me quickly uh show you the blog post.

D

So here is the blog post, just walking you through what we covered. uh You can find a summary about like what conversation update events are. These have already been documented on the team's uh our developer website.

D

Then we've got uh the new types of events, the installation update events. You got an entire schema of the installation event which you might want to take. A look at the key field. To look over here would be the action field which describes to you whether the event is pointing from what being added or the bot being removed from a particular conversation, and then we've got a little more details about the postal stall behavior and lastly, I'm gonna mention something about navigating some common exceptions and tips on error handling.

D

So sometimes in the past, we've seen that when we add new events, the installation update event, for example, is a new one. Bots, don't necessarily know how to like handle these events on on their side, and uh there are mainly two reasons as to why this would happen. The first one is that you built your bot without the bot framework sdk and as such, your bot is throwing an exception every time, you're seeing an unexpected event.

D

So you need to handle that in your code, because we can add events anytime in the future and you must design for the possibility of receiving unexpected events.

D

The second one is, if you have built a bot with the microsoft bot framework, but you chose to alter the default behavior by overriding the base event handler. So even in this case as well, you would uh you know you would need to like handle this properly if you are using the bot framework.

D

Sdk like will handle this, for you moving forward, no issues at all, but you know otherwise, please take a look at it because we are really working towards providing a richer and richer data set in terms of what happens within an application within teams. So we do expect to like keep on adding more events in the future and, lastly, if you got issues or just general feedback for us, please reach out via the feedback page over in our developer documentation over here, or you can also reach out to me on twitter and ask for help.

D

So that covers the bots life cycle portion of the chat, and I can take questions towards the end. Let me quickly uh share some latest features that we've now released with adaptive content teams.

D

The first one is full with adaptive cards for those of you who have been following along for the last few calls you've probably seen these slides before uh I'd mentioned, filled with adaptive cards around ignite last year, and the good news is now they are in depth preview. I expect them to be in generally available sometime this week and as soon as they are will release the documentation on the microsoft teams developer, docs page, all you have to do is how do you use these guys within the microsoft teams?

D

Schema element you, so you subscribe with equal to full and that's it. That's all. You have to do and you get a full with adaptive card. I personally like this feature a lot. This is probably one of my favorite features, because there is so much free space out there to like create more elegant and full width cards. You should probably use this one. I can see a lot of developers using it. In fact, to show you how this is going to look. Let me quickly go over and give a real, quick demo.

D

So now we're back in teams. uh This is the same app studio board that I had blocked earlier. It's my favorite part to play around with, and this is the difference. I have the same card over here uh with normal width and the same card with full width uh and it's functional right now, within dev preview. You can go ahead and check it out yourself.

D

This width over here is the maximum allowable lift with inside a message bubble. So we've, given you all the space, we can. The other good thing about this feature is, uh you know there is a feature for a pop-out chat and the width of the card will dynamically scale with the with the window as to how large it gets, and then you can for the squeeze. It short. So it's going to react to that at certain positions in length.

D

Overall, it sounds like a pretty fundamental feature, but uh there was a lot of engineering work on our site to make sure we got the dimensions and the width right and all of the breakpoints like resize and rescale the cards.

D

Let's look at the second feature that we have for diaper head search, so basically form input is one of the key features that you would associate with adaptive cards across the board. You have some sort of like information that you would want to grab from the user and send it back to your bot more often than not that information ends up being in the form of an adaptive card.

D

So over here we were an adaptive card for its for our stay at home sales conference in 2020, and we want to essentially add a category towards this expense.

D

Now, what static type ahead does is you can place the input on a choice set and as the user is typing it, it narrows down the list of available options, and then you can use it. You can just go ahead and select the right one. Previously we have seen cases where people had up to like what 70 80 100 options, and you would have to just constantly scroll and scroll and scroll to find the right one and now, with this one, it's more intuitive.

D

It's a lot simpler, so we're definitely very excited about releasing this one and see how you leverage it, especially for like the form, validation scenarios, if you're using the input choice set already in terms of how to use it very simple again, you can just go into input, dot choice set today and change the style equal to filter. That's all you would have to do earlier.

D

The style would have been compact for scroll down menu and changing from compact to filtered essentially gives you the uh the autocomplete type ahead functionality, because everything else is fundamentally the same and it's all over there and it's just handled by the team's client. This is another thing that I really like about adaptive cards, that we've got an entire full-fledged feature in terms of static autocomplete and the entirety of the code, change that it would take for you to enable this is just one line of code and that's about it.

D

So there we have a static autocomplete. Let me give you a quick demo of this one too, so you switch into my client. So here we are with an adaptive card.

D

This particular adaptive card has it's it's a choice set over here and it's asking: where do you want to eat for lunch and we've got a lot of options in terms of where we could go, and we can say you know we can choose the cafe. We want to go and oh it just works from there.

D

So that's it. That's static type ahead for you. Let me head back to the presentation so that both of these features are available in depth. Preview right now and the instructions are overhealth and you can uh try it out right now, with the blog post, we can also share some instructions on how to uh switch your client over to dev preview, but I'm assuming, if you guys, are all approached with microsoft teams, development and you know how to do that already, because this is that team's community call.

D

So you can switch over to dev preview and try both of these features out. um There will be ga within the week because we are in the final stages of development and at that point the documentation will be out as well.

D

If you within the next month or within the lead up to build. I think, in addition to what I have right now, we've got about seven or eight more features so a little about anywhere from, like you know, eight to ten features that will gaff for adaptive cards over the next two three months.

D

Essentially, we're really committed to getting adaptive cards in the team's platform right and uh we'll keep on investing heavily over. Here because really see these as like fundamental atomic elements that can really make apps shine and contribute to a significant portion of the user experience.

D

Okay, that's all I have thank you uh june. Do you wanna take over.

A

Yeah yeah. Absolutely no. Thank you. Josephine really appreciate that no this was this was these are some awesome updates so now, with we got about what 18 minutes left so I'll open it up to q a so, you can either ask questions in the chat bar if you have access to that or raise your hand before we kind of get started.

A

I know there are a couple questions that were already asked and answered in the chat bar, so I'll go ahead and just repeat those so for those that you know don't have access to the chatbot that you know what was asked and what the answer was.

A

So the first question was from matt and he asked you know: does virtual meeting bot need a team's license and what are the api permissions needed for that app and satya was able to answer that and mention that, yes, a team's license is required since we're authenticating the user to create meetings, and the bot also needs to recognize the user to invite into a meeting as well, and so each api needs um different permissions.

A

A second question from akshay was: can we hide the bot from the participants pain in the teams meeting and the answer was you know? We don't believe that this is possible as of today, but we'll look into that kind of going forward, and then there was another question in the chat uh which wasn't answered just yet so by jazzy. This one might be for you so lou had asked you know. Is there a way to subscribe to events without building a bot for that purpose? Meaning have events hit a different end point of our choosing.

D

So lou, unfortunately, there is not. These events are specifically for the the bot as it gets added or removed to a particular team or a channel. Are you what what scenario did you have in mind, though, or if you'd like to follow up offline like feel free to reach out, but no, uh they will they're primarily for the bar.

A

All right, so it looks like we've got. A number of questions that have just come through. Ugo has asked voting, parentheses stars control. Can you google? Can you provide some a little more context on that.

E

Yeah, I'm just uh using form cards for forms where I can use uh buttons or stars inside of the card to press uh preferences and stuff like that.

D

Right like, for example, like in certain applications where you can like, create a particular delivery, experience or stuff like that.

E

Yeah stuff, like that yeah yeah.

D

Nothing on the roadmap for stars. Are you aware of the adaptive called start io backlog page, so you can go over there and like express your intent that this is a feature that you would like and if it gets enough traction and upwards from the community, then we'll consider it. But right now there is no intent of that.

A

Okay and then matt asked any plans for a translation of adaptive cards, sort of like messages.

D

So basically uh you'll you mean localization right.

F

Yeah, I mean single click in teams. I can translate a message but the card. Obviously I can't because a bunch of json so I'd love to be able to an easier way to translate cards versus sending the text to the translator, api or something yeah. I mean.

D

We have, we have many times tried to figure out the localization problem for cards and and see how we can solve them.

D

The the the challenge that we ran into is that localization is largely a function of the locale of the client and intent is, would typically be sent by it's owned by the board of the card author, so we run into some like technical issues over there and there wasn't like a straightforward way to solve it.

D

We are looking into it, but there is no nothing immediate on the roadmap mat that would address it. Thank you. No, it's.

F

Not easy thanks, yeah.

A

And then would you ask me another question from lee: do we have a timeline on when input validation will be present in adaptive cards and teams.

D

Yes, uh we, I have a timeline for march 2021 for when that'll be present in teams, and that is one of the features that we're looking to enjoy before.

A

Got it then it looks like james had a question when will custom packaged policies going to be ga so for these policies, questions james I'll, follow up see if we can find the rights me or if anyone on the call knows or anyone to call on microsoft knows but I'll go ahead, and you know put this in our parking lot of questions to follow up on afterwards and then lee asked again with josefi, you know: is there any plan to improve accessibility with adaptive cards and teams? Currently, immersive reader ignores the content of adaptive cards.

D

Yes, absolutely there is a significant effort in this semester to improve adaptive. Cloud's accessibility in teams matt heidenger over in the adaptive cards community call might be the right person to provide you more details, but there was an accessibility pass done just last month where people went in and like identified problems and like some core sort of features and scenarios but identified so people will start working on it and over time, you'll see like many targeted fixes towards addressing accessibility with an adaptive cards and teams.

D

So yeah definitely there's going to be a decent amount of work in that space.

A

Got it got it and what jazzy? I'm not sure if this is another question that matt would be able to answer better, but net had asked adaptive cards, don't seem to be available for gcc customers same with bots. Can you please confirm.

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D

They are available in gcc low. They might not be available in gcc high, which is correct. So did you mean gcc lower gcc high in it yeah? Because if it's low, then uh please send us an email, uh we'll try and figure out what's happening, but if it's a gcc higher than yes, they are not supported. Apps bots and adaptive cards are not supported.

A

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A

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