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This month’s call, hosted by Ojasvi Choudhary, Microsoft Teams Program Manager featured Adaptive Cards in Microsoft Teams, including new and updated features, templating and a demo on how to use Adaptive Cards and templates with a Bot.

Speakers: Ojasvi Choudhary, Matt Hidinger, Gabo Gilabert

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Adaptive Cards https://adaptivecards.io

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A

Welcome to adaptive cards and Microsoft teams today, which is our monthly community call. We have ojas fees, town jury from teams platform at hiding her from the adaptive cards group and Gobbo Gila bird on the bot framework to talk about various aspects of this. So I will let HSB go ahead and get started as.

B

Dana mentioned you're, never gonna talk about adaptive, gods and Microsoft themes and also program. Microsoft team starts on with me: I've got Matt from the adaptive cards team and Gobbo from the bot framework team, so I'm hoping like between the three of us we've got you covered when it comes to BOTS and cards, and you know we'll have some time for your questions towards the end. If you've got any questions related to words, adaptive cards and what framework within teams with that Matt and gobble, would you like to introduce yourself so.

C

Hi I'm Matt, hiding your cards I'll just be given a quick intro through this and have a link to. If you would like to learn more about adaptive cards, we do a monthly adaptive cards. Community call as well, so we'll be kind of surface level, at least from my perspective on this one, and if you want to deep dive, will provide you a way.

D

To do that, I'm gavel, dino, burger and a bufferedreader engineer in the black former team and based in your city and I'm, going to be showing how to use for that relies on templates weed a simple variable.

B

So let me just walk you real, quick through the agenda today. I'll start by providing an overview of what's new, with cards now emptiness all right. Now. We've got a lot of exciting features that we've g8 over the past few months and some that are about to be g'head within the next 2-3 weeks. Also and I'd like to share that with you, then demo crafted cards with incoming back books. I know a lot of you have been to the top was treated.

B

Our requests on teams using voice will show a little bit of that and tended to our templating, which is another really exciting feature or coming in from the adapter cards team, so we'll have like Matt and Gabe will talk to us about that. Lastly, I'll, have you briefly also touch upon the featured roadmap, and you know coming teacher support that we have just sort of link, get your feedback and bearing on where we're heading and I just trying to give you a sneak peek of the things to come, and, lastly, questions and feedback.

B

So you know you know: we've got the three of us over. Hopefully we can help you out if there's any questions that you have in regards to development or if there's any feedback that you've got. You know we're more than happy to take it. So, let's get started for those of you are aware of rapid cards right.

B

They are very powerful, open car exchange format that is very powerful in the sense that you develop ones and you have the same God that is extensible in Microsoft teams, same guide works with an aunt load and within teams you have working across all three or four clients, whether it's extra my iOS and mobile. So from our perspective, we are like Microsoft teams respectively, all and all adapter cards, and we know we're gonna keep on investing more and more well. So what happy?

B

So this is just a few drinks that we've had over the past 23 months. So, firstly, if you note adapter cards, 1.2 J support in teams. Finally, the second thing you do is add mentioned support inside cars, the gods. So if you have been developing thoughts inside teams, you always have the ability to add mentioning user inside a message and that would show up within the Activity Feed. You can do this file. You can do the same whether the cards over here.

B

So let's you can see this card for, join though this red is the person's name, and if you, if you would actually those teams- and you would hover your mouse over it- the people caught would show up and this entire card in the corresponding must still be available and their activity feeds. So it's another way of generating your notifications. If you want to provide specific for prisoner, is card yeah and also- and for my third point, like we've, also been heavily invested in ensuring that seamlessly across both desktop and mobile phones.

B

So that's that's GA for the last two three months in Def preview. Right now we have support for adapter cards with incoming play books, so you can actually try this right. Now you can. If you would like to set up an incoming web work within Microsoft teams, you can actually post adaptive cards to that incoming.

B

Today and you like, but feel free to try to yourself to give the thinnest Forks, so men should support their adaptive cards, so you know another pipelines going and the scenario that we think that mentions portrayal in exploit senses where you go act like a person on DRI or DevOps type scenario, I mean you can really use it anywhere adjustable scenario perspective and you really wanna call out to three people who are associated with the card or a particular incident, or a particular action so instead of having in the and all your flow, you would have had to mention then outside the card.

B

From your thoughts, the body of the message somewhere else put in the new floor, you can have them mentioned within the card itself. I'll do use a judicial judiciously because, anytime, you act mention a user from the counts perspective. It is going to show up in the Activity Feed over how so it does Drive a glorification. It's it's great for visibility. It's great for engagement off the rap. If you know like engage users in, let them know of actions and content from your apps perspective. That is specially relevant to them.

B

This is the right way to do it, but again you want to be mindful and like not over the. Where is it written feels timing, given that this is really bouncing?

B

Also, here's the simple scheme of the simple JSON schema or tools without mentioning inside the card in the blog post, that Dana Sande solved I, will link the documentation or I will link the stock condition, so you can reference along with that, but basically, so what you need to do is you need to have a type of which friends mentioned, and then you need to have a text associated with I'm, unique presence on text associated with it, and then you need the ID.

B

So this is the twenty-ninth coulomb ID, the team's user ID, which ship from 11 from the odd manque means right so rich text log. So this is something you know that Raptor cards as SDK has supported for a very long time and for a while now and we draw up the center teams and the way I thought about. It was don't divide about like huddle position.

B

This line and I think he said something that made a lot of sense is, like you know, the raft of cards the whole is greater than the sum of the parts or something I mean what he was trying to say was that you've got all these little features such as italic support of boils of being able to bold text. We need to provide color to text and adding images other than cards. Then it really allows you to create these rich content teams for help.

B

Of course, our example of MSD in the magazine and the point that all right with you is that, as you think, about bringing cards and teams think about branding- and you know really differentiating your app like with all of this rich text- support and imaging support and and foreign support and color support, you could really make your card stand out and customize it to your apps needs, and you know if there's more, you know relevant customizations of order like more theming support that she's.

B

You know trusted and I think that's something about both Matt and I will be interested in hearing about, and we can take that towards the end visibility. So here is another one that you know. We think there's another particular scenario that we think makes a lot sense when teams a lot of times it seems like cards, are getting your bulky and there is more and more content within.

B

So especially if you are within the context of the channel, you wanna keep your card compact and well spaced. So it's not too jarring from the gooses perspective. So for something like that, I think we found we have strong, show cards available in team teams as far as the Raptor parts, one point to where you can. You know, click on the see more option and the card expands and gives you the full range.

B

Then it's going to take up the entire pack to the channel and driven the stock of visibility, supported early values urge to call Quito typical, comic-con, nice and compact adaptive guards floss incoming grab books. So he asked people how do I think this is then by a phone everyone? The most requested feature it was: it had on teams use a voice like hey. We need adaptive cards to last incoming networks.

B

Message card support is not flexible enough and yes, this has been on the backlog for a while. Now and currently he is trying house for it in depth, review on the blog post from our side announcing this. Will she will shortly, but you can try this right now. So let me just walk you through a quick demo.

B

So over Li and by Microsoft teams, our demo talent and in coming back out for incidents set up over here and within postman up tight, like a few I rapid optical samples have taken beforehand. So these are these tiny samples that I have taken from the Raptor Province website.

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B

We also taking the slight activity and the food order samples over here and I'm gonna, try and I'll just post a few of these cars over here so polio. Let's go ahead inside.

B

Galia, you were just limited to you know the traditional message cards, foreign teams- and this is the same sample thing. The message saying you could do a few functions with that. You can add a comment. It closer typically uses and github the same workflow you can accomplish to the Raptor count. So, instead of actually use all this and coming um okay, let's just go ahead and set up a new just to take it a trivial.

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B

You, but you can like customers that hope, whether I can and that as well, if you'd like to do that. Okay, so we've got this new rapper cards, Arabic Sarah in this channel. It's not affect I call the postman and.

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B

And send this adaptive guard over there. This is a customer drop of God that I made back basically his for incident management, yep and it shows up over here. Women. There is, you know: you've got an incident management type of scenario where you can notify people what's happening, how many ignorant factor it? You can have links that go out. This is a dummy link. It was my should go anywhere, but you can have. You can have the support with adapter thoughts inside incoming that works for right now, let's try a few more action. Please.

B

It's like vitamin and food.

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B

So yeah this is the same sample for a card, the file and item every sample, I displayed adopting of the website, and it's broken even an incoming you at work over hell with God and the food or example, and you can see that I have. This is an example. Fish whole card stuff actually means take. This is chicken versus tofu the card expands, and it was that clobber so another.

B

This is actually an example of like bound compact car design, because this will be like too much information to the user and the first person like start with something that's a little more compact and then you're, going through and checking heading back to the presentation.

B

So what is and after you today and what supported to all native adaptive card schema elements except actions will work within action. Support will be suppose, action be open, URL action won't show called an action or toggle visibility and, as I mentioned, will show us as power of like on this community comes from those people's he's having another few blog posts, where a few weeks that details focused and megawatts supported and the documentation on how to enable it in terms of future support or what we're really looking to do is in q3 or in h20.

B

You want to bring in action on that support, as well as the ability to act. Mention users, the ability to add mention. Users is also hiding the third imported items within proteins user voice. So we are, it is on the backlog and I can't come back to a timeline for this.

B

We are investigating, but if you really, you have any inclined in supporting users within then within Microsoft teams, for your app somehow I would highly encourage you to go abroad because of the support and a lot more is already available there.

B

If some of you have feedback that help developing a body, this is really too much. I really want to support that afterthought. I would love to have that so M is called today, or maybe you can reach out to us by our Twitter with the content Adina's my share and also share the email address for the internal for the interval. Microsoft aims directly. Second person encountered the right person, equality, so any of those, and we will also have a survey option for you.

B

So if you would like to give us feedback while serving right now so you're welcome to might reach out to us with any of these options in the survey the chat directly, the call on data y-you know, but you do. Let me know like because I have, because we're thinking on how we want to support both action toward survey, as well as the ability to add mention weasels within incoming grab box, and we really want to understand how do you think to using an incoming my book?

B

Will Microsoft teens 12 but versus using a pot and like what is fine? um What's the what's the gap and process there with that I'm going to hand it over to Matt and gobble for haptic cards templating? So but you will maybe talk a little bit about templating yeah.

C

As soon as this video goes live, I'll make sure to tweet it because the incoming web, both stuff, comes up all the time from the adaptive cards community, that's really cool to have a web books announcement is, uh is pretty awesome, so hi everyone again, I'm Matt, we're kind of depth of cards and I'm only going to talk to you for a few minutes today, just to set the stage to see something cool and how this is used in practice. Here's a quick clap around adaptive car templating.

C

So when you build an adapter card today, the content as in the name Microsoft the price. Here all these values are within the card itself, and that makes it really hard to now reuse this payload, because some of this content will always stay the same. This will always be a text block which will be a column set it'll always be extra-large, but some of the content, like the text and these things you want to be dynamically replaceable and that's where a template comes in.

C

So if I change this and show you what it would look like as a template, all those dynamically replaceable areas, for example, Microsoft the symbol, the quote price, what was the open high/low? You.

B

C

These, what with what are known as binding expressions and they're, highlighted in yellow there, but it's just a dollar, curly, brace and that says: hey, then you know what do you want to bind this to? In this case the name, and then you send the data, the dynamically replaceable stuff as a separate payload, and with those two combined you now get that original card that you had from the beginning there it so the one thing I'll mentioned that is pretty powerful and if you've been following along with templating we've got some.

C

We had some good updates a couple weeks ago. Add bill. So when you're writing a template, if you have the ability to change the data, you can make some pretty good stuff, but sometimes you don't have the ability to change the shape of the data, for example, maybe you're calling an external web service or it's another part of your organization that it's just a little harder to change the data. So sometimes you want the template to be able to shape the data and do more powerful things, for example, if conditions here.

C

So if the price is up, I want to show an up arrow or if it's down, I want a down arrow and sometimes I want to format this value with two decimal places. Typically, you know humans read currency with two decimals, so this is massaging that decimal into some human readable, presentable thing and that you can do at the templating layer with what we're calling adaptive expressions and these will be standalone expressions that can be used inside of a template and, for all intents and purposes it lets. You build some pretty powerful cards.

C

Adaptive expressions is a collaborative effort with about framework folks, and it's got hundreds I believe of built-in functions from formatting to parsing JSON, to looping over data and all sorts of these powerful things. You can actually write something powerful stuff, so the last thing I'll show to get started and Legaspi showed you adaptive cards tayo. This is where everything adaptive cards lives and, if you're familiar with it happen cards if you're, not the place. I always like people to go to is the samples page and once you're in samples. These are just some example.

C

Adaptive cards. You can build a lot more there again, just an example, and but what you can do is turn on this check. Box use adaptive card templating and instead of a single payload you'll get two. So there's the data JSON and there's the template down here.

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Can click try yourself that loads up the adaptive card designer if I click preview mode, it's going to show what that template looks like with this sample data. This just makes designing a card easy, and so you know I can change this to you know, Tesla or whatever and you'll see the card will update accordingly.

C

So that's a lap around adaptive card, templating, I'm, sorry I was the wrong one, but you get the idea thing and that's really it so. Templating is in release. Candidate we've been excited to release this and it will be available to to use in GA in the next coming weeks. It's available for.net and java script and with that I'll hand it over to Gobbo who use this to impractical, something pretty pretty neat actually smell this at a hackathon. So I was like man, you gotta show this to to the community call phones. First,.

D

I'm going to show you what we did in the butter framework is I worked in the SDK team for puck framework right and every once in a while. We have these internal hackathons, where we try out new things, so these are bought that I actually build both attached for testing network opportunities in teams. It's all open source. In case you want to play with the the code later on.

D

Let me show you first what the pod does and then I'm just gonna go behind the scenes and show you how adaptive cards and templates are being used right. So these pod is about a program. Manager came up with a deal, write that down pod right, so we we wanted to integrate that with teams right and here I'm. Looking at this meeting right and I, let's say I see a question here that I need to follow up later on right, so we are implementing a message in action.

D

The message, an extension here so I can just select that guy and say add to my notes. So what the body is actually doing here right is going to about frame or return that adaptive card and I'm using that adaptive hard to render this form that the user is actually gonna, be filling up right, so I'm, just gonna, say action, one I can choose private share right and here it captures the original message, and it saves that into my private notes. Right later on, I can go and talk to my god.

D

Privately right and I can say, show my notes right and the part is respond and then, if I scroll up I, think I should have the action one here. Right and I get a link to the original message right and takes me to the message in context in the original place, where the conversation happened. So what I'm doing here is I'm combining two different paradigms right. So basically, I have an adaptive car that allows me to enter the data.

D

If you were doing do it doing these as a conventional bot, you would say I want to take a note and what's dial up the node and what's the body of the note and then you would have a back and forth.

D

You can see here I'm in the middle of a meeting I'm, not disrupting the flow I'm using a messaging extension to pop up and now take a note to self right and just have that in my private storage right now the storage is fake, because this is just a hack project and then I can use the conversation III to talk privately one-on-one with the pod and say: hey show me my cards, and this is actually rendering at least the holding notes.

D

I captured there's a lot of crazy test data there, but basically it allows me to to do that in context. I can even go further right. I can go to talk to Matt and say hey someone asked a question here. So I can use the message and extension and search for an action that I have capture here: click on it right and then send Matt a link to that action.

D

Right and Matt gets that, and he can also go click on that at the card and go to the conversation, writing context and and see exactly what happened there and he can act on it right. So that's pretty much. Basically the idea or the general flow of of these right.

D

Any questions so far I mean feel free to interrupt or I'm, not checking the chat window except for four days. But let me know Matt or a not just jumping in thing comes up there. So let me show you how this was done right so I have a BA, treatin, ya, I, think power-ups! You can do integration, we wrap our apps too, but I just use pod framework here on the dead uptick cards for days. So let me show you exactly what what these bodies doing right on how the things look like in code.

D

First of all, as Matt was showing earlier right, so I have the designer for cards. I have I go to the designer window. This is the new card template right.

D

So when I create a new card, I have the test bar the title: I combined, two specific fields like title note, body, private or shared right and I- have the design of my card and I also have the data model for the card, and this is super useful because, basically sometimes you would have me as a developer right I do care about the data that I'm gonna be persistent, so I have the JSON schema of the data I'm gonna capture, then I can work with someone in UX that actually defines what the card is.

D

Gonna look like right and, for example, if I work the the car that I show when I said like show me my items or show me my notes right. This is the card and here's the data, which is actually a collection of fake notes, but I can go in preview mode right and you see that he's actually rendering the card he's actually rendering that collection of that card right. So I have a single card. I, have a data bound to an array and I'd share that and I have like mud was showing earlier right.

D

I can't even let me just go back to preview mode. So if it's a shear node I won't when I go nice, private node I want a different icon, so I have all these conditional logic. So what's the developer? I don't need to go on and write a lot of iffy code in there, because the person that is in charge of the UX or handling the the look and feel of my card right- it's actually going to take care of that then I.

D

Can data bind these two to my nodes, so this actually I'm scoping that to a collection. So this is an array containing notes right and then within each node, I. Just repeat the text block for the images of what I want to show they're, basically all so I can. I can turn on disability right. So you see some notes have linked to messages. Some notes don't have linked to messages so I can hide and show elements here using some conditional logic in the iteration right.

D

So this is super cool, because if I show you, how would I have done this with code? Let me show you real this all bird and so, for example, if I would have had to to render a list of notes using the adaptive card. Language model right object model. Basically, what I would need to do is like first hydrate, an adaptive card which I can actually instantiate that from Jason, but then what I wouldn't I want to be splay the nodes.

D

What I'm gonna have to do is find an element called notes in tile into that car. They create the image element then create a column and add the image. Then the title then decide if I'm going to show the message link URL. So all these code right that I had to write before in c-sharp and using the object model right it gets simplified by just simply.

D

Let me show you the easy way of doing this right. So I have the template of the data, so I do grab that adaptive car template here and I embed data sand embedded resource in my solution, then I load that template then I have a list of notes, object right. That I just see realize that as Jason and then I simply do car template, expand notes and that's just gonna hydrate, the adaptive car and just boom.

D

It's gonna render on the screen, that least, and as developer I just need to write this, and if someone else changes their mind later on and they want to change the look and fill up that uptick card or do something different. They just need to work on the designer. Send me the new Jason I can just put that as a resource in my up and boom. Everything is working and I.

D

Don't need to touch this logic anymore and then I don't need to deal with columns, containers all these craziness and find elements, variety and things like that, so which I think it's pretty cool by the same way, if you see an example of how would I render the Ixchel melts right so remember when I right click and say capture a note basically same thing right so I have a note template that is the one I showed you in the assignor earlier on. I.

D

Can data bind that to a node instance, I can I can initialize that or no instance, and just create that when the user clicks on submit right so when they submit the card, what I just need to do is like take that data payload that comes back from the adapted card. I can map that, to my note, JSON object. I grabbed that and I put into my storage, so the coding becomes waste simpler, right and I can write better BOTS right. So that's it any any questions or any comments.

B

I mean that's really powerful right, like you literally rent from like hundreds of lines of codes to like one function,.

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C

Same and you know, I wrote that object model SDK. That was one of my first kind of contributions. We were seeing if there's a deck of cards that would make sense. So that was like some of the first code that we have a road and you know you can write it and it's a little bit clunky and a little cumbersome, but the major problem that is now it's in code. It can never go back into the designer. You can never really see what this looks like and it's a really poor.

C

You know you revisit this code six months from now, and you can't really burn with the card. Look like it's kind of a bummer from an inner loop experience. So I really like that and then I think I'll just mention because I don't know. If it's super obvious is you can use templating today you can use it in a team spot. You can use it like templating happens server-side, so the template gets bound to the data and then a fully hydrated.

C

If you will adaptive targets sent to teams, teams have no idea to use templating templating. It was just a developer feature, so you can, you can get started with it today. In fact, that's what got voted and releases hey.

A

A couple questions on that Alexander asked: if, for the preview of adaptive cards and teams, is it necessary to use a hero card and the adaptive, or is that still the case or will that change.

D

So yeah I think I couldn't get that's something I need to get back to you and that I couldn't get the adaptive car to render that's. Why my sample I'm just sending the card directly I think it should be also, but I have something wrong and I.

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Messaging extension, yeah.

D

No well so, ideally I think if I understand the question is like when I'm in the in the message here right. So if I just want to I want to. If I want to render a card in this section and preview it before I, send it back at you right I mean if that's actually adapting cards so far, I'm using it here a card for that, but uh I'm, not sure if that's possible.

D

So if I select an action here right and that goes out, doesn't work on themes, because it's not my body's private and it's not at it clear, but it doesn't render in text message but I'm, not a hundred percent sure about that. So yeah.

C

My somewhat limited understanding of it is that that should be a full adaptive card in the input box, but in the search list, when you're searching for them, I think those have to be thumbnail cards.

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C

I think that's you know and at some point you're like doing a quick search in the messaging section. Okay,.

A

And then Chris asked: can you use templating as a card library for a bot and only send the schema down once I'm.

C

Not yet so I believe the question is something I'll say: if someone wrote a really cool DevOps, a team company out there and they have DevOps integrated into teams where you can track all your bills and a channel and bills to be pretty complicated. You know multi steps. You know they can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 20 minutes to run anyway.

C

It's a pretty complicated, you know so it builds up and they have to send a full adaptive card and as it redraws in teams, it kind of refreshes and flickers and what they want to do is just send the you know just send the data have teams. Do the data mining, you don't have to send the fall adaptive card that doesn't exist yet today, but that is where we see this going. As templating gets integrated more into the adaptive card layer into the rendering layer, you can certainly see a world where you're just sending data.

C

You have a remote reference to a template somewhere over URL or whatever today that doesn't exist, for that is where we we want to get to. And if that didn't answer your question, please just kind of followed us.

A

Okay, I'm sort of going back. We posted the link about community calls. There is an adaptive carts community call that you can download the calendar series for as well deeper into the adaptive cards. Matt asked how can I use templating with something like flow BOTS that just takes regular JSON for cards yeah.

C

It doesn't support adaptive card templating. As of now power automate in general and flow has a pretty rich Jason syntax. You can do a lot of really neat things, so you can create the similar thing, but you can't use an adapter card template as of today. We are working with them if you turn on experimental features in your tenant, if you have access to that, I think it has to be installed in your tenant and then you can turn on experimental features on some of the connectors, such as the team's one.

C

The adaptive card designer is integrated and you can put in dynamically replaceable tokens there, and that makes it pretty easy to create an adaptive card. Send it to teams without having to you know, rebuild the card. A lot of this stuff, like I, said it's experimental and we're trying to figure out. What's the right integration there, so we don't have anything to share just yet, but we all working closely with that team, because this is their there, so they fit together so well.

C

We just have to figure out the right way to support the adaptive card. Syntax, the power I think syntax and just kind of make them work without it. Feeling like this is super strange.

A

Okay and Donovan asked: can you use adaptive cards on the SharePoint page? Yes,.

C

So we sent a link to the web parts that we just showed last week at the adaptive card, community call Hugo bring their Brooks on the peanut Pete team over there and I send a link to that file, but also I, don't know if the community calls up online just yet it might be. You can watch the adapter card community call where he goes through all that and how to get it in next steps, and things like that. So that's.

A

Today, on our YouTube channel and then we'll also have a few go separate demo outside will have the full Carl will have the full our call and then we'll have the specific demo of Hugo's as well posted on our YouTube channel yeah.

A

We who made a comment that going back to the web hooks the only thing that would be nice at this point is an alternate to using H Mac on outgoing web hooks and that would really round out the web hook, ability, depending on where you host your endpoint, validating that isn't always simple to do.

B

Yeah I guess you know we will whole thing to learn. I think this is just this, and just thought in general is something that we need to figure out regards to the constant coming in out to enjoy books, because, if you're sending your data out of teams, we will have like some sort of some form of God. Really, that's a really good thing to write. Okay, video keep Adam, but I, don't keep Anna, we work trees and we have your email zone region.

A

Yeah and I also just posted a link to a survey, if you guys wouldn't mind, taking a few minutes to complete that that would be awesome and it's on BOTS, connectors and cards I think there's the second one that I need to post to anybody. Do that? Yes, please.

B

I think there was another question and not maybe this one's more for you than for me. This mic also is toggle visibility only available as an action, or is it possible to toggle visibility based on volume? Another input? The reason I ask is that this would eat up one of the six possible actions on a car.

C

So action top, so we do and you do have the ability to do what's known as select actions.

B

C

That's making any elements clickable, so you can have an image. That's clickable or you can have you know a column, that's clickable! So if you don't want them, that's no! It's it's tricky discover. So if there's other problems you may run into there despite the limitation, you know the number of actions you can put.

C

You can't do anything today, based on the input, value or any kind of client-side state. You know, templating is all server-side. Once we do get this template language integrated into the client-side layer, you can imagine a whole host of things such as even like cascading dropdowns, so based on the value of this input. I want to do other things and you suffer saw some some of the advanced expressions you can put in the templates, but again right now, they're, they all happen on the server.

C

You can certainly imagine a world where those expressions can react to other inputs or other elements on the card, the state of the card itself, and you can really build so much more expressive UI, but that's just not available today. So toggle visibility is your only option and it's the same teams, I, am do believe. Yeah, it's limited to six actions.

C

That's it I, guess: there's always the admin set. So now everyone discovers that I know some teams developer to use that. So you have the actions bar at the bottom of the card and that one is limited to a certain number just for UX reasons. But there is an action set element that you can put in the body of the card and you can kind of create different layouts there. So you can put more actions in the card in one of those could be a toggle visibility.

B

And I guess we could probably explore number time we can probably revisit that number. Four. Six again, it was mainly I think the intent was just not to overwhelm the user but like for certain types of actions, but action not for the bottle. Visibility should probably count against that. Maybe it's like more against actual, not submit that we could rethink that yeah.

C

B

Jump in real, quick, so I think this is just underscoring. The point that I was trying to make earlier in the call today lots of exciting uh teacher support coming up for h2. This isn't all you know officially on the book spirit like this is something high in the priority and we're considering. We've got support for input, validation so, and some of these are available on the adaptive cost entire website over there. So you can make go I, think for input, validation, I believe mat. This specs are possible, so is that correct, yeah.

C

Is coming yeah? Well, we'll have it released in the SDKs in the next like three weeks, yeah but yeah. This adds a rich set of input, validation, client-side, so you can make sure inputs are set, a certain wave of person, million, yeah and.

B

Then you know they don't know that we will eventually will often I will consumer the deems we work such controls. If you've got inputs, how do you search within them Oh? The total is. This is more team specific right now, if you have an adaptive got within within a child, let's say me.

B

So this adaptive guard to you, because everyone see my browser yeah, okay right, so this card is basically taking like I'm, saying you're from fifty to fifty-five percent of the screen. So that's why you really get stopped for space now. You can actually expand it to like the full length of the channel message. So like pick up like the full 100% of the space and gives you more real estate and gives you more space to work with.

B

So that's also something which blowing HT, which is from like more aesthetics and make from a design perspective, gives you more room to play around.

B

Then we've got information masking. So if you have some sensitive information inside an adaptive card, you can work around it. You are also looking providing role based videos really excited about where you have the ability to show how different people where different people can look at the same card and very differently so think about it. Like is a polling scenario.

B

The poll creator versus the poll might have a different set of actions on the same card, so another really powerful, so I know that we hope to release sometime later then, as I told actions outside bed with and coming back books, refresh buttons and cards, so Matt I think is the tempering exercise for showed you that card of optical.

B

So typically, what happens is if you have a date card that contains data from a particular dashboard or you have a stock prices in within a channel over time that information is going to be exchanged in Stern you having to insert of the user having to like recreate a card and having to have them go through the entire flow all over again, especially if the context of the same conversation, it makes a lot of sense to just update that card on dynamically Center provides some sort of a button for the user to click on, and then the card gets, the content gets updated.

B

Dynamically and more. You know, you know these small little tweaks make a change. We will throw Xaphoon for people icons, so if you know individual users per se and make have that cards associated with them have their images associated with 5 5 Chiclets. So, for example, if you would like a word file and somehow associated associating that with a raptor card stuff, you can do that you can so I spoke about mentions.

B

Some mentions about right now is limited to an individual user, but a few familiar things about this concept of tags, which is a collection fields in so also exploring bringing all that in, and there are many more features that I just found and have the time to list it all out over hell. But you know the inner being that there's a lot of interesting innovation on the pipeline and we'll keep you updated as these things come through and it's right I think that's it. That's all I had so.

B

If you have any more questions and your feedback for us happy to take you and dinner. Has those two survey links freely. So please do fill that out regularly right and modify that and use that as a gauging point.

A

There is another question for variable-width: would that be for channels only or for also one on one bot conversations? That's.

B

A good question.

A

And Chris did have another comment, search controls and input. Validations would be awesome, assuming search will be able to go against the external API and not have to send all possible options with the card. Yeah.

B

I think eventually we do want it to be dynamic. So if you head back- oh so you know, I've been asking my friends so just go ahead and avoid this item over here per search and that's how we get it lots of the calls we eventually, if all of us are cold enough, we will have that, but you know we will phase it out.

B

The current thinking is to provide it in two steps, first, one being to have a static on some sort of existing data, but eventually it's going to be something that you know there is API, and then you provide all of the fields associated with that question.

B

A

Else, just as a reminder, we have been silent on social and so we'll be resuming our announcements reminders about different events and all of that on the 18th which is on Thursday.

A

So we are still posting blogs and we are still posting recordings to our YouTube channel, we're just not doing social right now on Twitter we will put links and information and anything we did not answer into the blog post, which we will post within 48 hours, along with the recording of this presentation as well. I.

B

Noticed a question Hollyer on what resources we have for learning. So all right, you know the teens documentation, DKMS teens tap talk, get samples on you know specifically for developing bots. You have a raft of parts are I of X Y that we showed today for talking about adaptive cards. We've also got alarm volumes for Microsoft teams, on building thoughts, connectors and everything. So I think you know we'll probably share that with the blog post to answer is in question.

B

With regards to new sources, you have an you know, I would say the team step doc. The doctor comes back side. The get up some samples would be if you're starting out and you like, hey. What's their approach, this those four resources should be on duty.

A

All right, if there aren't any more questions, we can wrap up a couple minutes early, otherwise download the new calendar series, which I've, posted and I am chat a couple times. It will also be in the blog and will send out reminders as well for that, and then the next call will be on July 21st at 8 a.m. Pacific time thanks everyone, and thanks for presenting you guys, did an awesome job. Thank.

C

You thanks for sharing, can see everybody, ok,.

B

C

You bye everyone.