I am building an AWS Lambda function that posts CloudWatch event notifications to our MS Teams group using the Incoming WebHook connector. Everything seems to work great, the messages are formatted nicely, images work fine, sections are good, etc. However, there I can't seem to generate any notifications (banner, email, etc.) when the message get's posted. The UI updates correctly (bolded channel name, "New Messages" widget, etc.) but that's it.
I need to be actively notified when some things happen. For example, when someone does something unusual in AWS I want to know about it immediately. I don't want to have to look at the GUI to see if anything happened. This is a basic functionality that is in almost every other chat application. How do I turn it on for messages coming from the WebHook Connector?
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I dont know where to begin. Do I need to create an app? Do I need to use bots? I have tried finding docs online but don't know where to start. Any help with be appreciated.
I am trying to create a small form in a teams channel that my users will fill out.
User enters #projects
Web server responds with
User clicks submit and data gets posted to my web server.
You're correct that there are a few different kinds of applications in Teams, so finding the one that suits your needs can be a little confusing at first. For what you're trying to do, I would recommend a Bot, and when it received a message (which it will do when it receives your #mention), it can respond with an Adaptive Cards. Adaptive Cards, if you've not used them, are like small embedded forms inside the chat. The user can complete the card and click a button, and it will send the payload back to your bot to do whatever it needs.
Bots, incidentally, are basically just web services, so your bot can do whatever it needs once it received the payload, such as calling another API in turn.
You haven't mentioned what language you might want to work in, but here are some good starting point nevertheless:
https://dev.botframework.com/
https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/main/samples
https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/main/samples/csharp_dotnetcore/57.teams-conversation-bot (I've linked the C# version - you should know that Teams bots use the same Microsoft framework as -all- bots build for the Microsoft world, such as web chat bot or a Skype bot. As a result, you have to ensure that anything you look at is applicable to Teams as some content/samples are not)
https://adaptivecards.io/ (as with Bots, Adaptive Cards have a life outside of Teams, so some articles/content/etc. might not be applicable to your scenario)
In my current project I am using the Kreait Firebase PHP SDK to send out push notifications to Android & iOS devices that have subscribed to notifications on named topics. No issues thus far. However, rather than have fixed topic names I would now like to generate topic names based on the current "condition" of the connecting device. The condition could, for example, be a geographic location.
This is not too difficult either and I have modified my app to handle this. However, in order to put the ability to have such autogenerated topics to use I need to know the topic names on my server so I can send out targeted messages via Kreait. I find Google's Firebase documentation a bit dense at times and have not been able to establish whether it is possible to assign webhooks that get called by Firebase whenever a SubscribeToTopic, UnsubscribeFromTopic event occurs.
A simple question - does FCM even offer anything like this capability? If so, any pointers to the relevant documentation would be much appreciated.
There is no public API to get a list of topic names from Firebase, nor is there a way to hook into the subscription mechanism.
Your best bet is to simply make two calls when a user subscribes to a topic: one to Firebase, and one to your own backend API that keeps a list of active topics/conditions.
I want to implement Whatsapp
to send information from an external application. The idea is to use this
external application to send information throughout Whatsapp.
If you can help me about the terms and
conditions and if this query is possible to develop.
There is a way through which you can send WhatsApp message from your self created application. Use this link Chat API.
But it only provides 3 days trail period and after that you have to purchase it.
The process in that is, you have to register with your google account, then scan the QR code provided(which changes after every 45 seconds). and you are set to go, they will provide you the API for : PHP, Node.JS, Jquery, CURL.
One thing more you always have to keep your phone connected with the internet everytime.
Also I found a drawback in that, i.e. they also provide API to read messages, but it is too slow, as in my condition I can see my messages of yesterday but not of today.
I have a button follow on my website, you can toggle it on or off as much as you want.
Each time it sends a notification mail to the followed people. I don't want him to be spammed.
So I want Play Framework not to send this mail twice (twice in a day, for example)
Is there any built-in mechanism or any library of play framework to do it?
Thanks !
EDIT :
Preferably an external service, like Mailjet or mailchimp.
Just save notification to DB instead of sending it immediately - so user can decide how often he want's to get it.
Next use Akka scheduler for sending many notifications in single emails from time to time.
I want to trigger VERY basic push notifications, but, don't see any way to iterate through all the subscribed users, without rolling my own tool to read the db notification_user table. Surely, with such an extensive (and expensive) product such as Worklight there is an API to do this?
The only way I see is within my adapter to call another HTTP adapter (go get the user subscriptions). And, I've tried using the HTTP interface to retrieve the subscribed users via:
http://<server:port>/<context>/console/api/push/get?adapterName=PushAdapter&eventSource=EventSource
and many variations, but, nothing seems to work through browser testing (the doc indicates all are GET requests). There are NO examples of how the "Push, Event Sources" (?) format for the api is (should the "API Context" value be "Push", or "EventSources", what?). The chart given in the Worklight 6.0 Information Center is pretty bare minimum (how difficult would it have been to include an example of each?)
Basically, I want to iterate through a specific adapter/event source in a WL adapter, grab the "options" that were passed in when the user subscribed to perform some business logic on whether to send out a notification. Would think this would be a very common pattern, but, don't see any examples of this type of model.
Anyone have suggestions for similar processing with WL 6?
Thanks.
You're not wrong. Worklight has 3 methods to send out notifications to subscribed users/devices
See
WL.Server.notifyAllDevices
WL.Server.notifyDevice
WL.Server.notifyDeviceSubscription