See the Channel Catalog to see which Plans have access to this channel.
Microsoft Teams is a persistent chat-based collaboration platform complete with document sharing, online meetings, and many more extremely useful features for business communications.
Admin consent workflow
You need to work with your Office 365 administrator to setup the admin consent workflow if you will be using Channel.Create or ChannelMessage.Read.All. Depending on your organization's settings, admin consent might be required for any external application such as Pipelines, so admin consent will be requested for any set of permissions. For more information, see this guide - Configure the admin consent workflow.
How to Connect
- On the My pipelines page, select Create Pipeline.
- Search for or select a step, and then select it to add it to the pipeline.
When you add a step to a pipeline, it is added to the canvas of the pipeline designer. - Expand the Connection section of the step, and add the required information.
For more information about connections, see How to connect to a channel.
Connect to Microsoft Teams
- Expand Microsoft Teams and click Connect to Microsoft Teams. You will be redirected to Microsoft Teams to authorize Pipelines:
- This is the list of permissions that are required for running specific pipes. Four of them are required to use Pipelines and are selected:
- Read all users' basic profiles
- Read the names and descriptions of teams
- Read the names and descriptions of channels.
- Send channel messages
Click Connect to Microsoft Teams. - Your account should have these permissions or you will need an admin approval:
- Sign to your account:
Note: Your functionality and integration may be different depending on your permissions.
How to reconnect
You may need to reconnect your account to a channel. Reasons may be (but not limited to):
- If you need to connect a different account.
- Authorization updates, such as a changed password.
- Editing the access rights that Pipelines has to the channel.
To reconnect:
- Select a pipeline that already has this channel in it.
- Open a step that contains this channel.
- Under account, select Connect (or reconnect) and follow the process above, How to connect.
Steps
The steps you can use with Microsoft Teams fall under three categories: Channels, Message, and Teams.
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Channels | ||
| Action | Create a Channel | Creates a new channel. |
| Action | Look Up a Channel | Look up a channel by id or name. |
| Action | Fetch a Linked Channel | Fetches a linked channel. |
| Query | Search Channels | Search all channels based on search criteria. |
| Messages | ||
| Trigger | Message Created | Triggers when a new message is created. |
| Trigger | Message Updated | Triggers when a message is updated. The Message Updated pipe triggers when a message in a channel is edited or someone reacts to it with an emoji. Replying to a message does not trigger the pipe. |
| Action | Send a Message To Channel | Posts a new message to a channel. |
| Action | Reply to a Message | Replies to a message in a channel. |
| Action | Look Up a Message | Look up a message by id or name. |
| Query | Search Messages | Search all messages based on search criteria. |
| Teams | ||
| Action | Look up a team | Look up a team by id. |
| Query | Search Teams | Search all teams based on search criteria. |
All message pipes are for channel messages.
We are polling every 5 minutes for messages which means there is a 5 minute delay in the worst case before triggering.
Limits
Four requests per second per app can be issued on a given team or channel. 3000 messages per app per day can be sent to a given channel.
When a throttling threshold is exceeded, Microsoft Graph limits any further requests from that client for a period of time. When throttling occurs, Microsoft Graph returns the HTTP status code 429 (Too many requests) and the requests fail. A suggested wait time is returned in the response header of the failed request. Throttling behavior can depend on the type and number of requests. For example, if you have a high volume of requests, all requests types are throttled. Threshold limits vary based on the request type and you could encounter a situation where writes are throttled but reads are still permitted.
Examples
In our example, we have a Opportunities table in our QuickBase App:
Whenever a record is created in the Opportunities table, we want a message with summary to be sent to our team’s channel called “Opportunities.”
In this use case first we create a trigger - Record Created, we enter the Account and Table fields and then choose the fields on which we trigger.
We select Send a Message To Channel - choose Team from the dropdown then Channel and the Body Content (our message).
The resulting message: