PVA - Unable to share my bot with other team members

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Posted on 4 Aug 2021 11:02:11 by thenecroscope1

Hi,

We currently have a MS Office 365 E5 subscription within my team. I've just created a new bot and I've exported the model manifest zip file (without applying for approval). When I have passed this over to my colleague they have managed to import the VA bot manifest file into Teams. As soon as they try to use it they are getting an access denied message. Any helpers please 🙂

I'm not able to currently publish my bot as I'm not sure who our Office 365 admin is. I work for a large corporate, ideally I'm trying to bypass submitting this and I just want to test it out with our team 1st.

What can I do to fix the permissions issue. I do not want to share the bot with them as I do not want them to have access to change the bot. I've setup the authentication within the bot to always force login. I've then changed the bot to be able to be used company wide.

Thoughts?

many thanks

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CU22081450-0 Most Valuable Professional on 04 Aug 2021 at 11:14:03

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Re: PVA - Unable to share my bot with other team members

Hi @thenecroscope1 ,

First of all, did you create your first chatbot using PVA for Teams or PVA for Web?

And how did you exported your bot to a zip file?

Did you use this documentation here?

Important concepts: When we are developing a bot within Microsoft Teams, we need to create for a specific team.

Your permissions are determined by your Microsoft Teams roles in the team where your bot is created:

Team Owners can create, view, edit, and configure all bots in the team where they are Team Owners.

Team Members can create, edit, and configure bots they have created. They can view other member's bots in the team.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/teams/admin-share-bots-teams?WT.mc_id=BA-MVP-5003806

Once you've published your bot, you can share it with other Microsoft Teams users so they can find it in the Microsoft Teams app store. You can share it with your team directly.

You can share the bot with your organization by submitting your bot for admin approval to be featured in the Built for your-organization-name > Built by your org section.

Admin approval details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/teams/publication-add-bot-to-microsoft-teams-teams#submit-for-the-built-by-your-org-section?WT.mc_id=BA-MVP-5003806

Use the Teams App Submission API to submit and approve your custom apps - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs

Let me know if you have more questions about it.