http requests for my own backend

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Posted on by itsvnkrj

Hello

What I am trying to do is this, within MS Teams (Teams is enabled in copilot)

The greeting "topic" exists and user gets a reply text.

From that point onwards, what I would like to do is to send all messages from the user to my backend which will act like a webhook and send responses back to the user

This way, I can implement my own models and not necessarily just be limited to chatGPT.

I tried creating a trigger but my backend URL never got any http request

So... what's the best way to do this? I searched this board and msteams learning, etc., but couldn't find a solution.

And, whatever messages I get on my backend, I will also need any unique ID (I guess it is the conversation ID or something), so that I can maintain the context on my backend

Thanks a ton, in advance for any help/guidance on the above

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Expiscornovus 33,189 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @itsvnkrj,

Haven't tried this action before, so not entirely sure how you could troubleshoot this one.

However, as a workaround I do know you can also send an HTTP request from a Power Automate cloud flow. You can use the Call an action step in your topic for this.

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Thanks @Expiscornovus

I figured out the part on receiving the messages on my backend (it is the "Fallback" part, where none of the existing topics match the user's message)

And here, when I set the http request, I do get the data in my backend. I also see that i can set the response from the http response as a variable. avResponse in this case, which is also set as a global variable for all topics.

Now, how do I just echo/print or show this response to the user? Simple question, right?

I can't figure it out from neither from the documents nor from any of the other searches in this forum

See below for the working example.

I did have a look at the power automate cloud flow: i can't figure out how to send a 1:1 chat message to a user 😞 . I see examples of sending messages in a teams chat, etc. though. But the power automate flow seems like a very long winded approach for a simple task!

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itsvnkrj 23 on at

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Duhhhhh

I figured it out. Sorry for having asked this. Very new to Copilot.

I simply added a new TAB and added the variable back in as a message 🙂

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Hi @itsvnkrj,

Great to hear you got it working. Like mentioned in my previous reply, I haven't used this step before.

I am pretty new to this feature as well. So don't apologise, we are learning together. 😁

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