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Add bot as a user that can be contaced through Skype/Teams?

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Posted on by OliverTeglhus

Is it possible to add the bot as a contact through Skype4Business or Teams? Meaning the user just searches for [Bot name] and chat with it through there.

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Ashish2012 478 on at

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You can add a Bot to the MS Teams not sure about Skype for Business.

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CU22081450-0 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Yes, you can insert your bot into Microsoft Teams.
Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/publication-add-bot-to-microsoft-teams

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OliverTeglhus 11 on at

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@renatoromao
I am aware of this, but that was not what i meant. Your solution adds the bot as a part of a existing Team
What i want to have is that the bot will be a contact in Teams/Skype For Business so you write to it like you would any other user.

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jpirelli Microsoft Employee on at

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Actually, if you follow this for a custom app, then you will end up creating a zip file. Once that zip file is completed, any teams user can install it by going into apps and choosing upload a custom app. Just choose the zip and that person will have the bot as a personal chat in their teams across all devices.

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OliverTeglhus 11 on at

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Again that is still not what i am looking for.
I'm sorry for being annoying, but this is something that every user in the organization needs to be able to do, and asking them to unzip a file and manually install an app into Teams is just not going to happen
The goal here is for the user to simply go in the Teams app search for the bot name under contacts like they would search for any other member of the organization and start a chat that way
Other bot makers already have this like BotXO

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jpirelli Microsoft Employee on at

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I understand your ask, that is not the case currently. You can get closer though by publishing the bot to your teams enterprise where it would then be an available app like any other. As you make updates you do NOT need them to redeploy since the core logic is not stored in teams.

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OliverTeglhus 11 on at

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Alright hopefully this will be added by Microsoft at some point.

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Hi @OliverTeglhus ,

I created your idea: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Ideas/Add-bot-as-a-user-that-can-be-contacted-through-Microsoft-Teams/idi-p/417507
Please, vote for us.

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OliverTeglhus 11 on at

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Thanks i voted for it. 🙂

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How is that not a feature yet? 🙂 You can connect it to Kik but not as a contact in Teams?!? - I'm looking forward to this also so I voted.

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