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User authentication tokens in test environment

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Posted on by StephanPirson 29

According to this: Add user authentication to chatbot topics - Power Virtual Agents | Microsoft Learn

I'm supposed to have an AuthToken variable available if Teams is the channel.

 

I'm building PVA, but those variables are not available at all in variable menu

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My channel is "teams", the bot was created from the teams interface before opening it in web.powerva.com

In the security/authentication, I have 

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Am I doing something wrong, what is the expected pattern for developing/testing this functionality?

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    HenryJammes Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @StephanPirson 


    The authentication token is only available for the manual authentication. If you use "Only for Teams or Power Apps" you only get the user name and user id variables.


    If the bot was created in "PVA for Teams", I don’t think that option is available.

     

    Henry

     

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