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We noticed that the bot doesn't understand emoticons from users.

Is this a known limitation?

If i send the bot a 🙂 it comes back with:

Looks like you tried to send an attachment. Currently, I can only process text. Please try sending your message again without the attachment.

We are using PVA in MS Teams.

Any way around this? can emoticons be used as a trigger?

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  • Expiscornovus Profile Picture
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    Hi @BlueKangaroo,


    I think the difference is that in Teams it is trying to send RichText. Below would be the content if I was just sending a smile (I used developer toolbar to reflect the request of the Teams browser app). As you can see it is also attaching an image for the emoticon. 

     

    content: "<div><div><span class=\"animated-emoticon-50\" contenteditable=\"false\" title=\"Smile\" type=\"smile\"><img itemid=\"smile\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.skype.com/Emoji\" src=\"https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/evergreen-assets/personal-expressions/v1/assets/emoticons/smile/default/50_f.png?etag=v73\" style=\"width:50px;height:50px;\" alt=\"🙂\" /></span></div>\n</div>"
    contenttype: "text"
    messagetype: "RichText/Html"
    

     

    And with a DirectLine it is just text:

    text: ":)"
    textFormat: "plain"

     

    So, I would say it is Teams channel limitation. Unfortunately I haven't found any docs on supporting this, only this section:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/publication-fundamentals-publish-channels#channel-experience-reference-table

     

    Maybe somebody else knows and otherwise I suggest to also post it on the GitHub feedback section as well:

    https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/power-platform/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%229abcde53-21ea-8dc1-f756-1d3c358db08a%22&in=body

     

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