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I hit the wall after I successfully published my chatbot to MS Teams through Availabilty Options/Show to everyone in my organization.

 

After that I made some changes to the chatbot, published it again and published new version of the bot to MS Teams. However as per image below, new version of the bot has the same version number as the current one and that's not acceptable for the Teams, at least in my case. In Teams admin center there's an error stating that "This update needs a new app version number. ..."

 

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If anyone can help I would really apprecitae.

Thanks.

 

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    SteamyCutie 2 on at
    Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot
    I was able to resolve it when I opened the ZIP file for the chatbot, edit the manifest(JSON) file and edit it on a notepad, look for the version ("version":"1.0.1"), and just changed it there, then save it and replace the manifest file from the zip - on MS Teams app, it wont accept the same version when you upload the file and changing it from the JSON file and uploading it again worked for me. 
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    xs4bharat on at
    Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot
    any idea about this ?
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    MarkShark 39 on at
    Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot
    @johncarloi,
     
    unfortunately, no. I have to cope with the fact that after once is published, don't touch it :-)
     
    Regards,
    Marko
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    johncarloi 20 on at
    Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot
    Hi @MarkShark,
     
    May I know if you somehow found a solution to update the version of your bot?
    I'm currently experiencing the same issue now. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you! 
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    natalia 26 on at
    Re: Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot

    Interesting question 😂

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    MarkShark 39 on at
    Re: Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot

    Needless to say what's the purpose of versioning in Copilot Studio if it doesn't version 😂

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    MarkShark 39 on at
    Re: Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot

    thank you so much @natalia !!!

     

    I changed the description and that's the reason that simply re-publishing it didn't change anything on MS app itself.

     

    Kind regards, Marko

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    natalia 26 on at
    Re: Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot

    In this case, if the chatbot is already published and you haven’t changed its name/icon/description, you don’t need to resend the installation file. Just click ‘Publish’ to publish the new content:

    natalia_0-1715857117226.png

    Obs: it may take some time for the changes to be replicated, but you can access the chatbot on Teams and restart the conversation to get the fresh updates.

     

    But, if the data name/icon/description have been changed, it is necessary to reinstall the app in Teams and manually change the version. I went through this once and could only change the version by manually editing the installation package, as shown before 😕

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    MarkShark 39 on at
    Re: Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot

    Thank you @natalia for your quick reply. I was aware of this but I'm not installing the bot manually. I just publish it through Channels/MS Teams/Availability options/Show to everyone in my org/Submit for admin approval.

    Next step is publishing it in MS Teams Admin:

    MarkShark_0-1715843160763.png

    As I'm aware I don't have the option that you describe in this scenario.

     

    Did I miss something ?

     

    Thanks !

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    natalia 26 on at
    Re: Changing version of Copilot Studio ChatBot

    Open your teamsApp.zip file and locate manifest.json inside it:

     

    natalia_0-1715793801297.png

     

    Manually change the version to "1.0.1", save and try to upload the *.zip package again 🙂

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