Proactive messaging with prompt buttons - Microsoft Bot Framework

Question

I've been playing around with proactive messaging, but I'm not sure how to achieve something like this. I've got a service that messages users products on a daily basis. Using a resumption cookie I call an end point, build a response by setting the .Text property and create the carousel of products by populating the .Attachments property. I want to add buttons to this message to allow a user to stop the alerts, but the only event a CardAction button allows is opening an URL in a web browser. Is there a way of creating a button which can trigger a method, or call a new dialog?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You can just use the ImBack or PostBack ActionTypes on the CardAction. Clicking on a button when using any of those, will send a message to the conversation with the Value of the action that will end up arriving to the method you are "waiting" (by doing context.Wait(...));

Then, in that method you can do whatever you want: call a new dialog or any other logic you want to trigger.

In the ContosoFlowers sample you can see how a card with buttons is used in that way.