Is there a way to add custom text handlers in Microsoft Teams? For example when I Type @ in chat then I can pick from users. Similarly want to bind a key to another option when I can lookup something from our web service and add it to the chat window. Following documentation describes how to write connectors for Microsoft Teams but doesn't say anything about what I am looking for.
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Down voters at least put some effort to explain what's wrong with this. If you think I am not doing something right here then you guys are doing it worst as nobody knows what's going on in mind of your that's causing you grief.
– Mayank
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mayank, the closest direct thing to what you want is what we call compose extensions. That feature is in preview and is available here. That will let you call a web service and interactively show results from a search in a popup list, not unlike our Giphy integration.
Under the covers, it's a special kind of bot as mark-lafleur-msft described. With a bot, the difference is that the results from the web service don't appear in a popup window.
Last but not least, the simplest way of all, if all you want to do is execute commands from within a channel and return information, is to create a "Custom Bot" (similar to an "Outgoing webhook" in Slack). Details here.
Hope that helps.
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What you're describing here is what Bots in Teams are intended for. Once built, you simply reference the bot by @botname and your query: @botname look up something from web service.
