MS Teams bot - create conversation in newly created Group returns 405 BadArgument

Question

I'm trying to create new convesation for just created channel using Nodejs + botframework v4.9.2.

I've

created new Channel using POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/teams/${teamId}/channels
new tab using POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/teams/${req.teamId}/channels/${req.channelId}/tabs
I can see new channel and tab in Teams UI
trying to create new conversation via Conversations.createConversation from bot sdk, it's basically calling POST https://directline.botframework.com/v3/conversations with passing new channel id and getting 405 BadArgument This channel does not support this operation

I'm running bot locally and proxying via ngrok. Also I can access GET /v3/conversations.

Updated code

Get Team Memebers GET ${graphUrl}/groups/${teamId}/members

Create new Channel

const createChannelRequest: IGraphCreateChannelBody = {
    "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Teams.Core.channel",
    displayName: channelName,
    description: `This channel is for incident id : ${incidentId}`,
    members: membersIds.map(memberId => (
        {
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
            "[email protected]": `https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('${memberId}')`,
            roles: ["owner"]
        }
    ))
};

return await graphClient.createChannel(teamId, createChannelRequest);

createChannel is basically POST ${graphUrl}/teams/${teamId}/channels

Create new Tab POST ${graphUrl}/teams/${req.teamId}/channels/${req.channelId}/tabs where channelId is createChannelResponse.id

Create new conversation

const client = new BotConnector.ConnectorClient(credentials, {baseUri: serviceUrl});
const {bot} = TurnContext.getConversationReference(activity);
const createConversationResponse = await client.conversations.createConversation({
    bot,
    activity: incidentActivity,
    members: teamMembers.value.map(member => ({
        id: member.id,
        name: member.displayName
    })),
    channelData: {
        channel: {
            id: newIncidentChannelId
        },
        tenant: {
            id: tenantId
        }
    },
    isGroup: true
});

where createConversation fails with 405

Is your bot actually installed into the channel? If not, it won't be able to initiate a conversation — Hilton Giesenow
ah, in that case, you don't need to "createConversation", you'd want "SendToConversation", because the conversation exists already. — Hilton Giesenow
@HiltonGiesenow sorry I might have explained it not clearly. I've installed bot to the team. I'm trying to create new group and send there some message. From my understanding I should create new converstaion for newly created group. I can't use sendToConversation since I don't have existing one. — user1469253
@user1469253 - We can see that you're using a Direct Line endpoint. That means the connector client for your Conversations object must have a Direct Line base URI. Can you give us an actual code sample that shows how you're constructing these objects? (Since there are multiple other people in this thread, you will need to @ mention me if you want me to see your reply.) — Kyle Delaney

Hilton Giesenow Hilton Giesenow · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-16T08:20:27

[Posting a complete answer, based on the comments above]

There's no need (and it won't work), in the context of Teams, to use createConversation, because the conversation is created the moment the Team/Channel/Group chat itself is created (createConversation exists for other Bot Framework scenarios, and is not applicable for Teams). As a result SendToConversation is the correct operation to use.

As to how to use SendToConversation, there are certain important variables you need to have already your side, and the most common time to get these is when your bot is added to the channel/chat/whatever in the first place. You can read more about that here, but more generally, this is considered something called "proactive" messaging, in Teams, and it's worth reading up on that topic more. Please see here and here as good starting points.

MS Teams bot - create conversation in newly created Group returns 405 BadArgument

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