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This sample demos the feature of link unfurling for share to teams.
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14-12-2022 00:15:13
officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-app-link-unfurling-in-share-to-teams-nodejs

Link unfruling Share to teams sample

This sample demos the feature of link unfurling for share to teams (The Share to Teams feature allows site users to easily share a site and content to individual contacts or groups on Teams.).

Interaction with app

App linkunfurling in share to teams

Try it yourself - experience the App in your Microsoft Teams client

Please find below demo manifest which is deployed on Microsoft Azure and you can try it yourself by uploading the app package (.zip file link below) to your teams and/or as a personal app. (Sideloading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

App check-in location: Manifest

Prerequisites

  • Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account (not a guest account)
  • To test locally, NodeJS must be installed on your development machine (version 16.14.2 or higher)
  • ngrok or equivalent tunneling solution
  • M365 developer account or access to a Teams account with the appropriate permissions to install an app.

Setup

Note these instructions are for running the sample on your local machine, the tunnelling solution is required because the Teams service needs to call into the bot.

1. Setup for Bot

  • In Azure portal, create a Azure Bot resource.
  • Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel
  • While registering the bot, use https://<your_ngrok_url>/api/messages as the messaging endpoint. NOTE: When you create app registration, you will create an App ID and App password - make sure you keep these for later.

2. Setup NGROK

  1. Run ngrok - point to port 3978

    ngrok http -host-header=rewrite 3978

3. Setup for code

  1. Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git
  2. In a terminal, navigate to samples/app-link-unfurling-in-share-to-teams/nodejs

  3. Install modules

    npm install
  4. Update the .env configuration for the bot to use the MicrosoftAppId and MicrosoftAppPassword, BaseUrl with application base url. For e.g., your ngrok url. (Note the MicrosoftAppId is the AppId created in step 1 (Setup for Bot), the MicrosoftAppPassword is referred to as the "client secret" in step 1 (Setup for Bot) and you can always create a new client secret anytime.)

  5. Run your app

    npm start

4. Setup Manifest for Teams

  • This step is specific to Teams.
    • Edit the manifest.json contained in the ./AppPackage folder to replace your Microsoft App Id (that was created when you registered your app registration earlier) everywhere you see the place holder string {{Microsoft-App-Id}} (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json)
    • Edit the manifest.json for validDomains and replace {{domain-name}} with base Url of your domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be https://1234.ngrok.io then your domain-name will be 1234.ngrok.io.
    • Zip up the contents of the AppPackage folder to create a manifest.zip (Make sure that zip file does not contains any subfolder otherwise you will get error while uploading your .zip package)

Running the sample

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Link unfurling STT

Link unfurling success

Link unfurling card

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Link unfurling STT web

Deploy the bot to Azure

To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.

Further reading