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Action: Send message

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Send message action allows to send a chat message in specified channel or to the user's personal chat in Microsoft Teams. To use this action you need to install skybow Solution Communicator for MS Teams.

Example of Send message action configuration on the current site

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For more information about Action Builder read Action Builder introduction article.

Note 1: In order to use the Send message action in Scheduled/Triggered Actions skybow Teams Connector has to be approved by a tenant administrator and site has to be added to Approved sites list before this action can be used. Learn more about skybow M365 Connectors
Note 2: When you deploy the solution to another SharePoint tenant, it requires approval of skybow Teams Connector on the deployment tenant as well. 

To configure the action Send message additional properties should be specified:

Configuration

Property Required Type Description
Send message to yes String

There are several options to send the message in Microsoft Teams:

  • Channel - message will be send in chat in the channel 
  • User - message will be send to specified user in chat
  • Custom Value - expression based value (the result should return a valid value of possible options) 
Team yes String Specify the Id or the name of the team
Channel yes String Specify the Id or the name of the channel
Users yes String Email addresses or an expression to be evaluated as the email addresses to be used as receivers of the message. The email addresses can be separated by semicolons or commas (";" or “,”).
Message yes String Actual message to be sent. You can type text directly into the Message field or use Expressions to dynamically generate this.
Message is an adaptive card no Boolean
  • Yes. How to configure Adaptive card in Send message action you can read here.
  • No.
  • Custom Value - expression based value (the result should return true or false)
    *

 

Placeholders

  • [[@Functions.Mention('people picker field with one or many users')]] - this placeholder is available only in Send message action (Context->Functions) and allows you to use only placeholders (i.e. [[@Functions.Mention([[SinglePerson]])]]).
  • @mention('email') or @mention('email', 'displayName') - you can use this placeholder to mention someone in the message. This placeholder can be used in Send message action only.

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Availability

Modern Forms List Actions Scheduled/Triggered Actions
- - ✓

 

Output

Output Parameter Type Description
TeamId String Returns the Id of the team
ChannelId String Returns the Id of the channel
UserEmails String Returns the email(s) of the receiver(s) of the message
Message String Returns the message that was sent

 

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