Securing API requests from Kaizala action

Kaizala Developer Platform team May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018 05/31/18

There are scenarios where you may want to query your service from within the Kaizala card. While the APIs to be queried are public (without any authentication), you can query them directly. But, in case you want to secure your APIs to make sure the calls are made by the particular user from within the Kaizala card alone – you use the ...

Kaizala extensibility training available now on Microsoft Virtual Academy

Kaizala Developer Platform team May 14, 2018 May 14, 2018 05/14/18

Kaizala Extensibility training is now available as a course on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) click here – which has the videos as well as the slides. Kaizala Extensibility Course information The Kaizala Developer Platform offers multiple ways to integrate and extend Kaizala to suit your organizational needs. You can use Connectors to ...

Replying to a Kaizala message or action

Kaizala Developer Platform team May 3, 2018 May 3, 2018 05/3/18

In this post, I will introduce the replyToReferenceId property that enables you to reply to a message or action (attachment, custom card, image, etc.) on Kaizala group. This is required when you want to have a threaded conversation using API [or] bot scenario where you want to reply to a specific user query. For this example, you start with...

Exploring Kaizala card view scenarios

Kaizala Developer Platform team April 16, 2018 Apr 16, 2018 04/16/18

In the Developing a custom action for Kaizala blog post, I introduced Kaizala custom actions – which has 4 views (creation view, chat card view, response view and results / summary view). In this post, I'll explore different scenarios where each of the views can be used for a different purpose. While this post intends to give you an idea of ...

Developing a custom action for Kaizala

Kaizala Developer Platform team April 14, 2018 Apr 14, 2018 04/14/18

Kaizala ships with many actions out of box allowing you to get work done within the context of a conversation or group [read more]. Few of them are surveys, quick poll, request location, announcement, etc. But there could be a case(s) where these are not sufficient for your business or requirements and you may want to build your own action. ...

Flow scenario #5: Send a document to new member on joining group

Kaizala Developer Platform team March 7, 2018 Mar 7, 2018 03/7/18

In a Managed Hub and Spoke group (Public Group) created for any event, it is a common requirement to send a message / document to the member who joins the group. I have picked up a case where a member joining the group would be sent a brochure (document) on joining the group. In order to achieve this in Flow, I would need to do the follow the ...