{"id":20032,"date":"2024-03-28T04:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T11:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/?p=20032"},"modified":"2024-03-28T04:31:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T11:31:59","slug":"bot-powered-viva-connections-extensibility-supported-for-teams-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/bot-powered-viva-connections-extensibility-supported-for-teams-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bot Powered Viva Connections extensibility supported for Teams Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce improved support in Microsoft Teams solutions for the <strong>Bot Powered Viva Connections extensibility<\/strong> which initially was <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/general-availability-of-viva-connections-extensibility-with-bots\/\">released<\/a> in early 2024. Bot Framework powered Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) will become automatically available in the Viva Connections as cards for adding to the dashboard. There is <em>no explicit install required<\/em>\u00a0of the Teams application containing the Bot Powered ACEs.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoftteams\/platform\/resources\/schema\/manifest-schema\">Microsoft Teams manifest version 1.17<\/a>, you can define the required card configuration in the solution manifest, which will then result the extension to get deployed. 1.17 is currently in dev preview status (when this blog post released) and is expected to get released during April 2024. When 1.17 is officially released, it will be also supported for the Microsoft Teams solutions in the store, enabling marketplace solutions to take advantage of bot powered Viva Connections extensibility.<\/p>\n<p>See the following documentation for more details around publishing Bot Powered Adaptive Card Extensions to marketplace.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev\/spfx\/viva\/bot-powered\/publish-to-marketplace-overview\">Publishing Bot Powered Adaptive Card Extensions to the market place<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the key changes in the Teams manifest related on the Viva Connections dashboard support &#8211; notice the new <em>dashboardCards<\/em> element.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/03\/Bot-Powered-ACEs-Market-Place-ValidManifest.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20048 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/03\/Bot-Powered-ACEs-Market-Place-ValidManifest-986x1024.png\" alt=\"Image Bot Powered ACEs Market Place ValidManifest\" width=\"640\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/03\/Bot-Powered-ACEs-Market-Place-ValidManifest-986x1024.png 986w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/03\/Bot-Powered-ACEs-Market-Place-ValidManifest-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/03\/Bot-Powered-ACEs-Market-Place-ValidManifest-768x798.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/03\/Bot-Powered-ACEs-Market-Place-ValidManifest-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/03\/Bot-Powered-ACEs-Market-Place-ValidManifest.png 1036w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"whats-sharepoint-framework\">What\u2019s Bot Powered Viva Connections extensibility \ud83e\udd16<i class=\"fabric-icon fabric-icon--Link\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/h3>\n<p>Bot Powered Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) for Microsoft Viva Connections can be used to build custom experiences for the Microsoft Viva Connections Dashboard using the Bot development model. Bot Powered ACEs are an addition to the already existing Viva Connections extensibility model, which is based on SharePoint Framework (SPFx) components.<\/p>\n<p>Objective of the Bot Powered ACEs is to enable existing Microsoft Teams developers, with existing bot implementations, extend their bot implementations to be available in the Viva Connections. Bot Powered ACEs are packaged using the Microsoft Teams solution model, enabling the same bot to be used in both Microsoft Teams and in Microsoft Viva Connections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/bot-powered-aces-teams-viva.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18269\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/bot-powered-aces-teams-viva.png\" alt=\"Image bot powered aces teams viva\" width=\"801\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/bot-powered-aces-teams-viva.png 801w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/bot-powered-aces-teams-viva-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/bot-powered-aces-teams-viva-768x456.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is Microsoft Viva Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft Viva Connections is a branded app experience in Microsoft Teams that provides a gateway to employee experiences. It allows you to curate the content and tools you want to deliver to your workers, such as data, tasks, news, communications, people, and resources. You can extend Microsoft Viva Connections using either widely adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/spfx\">SharePoint Framework<\/a> or with <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.botframework.com\/\">bot framework<\/a>. Viva Connection is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-viva\">Microsoft Viva suite<\/a> which is the employee experiences platform at Microsoft 365.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/viva-connections-experiences.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18267\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/viva-connections-experiences.png\" alt=\"Image viva connections experiences\" width=\"1199\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/viva-connections-experiences.png 1199w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/viva-connections-experiences-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/viva-connections-experiences-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/02\/viva-connections-experiences-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre tabindex=\"0\"><\/pre>\n<h2 id=\"additional-resources-and-support\">Additional resources and support \ud83e\udd1d<i class=\"fabric-icon fabric-icon--Link\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/h2>\n<p>See following references on more details and guidance on Viva Connections extensibility and on building Bot powered Viva Connections extensibility.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev\/spfx\/viva\/overview-viva-connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overview of Viva Connections Extensibility<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev\/spfx\/viva\/bot-powered\/overview-bot-powered-aces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overview of Bot Powered Adaptive Card Extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev\/spfx\/viva\/bot-powered\/understanding-bot-powered-aces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Understanding Bot Powered Adaptive Card Extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev\/spfx\/viva\/bot-powered\/building-your-first-bot-powered-ace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building your first Bot Powered Adaptive Card Extension<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev\/spfx\/viva\/bot-powered\/authn-and-authz-in-bot-powered-aces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authentication and Authorization in Bot Powered Adaptive Card Extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev\/spfx\/viva\/bot-powered\/publish-to-marketplace-overview\">Publishing Bot Powered Adaptive Card Extensions to the market place<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-viva\/connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Viva Connections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pnp\/viva-dev-bot-powered-aces\">Bot Powered Adaptive Card extension samples in GitHub<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are looking to build experiences for <span class=\"brand\">Microsoft 365<\/span>, we strongly recommend joining our community calls and other <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/community\/home\"><span class=\"brand\">Microsoft 365<\/span> &amp; Power Platform Community<\/a> activities covering Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Microsoft Viva, OneDrive, SharePoint and more&#8230; More details here <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/community\/home\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/community\/home<\/a> \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>And, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Microsoft365Dev\">Twitter<\/a> or in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/microsoft365dev\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> to stay up to date on Microsoft 365 Platform announcements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Happy coding! Sharing is caring!\u00a0<a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.1.0\/svg\/1f9e1.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Lightbox image, click or press enter to enlarge\" data-featherlight=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.1.0\/svg\/1f9e1.svg\" alt=\"\ud83e\udde1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bot powered Viva Connections extensibility is now supported in Microsoft Teams solutions. Market place support is coming within April 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69217,"featured_media":20061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,128,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-365-developer","category-microsoft-teams","category-microsoft-viva"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Bot powered Viva Connections extensibility is now supported in Microsoft Teams solutions. 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