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sample	This sample shows a feature where user can schedule a recurring task and get the reminder at scheduled time.	office-teams office office-365	nodejs	contentType createdDate samples 11/24/2021 12:00:00 AM	officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-bot-daily-task-reminder-nodejs

Bot task reminder

This sample shows a feature where user can schedule a recurring task and get the reminder at scheduled time.

Interaction with app

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.
• To test locally, you'll need Ngrok installed on your development machine. Make sure you've downloaded and installed Ngrok on your local machine. ngrok will tunnel requests from the Internet to your local computer and terminate the SSL connection from Teams.

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 AAD app registraion and it will generate MicrosoftAppId and MicrosoftAppPassword for you.

• 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 your app registration in Azure portal, you will create an App ID and App password - make sure you keep these for later.

2. Setup NGROK
   Run ngrok - point to port 3978

   ngrok http -host-header=rewrite 3978

3. Setup for code

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git

• In the folder where repository is cloned navigate to samples/bot-daily-task-reminder/nodejs

• Install node modules

  Inside nodejs folder, open your local terminal and run the below command to install node modules. You can do the same in Visual studio code terminal by opening the project in Visual studio code

  npm install

• Update the .env configuration file in your project folder for the bot to use the MicrosoftAppId, MicrosoftAppPassword (Note the MicrosoftAppId is the AppId created while doing AAD app registration in Azure portal, the MicrosoftAppPassword is referred to as the "client secret" generated while creating Secret in AAD app registration. BaseUrl with application base url. For e.g., your ngrok url https://xxx.ngrok.io

• Run your app

  npm start

4. Setup Manifest for Teams

   • Edit the manifest.json contained in the appPackage/ folder to replace with your MicrosoftAppId (that was created in step1.1 and is the same value of MicrosoftAppId in .env file) 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)
   • Relace {{domain-name}} with base Url 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
   • Upload the manifest.zip to Teams (in the left-bottom Apps view, click "Upload a custom app")

Running the sample

Type command create-reminder to get card for scheduling the recurring task:

Click on schedule task button to open task module for scheduling a task:

Once task is scheduled, you will be notified about the task at scheduled time:

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

• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• Activity processing
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• .NET Core CLI tools
• Azure CLI
• Azure Portal
• Language Understanding using LUIS
• Channels and Bot Connector Service