Botframework-sdk: Not able to show a welcome message for skype bots using bot connector
I am using the nodejs version of the bot connector.
Our Skype bot was rejected during the review because it was not showing a welcome message.
I am right to say we cannot use bot connector to make Skype bots which can be published?
Right now the only way to make Publishable Skype bots is to use Skype SDK?
I saw #250 was closed saying that its an enhancement.
srisaiswaroop
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Hello srirsaiswaroop,
Actually, our current UX is a little misleading. Submitting a bot to the Microsoft Bot Framework only gets it reviewed for the Bot Framework directly. It neither enables your bot nor blocks it from being listed in another directory.
After you've created your bot in the bot framework (published or not) you can go to the Skype dev portal and submit for review within their portal.
We'll make this clearer in the future.
--jim
jameslew
on 18 May 2016
@jameslew the problem it's because when a user adds the bot, the bot doesn't received the message.type "BotAddedToConversation". So if you try to publish your bot on the Skype bot directory it's rejected because the bot has to show a welcome message.
judavi
on 29 May 2016
I'll look into this Judavi. We used to generate this event so something isn't working quite right, or alternately it's getting swallowed before it gets displayed.
jameslew
on 31 May 2016
Okay, we've fixed this; you now will get an event UserAddedToConversation when the Bot is added as a contact. We're going to look at additional events in the future that map to the Skype "contact added" event as this current mapping is mis-using the intent a little bit in order to get the desired behavior.
jameslew
on 2 Jun 2016
@jameslew sorry for the late response, today I being doing some tests and works great! also I notice that now it's working the other message types like "UserRemovedFromConversation" :+1:
judavi
on 19 Jun 2016
Closing this issue. Please open a new issue for further discussion if necessary. Thanks!
v-thgratMSGit
on 12 Jul 2016
Is there a reference for this feature in the NodeJS SDK?
stanleycyang
on 21 Oct 2016
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Okay, we've fixed this; you now will get an event UserAddedToConversation when the Bot is added as a contact. We're going to look at additional events in the future that map to the Skype "contact added" event as this current mapping is mis-using the intent a little bit in order to get the desired behavior.