Microsoft Teams
The Microsoft Teams connector provides connectivity to Microsoft Teams application.
Before you begin
Before using the Microsoft Teams connector, do the following tasks:
- In your Google Cloud project:
- Ensure that network connectivity is set up. For information about network patterns, see Network connectivity.
- Grant the roles/connectors.admin IAM role to the user configuring the connector.
- Grant the following IAM roles to the service account that you want to use for the connector:
roles/secretmanager.viewer
roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor
A service account is a special type of Google account intended to represent a non-human user that needs to authenticate and be authorized to access data in Google APIs. If you don't have a service account, you must create a service account. For more information, see Creating a service account.
- Enable the following services:
secretmanager.googleapis.com
(Secret Manager API)connectors.googleapis.com
(Connectors API)
To understand how to enable services, see Enabling services.
If these services or permissions have not been enabled for your project previously, you are prompted to enable them when configuring the connector.
Configure the connector
Configuring the connector requires you to create a connection to your data source (backend system). A connection is specific to a data source. It means that if you have many data sources, you must create a separate connection for each data source. To create a connection, do the following steps:
- In the Cloud console, go to the Integration Connectors > Connections page and then select or create a Google Cloud project.
- Click + CREATE NEW to open the Create Connection page.
- In the Location section, choose the location for the connection.
- Region: Select a location from the drop-down list.
For the list of all the supported regions, see Locations.
- Click Next.
- Region: Select a location from the drop-down list.
- In the Connection Details section, complete the following:
- Connector: Select Microsoft Teams from the drop down list of available Connectors.
- Connector version: Select the Connector version from the drop down list of available versions.
- In the Connection Name field, enter a name for the Connection instance.
Connection names must meet the following criteria:
- Connection names can use letters, numbers, or hyphens.
- Letters must be lower-case.
- Connection names must begin with a letter and end with a letter or number.
- Connection names cannot exceed 63 characters.
- Optionally, enter a Description for the connection instance.
- Service Account: Select a service account that has the required roles.
- Enter the Azure-Tenant for the connection instance.
- Optionally,select Include All Groups to include all the groups in your organization
- Optionally, configure the Connection node settings:
- Minimum number of nodes: Enter the minimum number of connection nodes.
- Maximum number of nodes: Enter the maximum number of connection nodes.
A node is a unit (or replica) of a connection that processes transactions. More nodes are required to process more transactions for a connection and conversely, fewer nodes are required to process fewer transactions. To understand how the nodes affect your connector pricing, see Pricing for connection nodes. If you don't enter any values, by default the minimum nodes are set to 2 (for better availability) and the maximum nodes are set to 50.
- SSL Configuration: Select Public(Default) from the trust models.
- Click Next.
- In the Authentication section, complete the following:
- Client ID: The client ID used for requesting access tokens.
- Scopes: A comma-separated list of desired scopes
- Client Secret: Secret Manager Secret containing the client secret for the connected app you created.
- Secret version: The version of the secret that contains the client secret.
- Authorization URL: Authorization URL generated when creating client.
- Click Next.
- Review: Review your connection and authentication details.
- Click Create.
For the
Authorization code
authentication type, after creating the connection, you must perform a few additional steps for configuring authentication. For more information, see Additional steps after connection creation.Additional steps after connection creation
If you selected
OAuth 2.0 - Authorization code
for authentication, you must do the following additional steps after creating the connection:- In the Connections page,
locate the newly created connection.
Notice that the Status for the new connector will be Authorization required.
- Click Authorization required.
This shows the Edit authorization pane.
- Copy the Redirect URI value to your external application.
- Verify the authorization details.
- Click Authorize.
If the authorization is successful, the connection status will be set to Active in the Connections page.
Re-authorization for authorization code
If you are using
Authorization code
authentication type and have made any cofiguration changes in your application, you must re-authorize your Microsoft Teams connection. To re-authorize a connection, perform the following steps:- Click on the required connection in the Connections page.
This opens the connection details page.
- Click Edit to edit the connection details.
- Verify the OAuth 2.0 - Authorization code details in the Authentication section.
If required, make the necessary changes.
- Click Save. This takes you to the connection details page.
- Click Edit authorization in the Authentication section. This shows the Authorize pane.
- Click Authorize.
If the authorization is successful, the connection status will be set to Active in the Connections page.
System limitations
The Microsoft Teams connector can process 30 transactions per minute, per node for the List Operation for
Team Members, Times Off, Channels, and Chats
entities, and throttles any transactions beyond this limit.By default, Integration Connectors allocates 2 nodes (for better availability) for a connection.
For information on the limits applicable to Integration Connectors, see Limits.
Entities, operations, and actions
All the Integration Connectors provide a layer of abstraction for the objects of the connected application. You can access an application's objects only through this abstraction. The abstraction is exposed to you as entities, operations, and actions.
- Entity: An entity can be thought of as an object, or a collection of properties, in the
connected application or service. The definition of an entity differs from a connector to a
connector. For example, in a database connector, tables are the entities, in a
file server connector, folders are the entities, and in a messaging system connector,
queues are the entities.
However, it is possible that a connector doesn't support or have any entities, in which case the
Entities
list will be empty. - Operation: An operation is the activity that you can perform on an entity. You can perform
any of the following operations on an entity:
Selecting an entity from the available list, generates a list of operations available for the entity. For a detailed description of the operations, see the Connectors task's entity operations. However, if a connector doesn't support any of the entity operations, such unsupported operations aren't listed in the
Operations
list. - Action: An action is a first class function that is made available to the integration
through the connector interface. An action lets you make changes to an entity or entities, and
vary from connector to connector. Normally, an action will have some input parameters, and an output
parameter. However, it is possible
that a connector doesn't support any action, in which case the
Actions
list will be empty.
Action examples
This section shows how to perform some of the actions operations in this connector.
Example - Actions
This example sends a message to a specific
Chat
entity.- In the
Configure connector task
dialog, clickActions
. - Select
SendMessage
from theActions
list. - Select the
Actions
operation, and then click Done. - In the Task Input section of the Connectors task, click
connectorInputPayload
and then enter a value similar to the following in theDefault Value
field:{ "TeamId": "cc110f3f-3088-4b4c-b965-e1f3e0a2dfab", "ChannelId": "19%3a7680178ef3ab4b1eb762a7078b990083%40thread.tacv2", "Content": "Hello Guys Lets play" }
Entity operation examples
This section shows how to perform some of the entity operations in this connector.
Example - List all records
This example lists all the records in the
Channel Members
entity.- In the
Configure connector task
dialog, clickEntities
. - Select
Channel Members
from theEntity
list. - Select the
List
operation, and then click Done. - Optionally, in Task Input section of the Connectors task, you can
filter your result set by specifying a filter clause. Specify
the filter clause value always within the single quotes ('). For example,
Id='13b1724a91ce448bad2f1986321fc70f'
. You can also specify multiple filter conditions by using the logic operators. For example,Id='13b1724a91ce448bad2f1986321fc70f' and Inactive=false
.
Example - Get a record
This example gets a record with the specified ID from the
Chats
entity.- In the
Configure connector task
dialog, clickEntities
. - Select
Chats
from theEntity
list. - Select the
Get
operation, and then click Done. - In the Task Input section of the Connectors task, click EntityId and
then enter
19:1956432abc05491bb26f51f9f7263020@thread.v2
in the Default Value field.Here,
19:1956432abc05491bb26f51f9f7263020@thread.v2
is a primary key value in theChats
entity.
Example - Create a record
This example creates a record in the
Group Owners
entity.- In the
Configure connector task
dialog, clickEntities
. - Select
Group Owners
from theEntity
list. - Select the
Create
operation, and then click Done. - In the Task Input section of the Connectors task, click
connectorInputPayload
and then enter a value similar to the following in theDefault Value
field:{ "GroupId": "1356c566-d799-4d49-86c0-b09ab6afdb47", "MemberId": "caf19b29-3af1-4191-b455-16468e6aba4b" }
If the integration is successful, your connector task's
connectorOutputPayload
field will have a value similar to the following:{ "Id": "c3c68bc9a1343242443ca8e5ddcaa0000" }
Example - Update a record
This example updates the record with the specified ID in the
Teams
entity.- In the
Configure connector task
dialog, clickEntities
. - Select
Teams
from theEntity
list. - Select the
Update
operation, and then click Done. - In the Task Input section of the Connectors task, click
connectorInputPayload
and then enter a value similar to the following in theDefault Value
field:{ "displayName": "My Team Name Changed", "description": "Changed the description for my team" }
- Click filterClause, and then enter
id = '953933bc-1024-4ce7-84dc-bae7f24dc2ca'
in the Default Value field.
Example - Delete a record
This example deletes the record with the specified ID in the
Group Owners
entity.- In the
Configure connector task
dialog, clickEntities
. - Select
Group Owners
from theEntity
list. - Select the
Delete
operation, and then click Done.
Use terraform to create connections
You can use the Terraform resource to create a new connection.To learn how to apply or remove a Terraform configuration, see Basic Terraform commands.
To view a sample terraform template for connection creation, see sample template.
When creating this connection by using Terraform, you must set the following variables in your Terraform configuration file:
Parameter name Data type Required Description default_queue_name STRING False The name of the default queue, may be overridden when executing action. default_topic_name STRING False The name of the default topic, may be overridden when executing action. Bucket STRING True The name of the bucket inside the project where tibjms.jar resides. Object ID STRING True The name of the .jar file inside the bucket. Use the Microsoft Teams connection in an integration
After you create the connection, it becomes available in both Apigee Integration and Application Integration. You can use the connection in an integration through the Connectors task.
- To understand how to create and use the Connectors task in Apigee Integration, see Connectors task.
- To understand how to create and use the Connectors task in Application Integration, see Connectors task.
Get help from the Google Cloud community
You can post your questions and discuss this connector in the Google Cloud community at Cloud Forums.What's next
- Understand how to suspend and resume a connection.
- Understand how to monitor connector usage.
- Understand how to view connector logs.