Config Outlook as a Channel for Bot Service

[MuyangAmigo]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I want to develop a bot that also runs in the Outlook, right I can config the Azure Bot Service via Portal to include Outlook as well, but it's not possible to do this via Bicep. (Which my Bot Service and Configuration is provisioned using Bicep)

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to config my bot service with outlook as an channel in similar way to config Teams.

[alex-frankel]

My guess is the channelName name property is missing this allowed value, but it should still be possible to use that value if we can figure out what it is. I created one quickly, and from resources.azure.com, it looks like it is simply called outlook

So if you specify channelName: 'outlook', I would expect this to work.

[MuyangAmigo]

Hi, kindly follow up on this - is there any update on this issue? Thanks!

[alex-frankel]

Did you try using channelName: 'outlook' and did that work as expected?

I'm not sure when the type information will get updated for this as it is dependent on the RP team providing it, but it should not block you from making progress.

[MuyangAmigo]

Thanks for your response! Seems outlook is still not an allowed value to be entered.

There is a workaround like what you mentioned (Thanks for that!), but our team is building tooling for developing applications for Teams that will generate bicep templates that help with provisioning bot service etc.

Are you suggesting we should reach out to the corresponding RP (bot service I assume) team for this kind of issue?

[alex-frankel]

Yes, the bot service team needs to update their REST API spec to include this enum value for this property.

[jiaxuwu2021]

we have alread created a pull request [BotService] Add OutlookChannel to channelNames Azure/azure-rest-api-specs#18149

[alex-frankel]

Closing this issue. We will track the azure-rest-api-specs PR.

[MuyangAmigo]

Hey @alex-frankel , I see Azure/azure-rest-api-specs#18149 has been merged, would bicep be automatically updated if so, which version should I use? I have tried Microsoft.BotService/botServices/channels@2021-05-01-preview seems like we cannot find outlook in available channel yet.

[alex-frankel]

Interesting - I don't see this channel either on Bicep v0.5.6 and our most recent release was 12 days ago and this swagger change was checked in 14 days ago.

It is possible we just missed it and generated the types a few days before our release and before this got merged.

@shenglol / @majastrz -- does that sound right? If so, then this will get picked up when we release Bicep v0.6 at the end of the month.

Repro:

resource botParent 'Microsoft.BotService/botServices@2021-05-01-preview' = {
  name: 'foo'

  resource bot 'channels' = {
    name: // open completions here
  }
}

[shenglol]

That's right. The types were generated before the rest API spec PR got merged.

[MuyangAmigo]

Thanks for the response @alex-frankel and @shenglol , seems like I can expect an updated on Bicep by end of April to pick up the latest swagger change from Bot Service?

[shenglol]

Yes.