Microsoft Teams Notification

A GitHub Action that sends customizable notifications to a dedicated Microsoft Teams channel.

All credit to jdcargile the original creator of this action.

Table of Contents

1. Usage
2. Examples
3. Emojis
4. View Pull Requests & Reviews

Usage

1. Add MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URI on your repository's configs on Settings > Secrets. It is the Webhook URI of the dedicated Microsoft Teams channel for notification.

2. Add a new step on your workflow code below actions/checkout@v2:

   name: MS Teams Notification
   
   on: [push, pull_request]
   
   jobs:
     build:
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
   
       steps:
         - uses: actions/checkout@v2
         # this is the new step using the ms-teams-notification action
         - name: Notify dedicated teams channel
           uses: djthornton1212/ms-teams-notification@v1.3
           with:
             custom-facts: 
               - name: Fact 1
                 value: The fact to communicate
               - name: Fact 2
                 value: The next fact to communicate
               - name: ...
                 value: ...
             description: Text description to be communicated under titile
             github-token: ${{ github.token }} # will use the runner's token.
             ms-teams-webhook-uri: ${{ secrets.MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URI }}
             notification-summary: Your custom notification message 
             notification-color: 17a2b8
             timezone: America/Denver
             view-commit-changes: true 
             view-pull-request: true
             view-workflow-run: true

3. Make it your own with the following configurations.

   • custom-facts: - (optional) A yaml list of facts to be added to the card. Credit to toko-bifrost/ms-teams-deploy-card
   • description: - (optional) Text to describe the card.
   • github-token: - (required), set to the following:
     • ${{ github.token }}
   • ms-teams-webhook-uri: - (required), setup a new secret to store your Microsoft Teams Webhook URI (ex. MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URI). Learn more about setting up GitHub Secrets or Microsoft Teams Incoming Webhook.
   • notification-summary: (required), Your custom notification message (ex. Deployment Started or Build Successful)
   • notification-color: (optional), Custom color to help distinguish type of notification. Can be any HEX color. (ex. 007bff or 17a2b8 for info, 28a745 success, ffc107 warning, dc3545 error, etc.)
   • timezone: - (optional) Defaults to UTC), a valid database timezone name, (ex. Australia/Sydney or America/Denver, etc.)
   • view-commit-changes: (optional) Activates view commit changes button on card.
   • view-pull-request: (optional) Activates view pull request button on card.
   • view-workflow-run: (optional) Activates view workflow run button on card.

Examples

As you can see below, the notification-summary and notification-color are being used to customize the appearance of the message. Use bright vibrant colors to notify your Microsoft Teams channel of warnings, errors or notices in your GitHub Actions workflow.

Emojis

Emoji support isn't great for incoming webhooks on Microsoft Teams yet. You can hack your way through it using HEX codes. For example, in notification-summary I used Emojify! &#x1F6A2​​ ✅ for the following screenshot. HEX codes for emojis here.

View Pull Request and Review

Below is a screenshot with the view-pull-request active for both a pull and a code review & facts active: