How to send proactive messages with the help of continueConversationAsync method

[Jyothsna-2023]

Hi Team, I'm trying to send proactive messages in my bot. For this use case I have chosen the Teams toolkit - Basic bot template. Here is the code which is getting used to send the proactive message.

const currentUser = context.activity.from.id;
const conversationReferences[currentUser] = TurnContext.getConversationReference(context.activity);
const adapter = context.adapter;
await adapter.continueConversationAsync(config.botId, conversationReferences[currentUser], async (context) => {
await context.sendActivity("Hello");
});

The bot send the message for the first time and it get crashes. Can I know the proper way to get/pass on the turncontext to the bot to send the proactive messages.

Appreciate your help!

[aycabas]

Hi @Jyothsna-2023, can you share more details about the error you are getting when the app crashes.

Here is the documentation you can find more info about sending proactive messages with bots: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/conversations/send-proactive-messages?tabs=javascript

Sample code reference: https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples/blob/main/samples/graph-proactive-installation/nodejs/bots/proactiveBot.js#L59

[Jyothsna-2023]

Thanks @aycabas for the quick response.
I'm trying to send proactive messages on recurring basis for that I have used the toad-scheduler. Here is the code which get used to send the proactive messages.
const task = new AsyncTask(
'simpleTask',
() => {
try {
console.log("hello ");
adapter.continueConversationAsync(config.botId, conversationReferences[currentUser], async (context) => {
context.sendActivity("proactive message from bot");
});
}
catch (err) {
console.log(err);
}
return Promise.resolve();
}
);
const job = new SimpleIntervalJob(
{ minutes: this.timerObj.varTimer, runImmediately: true },
task,
{
id: 'id_1',
preventOverrun: true,
}
);
reminderScheduler.addSimpleIntervalJob(job);

Error screenshot:

[Jyothsna-2023]

I tried in separate method and end up with different error

By looking at both the errors, I understand that the turncontext object gets disposed after the message sent and I'm not able to figure out the way to get the valid turnContext object.

[Hisakaq8]

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