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SAP recently introduced the Microsoft Teams adapter as part of its SAP Integration Suite offering. This solution enables seamless integration between Microsoft Teams and SAP Integration Suite, improving communication and automating workflows.
Organizations can efficiently connect data from various sources to the Microsoft Teams platform, streamlining operations and significantly reducing the effort required to design and implement integration workflows.
What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that is designed to help organizations communicate and collaborate more effectively. Teams combine various tools for chat, video conferencing, file sharing, and task management, all in one place.
Key Benefits of using the Microsoft Teams Adapter
The Microsoft Teams Adapter provides the following key features:
- Supports standard operations on various Microsoft Teams resources like Channel, Team, Member, Message, and Chat.
- Supports authentication methods like OAuth2 Authorization Code and OAuth2 Client Credentials.
- Supports querying on resources to retrieve the desired output as per your requirements.
- Supports pagination using the Get Next Results Page operation.
- You can perform operations at the user level (Delegated Permission) and organization/admin level (Application Permission).
How to use the Microsoft Teams Adapter?
The Microsoft Teams adapter is available as part of your SAP Integration Suite license.
To use the adapter, you must first add it to your Integration Flow, add the required Connection parameters, and configure it as per your Processing requirements. Once you have configured the Microsoft Teams adapter, the SAP CI tenant enables data exchange at runtime by sending a request to the Microsoft Teams receiver system.
Finally, after processing this request, Microsoft Teams sends back the required data to SAP. The Microsoft Teams adapter can help you exchange the data between Microsoft Teams and other systems.
Let us look at a simple operation: adding members to a team in bulk in Microsoft Teams using the Microsoft Teams Adapter for SAP Integration Suite.
Adding members in bulk to a team
Our example illustrates how the Microsoft Teams Adapter allows you to add the team member in bulk. The integration flow begins with a client initiating a request to an endpoint to send the member information to Microsoft Teams.
Request Payload Setup using Content Modifier
We use a Content Modifier to include the request payload that provides the information about the users to be added as members to the team. The request body shown above demonstrates how two users can be added to the team.
Users can be specified in the body by either their User IDs or their principal names. A combination of both methods is used in the body above. This approach allows for adding up to 200 members to a team, all of which can be specified in the request body.
How to Connect to Microsoft Teams?
The connection tab contains the following fields:
Parameter | Description |
Address | Specify the address for the Microsoft Teams service. Default: https://graph.microsoft.com |
Authentication | Select the authentication method and permission type: 'Delegated' for user-level access, 'Application' for app-level access.
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Credential Name | Specify the security artifact for the selected authentication type to connect to the Microsoft Teams account. |
Reuse Connection | Enable this property to reuse the connection. |
Connection Timeout (in ms) | Specify the maximum waiting time (in milliseconds) for the connection to be established. |
Response Timeout (in ms) | Specify the maximum waiting time (in milliseconds) for a response message to be received. |
Execute Operation using the Microsoft Teams Adapter
We begin by configuring the adapter within the processing tab, selecting Member as the resource and choosing the Add Team Members in Bulk operation.
This operation allows us to add up to 200 members to a team in a single request, with all the details of the members to be added specified in the request body. After configuring the adapter, we provide the Team ID of the team where the members will be added.
If any additions fail, the response provides detailed information, specifying which memberships were successfully added and which ones encountered issues.
It is important to note that the addition of members may take some time to reflect within the team. To track any membership changes, we can subscribe to change notifications, which will alert us to updates regarding membership changes in the specific team.
Quick Links
For detailed information about Microsoft Teams adapter configuration, see Microsoft Teams Receiver Adapter and Microsoft Teams Adapter Guide.
Note: The Microsoft Teams adapter is available as part of your SAP Integration Suite license.
