MS Teams New Version Issue: Direct App Opening from Activity Notifications Bypasses Feed View

[josefbrt]

We implemented some activities for our app in MS Teams. When we send a activity with the topic source set to "entityUrl" and the value pointing to our app, the app will directly be opened instead of showing it to the side of the activity history.

This is only happening in the new MS Teams version.

Behavior in the old MS Teams version:

• You click on "Activity" in left hand side navigation
• You see the "Feed" of all activities
• You click on a activity -> the app will displayed right beside the "Feed"

Behavior in the new MS Teams version:

• You click on "Activity" in the left hand side navigation
• You will be redirected to the app of the newest activity
• -> that means your leaving the "Feed"

So in the new version you have no chance to view the "Feed" when a the latest activity in the "Feed" is related to a app (like with the example below)

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Example call that we are using:

GraphAPI Call: POST - https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{userId}/teamwork/sendActivityNotification Parameter:

{
    "topic": {
        "source": "entityUrl",
        "value": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{userId}/teamwork/installedApps/{installationId}"
    },
    "activityType": "requestCreated",
    "previewText": {
        "content": "XXXXXXXX want to invite XXXXXXXX to the team XXXXXXXX"
    },
    "templateParameters": [
        {
            "name": "requser",
            "value": "XXXXXXXX"
        }
    ],
    "teamsAppId": "{teamsAppId}"
}

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[ChetanSharma-msft]

Hello @josefbrt - Thanks for raising your query. We will investigate your query and let you know.