Clarification on the use of "supportedChannelTypes" property

[swarajchavan98]

According to the below article, it seems possible to add apps in private channels, using the "supportedChannelTypes" property. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/resources/schema/manifest-schema#supportedchanneltypes

However, after adding the property to my manifest file, and uploading it to developer portal, only public channels are shown when trying to add the app.

So is the property really used for adding apps to private channels or for something else?

Here is my manifest.json. I have replaced some sensitive values with dummy ones:

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/json-schemas/teams/v1.15/MicrosoftTeams.schema.json",
  "version": "1.0.8",
  "manifestVersion": "1.15",
  "id": "<1234_id>",
  "packageName": "com.package.name",
  "name": {
    "short": "Demo app",
    "full": ""
  },
  "developer": {
    "name": "demodev",
    "mpnId": "",
    "websiteUrl": "https://abcd.com",
    "privacyUrl": "https://abcd.com/privacy",
    "termsOfUseUrl": "https://abcd.com/termsofuse"
  },
  "description": {
    "short": "Hello, human",
    "full": "blah blah blah blah"
  },
  "icons": {
    "outline": "outline.png",
    "color": "color.png"
  },
  "accentColor": "#FFFFFF",
  "staticTabs": [
    {
      "entityId": "conversations",
      "scopes": [
        "personal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "entityId": "about",
      "scopes": [
        "personal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "bots": [
    {
      "botId": "<1234_id>",
      "scopes": [
        "personal",
        "team"
      ],
      "commandLists": [
        {
          "commands": [
            {
              "title": "demo",
              "description": "Create a demo task"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "isNotificationOnly": false,
      "supportsCalling": false,
      "supportsVideo": false,
      "supportsFiles": false
    }
  ],
  "validDomains": [],
  "webApplicationInfo": {
    "id": "<1234_id>",
    "resource": ""
  },
  "showLoadingIndicator": true,
  "supportedChannelTypes": [
    "sharedChannels",
    "privateChannels"
  ]
}

[ghost]

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[Nivedipa-MSFT]

@swarajchavan98 - Thanks for reporting your issue. We have tested this with supportedChannelTypes property and we are also not getting private and shared channels. We have raised a bug for the same. We will keep you posted if there are any updates.