How do we get to know to which response user has reacted(like/dislike) on MS teams?

Question

We need help in understanding how Microsoft teams like and dislike works with BotFramework. When user clicks on like option provided in background we are getting reactionID but how do we get to know for which specific message user has given his feedback. Do we have this feasibility on Teams?

Answer 1

You can find it in the replyToId. Example from the docs:

The messageReaction event is sent when a user adds or removes his or her reaction to a message which was originally sent by your bot. replyToId contains the ID of the specific message.

{
    "reactionsAdded": [
        {
            "type": "like"
        }
    ],
    "type": "messageReaction",
    "timestamp": "2017-10-16T18:45:41.943Z",
    "id": "f:9f78d1f3",
    "channelId": "msteams",
    "serviceUrl": "https://smba.trafficmanager.net/amer-client-ss.msg/",
    "from": {
        "id": "29:1I9Is_Sx0O-Iy2rQ7Xz1lcaPKlO9eqmBRTBuW6XzkFtcjqxTjPaCMij8BVMdBcL9L_RwWNJyAHFQb0TRzXgyQvA",
        "aadObjectId": "c33aafc4-646d-4543-9d4c-abd28e4d2110"
    },
    "conversation": {
        "isGroup": true,
        "id": "19:3629591d4b774aa08cb0887902eee7c1@thread.skype"
    },
    "recipient": {
        "id": "28:f5d48856-5b42-41a0-8c3a-c5f944b679b0",
        "name": "SongsuggesterLocal"
    },
    "channelData": {
        "channel": {
            "id": "19:3629591d4b774aa08cb0887902eee7c1@thread.skype"
        },
        "team": {
            "id": "19:efa9296d959346209fea44151c742e73@thread.skype"
        },
        "tenant": {
            "id": "72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47"
        }
    },
    "replyToId": "1:19uJ8TZA1cZcms7-2HLOW3pWRF4nSWEoVnRqc0DPa_kY"
}

Note, however, that this replyToId is specific to Teams and I don't believe it will persist if you set it yourself. Once you have that, you can update the activity.

If you're trying to analyze which messages are reacted to, you might want to log the outgoing activity's Id and Text in TurnContext.OnSendActivities. Then, when a reaction comes in, you can use the new Activity Handler to handle the message and add the reaction to your log. I believe this would come in OnUnrecognizedActivityTypeAsync. This is similar to the previous link, update the activity.