How to post a "reply" to the message as the "Flow bot".

[iyamagata]

I know about action to post a reply as user,  just not.

I know about action to post a message as the Flow bot too, just not.

I want to post a "reply" to the message as the "Flow bot".

Please let me know if anyone knows.

[efialttes]

@iyamagata 

Good point!

I haven't seen the action you are looking for in Teams Documentation.

If nobody else suggests a workaround, I guess the only option would be to submit it as an Idea to the forum 😞

[v-alzhan-msft]

Hi @iyamagata ,

Could you please explain more details about the flow bot that you mentioned?

Best regards,

Alice       

Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
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[iyamagata]

Microsoft Teams have some connectors for Flow.

1. "Post a message (V3)" is used to post a new message to a channel in a specific Team.

2. "Post a reply to a message (V2)" is used to post a reply to a message in a channel in a specific Team.
3. "Post a message as the Flow bot to a channel" is used to post automatically a new message to a channel in a specific Team.

A message of 1 & 2 is post from user who created Flow.

A message of 3 is post from Flow bot.

Now, I want that a reply to message is post from Flow bot.

But I can't choice that action connector.

[DarrenS]

Seeking the same. Have subscribed to topic in hope of either being provided as part of connector options or where someone worked out a workaround.

[cherwan]

Any updates? My struggle is the reply looks exactly like it's from a real human, unless I put some indicator like "message sent on behalf of xxx" in the message body itself.

I have a rough workaround idea:

1. Create a bot service account and name it something like "Service Bot". Give it a bot avatar to indicate this is not human.

2. Then create the flow with this bot account.

3. The reply will look like it's from a bot now, not human.