Teams bot - get User properties

[OilPanic]

Hey all,

So I have created a bot for internal IT support. Connected it to a QNAMaker to answer questions. works great.

Now, when the bot answers our users we will follow-up with a question if their issue was resolved, if they press no the bot sends off a ticket to IT with the user question and the bot answer. Perfect. Now, the only thing missing is the user information itself - I cannot seem to figure out how to send the user email or username to Power Automate so our internal IT can see who actually made this request.

So I have to ask the user his/hers name which I want to avoid.

Any takes on this?

[renatoromao]

Hi @OilPanic ,

Great job!

You can create an authentication inside your bot, get the user token and send as a parameter to Power Automate and using Microsoft Graph to get user details.

Authentication doc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/advanced-end-user-authentication

Power Automate doc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/advanced-flow

Video to use Authentication inside PVA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjmCWw4z9N8

[OilPanic]

Well, its required that the users manually authenticate with the bot when they start talking to the bot. Its a way of doing it but it still gives you an extra step for the user - so not much difference in asking their email or asking them to authenticate?

[renatoromao]

You can create a question inside the topic, using the Identifier field as "Users entire response" and the answer will be staying inside the variable.

Two ways to do it.