Azure Bot Service
Azure Bot Service enables rapid intelligent bot development powered by the Microsoft Bot Framework, run in a serverless environment on Azure. Build, connect, deploy and manage intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking – from your app or website to text/sms to Skype, Slack, Teams, Facebook Messenger, Kik, Office 365 mail and other popular services. Allow your bots to scale based on-demand and you pay only for the resources you consume.
Remember that this site is only for feature suggestions and ideas!
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Whatsapp Channel
Add Whatsapp as a Channel
33 votesPer @sudip comment. WhatsApp needs to expose a public HTTP API endpoint to enable any future Azure Bot Service Channel integration.
This item remains under review until the time WhatsApp provide public API
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Skype for Business connector
For any serious enterprise use, we need an integration with Microsoft Skype for Business. Please add the necessary connector ASAP!
33 votesThis channel is now in preview in the Azure Bot Service for O365 and Hybrid-On-Prem Skype for Business Scenarios.
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Viber channel for bot service
Viber has fully functional API for Chat. Please apply this in MBF
11 votesThank you for your feedback and interest in Azure Bot Service. We are continually evaluating the list of the supported channel by Azure Bot Service. Please review https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-manage-channels?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
This topic is under review, and we will provide periodic updates.
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Please include Amazon Alexa as a channel
Amazon provides an easy integration with its Alexa service, It can help saving time to Azure bot service developers if it was included as a channel.
7 votesThank you for your feedback and interest in Azure Bot Service. We are continually evaluating the list of the supported channel by Azure Bot Service. Please review https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-manage-channels?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
This topic is under review, and we will provide periodic updates.
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Allow WebChat Customization
It would be nice to have a way to configure the default WebChat's iFrame without having to rebuilt it from sources (change color, size, enable/disable button...)
6 votesAs noted by @poy the WebChat control is open source project.
You can rebuild that with repo below.
github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-WebChatWith that said, we are reviewing the option to enhance the Web Chat control capabilities to allow developers to customize its looks and feel without forking it.
This topic is under view.
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Twitter Connector
Twitter connector to allow bot to post to respond to Twitter DMs.
5 votesThank you for your feedback and interest in Azure Bot Service. We are continually evaluating the list of the supported channel by Azure Bot Service. Please review https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-manage-channels?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
This topic is under review, and we will provide periodic updates.
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5 votes
Thank you for your feedback and interest in Azure Bot Service. We are continually evaluating the list of the supported channel by Azure Bot Service. Please review https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-manage-channels?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
This topic is under review, and we will provide periodic updates.
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4 votes
@srinivas, I assume you are looking to enable end users to sign in with their AAD accounts and have access to organizationally managed skills using Cortana? Or you are looking to build and maintain your bots with a Cortana account?
We are working to improve Bot Framework integration across a wide variety of channels, including enhancing support for existing channels such as Cortana. Please review our docs for updates – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-manage-channels?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
This topic is under review, and we will provide periodic updates.
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Allow addition of a Created Bot
I created a bot and want to publish it to Azure. When I go through the process I get "This msa app id is already in use". I am able to create a brand new bot but please allow publishing of existing bots
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App insights created in the wrong location
As attached, when creating a bot service in a location that does support App Insights, it still creates it in a different location.
4 votesWe are working on adding additional App Insights regions to Azure. Any coverage gaps with App Insights are temporary.
This topic started, and we will provide periodic updates.
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Enable multi-tenant bots
Bot service is something that more than one of our customers has expressed interest in, but we don't want to have to deploy a new Bot instance for every one of them. Please add multi-tenant capabilities to ABS so we can detect the bot name that received the request and use the same back-end code across multiple endpoints.
3 votes@Graham, I would like to clarify the ask. Are you looking to create a single bot (with the same functionality) that can serve multiple ‘different’ (for lack of better term) companies/ groups? Can you clarify if all groups are on the same channel? Will each group use a different bot name as part of their intents? Please provide additional details for your scenario.
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Integrate with LinkedIn
Add LinkedIn channel for post and chats
3 votesWe are working to enhance Bot Framework integration across a wide variety of channels, including increasing support for existing channels such as Teams. Please review our docs for updates – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-manage-channels?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
This topic is under review, and we will provide periodic updates.
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Improve Or Audit Your Azure Text Analytics Entity Data Or Risk Mainstream Media Humiliation
I was testing your Azure Text Analytics Entity Preview today and entered a few phrases that came to mind. I'll spare you the embarrassment of posting this elsewhere, but I think it's safe to say that Donald Trump's official and primary title is NOT "President of Puerto Rico"!
The Wikipedia souce3 cited doesn't say that either. Not sure how you arrived at that conclusion.
Feel free to delete this suggestion once corrected.
3 votesThank you for your feedback. We continually improve Azure Cognitive Services.
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Allow option for Node.js bots to run Bot Service on Linux
As a Node.js bot developer, I would like to deploy my Bot Framework apps to Bot Service on Linux.
3 votes@Nils, the Bot Framework is Open Source, and you can deploy it on any backend infrastructure, including Linux based VMs. Azure offers the Azure Bot Service to host your bot applications. Behind the scenes, your bot applications run on Azure App Service Web Apps. While the Azure App Services supports Linux deployment, we have not made it easy to deploy your bot to a Linux based App Service. With that said, you can deploy your bot to App Service Linux base, and continue to manage it via Azure Bot Service.
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Bring Bot Services and supporting services like LUIS and QnA make, and channels to Azure Government.
Many government customers would like to use Bot services and the supporting cognitive services like LUIS, QnA maker, and Azure search to make Bots. There are many use cases to integrate into Gov cloud. Or allow for a way to register and deploy to Gov with Bot Framework while building out the services in Azure Gov.
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Easy way to deploy MS Teams bot to users?
Looking for an easy way to deploy MS Teams bot to users.
Deploying a bot to an organization needs to be easy or users won't utilize it. Since MS Teams will become the new Skype, it make sense that companies will use it for bots. However, the store, links, and chat do not provide a fool proof solution yet.
In this feature request, there could be a link or one could call the bot by name instead of an app id and it would load the bot to both the Teams client and the Teams web site in unison.
2 votesWe are aware of the need to improve bot discovery. We are working to enhance Bot Framework integration across a wide variety of channels, including increasing support for existing channels such as Teams. Please review our docs for updates – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-manage-channels?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
This topic is under review, and we will provide periodic updates.
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nuget
It would be nice if we can use NuGet with solutions of Azure Bot Service downloaded from portal in the same manner as Azure Functions project.
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Allow the creation of LUIS pt-br apps
I can create Brazilian Portuguese APPs with LUIS using the luis.ai portal, but I can't create an Azure Bot Service with an empty LUIS application in Brazilian Portuguese...
2 votes@Renan, are you looking to deploy an Azure Bot at the Brazil South (South Central US) region? If not please clarify your ask.
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1 vote
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UI Enhancemets in WebChat - More Interactive Features
I'm working on a bot which is currently deployed through Webchat Channel. While making some enhancements to the UI in the adaptive cards, the Webchat channel currently doesn’t support/render many formats of data (like clickable-like&dislike icons for feedback, emoticons, etc.),some of which, are is possible in other channels like skype and slack. So, it would be great if you can let us know when will such UI enhancements be supported in webchat channel of the bot framework, like it does in Skype and other messenger bots, according to the roadmap of Microsoft Bot Framework
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