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Use adaptive cards with mention in Microsoft Teams

Kenichiro Nakamura on April 29, 2020

Adaptive Card is very flexible way to create rich card which I can send to many platform. One of the platform is Microsoft Teams. What's more inte...

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task4233 • Feb 16 '21

Hello.
I'd like to send the message which contains @mention with incoming webhook.

However, I couldn't make work @mention with 8:orgid:{org-ID-of-the-user}.
I consider the reason why I couldn't do was org-ID-of-the-user was too short, c57b6b553*******(16 digits), which is got with Graph Explorer(graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me).

As I have no idea to solve this problem, I appreciate if you would let me know the solution.

Thanks in advance.

Kenichiro Nakamura • Feb 19 '21

The user id is guid form one, which you can find from graph results.

for example, this is my result.

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users/$entity",
    "businessPhones": [
        "xxxx"
    ],
    "displayName": "Kenichiro Nakamura",
    "givenName": "Kenichiro",
    "jobTitle": "SR SOFTWARE ENGINEER",
    "mail": "xxxxx",
    "mobilePhone": "xxxx",
    "officeLocation": "xxxx",
    "preferredLanguage": null,
    "surname": "Nakamura",
    "userPrincipalName": "xxxxx",
    "id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx" <- This one
}

task4233 • Feb 19 '21

Thank you for replying.

This is my result with calling graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users/$entity",
    "displayName": "xxxx",
    "surname": "xx",
    "givenName": "xx",
    "id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", <- This is too short, I think
    "userPrincipalName": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.jp",
    "businessPhones": [],
    "jobTitle": null,
    "mail": null,
    "mobilePhone": null,
    "officeLocation": null,
    "preferredLanguage": null
}

I think the format of id is a different to from yours.
Would you tell me why they are different if you know.

Kenichiro Nakamura • Feb 19 '21

That's interesting which I don't have much idea. And you can query your info via graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/ ?

task4233 • Feb 19 '21

Of cource!
However, it seems that the value is same...

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users",
    "value": [
        {
            "displayName": "xxxx",
            "surname": "xx",
            "givenName": "xx",
            "id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
            "userPrincipalName": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.jp",
            "businessPhones": [],
            "jobTitle": null,
            "mail": null,
            "mobilePhone": null,
            "officeLocation": null,
            "preferredLanguage": null
        }
    ]
}

Kenichiro Nakamura • Feb 19 '21

Then I assume that's your user id. Not sure why format is different. So if you create mention by using the id with 8:orgid:{org-ID-of-the-user} , nothing happens?

Michael • Mar 26 '23

Anyone still following along here I found that I could get the user Id option to work by dropping the 8:orgId: prefix. Hope that helps.

Kenichiro Nakamura • Mar 29 '23

Thanks for your update!

Vlad Manolescu • Oct 15 '20

Hello i managed to to mention someone but that person is not alerted and when i hover over his name nothing happens as opposed to a manual mention. Any suggestions?