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This sample demonstrates how to implement localization for a Microsoft Teams app using Bot and Tab functionalities.
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officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-app-localization-nodejs

Teams App Localization Node.js

The Teams App Localization sample demonstrates how to implement multilingual support using Bot and Tab capabilities in Microsoft Teams. This app allows users to interact in different languages, making it easy to customize content for a diverse audience.

This sample illustrates how to implement Localization for Microsoft Teams apps.

Included Features

  • Bots
  • Tabs
  • Localization

Interaction with app

image

Try it yourself - experience the App in your Microsoft Teams client

Please find below demo manifest which is deployed on Microsoft Azure and you can try it yourself by uploading the app package (.zip file link below) to your teams and/or as a personal app. (Sideloading must be enabled for your tenant; see steps here.).

App Localization: Manifest

Prerequisites

Run the app (Using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code)

The simplest way to run this sample in Teams is to use Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.

  1. Ensure you have downloaded and installed Visual Studio Code
  2. Install the Teams Toolkit extension
  3. Select File > Open Folder in VS Code and choose this samples directory from the repo
  4. Using the extension, sign in with your Microsoft 365 account where you have permissions to upload custom apps
  5. Select Debug > Start Debugging or F5 to run the app in a Teams web client.
  6. In the browser that launches, select the Add button to install the app to Teams.

If you do not have permission to upload custom apps (sideloading), Teams Toolkit will recommend creating and using a Microsoft 365 Developer Program account - a free program to get your own dev environment sandbox that includes Teams.

Setup

  1. Register a new application in the Microsoft Entra ID – App Registrations portal.

  2. Setup for Bot

    • Also, register a bot with Azure Bot Service, following the instructions here.
    • Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel
    • While registering the bot, use https://<your_tunnel_domain>/api/messages as the messaging endpoint.

    NOTE: When you create your app registration, you will create an App ID and App password - make sure you keep these for later.

  3. Setup NGROK

  • Run ngrok - point to port 3978

    ngrok http 3978 --host-header="localhost:3978"

    Alternatively, you can also use the dev tunnels. Please follow Create and host a dev tunnel and host the tunnel with anonymous user access command as shown below:

    devtunnel host -p 3978 --allow-anonymous

  1. Setup for code

    • Clone the repository
    git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git

  • In a terminal, navigate to samples\app-localization\nodejs

    cd samples/app-localization/nodejs

  • Install node modules For Server

    Inside node js folder, open your local terminal and run the below command to install node modules. You can do the same in Visual Studio code terminal by opening the project in Visual Studio code.

    npm install

  • Install node modules For Client

    Navigate to folder client folder, open your local terminal and run the below command to install node modules. You can do the same in Visual Studio code terminal by opening the project in Visual Studio code.

    npm install

  1. Update the .env configuration for the bot to use the MicrosoftAppId and MicrosoftAppPassword, BaseUrl with application base url. For e.g., your ngrok url. (Note the MicrosoftAppId is the AppId created in step 1 (Setup for Bot), the MicrosoftAppPassword is referred to as the "client secret" in step 1 (Setup for Bot) and you can always create a new client secret anytime.)

  2. Setup Manifest for Teams

  • This step is specific to Teams.

    • Edit the manifest.json contained in the appManifest/ or appManifest_Hub/ folder to replace with your MicrosoftAppId (that was created in step1.1 and is the same value of MicrosoftAppId in .env file) everywhere you see the place holder string {MicrosoftAppId} (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json)
    • Edit the manifest.json for validDomains and replace {{domain-name}} with base Url of your domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be https://1234.ngrok-free.app then your domain-name will be 1234.ngrok-free.app and if you are using dev tunnels then your domain will be like: 12345.devtunnels.ms.
    • Zip up the contents of the appManifest/ or appManifest_Hub/ folder to create a manifest.zip
    • Upload the manifest.zip to Teams (in the left-bottom Apps view, click "Upload a custom app")

    Note: If you want to test your app across multi hub like: Outlook/Office.com, please update the manifest.json in the /appManifest_Hub folder with the required values.

Note: If you are facing any issue in your app, please uncomment this line and put your debugger for local debug.

  1. Run your app.

  • Start the bot

    npm start

Interacting with the app in Teams

In Teams, Once the app is successfully installed, you can interact with tab and bot in your preferred language.

To change language in Teams

To change the language in Microsoft Teams, please click your profile picture at the top of the app, then select Settings -> General and go to the Language section. Choose the preferred language and restart to apply the change. This sample supports en-US, fr-CA, hi-IN and es-MX.

Running the sample

  1. Installation: You should see your app installation screen content in selected language. image

  2. Bot: send any message to see localized image

Outlook on the web

  • To view your app in Outlook on the web.

  • Go to Outlook on the weband sign in using your dev tenant account.

On the side bar, select More Apps. Your sideloaded app title appears among your installed apps

InstallOutlook

Select your app icon to launch and preview your app running in Outlook on the web

AppOutlook

Note: Similarly, you can test your application in the Outlook desktop app as well.

Office on the web

  • To preview your app running in Office on the web.

  • Log into office.com with test tenant credentials

Select the Apps icon on the side bar. Your sideloaded app title appears among your installed apps

InstallOffice

Select your app icon to launch your app in Office on the web

AppOffice

Note: Similarly, you can test your application in the Office 365 desktop app as well.

To Add more languages for localization in Teams through Code.

Add Resource files for the respective languages, Check culture fallback behaviour and how to add other cultures refer Globalization and localization Fundamentals.

Further reading