Activity Attachments list does not have the file listed

[avilabiel]

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Versions

What package version of the SDK are you using: 4.16.0
What nodejs version are you using: v16.20.1
What browser version are you using: Chrome
What os are you using: MacOS

Describe the bug

The activity does not have the file on activity.attachments when the file is sent from a chat. The file does exist on activity.attachments when is sent from a personal tab though.

I see some people complaining about a similar issue on Microsoft Community, but no updates from MS since July (see here).

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add your bot to a chat
2. Send a file
3. See the activity.attachments doesn't have the file.

Expected behavior

The activity.attachments should have the file as it happens in the Personal Chat (see the images below).

Screenshots

I sent a message Message + Attachment with a file attached called logo.png. The results:

From the Personal Chat tab with the bot:

From the new :

Additional context

I already added the following ChannelMessage.Read.Group and ChatMessage.Read.Chat to RSC permissions on the Bot manifest as the documentation suggests.

[stevkan]

@ceciliaavila - I tested this using v4.16.0 and v4.22.2 and the issue appears to exist in both versions. Can you please verify if this is an SDK issue or a Teams issue?

[ceciliaavila]

@stevkan, @avilabiel, Hi!
According to Teams' documentation, sending and receiving files through the Teams bot API is only supported in personal scope.

[avilabiel]

Hey @stevkan and @ceciliaavila , thanks for helping me out. That is wild! Do you know an effective way to improve this? We are basically pushing engineers to create a workaround to see if every single activity has an uploaded file through Graph API.

I'm sure this is not what Microsoft wants. I have no ideas about how much this workaround will slow down our user experience, left alone Microsoft rate limits.

Please, any suggestions from you would be great. Thanks!

[nodkrot]

@ceciliaavila we cannot create seamless experience for our customers in groupchats without this feature. Where can we upvote this feature request? Do you know if its on the roadmap?

[ceciliaavila]

@tracyboehrer, can we forward this to the MS Teams team so they can respond to @nodkrot's questions?