Using Adaptive Cards

Bot Framework v4 using adaptive cards bot sample

This bot has been created using Bot Framework, is shows how to send an Adaptive Card from the bot to the user.

Running the sample

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/botbuilder-python.git

• Bring up a terminal, navigate to botbuilder-samples\samples\python\07.adaptive-cards folder
• Activate your desired virtual environment
• In the terminal, type pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run your bot with python app.py

Testing the bot using Bot Framework Emulator

Microsoft Bot Framework Emulator is a desktop application that allows bot developers to test and debug their bots on localhost or running remotely through a tunnel.

• Install the Bot Framework emulator from here

Connect to bot using Bot Framework Emulator

• Launch Bot Framework Emulator
• File -> Open Bot
• Paste this URL in the emulator window - http://localhost:3978/api/messages

Adding media to messages

A message exchange between user and bot can contain media attachments, such as cards, images, video, audio, and files.

Deploy the bot to Azure

To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.

Further reading

• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• Adaptive Cards
• Send an Adaptive card
• Activity processing
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• Azure CLI
• Azure Portal