Adaptive Cards community call – January 2022

Call summary

The following topics are covered in this month’s community call: Adaptive Cards and the Power Platform to solve captchas (Use RPA, Adaptive Cards actionable messaging and Power Automate to resolve captcha challenges remotely on desktop or mobile) - Tomasz Poszytek (MVP), Website Updates (Blog posts for previous community calls, new samples for all 1.5 features!) - J.P. Roca (Microsoft) and Q&A – members of the Developer and PM teams fielded questions on a host of topics for the last 15 minutes on this call.   This call was hosted by J.P. Roca (Microsoft) | @jpthepm.  Recorded on January 13, 2022.

Agenda

• Adaptive Cards and the Power Platform to solve captchas - Tomasz Poszytek (MVP) | @TomaszPoszytek – 00:25
• Website Updates - J.P. Roca (Microsoft) | @jpthepm – 25:15
• Q&A - with members of Microsoft Developer and PM teams – 27:11

Demo

Adaptive Cards and the Power Platform to solve captchas - Issue:  Bot task execution halted by a captcha challenge.   Solution:   Outlook Actionable message capability, an Adaptive Card, 2 Power Automate flows and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to remove hurdle.  Configure actionable e-mail provider.  RPA captures Captcha image and calls a flow that sends Adaptive card prompting user to action.   User checks boxes on Adaptive Card that verifies time-out is not exceeded (requiring new capture) and RPA resolves challenge.    

New Samples for v1.5 features:

• Application login
• Flight update table
• Input form with rtl
• Order confirmation
• Order delivery
• Restaurant order

Referenced in this call

• Demo - Solving reCaptcha v2 challenge with Power Automate Desktop 

• Demo - Actionable Messages using Adaptive Cards - ultimate guide 

• YouTube Channel - Tomasz Poszytek 

• Blog post – Get started with Adaptive Cards 

• November Adaptive Cards Community call demo - Viva Connections + Adaptive Cards 🤝 - Emily Lynam (Microsoft), Max Kulakov (Microsoft), and Siddharth Gulati (Microsoft) | @sidvaani – 00:45

Resources in General

• Let us know the features you need    https://aka.ms/ACRoadmap
• Schema Explorer - https://adaptivecards.io/explorer/Action.Execute.html
• Designer - https://adaptivecards.io/designer/ 
• Get started with Templating - https://aka.ms/ACTemplating
• Browse the Adaptive Cards Code - https://aka.ms/ACRepo
• Find tools, sample cards and more - https://www.madewithcards.io
• Contribution Guidelines – https://aka.ms/ACRepo 

Stay connected

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/microsoft365dev​
• YouTube - https://aka.ms/M365PnP/videos​
• Blog - https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community/blog
• Recurrent Invite - https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall
• Next call – February 10th at 09:00am PST