Microsoft Teams Spoke
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Summary of Microsoft Teams Spoke
The Microsoft Teams spoke for ServiceNow IntegrationHub enables you to post messages and details of incident, problem, and change records directly to Microsoft Teams channels. This integration facilitates improved collaboration by automatically sharing ServiceNow record updates within Teams.
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Important Note: Starting with the Yokohama release, the Microsoft Teams spoke is being prepared for deprecation. It will be hidden and not activated on new instances but will remain supported. The Microsoft Teams Graph Spoke is the recommended alternative for the latest functionality.
This spoke requires an active IntegrationHub subscription.
Key Features
- Post a Message: Send custom messages to a Microsoft Teams channel using a Webhook Connector by specifying the webhook URL, title, and message content.
- Post Change Details: Share details of a ServiceNow change record to a Teams channel via webhook.
- Post Incident Details: Share incident record details to a Teams channel.
- Post Problem Details: Share problem record details to a Teams channel.
Configuration Inputs
The Microsoft Teams actions require the following inputs:
- Webhook URL (Required): The Microsoft Teams incoming webhook URL for the target channel. This must be set up in Teams before configuring the action.
- Title (Optional): The message title to display.
- Additional Message (Optional): Custom message content to prepend before the record details.
- Override Default Fields (Optional): Specify a comma-separated list of fields to send instead of the default fields (Short Description, Category, State, Priority, Assignment Group).
- Theme Color (Optional): Hex color code to visually highlight the message in Teams.
- Action URL and Name (Optional): URL and label for an actionable button in the Teams message.
Practical Usage
ServiceNow customers can automate notifications by adding these Microsoft Teams spoke actions to IntegrationHub flows. For example, you can configure a flow that posts incident details with a specified theme color to a Teams channel whenever a high priority incident is created, enhancing incident visibility and collaboration.
The Microsoft Teams spoke provides actions which post messages and ServiceNow incident, problem, and change record details to Microsoft Teams channels.
Integration Hub subscription
This spoke requires an Integration Hub subscription. For more information, see Legal schedules - IntegrationHub overview.
For more information, search for the term Microsoft Teams Spoke for ServiceNow IntegrationHub in Plugins planned for deprecation.
Spoke version
Microsoft Teams spoke v1.1.3 is the latest version.
Microsoft Teams actions
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
| Post a Message | Send a message to a Microsoft Teams channel using a Webhook Connector. Specify the Webhook URL, Title, and Message to send. |
| Post Change Details | Send details about a ServiceNow change record to a Microsoft Teams channel using a Webhook Connector. Specify the Webhook URL and Change record to send. |
| Post Incident Details | Send details about a ServiceNow incident record to a Microsoft Teams channel using a Webhook Connector. Specify the Webhook URL and Incident record to send. |
| Post Problem Details | Send details about a ServiceNow problem record to a Microsoft Teams channel using a Webhook Connector. Specify the Webhook URL and Problem record to send. |
Microsoft Teams Inputs
| Input | Description |
|---|---|
| [Required] Webhook URL | The Microsoft Teams webhook for sending a message. Set up the webhook before configuring this action. Refer to the custom incoming webhook for Microsoft Teams documentation. |
| [Optional] Title | Title of the message. |
| [Optional] Additional Message | Add a message before the record details. |
| [Optional] Override Default Fields | You can provide a comma-separated list of field names to send instead of the default fields. Default fields are Short Description, Category, State, Priority, and Assignment Group. |
| [Optional] Theme Color (Hex) | Hex code value of color to highlight the message. |
| [Optional] Action URL | URL to the page that opens when you click the button. For more information, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/webhooks-and-connectors/how-to/connectors-using?tabs=cURL. |
| [Optional] Action Name | Name of the action that you can automate with the flow. |