The Change reminder type button within the gray container is Action.ToggleVisibility button that you can add from the card elements bar on the left of the adaptive card designer screen. The reminder setting card, with an initially invisible container So the concept is basically taken from what Microsoft provided, but here we extend the adaptive card by using an Action.ToggleVisibility button to show and hide parts of a card: the relative time entry and the absolute time entry containers, in blue and green respectively: Two other cards which are for catching errors:.The reminder card itself, with links to the original message and chat with message author The reminder setting card can accept an hour/minute offset or absolute time as input One to get user input regarding when they'd like to be reminded.Here's the "ingredients" needed for the flow to allow ourselves to set a reminder at a particular hour/minute offset from now OR at a specific time: The sample Flow used an adaptive card (with some Input.Choice options) and a Delay action. However, that was definitely a starting point. When I first saw the template provided by Microsoft, I thought: this is nice, but it's a bit too elementary with the fixed timeframes from the choice radio buttons: Note: this was partially inspired by Microsoft's own template that you can create directly from Power Automate, but extends it to bring more flexibility to the reminder time, and also bring a far more visual experience via adaptive cards rather than just the Flow bot. So in the blog post below, the Flow will be explained in greater detail, and some caveats highlighted for anyone wanting to pursue this quick reminder flow! The beauty of this Flow is that it will give you one-click access back to the conversation thread within the team, or back to the chat with a person or a group of people. The reminder card we wish to send ourselves In comes Power Automate with a few adaptive cards to the rescue - this flow will generate a reminder via the Flow bot at a certain number of hours/minutes, or at a specified time to remind you to take action for a message! So what if you just needed a simple and effective visual reminder, either at some hours/minutes down the track or at a specific time?Ī Flow, some delay, and four Adaptive Cards If they were diligent and cleared their activity bell notifications, they would potentially lose track of a visual reminder that they need to prompt them to action on a message. My poor colleagues were also getting flooded with Teams messages.
Sometimes I ended up talking to Google (I use an Android phone, so you might be talking to Siri) to remind myself, but that still doesn't take you straight back to the original message with a single click - you still had to do a lot of navigation before you arrived at the message you were supposed to take action on.
Plus I entering a phase where I was forgetting that I had to respond to messages. Even if you are a well seasoned ToDo and Planner user, you would still have to use the Copy Link feature and paste that into the ToDo/Planner task, which can be quite tedious. However, this functionality is missing from Teams. In Outlook, there are "flags" which can be set to remind yourself to take action for a particular email. Outlook's solution: a well trodden path for manyįlags in Outlook have been the bridge to emails and task management The location of where that message is! Is it in a Chat, or a Team Channel? How far up do I have to scroll?.Forgetting to take action on a message, or where that message was?įor busy people who have their lives invested in Microsoft Teams, whether collaborating with colleagues in Team Channels or using the Chat functionality, it's easy to forget: