Microsoft Teams
Connect Squid to Microsoft Teams for instant notifications from Squid's VisitorID, letting you know who's on your website in real time. VisitorID transforms anonymous visitors into identifiable users, enabling you to retarget them effectively and capture more revenue.
Create a new channel or use an existing channel. If you need to create a new channel, please follow this guide.
Once you have a channel, you need to create a webhook for it. Webhooks are just a way for applications such as Squid to securely send messages to the channel.
Follow these steps to create a new webhook in a Teams channel:
Select the team and channel where you want to create the webhook.
Click on the three dots (...) next to the channel name. Select "Manage Channel" from the dropdown menu.
In the Settings menu, under Connectors, Click 'Edit'
In the Search Box, type 'webhook'
Add the 'Incoming Webhook' service. When the 'Incoming Webhook' service opens the dialog box, click 'Add'. If you return back to the services search menu, just click 'configure' on the webhook service.
You should now see the webhook configuration screen. Provide a name for your webhook. As a suggestion, name the webook 'Squid VisitorID®', as this will be displayed in the channel messages. (Optional) Upload an image to represent the webhook. You can use Squid's logo by downloading it here.
Click "Create" to generate the webhook URL.
Copy the webhook URL provided. You will need this URL to send data to the Teams channel from Squid. We will add this webhook to Squid in the next section.
Click 'Done' to finish the setup. You can close out of any additional dialog windows.
In the Squid UI, go to the website you'd like to configure this webhook for. If you have multiple sites configured within Squid, you will need to setup a connection separately for each site.
Open 'My Connections'. You can find this in the top right menu bar under the plug icon.
Under 'Notifications', choose "Microsoft Teams"
In the dialog box that appears, paste the FULL Webhook URL you copied from step 8 above into the input box. Click 'Save'
Go to Teams and view the channel you chose (or created) in the first section. You should have received a notification within the channel that the integration was successful.
Congratulations! You will now start receiving notifications inside the channel you chose when VisitorID identifies an anonymous user.
Setup Microsoft Teams
Create a new channel or use an existing channel. If you need to create a new channel, please follow this guide.
Once you have a channel, you need to create a webhook for it. Webhooks are just a way for applications such as Squid to securely send messages to the channel.
Follow these steps to create a new webhook in a Teams channel:
Select the team and channel where you want to create the webhook.
Click on the three dots (...) next to the channel name. Select "Manage Channel" from the dropdown menu.
In the Settings menu, under Connectors, Click 'Edit'
In the Search Box, type 'webhook'
Add the 'Incoming Webhook' service. When the 'Incoming Webhook' service opens the dialog box, click 'Add'. If you return back to the services search menu, just click 'configure' on the webhook service.
You should now see the webhook configuration screen. Provide a name for your webhook. As a suggestion, name the webook 'Squid VisitorID®', as this will be displayed in the channel messages. (Optional) Upload an image to represent the webhook. You can use Squid's logo by downloading it here.
Click "Create" to generate the webhook URL.
Copy the webhook URL provided. You will need this URL to send data to the Teams channel from Squid. We will add this webhook to Squid in the next section.
Click 'Done' to finish the setup. You can close out of any additional dialog windows.
Setup Squid Teams Connector
In the Squid UI, go to the website you'd like to configure this webhook for. If you have multiple sites configured within Squid, you will need to setup a connection separately for each site.
Open 'My Connections'. You can find this in the top right menu bar under the plug icon.
Under 'Notifications', choose "Microsoft Teams"
In the dialog box that appears, paste the FULL Webhook URL you copied from step 8 above into the input box. Click 'Save'
Go to Teams and view the channel you chose (or created) in the first section. You should have received a notification within the channel that the integration was successful.
Congratulations! You will now start receiving notifications inside the channel you chose when VisitorID identifies an anonymous user.
Updated on: 22/05/2024
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