Within Microsoft Teams, private channels create focused spaces for collaboration where only the owners or members of the private channel can access the channel. The Microsoft Teams connector in Power Automate has an action to Post an Adaptive card in a chat or channel, which posts an adaptive card as a flow bot to a specific Teams channel. The following error will appear if this action is used to post the card as a Flow bot in the Private channel

Request to the Bot framework failed with error: ‘{“error”:{“code”:”BotNotInConversationRoster”,”message”:”The bot is not part of the conversation roster.”}}’.

The above action will work if the Post as property in the action is changed to User but the creator of this connection has to be a member of the Private channel. This article shows how you can send an Adaptive card to a Private channel using incoming webhooks without being a member of the private channel

Create the Adaptive Card:

An adaptive card facilitates the exchange of UI content in a unified and consistent manner with a simple JSON without the complexity of customizing HTML or CSS. The adaptive card I have used in this example is created from the designer portal. Find below the JSON card payload

{
    "type": "AdaptiveCard",
    "body": [
        {
            "type": "TextBlock",
            "size": "Medium",
            "weight": "Bolder",
            "text": "Adaptive Card in a Private Channel"
        },
        {
            "type": "TextBlock",
            "text": "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book",
            "wrap": true,
            "color": "Attention"
        }
    ],
    "actions": [
        {
            "type": "Action.OpenUrl",
            "title": "View",
            "url": "https://ashiqf.com"
        }
    ],
    "$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
    "version": "1.4"
}

Create Incoming Webhook on a Private Channel:

Incoming Webhooks allows external applications to share content within Microsoft Teams channels, in this case the cloud will be the external application sending an Adaptive card message to the private teams channel. You can add and configure an incoming webhook on a private channel by following the instructions on this link from Microsoft. Copy the Incoming webhook URL as mentioned in Step 6 from Microsoft documentation as shown below

Cloud Flow to send the Adaptive Card to a Private Teams channel:

The adaptive card JSON and the Incoming webhook is configured, lets create now create a flow with a HTTP action to send the Adaptive card

Step 1:

Form the HTTP request body for the HTTP action. Replace the Text with the JSON payload of the Adaptive card

{
  "type": "message",
  "attachments": [
    {
      "contentType": "application/vnd.microsoft.card.adaptive",
      "contentUrl": null,
      "content": 
	  Replace the ADAPTIVE CARD JSON PAYLOAD from the designer portal
    }
  ]
}

Step 2:

Add the HTTP action to the cloud flow with the following values against each parameter

Method: POST

URL: Incoming Webhook URLBody: from Step 1

Find below the adaptive card in the Private channel

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