Microsoft Teams Bot - Build tabs with Adaptive Cards does not allow me to specify a `contentBotId` in the UI

Question

I am developing a Microsoft Teams bot app and currently i'm adding a new Static Tab developed with AdaptiveCards as documented here.

I've followed the documentation and at some point it says that "Provide the contentBotId property with the botId that the Adaptive Card tab must communicate with.", which is what i've done to develop the feature in my "test" environment by manually modifying the manifest file and adding the values that expects.

Now, in my production bot via the teams portal i expect to find a choice for adding this feature into the bot, but it's not. The only thing that i can add is this:

which, as shown, it requires a contentUrl but it shouldn't based on the MS documentation: "Static tab definitions must contain either a contentBotId, specifying an Adaptive Card tab OR a contentUrl, specifying a typical hosted web content tab experience."

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Question:

How i am supposed to add this feature into my production bot without having the ability from the teams portal? Mind that portal also doesn't allow you to modify the manifest file, and if i do manually i have to re-import the bot into the portal which means new id's, new submission?.

Answer 1

We got a confirmation from engineering team that currently creation of adaptive card tab via developer portal is not supported.

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