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Kaizala Excel add-in: Fetch data into Excel

This blog discusses the Kaizala Excel add-in that allows you to quickly get data from Kaizala endpoints without leaving Excel in just a click. All you need is an Excel table within a spreadsheet and a Kaizala account. You could now share the Excel table on Kaizala – which would send out a survey with each column as a question. People on the group could respond to the survey that they received on their phone. When you refresh the table from within Excel, you would get the responses as rows within your table.

Microsoft Teams C# Sample App

We’ve heard you and we’ve delivered, the Microsoft Teams C# sample app is here! This sample app will give you all the tools you need to start developing for Microsoft Teams. The sample app has two goals: To show you different examples of how an app can integrate into Teams.To give you a starting point of patterns, examples, and tools that can be used as a template for creating a larger, scalable, enterprise-level bot to work within Teams.

Introduction to Kaizala Extensibility

Microsoft Kaizala is a mobile app for large group communications and work management. In case you are new to Kaizala, you can read more about the product offering here. Briefly, Kaizala allows you to get work done within the context of a conversation / group using actions – which are ‘units of work’. Examples of few actions that come with Kaizala are job, poll, survey, request location, etc.

Getting started with Kaizala APIs

In this post, we will get on boarded to Kaizala APIs and send a message on a group using API. Briefly, we will discuss: Get the Kaizala Postman API collection, Understanding of Kaizala connectors and creating them, Authenticating to Kaizala, and Creating a group and sending a message on Kaizala.

Exploring Kaizala WebHooks

Webhooks allow you to build or integrate applications which subscribe to certain events on Kaizala. When one of those events is triggered, Kaizala service would send a HTTPS POST payload to the webhook’s configured URL. Webhooks can be used to listen to content being posted on the group and use that information to update your database, trigger workflows in your internal systems, etc. You could also do the reverse, wherein post content on Kaizala based on an internal event in your system using the Kaizala APIs.