Update and delete messages sent from bot

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To update an existing message, pass a new Activity object with the existing activity ID to the UpdateActivityAsync method of the TurnContext class.

// Send initial message
var response = await turnContext.SendActivityAsync(MessageFactory.Attachment(card.ToAttachment()), cancellationToken);
var activityId = response.Id; // Fetch activity id.

// MessageFactory.Text(): Specifies the type of text data in a message attachment.
var newActivity = MessageFactory.Text("The new text for the activity");
newActivity.Id = activityId;

// UpdateActivityAsync(): A method that can participate in update activity events for the current turn.
await turnContext.UpdateActivityAsync(newActivity, cancellationToken);

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To update an existing message, pass a new Activity object with the existing activity ID to the updateActivity method of the TurnContext object.

// Send initial message
var message = await context.sendActivity("<Your Message>");
var activityId = message.id; // Fetch activity id.

// MessageFactory.Text(): Specifies the type of text data in a message attachment.
const newActivity = MessageFactory.text('The new text for the activity');
newActivity.id = activityId;

// A method that can participate in update activity events for the current turn.
await turnContext.updateActivity(newActivity);

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To update an existing message, pass a new Activity object with the existing activity ID to the update_activity method of the TurnContext class.

# Send initial message
message = await turn_context.send_activity("<Your Message>")
activityId = message.id # Fetch activity id.

# MessageFactory.Text(): Specifies the type of text data in a message attachment.
new_activity = MessageFactory.text("The new text for the activity")
new_activity.id = activity_id

# A method that can participate in update activity events for the current turn.
update_result = await context.update_activity(new_activity)

To update an existing activity within a conversation, include the conversationId and activityId in the request endpoint. To complete this scenario, you must cache the activity ID returned by the original post call.

PUT /v3/conversations/{conversationId}/activities/{activityId}

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To update existing card on a button selection, pass a new Activity object with updated card and ReplyToId as activity ID to the UpdateActivityAsync method of the TurnContext class.

// Returns a message activity that contains an attachment.
var activity = MessageFactory.Attachment(card.ToAttachment());
activity.Id = turnContext.Activity.ReplyToId;

// A method that can participate in update activity events for the current turn.
await turnContext.UpdateActivityAsync(activity, cancellationToken);

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To update existing card on a button selection, pass a new Activity object with updated card and replyToId as activity ID to the updateActivity method of the TurnContext object.

// MessageFactory.attachment(): Returns a message activity that contains an attachment.
const message = MessageFactory.attachment(card);
message.id = context.activity.replyToId;

// updateActivity(): A method that can participate in update activity events for the current turn.
await context.updateActivity(message);

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To update existing card on a button click, pass a new Activity object with updated card and reply_to_id as activity ID to the update_activity method of the TurnContext class.

# MessageFactory.attachment(): Returns a message activity that contains an attachment.
updated_activity = MessageFactory.attachment(CardFactory.hero_card(card))
updated_activity.id = turn_context.activity.reply_to_id

# update_activity(): A method that can participate in update activity events for the current turn.
await turn_context.update_activity(updated_activity)

To update an existing activity within a conversation, include the conversationId and activityId in the request endpoint. To complete this scenario, you must cache the activity ID returned by the original post call.

PUT /v3/conversations/{conversationId}/activities/{activityId}

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To delete a message, pass that activity's ID to the DeleteActivityAsync method of the TurnContext class.

foreach (var activityId in _list)
{
    // When overridden in a derived class, deletes an existing activity in the conversation.
    await turnContext.DeleteActivityAsync(activityId, cancellationToken);
}

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To delete a message, pass that activity's ID to the deleteActivity method of the TurnContext object.

for (let i = 0; i < activityIds.length; i++) {
    // deleteActivity(): deletes an existing activity in the conversation.
    await turnContext.deleteActivity(activityIds[i]);
}

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To delete that message, pass that activity's ID to the delete_activity method of the TurnContext object.

for each activity_id in _list:
    # delete_activity(): deletes an existing activity in the conversation.
    await TurnContext.delete_activity(activity_id)

To delete an existing activity within a conversation, include the conversationId and activityId in the request endpoint.

DELETE /v3/conversations/{conversationId}/activities/{activityId}