Typing indicator not working in slack

[scipe]

Typing indicator not working in slack, but works in MS Teams.

Version (NodeJS)

"botbuilder-adapter-slack": "^1.0.13",
"botbuilder-storage-mongodb": "^0.9.5",
"botkit": "^4.10.0",

Describe the bug

I trying to send "typing" indicator to MS Teams and Slack. It working great in MS Teams, but not working at all in Slack.

To Reproduce

await this.bot.reply(this.message, { type: 'typing' })

Expected behavior

User should see "typing" indicator in Slack and in MS Teams. But can see that only in MS Teams

Screenshots

There is no screenshot for that :)

[dmvtech]

Hi @scipe Unfortunately, the typing activity is not supported in Slack. See here and here for more information.

[scipe]

So, any chance to implement that?

[lzc850612]

Transferring to BotFramework-Services repo

[hristp]

This is a bug. Slack channel implements SendTypingActivityToUserAsync -- need to figure out why it's not showing up.

Documentation here is incorrect. Typing is supported by multiple channels (DirectLine, Facebook, Slack, Kik and Telegram, I think). Docs needs update.

[craigjensen]

Slack typing indicators are only supported on the old RTM api which is no longer supported by the botframework so this is by design

[arturl]

Thanks @craigjensen. @scipe, we'll look into adding typing support if there is a new API we can use but for now this is by design.