Microsoft Teams app guide – Lumicast

With the Teams app, you can send content to your displays without even logging into Lumicast. Easily synchronise important messages to all of your displays. The app will display messages as well as the images in the message.

Prerequisites

In order to give Lumicast permission to read your Teams channel messages, your Microsoft administrator must give the Lumicast app permission to do so. If this is not done, connecting your Microsoft account will not work.

The Microsoft administrator of your organisation has to open the following consent screen and approve the Lumicast app. The screen that opens will show exactly what this action will allow Lumicast to do on behalf of users that connect their account: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/adminconsent?client_id=a81de408-4872-49f9-8cfb-d803a9b2128a.

Creating a Microsoft Teams app

Go to ‘Content > New > App’ and search for the Teams app;

Click on the app to start creating a new app. You will see the following screen:

Enter an app name, this can be anything you can recognize it by later;

Connect your Microsoft account.

Select the Team you want to select a channel from.

Select the Teams channel you want to show messages from.

Finish the app by clicking ‘Create app’

Data update frequency

Lumicast checks your Teams data every five minutes. If you don’t see a new message that you just added, the reason could be that we have not picked it up yet. Please wait at least five minutes.

All configuration options

Setting	Explanation	Required
App name	A recognizable (descriptive) name for you, which will show in your content library.	Yes
Microsoft Account	The Microsoft account whose Teams channels should become available to the app.	Yes
Teams Team	The Team to list the channels from.	Yes
Teams Channel	The Channel of which messages should be shown by the app.	Yes
Seconds per post	The amount of seconds each message should be displayed before going to the next one.	Yes
Number of posts to show	The amount of (most recent) messages to loop through.	Yes
Full page display	Make the message fill the whole page, instead of a card based view.	No
Show message creator	Display the name of the person who posted the message on the top left.	No
Show message time	Show the time at which the message was posted.	No