Open URL on right click with selected text in MS Teams

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Running Windows 10 & MS Teams

I am looking for a hack that will allow me to open a web site with the selected text concatenated to the end of the URL.

I work on a team and I get messages in MS Teams all the time asking me about ticket 23423. I would like to add a context menu in MS Teams that would allow me to select the ticket #, right click, select 'Open Ticket' & launch a preset URL.

So in the example above, the URL launched would be http://TicketSystem.domain.com?ID=23423 in the default browser.

Note - I do not have access to any of the admin features of MS Teams.

Hilton Giesenow · Answer

It's possible to build an app for Teams that would let you do this, as a Message Extension - see here for more: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions?tabs=dotnet

I'm presuming, as you're asking this on Stack Overflow, that you have, or have access to, development skill to build something like this though.

Open URL on right click with selected text in MS Teams

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