
Overview
Connecting your Microsoft Teams to Dovetail enables you to share Dovetail content with rich previews, get updates about changes in your projects and receive comments in real-time all via Microsoft Teams as well as automatically importing your video calls into Dovetail. With this, Enterprise customers can also purchase Ask Dovetail as an add-on to bring the voice of their customers to where decisions are made. It allows anyone in an organization to use conversational UI to ask questions in Teams, access your aggregated customer feedback, and schedule audio or text digests.Set up Teams integration
If you are setting up the Teams integration for the first time, there are a few things to be aware of including:
- It’s common that Teams workspace owners may have turned on app approval to require admin approval for installing new apps, including Dovetail. If this is the case for your Teams workspace, we recommend seeking approval from your internal IT team and sharing this article to provide an outline of the integration’s capability and requested permissions.
- If using Ask Dovetail in Teams, only users with a Dovetail admin role can enable the integration in Dovetail. Non-admin users will not be able to view or configure the integration.
- To connect your Teams account to Dovetail, select ⚙️ Settings → Integrations in the sidebar and navigate to Microsoft Teams in the integrations list
- From there, select
Connect
and toggle on Product notifications. To confirm the connection, you will then be prompted to log in to your Microsoft Teams account and review requested permissions.
Set up to import Teams recordings
Connecting Teams along with your Outlook Calendar accounts means you’ll no longer need to import recorded meetings manually. You can configure which calendar you’d like to pull event recordings from, define any keywords that meeting titles must contain, and select which project you’d like events to be imported into.- To do this, navigate to Settings → Integrations and click on
Outlook Calendar
. - Click
Connect
and sign in/select the Microsoft account that you wish to authenticate. - From there, select your video source as Microsoft Teams and continue to authenticate.
- Once you have authenticated your Teams source, select your desired calendar, and project that you want your Teams recordings to be imported to, and press
Save
.
There may be times that your internal Microsoft Teams Workspace has settings preventing the integration from being able to access the Teams authentication. To troubleshoot this, you will have to contact your Teams admin or IT department first to ensure that the Dovetail integration is on the “allow” list.
Share content in Microsoft Teams
When you share a Dovetail link in Microsoft Teams, all the relevant information related to the link will be displayed directly in Microsoft Teams for you and your colleagues to see. The supported links are notes, highlights, tags, insights, project readme, and people.Share a highlight
When you share a highlight, you will also get a video embed of the highlight that your team can play right from Microsoft Teams. If you are using the desktop or mobile app, to play the highlight you’ll need to go through an authentication flow.- To do this, copy the link provided, paste it into your browser, and login to Dovetail.
- From there, copy the one-time password (OTP) then enter the OTP in Microsoft Teams.

Set up Ask Dovetail for Teams
This feature is only available as an add-on to our Enterprise bundle. Enterprise workspaces come with additional features and support to meet your organization’s needs.Check out our pricing page for more information on Enterprise.
- To do this, navigate Settings → Integrations → Teams and toggle on Ask Dovetail. Depending on your organization’s configuration, Teams may ask you to provide a reason for the integration and submit a request to your Teams administrator.
- Once the integration is enabled, select which projects and data you want to appear cited in search results or digests within teams. All public projects are available by default, but admins can select which projects to exclude. Private projects are not accessible to Ask Dovetail. You can also prevent certain object types from contributing to search results, or being cited as sources in answers.
- Once your Teams workspace is connected with your Dovetail workspace, anyone in your Teams workspace will be able to ask questions and create digests.
Ask questions to Dovetail in Teams
There are two main ways to ask questions to Dovetail in Teams – by mentioning the Dovetail app a channel or group chat, or in a DM with the app. To ask a question, first add the bot to the group chat or channel.- In a chat, click on the people icon in the top right corner, click
Add agents and bots
, and selectDovetail
. - In a channel, type
@
into the text box, clickGet bots
, then selectDovetail
.
- For example –
@Dovetail what are our users’ top pain points?
Create a scheduled digest
Stay up to date with ongoing project work by scheduling recurring audio or written digests that you can receive in Teams. They’re a way to effortlessly stay up to date with new information coming into your workspace.- To create a digest, type
create-digest
either in a DM, group chat, or direct message with the Dovetail app - Next, you will then be sent a message by the Dovetail app containing a digest card for you to configure.
- From there, you can choose a title, decide which projects you’d like to receive updates from, what Teams channel you’d like to send this digest to, set the format (audio or text) and frequency (weekly, fortnightly, monthly).
- Once you receive a response to your question, select
Follow search
. - From there, you can configure the digest as described above.
- To edit or delete a digest you have created, type
manage-digests
to see all your digests and selectDelete
on the digest you want to remove.
Manage your Microsoft Teams connection
You can update how you receive notifications or disconnect Teams from Dovetail any time in settings.- To update notifications, open Dovetail, select ⚙️ Settings → Notifications and click
•••
next to Microsoft Teams. - From there, you can enable turn the Microsoft Teams notifications
on
oroff
.
- To disconnect Dovetail from your Teams account, select ⚙️ Settings → Integrations in the sidebar.
- From there, navigate to Microsoft Teams in the integrations list and select Disconnect.
Requested permissions
When you connect your Microsoft Teams account to Dovetail, you will grant Dovetail access to:- Read your organization’s app catalog: Allows us to find the internal ID of our Microsoft Team’s app.
- Read and write our Microsoft Team’s app for a user: Allows us to install our Microsoft Team’s app for the user, as well as retrieving the installation ID used to retrieve the conversation ID.
- Access profile information: Allows us to view user’s name, email address, organization name, and preferred language.
- Receive messages and data: Limited to what the user provides in a channel or a chat.
- Send messages and notifications: Allows for notifications in both a channel or chat.
- Access team or chat information: Allows us to view team or chat name, channel list and roster (including team or chat member’s names and email addresses), and use this information to contact them.
- Offline access: Allows us to regenerate user’s authorization via a refresh token.
Important information about the Dovetail Teams app and AI features
Important information about the Dovetail Teams app and AI features
We will never perform unexpected actions, such as joining all public channels by default or taking actions, unless prompted by the user.Ask Dovetail (available as an add-on to the base Dovetail Teams app) uses AI and large language models (LLM). Please note that responses generated may occasionally be inaccurate. We encourage you to verify any AI-generated content before relying on it. The AI model we use is Claude 3 Sonnet.