Microsoft Teams Integration

[DanApollo]

Description:
Integrate the Microsoft Teams API to enable team challenge features and communication within the Employee Wellness Portal.

User Stories:

• "As an employee, I want to participate in company wellness challenges through Microsoft Teams, so I can compete with my colleagues and stay motivated."

• "As an employee, I want to receive notifications and encouragement related to wellness challenges within Microsoft Teams, so I feel supported and engaged."

• ( Optional ) "As an employee, I want to see a leaderboard within Microsoft Teams that shows my ranking in wellness challenges, so I can track my progress compared to others."

Acceptance Criteria:

1. Authentication:

-Implement a secure mechanism for users to authenticate their Microsoft Teams accounts within the Employee Wellness Portal.

2. Challenge Creation and Management:

-Allow administrators to create and manage wellness challenges within the portal, with the option to sync them to Microsoft Teams channels.
-Enable challenge details (name, goals, rules, start/end dates) to be displayed in Teams channels.

3. Notifications and Messaging:

-Send notifications to participants in Teams channels when a challenge starts, ends, or when milestones are reached.
-Allow for team-based messaging within challenge channels for encouragement and communication.

4. ( Optional ) Leaderboard Display:

-Automatically generate and display challenge leaderboards within designated Teams channels.
-Update leaderboards in real-time as employees log workouts and progress.

Tasks:

1. API Research and Setup:

-Obtain necessary API keys and credentials.

2. Authentication Implementation:

-Develop a login flow to allow users to securely connect their Microsoft Teams accounts to the portal.
-Store user authentication tokens for subsequent API calls.

3. Challenge Integration:

-Create a workflow to sync challenge data from the portal to Teams channels.
-Implement logic to display challenge details and rules within Teams.

4. Notifications and Messaging:

-Utilise Teams messaging APIs to send notifications and enable team communication within challenge channels.

5. ( Optional ) Leaderboard Implementation:

-Develop a mechanism to fetch relevant data from the database (workout logs, challenge progress) for leaderboard calculation.
-Design a visually appealing leaderboard format for Teams channels.
-Create API calls to update leaderboards in real-time within Teams.

6. Testing:

-Thoroughly test all API integrations to ensure functionality, security, and error handling.

Dependencies:

• This ticket depends on the completion of the database creation ticket (to fetch relevant data for challenges and leaderboards).
• Assumes that the Microsoft Teams environment is already set up and configured.