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| platform | App Templates | https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/msteams-docs/commits/main/msteams-platform/samples/app-templates.md | Title: App templates for Microsoft Teams -description: Learn how to use app templates for Microsoft Teams platform with detailed instructions for deploying and installing an app. +description: Learn to use app templates for Microsoft Teams platform with detailed instructions for deploying and installing an app. -keywords: Microsoft Teams templates samples demo ms.localizationpriority: medium App template code samples are a collection of sample apps for Microsoft Teams pl > > * Microsoft is not actively managing the source code. The complete source code is open source and you can explore, fork, and modify the source code to meet your specific requirements. > * You must not use Microsoft Power Platform to create apps that are to be published to the Teams app store. Microsoft Power Platform apps can be published to an organization’s app store only.+> * Applications based on Poll, Survey, Checklist, Quiz, and Training templates will be retired by March 10, 2023. These applications will stay active until February 10, 2023 and you will be able to retrieve any data until March 10, 2023. The following table describes App template code samples: The following table describes App template code samples: |Book-a-room | Book-a-room is a [Microsoft Teams bot](../bots/what-are-bots.md) that allows users quickly to find and reserve a meeting room for 30, 60, or 90 minutes starting from the current time. The default time is 30 minutes. The Book-a-room bot scopes to personal or 1:1 conversations.| [Book-a-room](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-bookaroom) | | Building Access | Building Access is a Microsoft [Power Platform](https://powerapps.microsoft.com/blog/now-in-preview-customize-teams-with-built-in-power-platform-capabilities/) based app that supports the administration of building occupancy thresholds and social distancing norms by enabling facilities directors to manage, track, and report employee on-site presence. The app, built using Microsoft [Power Apps](/powerapps/powerapps-overview), and [Power Automate](/power-automate/getting-started), deeply integrates with Teams and enables organizations to determine building readiness, establish eligibility criteria for on-site access, and gather insights for future planning. | [Building Access](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-buildingaccess) | | Celebrations |Celebrations is a Teams app that helps team members to celebrate each others' birthdays, anniversaries, and other recurring events. It remembers special occasions of all the team members and sends a friendly message in all the teams selected at the time of event creation, to make the team members feel special on their day. The app provides an easy interface for all the team members to personally add and view their events and also allows the user to select the teams in which the events get shared. | [Celebrations](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-celebrations-app) |-| Checklist | Checklist is a custom Teams [message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables you to collaborate with your team by creating a shared checklist in a chat or channel. The app is supported across all Teams platform clients, such as desktop browser, iOS, and Android. The app is ready for deployment as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription. | [Checklist](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-checklist-app)| +| Checklist | Note: The Checklist App Template will be retired soon. For more details refer the note section [here](#app-template-code-samples). <br/> Checklist is a custom Teams [message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables you to collaborate with your team by creating a shared checklist in a chat or channel. The app is supported across all Teams platform clients, such as desktop browser, iOS, and Android. The app is ready for deployment as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription. | [Checklist](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-checklist-app)| | Classroom Drop-in | Classroom Drop-in is a Microsoft [Power Platform](https://powerapps.microsoft.com/blog/now-in-preview-customize-teams-with-built-in-power-platform-capabilities/)-based app that enables system leaders to find class teams, means virtual classrooms and add themselves or others to these class teams for a specified drop-in period, as needed. The app built using Microsoft [Power Apps](/powerapps/powerapps-overview) and [Power Automate](/power-automate/getting-started), deeply integrates with Teams to ensure educational institutes can optimize their operations in a hybrid learning environment by providing access to relevant stakeholders for class teams per business requirements.| [Classroom Drop-in](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-classroom-dropin) | | Contact Group Lookup |The Contact Group Lookup app provides a convenient and useful approach to creating, accessing, and managing your organization's contact groups, formerly known as distribution lists or communication groups. Users can quickly view and chat with group members, view member status, and create a group chat with selected members in the contact group, all within the Teams environment.| [Contact Group Lookup](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-app-contactgrouplookup)| | Co-worker Appreciate | The co-worker appreciation template in Teams helps users to recognize their colleagues' achievements within the Teams’ context. When co-workers select to reward a colleague, recipients and other team members are tagged in a channel conversation and they receive a notification about the channel's award details. The awards are recorded in the Teams app, which is secure, portable, and easily shareable. This is considered as the PowerApps based version of the Open Badges app template, with a leaderboard.| [Co-worker Appreciation](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-coworker-appreciation)| The following table describes App template code samples: |Issue Reporting |The Issue Reporting app empowers the employees and managers to raise and manage issues. It consists of two apps, Issue reporting app for reporting issues and Manage Issues app for managing issues. The team managers use the Manage Issues app to configure the app experience, including the channel in which Teams messages and Planner tasks are created by the app. Managers also use the app to create template forms to collect details when a user reports an issue. For example, review, edit, or delete issue template forms. The app is also used to review team issues, report on issue history, and efficiently manage issue resolution. The employees use the Issue reporting app to log issues and details required to resolve them. The app is also used to modify and resolve existing issues and get a high-level view of individual or team issues. |[Issue Reporting](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-issuereporting) | | New Employee Onboarding| New Employee Onboarding is an integrated Teams and [SharePoint New Employee Onboarding Solution](https://lookbook.microsoft.com/details/75e60a32-9849-4ed4-b83e-b2b08983ad19) that enables your organization to provide a consistent, high-quality onboarding experience for employees on their new-hire journey. The app is used by human resource teams and hiring managers to provide relevant information throughout the orientation and induction process and by new hires to share feedback, provide introductions, and complete onboarding tasks.|[New Employee Onboarding](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-newemployeeonboarding) | | Open Badges| Open Badges is a Teams app that enables individuals to earn digital learning credential badges within the Teams context and share them everywhere. Using capabilities from the third-party digital badge issuing authority, [Badgr](https://badgr.org/), awarded badges are recorded in a recipient's Badgr profile and available to build and share a rich picture of lifetime learning journeys.|[Open Badges](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-openbadges) |-| Poll| Poll is a custom Teams [message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables you to quickly create and send polls in a chat or a channel to gather team opinions and preferences. The app is supported across all Teams platform clients, such as desktop, browser, iOS, and Android and is ready for deployment as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription.|[Poll](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-poll-app) | +| Poll| Note: The Poll App Template will be retired soon. For more details refer the note section [here](#app-template-code-samples). <br/> Poll is a custom Teams [message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables you to quickly create and send polls in a chat or a channel to gather team opinions and preferences. The app is supported across all Teams platform clients, such as desktop, browser, iOS, and Android and is ready for deployment as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription.|[Poll](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-poll-app) | | Quick Responses| Quick Responses is a Teams app that delivers a robust solution for effectively answering users' commonly asked questions FAQs. Instead of answering each query manually and continuously repeating information, the app builds a library of responses for an interactive user experience through Teams [message extensions](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md).|[Quick Responses](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-quickresponses) |-|Quiz | Quiz is a custom [Teams message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables you to create a quiz within a chat or a channel for knowledge check and instantaneous results. You can use Quiz for, In-class and offline exams, Knowledge check within team, and for fun quizzes within a team. Quiz app is supported across multiple platforms, such as Teams desktop, browser, iOS, and Android clients. This app is ready for deployment as part of your existing Microsoft 365 subscription.|[Quiz](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-quiz) | +|Quiz | Note: The Quiz App Template will be retired soon. For more details refer the note section [here](#app-template-code-samples). <br/> Quiz is a custom [Teams message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables you to create a quiz within a chat or a channel for knowledge check and instantaneous results. You can use Quiz for, In-class and offline exams, Knowledge check within team, and for fun quizzes within a team. Quiz app is supported across multiple platforms, such as Teams desktop, browser, iOS, and Android clients. This app is ready for deployment as part of your existing Microsoft 365 subscription.|[Quiz](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-quiz) | | Rapid Assist|Rapid Assist is a Microsoft [Power Platform](https://powerapps.microsoft.com/blog/) based app that allows customer facing associates to rapidly connect with the experts to get quick answers, search for information, follow up open requests, and allow experts to receive notifications to quickly get on a call to help answer questions. The app built using Microsoft [Power Apps](/powerapps/powerapps-overview) and [Power Automate](/power-automate/getting-started), deeply integrates with Teams to enable organizations to easily connect frontline workers with corporate liaisons to resolve customer queries and deliver a great customer experience. |[Rapid Assist](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-rapid-assist) | | Reflect|Reflect is a custom Teams [message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that provides a safe and inclusive resource for your team members to share the state of their emotional well-being with colleagues or group leaders directly within Teams. The app is available in channel, group, meeting, and 1:1 chats and the check-in response is set to public, private-to-sender, or fully anonymous. |[Reflect](https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-App-Reflect) | |Remote Support | Remote Support is a [Microsoft Teams bot](../bots/what-are-bots.md) that provides a focused interface between support requesters throughout your organization and the internal support team. End-users can submit, edit, or withdraw requests for support and the support team can respond, manage, and update requests all within the Teams platform.|[Remote Support](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-remotesupport) | The following table describes App template code samples: |Share Now |The Share Now app promotes the positive exchange of information between colleagues by enabling your users to easily share content within the Teams environment. Users engage the app to share items of interest with team members, discover new shared content, set preferences, and bookmark favorites for later reading. |[Share Now](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-sharenow) | |SharePoint List Search |Collaboration in Teams often references information contained within items in a SharePoint list. Paste a link to the item in question forces everyone to switch context away from the conversation, find the needed information, then return to Teams to continue the conversation. As the conversation continues people have to switch back to the reference item multiple times to verify new comments and refresh their memories of the information contained within the item. This context switching creates a barrier to smooth collaboration. To resolve this problem, the List Search app template is used. Many users use SharePoint to power some of the core workflows in their organizations. However, collaborating around lists is difficult. Using the List Search app template in Teams, users can insert information from SharePoint list items directly within a chat conversation to alleviate the context-switching caused when simply inserting a link into a chat. The information is inserted as an easy-to-read auto-formatted card, helping the users stay engaged in the conversation. |[SharePoint List Search](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-list-search-app) | |Staff Check-ins | Staff Check-ins is a [Power Apps](/powerapps/powerapps-overview) based app that enables oversight communication between your business and field personnel. Staff can easily provide time-critical information and status updates on either a scheduled or ad-hoc basis directly from Teams. The app supports real-time location, photos, notes, reminder notifications, and automated workflows.|[Staff Check-ins](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-staffcheckins) |-| Survey|Survey is a custom Teams [message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables you to create a survey in a chat or a channel to gather data and gain actionable insight. The app is supported across all Teams platform clients, such as desktop, browser, iOS, and Android and is ready for deployment as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription. |[Survey](https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Survey-app) | +| Survey|Note: The Survey App Template will be retired soon. For more details refer the note section [here](#app-template-code-samples). <br/> Survey is a custom Teams [message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables you to create a survey in a chat or a channel to gather data and gain actionable insight. The app is supported across all Teams platform clients, such as desktop, browser, iOS, and Android and is ready for deployment as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription. |[Survey](https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Survey-app) | |Time Tally |A project can include multiple tasks, and various projects can be assigned to employees. Managers are required to understand the project progress through the time spent by the employees on these tasks. This can be a cumbersome activity, as the employees need to fill in the timesheets. Time Tally app enables employees to fill their timesheets quickly, using the mobile device, and managers don't have to follow up with employees on the timesheet entry. Managers get to view the project utilization based on resources, and they can approve or reject the entries. Reminder notifications are sent to ensure timesheet compliance. Also, historical data and utilizations are available for analytics. |[Time Tally](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-timetally) |-| Training | Training is a custom [Teams message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables users to publish a training within a chat or a channel for offline knowledge sharing and upskilling. The app is supported across multiple Teams platform clients, such as desktop, browser, iOS, and Android. This app is ready for deployment as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription.|[Training](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-training) | +| Training | Note: The Training App Template will be retired soon. For more details refer the note section [here](#app-template-code-samples). <br/> Training is a custom [Teams message extension](../messaging-extensions/what-are-messaging-extensions.md) app that enables users to publish a training within a chat or a channel for offline knowledge sharing and upskilling. The app is supported across multiple Teams platform clients, such as desktop, browser, iOS, and Android. This app is ready for deployment as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription.|[Training](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-training) | |Virtual Rounding | Hospital and emergency room providers make many **rounds** per day. These quick check-ins on patients are intended to provide a status check on how the patient is doing and ensure that the patient’s concerns are addressed. While rounding is an essential practice to ensure patients are being monitored by multiple types of providers, they represent a huge drain on PPE, because for each visit, from each provider, a new mask, and new set of gloves are used. With this app templates, medical workers can easily conduct rounds virtually, through a Teams meeting between the provider and the patient. The Virtual Rounding solution is also referenced in the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences [blog post](https://aka.ms/teamsvirtualrounding).|[Virtual Rounding](https://github.com/SmartterHealth/Virtual-Rounding) | |Visitor Management | The Visitor Management app enables your organization and employees to easily and efficiently manage the on-site visitor process, directly from Teams. The app enables employees to create visitor requests, centrally track a request status through the visitor dashboard, and receive real-time notifications when a visitor arrives.|[Visitor Management](https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-app-visitormanagement) | |Water Cooler |Water Cooler is a custom Teams app that enables corporate teams to create, invite, and join casual conversations among teammates, such as those that take place by the Water Cooler or break room. Use this template for multiple scenarios, such as new non project related announcements, topics of interest, current events, or conversations about hobbies. The app provides an easy interface for anyone to find an existing conversation or start a new one. It's a foundation for building custom targeted communication capabilities, promoting interaction amongst coworkers who may otherwise not get a chance to socialize during breaks. Key features are: <br/> **Water Cooler Home Page**: You can browse existing rooms where team members are interacting in existing conversations with certain people or topics of interest. Active conversations on the **Home Page** show a room name, short description, call duration, and room image. <br/>**Join room**: Use the **Join room** feature to join an ongoing conversation immediately. Select **Join** from active conversations to join the room.<br/>**Room creation**: Use the **Room creation** feature to create a Teams call or chat for all attendees to interact. Create rooms easily by specifying the room name, short description, up to five colleagues as an initial group and selecting from the provided set of room images. <br/>**Find room**: Use the **Find room** feature to search keyword, which matches with the topic or short descriptions of ongoing conversations.<br/>**Attendee invitation**: Use the **Attendee invitation** feature to invite additional users after room creation. This is similar to Teams call.<br/>**App badge**: The **Water Cooler** icon on the left menu shows a badge with the number of active conversations visible from Teams while using any app. |[Water Cooler](https://github.com/microsoft/csapps-msteams-watercooler) | |