Integration with Microsoft Teams and Adaptive Cards
AB Projects is built to live inside Microsoft Teams — the project, its tasks, its conversations, and its notifications all sit where your team already works. This article ties together how the pieces fit; the linked articles cover each in depth.
Teams tab integration
- Each project is linked one-to-one with a Teams channel via the AB Projects tab. From the tab you get the full task area — List, Gantt, and Kanban views, creating tasks, comments, and the detail panel — without leaving Teams (see Using Tabs for Task Management).
- A project links to one channel at a time. A project already linked elsewhere won't appear when linking a new channel — unlink it first (see Installing the AB Projects Teams App).
- The tab loads the project's current state; reopen or refresh to pull in teammates' latest changes.
Adaptive Card notifications
- Every comment and every task change — not just selected events — posts an Adaptive Card to the linked channel automatically.
- The card is a full preview: priority, dates and overdue flag, a change diff (field: old → new), progress, status/type/environment, assignee, subtask and comment counts, creator, and an Open button that deep-links to the task.
- The first card for a task starts its thread; later cards reply into the same thread, and replies in that thread sync back to the task as comments (see Adaptive Cards and Task Previews).
- Cards render well on desktop and mobile Teams.
How mentions work
- In a comment, you select members from a chip picker labelled "Mention in Teams notification" (you don't type
@username). - Selected members are @mentioned in the Teams channel post, so they get Teams' native notification.
- Only members who have a Teams identity appear in the picker, since the mention is delivered as a Teams @mention (see Commenting with Mentions in Channels).
Authentication and membership
- Sign-in is automatic through your Microsoft 365 account (Microsoft SSO / Microsoft Entra ID) — there's no separate AB Projects account or password.
- Teams context identifies you and your channel; membership follows the connected channel and syncs automatically (see Becoming a Project Member in AB Projects).
- There is no separate license gate — being in the linked Teams channel is what makes you a project member.
With deep Teams integration and rich Adaptive Cards, AB Projects keeps your team informed, responsive, and collaborative — all inside the platform you already use every day.