Privave groups support

[rantav]

Right now if hubot is a member of a private yammer group and messages are sent to this group, hubot doesn't get those messages (and hence never replies).
Right now I''d love to have a private group so I can test hubot on yammer, but long term, I think this is a useful feature regardless. I assume large organizations utilize private groups and would appreciate hubot being in the group.

[athieriot]

I ask to Yammer people: https://help.yammer.com/requests/74787

[rantav]

BTW, the support request to yammer 74787 is not visible to me...

[athieriot]

Question send to the Yammer Developer Network

[rileytg]

@athieriot i think what @rantav is saying is that the link to the yammer support ticket is not visible to us. It just takes us to their homepage.

[athieriot]

Ok :)
Anyway, they just redirect me to the Yammer Developer Network which stay silent on the subject for now.

[emedvedev]

Three years have passed and it's time to go back to this issue. 😛

The /messages API endpoint we use is only meant for public messages, so it's pretty much intended behavior. I'll try to fix it some time next week to include private groups and private messages.

@tonybaloney: you asked about this yesterday. I'll keep you posted :)

[anveshkumarm]

Is there any update on the Private Group implementation. we were looking for this feature to be added, else we may need to enable restricted user groups within hubot to verify blah blah blah..... which is kind of mimic private groups.

[emedvedev]

@anveshkumarm: I'm afraid there won't be. Turns out the Realtime API that hubot-yammer is built on is deprecated, and is no longer supported or even documented, so there's a public group support, and that's pretty much it. If you can find a better Yammer module that somehow supports both private and public groups, I could probably rewrite the hubot-yammer module with it.