Integration · Team chat
AI agents for DingTalk
Post messages from your DingTalk app's bot to group chats and to people one-on-one, read people's DingTalk Calendar events and free/busy time, and create events with attendees and a DingTalk video meeting.
- Actions
- 7
- Read
- 4
- Write
- 3
Actions
What your agents can do in DingTalk
Post messages from your DingTalk app's bot to group chats and to people one-on-one, read people's DingTalk Calendar events and free/busy time, and create events with attendees and a DingTalk video meeting, and look up colleagues by mobile number or user ID (name, title, departments, email and the unionId the calendar actions take), through your organization's internal DingTalk app.
Read 4
Look things up. Nothing changes.
List calendar events
Lists a person's events in their primary DingTalk Calendar, at events[].
Check free/busy time
Reads when up to 20 people are busy between two times, to find a slot for a meeting.
Find a colleague by mobile number
Finds the person in your organization with this mobile number and returns their result.userid (the user ID the bot messages and "Get a colleague" take).
Get a colleague
Reads one person in your organization by their user ID.
Write 3
Create, change or send.
Post to a group chat
Posts a message from the app's bot to a group chat the bot is in, as plain text or as Markdown with a title (shown in notifications).
Message people one-on-one
Sends a message from the app's bot to up to 20 people, each in their one-on-one chat with the bot, as plain text or Markdown with a title.
Create a calendar event
Creates an event in a person's primary DingTalk Calendar, with a title, start and end time, time zone, description, location and attendees (by unionId), and optionally a DingTalk video meeting link.
A person can approve first
Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Enter the sign-in details DingTalk gives you for its API.
What you enter
- Client ID (AppKey)
- Client Secret (AppSecret)
Settings
- DingTalk edition
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your DingTalk data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can list calendar events, check free/busy time or find a colleague by mobile number in DingTalk, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update DingTalk
Have the agent post to a group chat or create a calendar event in DingTalk as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.
- 03
Work from your CRM
Give one agent HubSpot and DingTalk: it can search contacts in HubSpot and post to a group chat in DingTalk in the same run.
Works well with
More Team chat tools
- Slack bot6 actionsPost and reply in any channel, read recent messages, list channels, find a person by email and add reactions, as a bot installed in a Slack workspace.
- Microsoft Teams6 actionsPost and reply in Teams channels and send chat messages as the signed-in person, and list their teams, channels and chats.
- Google Chat1 actionPost messages to a Google Chat space through an incoming webhook.
- Discord1 actionPost messages to a Discord channel through a channel webhook.
- Zoom4 actionsSchedule Zoom meetings, list a user's upcoming meetings, read a meeting's details and list cloud recordings, through the organization's own Server-to-Server OAuth app.
- Google Meet5 actionsCreate Google Meet meeting links, and see past meetings, who joined them and their transcripts, signed in with the person's own Google account.
FAQ
DingTalk and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to DingTalk?
Yes. The DingTalk connector has 7 actions: 4 read and 3 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect DingTalk?
Enter the sign-in details DingTalk gives you for its API. You'll need: Client ID (AppKey) and Client Secret (AppSecret). The connection also asks for: DingTalk edition. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in DingTalk without asking?
Only if you let it. Each of the 3 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs.
Can I use DingTalk in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every DingTalk action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put DingTalk to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.