Migrating from Jabber to Webex Teams - how to IM: protocol?

[michael.matthews11]

I have an application written in C# that calls a process like so:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("IM://" + user);    

"user" being a string with the user's email address in it.  I have jabber set as the program to handle the IM: protocol under default applications.  This causes jabber to come up, and open a chat/IM window to the target user.   Has worked great for years.

Now we're going to Cisco Webex Teams... is there a similar way to do it?

I tried   CiscoSpark://blah.blah@work.net    all it does is bring Webex Teams into focus, but doesn't open an IM window to the target user.

I tried all protocols associated with Cisco Webex, it does the same thing.   I tried using the user's full name, and their Active Directory name... same thing.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work like jabber?

[npetrele · Accepted solution]

There's no 1 for 1 equivalent in Webex Teams of which I am aware. You probably have to code a REST command. You can find docs on that here:  https://developer.webex.com/docs/getting-started