Category: Copilot Studio (previously Power Virtual Agents)
Build Power Virtual Agent topics with GPT
There were so many announcements this month and most of them were around Microsoft’s new offering called Copilot. Microsoft Copilot is a new product that helps end users be more productive by providing personalized assistance and support within the Microsoft 365 suite of applications. Essentially, Copilot is an AI-powered tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning to understand users’ requests and provide personalized recommendations, tips, and assistance. ThisRead More
Power Virtual Agents: Conversation Booster(preview)
Microsoft announced a new amazing preview feature for Power Virtual Agents yesterday, which you can try out today! If you are aware of how Power Virtual Agents (and most chatbots) work, then you know that usually, when a chatbot encounters a question or response that it doesn’t know how to answer, it can only ask the user to rephrase or connect to a human agent. But now, with the newRead More
Power Virtual Agents: Question Options Deep Dive
Since the public preview of the updated version of Power Virtual Agents became available last month, I have been hitting PVA hard. Meaning any time I had availability I was working in Power Virtual Agents trying to uncover as many secrets as I could! If you a frequent visitor of my website, you might have noticed that the last 3 articles were all about the new experience in PVA andRead More
Power Virtual Agents: Creating adaptive cards with PowerFX
The last three articles I wrote were about the new advanced authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents, which is in preview today. In the first article I showed you an example of how we could query data from Dynamics 365 customer service and feed those rows back into Power Virtual Agents so that we can use these values with a question (You can access that article here). In the articleRead More
Power Virtual Agents: Creating basic cards with PowerFX
The last two articles I wrote were both about the new advanced authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents, which is in preview today. I showed you an example of how we could query data from Dynamics 365 customer service and feed those rows back into Power Virtual Agents so that we can use these values with a question (You can access that article here). The customer can then pick anyRead More
Power Automate: Get list of values for Power Virtual Agents’ List Variable
My last article was about some of the new preview features in Power Virtual that we can try out today. One of these features is the ability to bring in dynamics options from Dataverse and store these in a list variable in Power Virtual Agent to show as options when the bot asks a question. Let me explain what I mean by that. Previously when we asked a question inRead More
Power Virtual Agents: Advanced authoring canvas preview
You might remember that back in May of this year, (during the Microsoft Build event) new capabilities coming to Power Virtual Agents were announced. I was able to get my hands on one of the environments to test it out and write an overview on the new features. If you haven’t read the article you can do that here. I also created an accompanying video which can be accessed fromRead More
Power Virtual Agents leveled up!
If you are attending the Microsoft Build event May 24th to May 26th 2022, then you might be aware of some of the new capabilities that are coming to Power Virtual Agents! Microsoft is leveling up the Power Virtual Agents application and taking it to new heights! There were several exiting announcements made regarding the new features and functionality of the application and in this article I will give youRead More
Using Power Automate conditions with Power Virtual Agents
In this article I am going to discuss a scenario where I need to pass data from Power Automate to Power Virtual Agents, but the data I’m passing will depend on the outcome of a condition. If you’re not familiar with conditions, conditions are statements that you can use in Power Automate. (Similar to check conditions in workflows). The condition will either be true or false, and therefore below theRead More
Check order status with Power Virtual Agent & Flow
I get a lot of requests where my prospects want Power Virtual Agent to be able to answer questions about order statuses. The scenario here is that someone ordered something from your website, or maybe even in person and now they are looking to see what the status of the order is, how the order was shipped and maybe they even want to get a tracking number. I am notRead More
