Tag: Power Virtual Agents

 

Use plugin actions in Copilot Studio (preview)

If you read last week’s article than you know that Microsoft announced a couple of new features during the Microsoft Power Platform Conference that took place in Las Vegas the first week of October. Last week I wrote about the ability to upload documents for generative answers which is in preview today, which allows us to upload one or multiple documents to be used in generative answers in Power VirtualRead More

Upload documents as a source for generative answers (preview) in Copilot Studio

If you attended Microsoft’s Power Platform Conference this month, then you probably heard about some of the new (preview) features that were announced for Power Virtual Agents! If you are not aware, of some of the features I’m referring to, or don’t exactly know what those features entail, then you definitely need to read this article! There are two features that are currently in preview, and I will discuss theRead More

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

Enable AI generated conversation summary(preview)

In this article I am going to discuss a feature that is currently in preview. I had a little trouble finding out how this works, which is why I decided to write this article about it. This feature is part of the collaboration between Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Microsoft Teams which utilizes an AI model that uses natural language to summarize a transcript of an active chat conversation 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