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How to enable Chatbot control and add Power Virtual Agent chatbot to your canvas app

uk365guy

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show how to enable and add the chat bot to your canvas app.

Lets gets started.

Login into www.make.powerapps.com

Open existing canvas app and click on settings and enable the chatbot component(see below screenshot)

As soon as chatbot component enabled the chatbot input control appear on the INPUT area on the left hand side of the canvas app.

By adding the Chatbot to your canvas apps and embed a published Power Virtual Agent Chatbot to assist your end users with a variety of requests. Providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex conversations.

We can use an AI or AI boosted conversations bot:

1. With AI chatbots, you can create an extended tree of answers to support your users,

2. With AI boosted conversations Power Virtual Agents bot your bot can have higher ability to respond to the user by using a number of prompts or generating a response based on provided “fallback” website which you set. The fallback website can include internal documents or publicly available websites.

You can design the Chatbot by giving it a name, change the size of the control window and position it anywhere on the screen.

Note: This feature is still in preview and it is powered by Azure OpenAI Service

Prerequisties:

AI Copilot Overview

To add chatbot control, need to create and publish a bot on Power Virtual Agent web app. you can create any bot such as a AI bot or a new generative AI enriched PVA.

Bot Schema Name:

To add the Chatbot, you need to schema name of the bot to add to the chatbot control properties in Power apps studio.

1. Login to Power Virtual Agent.
2. Go to settings
3. Bot details
4. Advanced : Copy Schema Name: gmr_bot1

Turn on the chatbot control:

Open the canvas app and click on editing.

1. Setting > Upcoming Features

2. Preview tab set the toggle for Chatbot component to On.

Add the Chatbot Control to the Bot.

Canvas app open and editing mode.

1. Select the Insert

2. Expand input menu an then select the Chatbot(Preview), drag and drop on your canvas app screen.

3. Enter the schema name of your bot into the control.

Important Properties:

Schema Name: the schema name must be entered to connect to your published Power Virtual Agent bot to your canvas app.

Header Label: this is the label shown to the app users, if the label is entered it will be defaulted to chatbot.

You can reposition by adjusting and sizes.

Only limitation is you can embed a bot with no user authentication.

That’s it for today.

I hope this helps
Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
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{How to } Schedule Solution Deployment for later date on Pipelines in Power Platform

uk365guy

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show how to deploy the solution using pipeline in power platform for later date.

Lets gets started.

Login into www.make.powerapps.com

I assume you already have pipeline configuration in place, if not please follow my previous series of blog posts related to pipeline configuration.

Here

Open the Pipeline solution:

Now click on the Pipeline(refer to below screenshot).

Then the pipeline deployment setup will appear.

Click on the Deploy here and select the later radio button and set the date and time and click next.

Then deploying solution window will appear, you can change the version number also the deployment notes can be added to the description section and Deploy.

Finally as you can see scheduled to deploy date and time is set, if you want to cancel the deployment you can do so before that date.

That’s it for today.

I hope this helps
Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
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How to switch to different directory from Power Apps maker portal

uk365guy

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to share how to switch directories from Power Apps Maker Portal.

Lets gets started.

Login into www.make.powerapps.com

Click on the little gear icon – settings on the right handside of the maker portal and then click on the Power apps settings.

Then click on the directories and choose the appropriate directory to work.

Thats it for today.

I hope this helps.
Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
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Power Apps for Windows desktop

uk365guy

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show new feature on Power Apps for Windows.

Lets gets started.

Turn on your windows desktop.

Now you can download the Power Apps from windows appstore as well as Sales Hub.

How do you do that?

Just search for Power Apps and download and then you can pin it to your task bar.

Next time you can access power apps from the task bar directly.

That’s it for today.

I hope this helps.
Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
#365BlogPostsin365Days

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When to use Elastic Tables(Preview) in Dataverse

uk365guy

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show what is use of the Elastic Tables(Preview) in Dataverse.

Let’s gets started.

What are Elastic Tables in Dataverse?

Elastic table is managed by Microsoft Dataverse. Elastic table have same features as standard tables in Dataverse but they have a unique features and capabilities powered by Azure Cosmos DB.

Note: Elastic table data storage consumption come under the Dataverse database capacity use.

So what is the purpose of the Elastic tables?

Elastic tables are designed to handle large volume of data in real time. By using the elastic table we can import large volume of data and store analyze it without scalability, latency or any performance issues.

Elastic tables supports:

CRUD Operations(create, read, update, delete) including API Multiple operations bulk deletion and requests from plug-ins.

Relationships: One to many and many to one.

Record ownership, change tracking, auditing, mobile offline and Dataverse search.

Security features support:

When creating elastic table you can set: Either user or organisation owned, field level security.

When to use Elastic tables and other information you can click here

Thats it for today.

I hope this helps.

Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
#365BlogPostsin365Days

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