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Shared Device Mode for Power Apps on Andriod

uk365guy

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to share new features which is released by Microsoft related to Power Apps is Shared Device Mode.

Let’s gets started.

What is Shared Device Mode for Power Apps?

Shared Device Mode is an App where multiple users can use same device based on their shifts patterns.

Shared Device Mode (SDM) for Power Apps Mobile App on shared Andriod devices, joining the portfolio of apps including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Edge, Viva Engage and Managed Home Screen.

So this Shared Device Mode allows frontline workers to sign in or out of Power Apps and other Microsoft Products in a single step, providing convenience, security for the workers who frequently hand off shared devices.

This features is particularly useful for field engineers, frontline workers, healthcare workers, where mulitple users changes there shifts to cover whole day.

For more information about the SDM

Shared Device Mode uses Itune Application Protection Policies

Thats it for today.

I hope this helps.
Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
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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 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)
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How to check Model Driven App form sizes in real time on form designer view

uk365guy

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show different form sizes on model driven app form in a real time on modern UI in Dataverse.

Let’s gets started.

Login into www.make.powerapps.com

Go to the solution and select a table and create a new form.

Different form sizes:

Desktop (1920 x 1080)

Tablet (1024 x 768)

Phone (411 x 731)

Responsive (581 x 1021)

Above image is “Responsive (581 x 1021 ) when you select the size then automatically adjust in real time.

It will be very useful for the form designers.

Similarly when we select the Phone (411 x 731 )

Then if you select the Tablet (1024 x 768)

Finally Desktop (1920 x 1080) screen size looks like below screenshot.

So this screen size in real time designer view is really game changer for the designers.

That’s it for today.

I hope this helps.

Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
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