In the last week support for solutions has been added to Power Virtual Agents finally giving it ALM capabilities. Here is a quick post on how to add chatbots to a solution, how to modify deployed chatbot topics, and the impact of importing new versions of a solution. From the Power Apps Portal, you now have the option to add existing chatbots to your solution. This works for … [Read more...] about Power Virtual Agents – Solutions
Service Bus Queues & Power Automate
The announcement at Build 2020 that there is finally a Service Bus Explorer in the Azure Portal prompted me to write a post about using a Service Bus Queue with Power Automate. What are Message Queues? Messages queues are used to build scalable integration between platforms where a sender application puts messages on a queue and a receiver application reads the messages … [Read more...] about Service Bus Queues & Power Automate
RPA – Power Automate UI Flows
Microsoft support for RPA in the form of Power Automate UI Flows has recently been released. Here I have done a brief post to demonstrate how easy it easy to create and deploy a UI Flow. Before I explain the process involved I'm going briefly introduce what RPA and Power Automate UI Flows are all about. What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Robotic Process Automation … [Read more...] about RPA – Power Automate UI Flows
Team Member Non-Conformant Report
Hopefully by now you are aware that Microsoft will be enforcing the usage of Dynamics 365 team member licences this year details here. There is a report you can access that helps determine if you have any non conformant team members licences. You need to go to Power Platform admin centre https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ and from the menu select the CDS option as … [Read more...] about Team Member Non-Conformant Report
Call a Power Automate Flow – Power Automate & Watson
The beauty of low code platforms is not just that you can build applications quickly but also you easily integrate platforms without any significant technical skills. In this post I am going to show how to call a Power Automate Flow using a Watson Assistant chatbot. I did a post a while back on how you can call a Power Automate Flow from a Power Virtual Agents bot to query … [Read more...] about Call a Power Automate Flow – Power Automate & Watson
Power Platform Irish Tour Waterford 26 Feb 2020
Last night I did a talk to the Water Tech Meetup on the Power Platform and the low code revolution. This was very well attended which I hope was down to me rather than the free pizza and beer. It was in a very nice venue called Boxworks which is a cool shared office space. From what I could gather the audience contained a large number of open source developers and in fact … [Read more...] about Power Platform Irish Tour Waterford 26 Feb 2020
Power Platform – 2020 Release Plan
The Power Platform 2020 Release Plan was published here today. I had a read through the details and picked out the ten improvements that caught my eye. There are not in any particular order of preference. Here is a list with a brief to follow after. The Save button is back.Responsive Reflowing Canvas AppsCreate PDF from Canvas App Power Apps Portals will be able to call … [Read more...] about Power Platform – 2020 Release Plan
Proactive Slot Filling in Power Virtual Agents
Up until recently a Power Virtual Agents chatbot would ask a user a series of questions to complete a task. The response of each question would be stored in a variable until all the questions were completed. Asking a user multiple questions to complete a simple task made the conversation slightly cumbersome and unnatural. Chatbot Entity Support for entities and … [Read more...] about Proactive Slot Filling in Power Virtual Agents
Build Watson Assistant ChatBot
I was recently demonstrating Power Virtual Agent to somebody who was suitably impressed with how easy it was to create a chat bot without any technical skills. Unfortunately when I explained that Power Virtual Agent costs $1,000 per month for 2,000 sessions they were suitably unimpressed. They asked me if I could suggest an alternative. So I decided to take a look IBM's Watson … [Read more...] about Build Watson Assistant ChatBot
Create Powerapps Nav Bar Component for Canvas App
I wanted to get more familiar with building Canvas Apps in Power Apps so I thought I would try and create a Wizard type app, that guides a user through a series of input screens. My intention was to use it in Dynamics 365 instead of the deprecated Dialogs. As part of this exercise, I wanted to create some reusable components that I could use in my Wizards screens. This seemed … [Read more...] about Create Powerapps Nav Bar Component for Canvas App
