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.
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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. Read More…
Canvas App Nav Bar Component
I wanted to get more familiar with building Canvas Apps in Power Apps so I though 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 Read More…
CDS Non-interactive accounts now need licences
The October release of the Power Platform covering Dynamics 365 sees the introduction of API call limits based on a user’s licence type. For example a PowerApps per user licence will allow a user to make 5,000 API calls in a given 24 hour period. An important point for developers in the required API limit Read More…
How to install the Data Gateway
I wrote a post a little while ago about how to use Flow to synch Dynamics 365 record changes to an on prem database using the Data Gateway. In this post I wanted to show how easy it is to install the Data Gateway. The data gateway acts a bridge between your on-premise data sources and Read More…