Microsoft has dropped their release plan for the features they are planning to roll out from April 2022ย throughย September 2022 across Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Take a look at the Power Platform ones I've picked here to get a glimpse of what's in store for us this year.
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Share your Teams Power Virtual Agent with all of your colleagues via a link
Once you've built your Power Virtual Agent, it's now time to publish and share it with others. In this post, I'll describe how you can share your bot with all colleagues using the Share link option.
Power Virtual Agents & Teams: Send a proactive message to everyone with the bot installed
In this post, I'll explain one method you can use to get Power Virtual Agent in Microsoft Teams send the same proactive message to everyone with the bot installed.
Extract text from an image in less than a minute using AI Builder (it works on handwriting too)
Text Recognition is a prebuilt model in AI Builder- in just a few clicks, you can extract text from an image or PDF. It works on file formats .PDF, .PNG and .JPEG. You can then use the extracted text as you need, such as in an email. This model is guaranteed to save you time … Continue reading Extract text from an image in less than a minute using AI Builder (it works on handwriting too)
Power BI Goal triggers for your flows: When status of a goal changes
You can use your Power BI Goals as a trigger to kick off processes in Power Automate. You can customise the series of actions you want to occur based on: When a data refresh for a goal failsWhen a goal changesWhen current value of a goal changesWhen someone adds or edits a goal check-inWhen someone … Continue reading Power BI Goal triggers for your flows: When status of a goal changes
Visualise Dataverse in Power BI with one-click
In your model-driven apps, it is now possible to get an auto-generated Power BI report based on your Dataverse data. From a view in your app, you can simply click the Visualize this view button to see the generated Power BI report. There are also some changes you can make to the report to personalise … Continue reading Visualise Dataverse in Power BI with one-click
Send a proactive message with Power Virtual Agents in Teams
If you are using your Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft Teams, it is possible to have the bot send a message to a user proactively. That means, rather than waiting for the user to chat to the bot, the bot can be the first one to message them. This can be achieved by using the … Continue reading Send a proactive message with Power Virtual Agents in Teams
Dataverse for Teams in a Day: Further resources and next steps
Dataverse for Teams (often abbreviated to D4T) in a Day is hands-on training content from Microsoft that shows you how to build your own apps, workflows and chatbots all within Teams. If you've joined one of these sessions, you might be keen to take your learning across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and … Continue reading Dataverse for Teams in a Day: Further resources and next steps
Come along to the NZ Business Applications Summit this Saturday 13th November
NZ Business Applications Summit is coming up on Saturday 13th November. It's a virtual conference with a range of sessions across Power Platform and Dynamics 365. There's something there for everyone! I'm thrilled to be presenting on Power Virtual Agents: Creating a no-code chatbot. My session will be at 2:00pm AEDT (or 4:00pm in NZ) … Continue reading Come along to the NZ Business Applications Summit this Saturday 13th November
New Power Apps licensing option: pay-as-you-go
If you've been wanting to use Power Apps premium licensing across your organisation, but didn't think that the per app or per user plans were suitable, Microsoft's a new licensing option of pay-as-you-go may be the answer for you. PAYG licensing was announced at MS Ignite earlier in November. PAYG Power Apps Licensing (USD$) PAYG … Continue reading New Power Apps licensing option: pay-as-you-go
