Get started with the Employee Ideas app in Microsoft Teams

Are you tired of collecting employee feedback through hundreds of paper forms or clunky processes that are difficult to manage? Building a Power App is one way that you can streamline this process. However, did you know that there's already an app available in Microsoft Teams that can help you with this? The Employee Ideas app is not only ready use, but it can also be customised to fit your unique needs. In this post, we'll explore how the Teams Employee Ideas app can make the feedback collection process a breeze, and how you can tailor it to best suit your requirements.

Microsoft Ignite 2022: Power Platform & Microsoft Teams announcement highlights

At last week's Microsoft Ignite conference, there were some big announcements made for new features coming across Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, AI and more. In this post I'll highlight some of the announcements across Power Platform and Microsoft Teams that were personal favourites of mine.

Use collaborative annotations in Microsoft Teams Meetings

With collaborative annotations, attendees in a Teams meeting can draw, add notes and more on the presenter's screen. Annotations are live, so as each person adds to it, the changes are visible to everyone. Screenshot of shared screen in a Teams meeting with annotations It uses the Whiteboard functionality, however the background will be a … Continue reading Use collaborative annotations in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Document generation with Power Virtual Agents: talk to the bot > fill a Word doc template > save the file in SharePoint

The Word Online (Business) connector for Power Automate allows you to generate documents. Beginning with a Microsoft Word template, you can use the connector in a flow to take inputs, populate them in a template, and save the document. Here, we'll take a look at how you can use a conversation with a bot to collect these inputs, create the document, then return a link to the file back to the user.

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