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Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents

You're reading from   Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents A practical guide to building intelligent chatbots with Microsoft Power Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074742
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicolae Tarla Nicolae Tarla
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Power Virtual Agents FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Licensing for Power Virtual Agents 4. Chapter 3: Building Your First Power Virtual Agent Chatbot 5. Section 2: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents on Your Website
6. Chapter 4: Creating a Power Virtual Agent for Your Website 7. Chapter 5: Integrating a Power Virtual Agent into Your Website 8. Chapter 6: Handling Authentication and Personalization 9. Section 3: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents in Teams
10. Chapter 7: Building a Power Virtual Agents Application for Teams 11. Chapter 8: Integrating the Power Virtual Agent into Teams 12. Chapter 9: Serving Information from Various Sources 13. Section 4: Best Practices for Power Virtual Agents
14. Chapter 10: Power Virtual Agents Governance 15. Chapter 11: Power Virtual Agents Best Practices 16. Chapter 12: Power Virtual Agents Administration 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Retrieving data using available connectors

Using a Power Automate flow leverages a large set of available connectors to tap into external systems or data sources and retrieve various pieces of data to be returned to the conversation. There is a large number of available connectors, some created by Microsoft and others created by various vendors. If you cannot find an existing connector for your respective data source, you can always create a new custom connector. Depending on the data source, this could be either a simple configurable process, or it might require some more advanced custom coding.

In our example, we will use an existing Microsoft-provided connector to retrieve data from Dynamics 365 Sales and return to the conversation a set of active opportunity records. You can take a similar approach for any other tables in Dataverse, including standard tables such as Account or Contact if you are not using Dynamics 365 Sales. This example is a common scenario for organizations...

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