Using Copilot in Power Apps
At the time of writing, Copilot in Power Apps is still in limited trial. However, if you create a new Dataverse environment with the United States as the location, then you can benefit from the preview version that has been made available. Let’s work through a basic example:
- When we load the Power Apps portal (make.powerapps.com) in the North America geo, Copilot is the very first thing that we see. But it’s not labeled as Copilot; it is simply a chat box that asks you to describe what you want to do. This is the whole basis of Copilot, natural language being used to create an outcome.
Figure 22.1: Copilot chat box on the Power Apps home screen
- For us to be able to test Copilot, we will build an app that allows us to track the number of miles that we spend on journeys in a car. The difference is that we are going to build it by using natural language. So, we can tell Copilot “I want to track my car...