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Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

You're reading from   Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions A guide to Teams architecture and integration for advanced end users and administrators

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075558
Length 628 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aaron Guilmette Aaron Guilmette
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Collaboration and Apps
2. Chapter 1: Taking a Tour of Microsoft Teams FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Approvals 4. Chapter 3: Task Management in Teams 5. Chapter 4: Bookings in Teams 6. Part 2: Meetings
7. Chapter 5: Conducting Teams Meetings 8. Chapter 6: Microsoft Teams Rooms 9. Chapter 7: Live Events 10. Part 3: Bots and Development
11. Chapter 8: Power Apps in Teams 12. Chapter 9: Workflow Integration 13. Chapter 10: Power Virtual Agents in Teams 14. Part 4: Voice
15. Chapter 11: Planning for Teams Phone 16. Chapter 12: Deploying Teams Phone 17. Chapter 13: Configuring Advanced Teams Phone Features 18. Chapter 14: Teams Devices 19. Part 5: Administration
20. Chapter 15: Planning and Adoption 21. Chapter 16: Governance 22. Chapter 17: Integration with Exchange Server 23. Chapter 18: Security and Data Protection 24. Chapter 19: Reporting in Teams 25. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Direct Routing and Operator Connect

Integrating with Power Automate

When you're building chatbots in Power Virtual Agents for Teams, you may run into scenarios where basic question-and-answer conversations are not sufficient to meet the business's needs. If we want our bot to take more complex actions, we can call a Power Automate flow from within a topic. We can take user input from the conversation, pass it to the workflow, process it, and return some output to the user.

In our use case, we will create a flow that registers the user for a session by creating a new entry on the Registrations Dataverse table that we created in Chapter 8, Power Apps in Teams. We need to collect the user's phone number and the session they want to attend. Because Power Virtual Agent automatically stores the user's name in a variable, we do not need to prompt the user for it. To build this integration, perform these steps:

  1. Open the Power Virtual Agents app in Teams.
  2. Under Chatbots, navigate to the team...
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