Creating a Copilot Agent for Microsoft Teams
In this post, I will go over the steps of building a Copilot agent and publishing it to Microsoft Teams so that users can ask the agent questions directly from within Teams.
Category: Power Platform
Focused Views for all entities
Focused views, which was originally introduced as part of the Dynamics 365 Sales app allows viewing and managing records and their associated activities on a single page. It provides the ability to not navigate back and forth between screens.
Pipeline and Solution updates in Power Platform 2024 Release Wave 1
In the last few weeks there have been various updates to Pipelines and Solutions in the Power Platform and Power Apps as part of the 2024 Release Wave 1. In this post, I will provide an overview of these three updates and links to additional information about each of these.
Updated Bootstrap version and modern lists for Power Pages in Power Platform 2024 Release Wave 1
In the last few days, we have seen a few updates in the Power Pages blog site that we have been waiting for. These are the creation of new Power Pages sites in Bootstrap version 5.2.2 and the Public Preview of modern lists for Power Pages. Let’s go over these updates.
Changes to Release channels for model-driven apps
Microsoft provides new and updated features for model-driven apps on a regular basis. Until recently, those feature updates were rolled out in two release waves called the semi-annual release waves, which is the default setting for all of the existing apps and environments.
Calling Dataverse actions directly in Power Fx
Until recently, if we wanted to call a bound or unbound action from a Canvas app, we would have to create a Power Automate flow that would be triggered from the Canvas App and would then call a bound or unbound action from Power Automate. Not any more…
Cards for Power Apps are solution aware
Although cards for Power Apps were made Generally Available in March 2023, they were not available from within solutions, which made the deployment process more complex. Last week, on November 2nd, Microsoft announced that Cards for Power Apps have become solution aware.
Deprecation of Send an HTTP request in Office 365 Groups connector
If you are keeping track of changes in some of the connector actions, you might have noticed recently that Microsoft marked the Send an HTTP request action as deprecated and mentioned to use the Send an HTTP request V2 action instead.
New table creation experience in Maker Portal
The table creation experience in the Maker Portal has been somewhat slow, but now Microsoft has released some new features (in GA) that will make the creation of tables easier and more versatile, including uploading tables from Microsoft Excel or conversation-based table creation powered by Copilot.
Still the need for Classic Explorer
the team members on a project I am on mentioned that they were trying to change the width of a field in our unmanaged environment, but were not able to do this. This to me seemed a little weird, so I decided to investigate.