The highlights include –

• Adding a chatbot component just like any other component into a Power Apps Portal without any code.​
• Easy to point to an existing chatbot or create a new chatbot directly in Power Virtual Agents.​
• Experience a styled chatbot out of the box, that matches the Portal look and feel.​
• Apply different Portals themes and the chatbot updates automatically.​
• Chatbot widget is minimized by default and can be maximized/minimized.
• Support for pro-code, advanced customization available if needed.

Easy entry point to add a chatbot in Power Apps portal Studio. Point to an existing bot or create a new one

Chatbot automatically matches Portal theme (out of box styling of chatbot)


Support for minimizing/maximizing chatbot control, with default minimized

Finally, you can do additional customization of the chatbot control using advanced configuration in the Power Apps portal management app.

We look forward to your feedback

Your feedback will help us continue to build on and improve the capabilities of this feature. We want to hear from you!

For details, see the documentation.

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How to get started?

Get started within the Power Apps portal designer by going to make.preview.powerapps.com.

Create a starter Portal by following documentation here: Create a Dataverse starter portal.

Once you have a portal created, you can easily add a bot from the same Dataverse environment by following a few quick steps:

1. Select Components from the left pane.
2. Select Chatbot component.
3. Select your bot.

For more information on advanced customization, refer to documentation here: Add a chatbot to a page (Preview)

Go ahead and try this feature at make.preview.powerapps.com. Your feedback will help us continue to build on and improve the functionality. We want to hear from you!

Thank you,
Gitika

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Join this webinar to learn about these new features from the product team. In this session, we will review what’s been released lately, including the new collaboration features like exporting and importing a bot, and the ability for multiple authors to collaborate on a bot.  We’ll look at new authoring features that enable passing in context to the bot from an external website, new Power Automate integration features, and finally, enabling your bot in multiple languages to expand your customer reach.

Start leveraging the latest that Power Virtual Agents has to offer you!

When:  July 29, 10 AM PST

Register at https://learning.eventbuilder.com/FY21WhatsNewWebinarSeries (leave the Partner ID field blank if you don’t have one) to get a link to the Live Event.

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend the What’s New Release Webinar Series, focused on What’s new in Power Virtual Agents.

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Learn about the features planned to release from October 2020 through March 2021 in Power Virtual Agents at https://aka.ms/PVAReleaseNotes.

The 2020 release wave 2 brings expanded capabilities in the authoring experience from deeper Microsoft Teams integration, tools to create richer content, Adaptive Cards capabilities, authentication improvements, improved Power Automate integration, and much more.

Use Power Virtual Agents documentation to get detailed information and answers to address your needs, from basic authoring tips all the way to complex bot configuration topics.

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Once you’ve signed up for Power Virtual Agents here, you can get started with creating your very first bot. Watch this short video to see how easy it is to create your first bot, add topics, and test it.

Once you’ve created your bot topics and tested them out, you can publish the bot to make it available to anyone. Watch this short video to see how to publish to a demo website and to your own custom website, enabling anyone to chat with your bot.

We’d love to hear your feedback. Please visit our community forum at https://aka.ms/PowerVirtualAgentsForum and share your feedback.

And submit your idea requests at https://aka.ms/PowerVirtualAgentsIdeas.

Thanks!

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