Make your Power Virtual Agents bot start the conversation using a custom canvas
Power Virtual Agents now enables you to make your bot start the conversation using a custom canvas.
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Feature releases
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Change your Power Virtual Agents default canvas bot icon and name
Customize your bot’s default canvas icons and name using a custom HTML snippet. -
View, export, and manage retention time of your bot conversation transcripts
Power Virtual Agents now enables you to view and export your bot’s conversation transcripts beyond 30 days by managing transcript retention time. -
Use Power Virtual Agents Connector to build Power Automate flows for your bot
A new Power Virtual Agents Connector – a no-code, UI-based Power Automate Connector designed to create flows for Power Virtual Agents with no JSON coding required, is now available to Power Virtual Agents users in all regions. -
Access and edit your Power Automate flows from the Power Virtual Agents authoring canvas
Access and edit your bot’s Power Automate flows directly from the Power Virtual Agents authoring canvas. -
Create a bot in your geographic location
Power Virtual Agents enables you to create powerful chatbots in supported data locations without the need for data scientists or developers.