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How do i save a user input in a variable in PVA Production Bot?

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Hi, If you see the above image, i want to save the user response in a variable so that i can pass it to the power automate flow.
I can easily do this in canvas but not in production, what to do?

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MattJimison 577 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: How do i save a user input in a variable in PVA Production Bot?

Hi, @Jupyter123 . I'm not clear on what you mean when you say:
"Ask a Question" node is available only in canvas PVA, not in production

Are you in PVA for Teams or PVA Premium? Can you share a snapshot of your available options like mine below? Also, based on your example above, I'm wondering if we're talking about Generative AI and not a simple question / message node combination.
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Re: How do i save a user input in a variable in PVA Production Bot?

@MattJimison @Pstork1 Hey , "Ask a Question" node is available only in canvas PVA, not in production.
And everytime i dont wanna ask a question to user
it should be like direct question and answer, something like this
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Re: How do i save a user input in a variable in PVA Production Bot?

In addition to what @MattJimison said there is another little trick that you can use if you are looking for something specific. If you have a more general topic and then ask a question the bot will automatically harvest the answer to the question from the original prompt if appropriate. For example you have a Topic that is "how much is" followed by a question asking what kind of fruit are you interested in? If the user types in How much is an Apple it will automatically run that thread and store Apple in the variable for the question without actually asking the question. If the user types something like how much is... then the bot will specifically ask them about which fruit and store that in a variable.
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Re: How do i save a user input in a variable in PVA Production Bot?

Hi, @Jupyter123 .

If you want to ask the user to enter something, you'd want to use the "Ask a Question" node, set "Identify" to "User's entire response" and select / name your variable per the below.

In your screenshot you're trying to set a variable but I don't see a question node where you're asking the user for their input.

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Matt