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Suggested prompt formatting for custom agent in Copilot Studio

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Posted on by KK-29091652-0

Hello community,

I'm working on a custom agent in Copilot Studio and trying to add suggested prompts that include placeholders—similar to what’s shown in the image below.

I've tried using [text], [text](), and {text}, but they all display literally without formatting. Has anyone figured out how to make placeholders work properly in suggested prompts?

Any guidance, docuementation or examples would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance.

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,978 Moderator on at

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HI @KK-29091652-0

My sincere apologies as my brain is not connecting the dots on this one :-)

If it's just a placeholder, how do you plan on populating it with a real value as if it were a parameter.

As of right now there is no specific OOB way to do what you are asking.

Essentially the only way would be via dynamic prompt creation but that would not be what I believe you area asking about, unless you direct them to one immediately upon them connecting to the conversational agent to use variables etc to generate these.

I hope I am on the track of what you are looking for.

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Hi @KK-29091652-0,

As @Michael E. Gernaey suggested, there is no OOB solution to achieve what you're seeing in Copilot Prompt Gallery. You could create the prompts and include the placeholders for the users to edit before hitting the send button - example: Send an email to <email address>

Another way you could achieve this is by creating topics to be triggered by each suggested prompt (example: "Send an email"), and have the agent collect the placeholder values via an adaptive card and have the adaptive card submit button send the prompt text or perform the action.

{

"type": "AdaptiveCard",

"version": "1.5",

"body": [

{

"type": "Input.Text",

"placeholder": "Enter email address here",

"label": "Who should I email?"

}

],

"actions": [

{

"type": "Action.Submit",

"title": "Submit",

"data": "Send an email to John_Doe@example.com"

}

],

"$schema": "https://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json"

}

Hope this helps :)

Best,

GT

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,978 Moderator on at

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Hi @KK-29091652-0

Any updates on this?

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KK-29091652-0 30 on at

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Hi Michael E. Gernaey andGT13,

Since there is no out-of-the-box way to do this, I think creating topics as suggested by GT13 sound like a good idea. This solution works well for us.

Thank you very much for your help.

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