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Referring to following document: Use Azure Bot Framework Skills in Power Virtual Agents

I am not able to see any Skill to add under call an Action. I only see twp options as shows on the screenshot. How to get skills to show up there ?

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Hi @Anonymous ,

You need to insert your flows (Power Automate) and skills inside the solutions.
Open your Power Automate, click on the left menu in Solutions, create a new solution (fill all necessary fields) and Add existing flow (if you already create a flow) >> Flow. Or you can create a new flow inside the solution.
Refresh your bot page, and now you can see the actions.

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Thanks @renatoromao , I was more interested in adding Azure Bot Framework Skills to my PVA bot. and I didn't see that option in the list. Is this an issue ? I am not adding Flows yet.

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@Anonymous ,

Sorry 🙂 haha
Did you follow these steps?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/configuration-add-skills

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Yes, I had tried those but, didnt finish step 3 :Enter the URL to the Skill manifest. A Skill's manifest contains the information that your bot will need to trigger actions within a Skill.

I tried multiple https endpoints where I uploaded my json and used URL here but, its giving error while parsing json. I used azure blob URL as well but no luck. Any ideas on how I can provide json here ? or where to host the json ?

Secondly, in section Add bot to Skill's allow list: step3: it says 'A window will show with your unique ID. Copy this ID and provide it to your Skills developer.'

I am interested to know what developers are going to this ID for ?

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@Anonymous You need to whitelist the PVA ID within the skill. Follow the "Whitelist Authentication" in the document https://microsoft.github.io/botframework-solutions/skills/handbook/authentication/. I couldn't validate myself as I am working on different tenants. But, hopefully this gives you a good starting point.

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Dhina

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Thanks @Dhina , do you now if we can call REST api from PVA bot ? Or write any code to integrate with external systems ?

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The docs on Whitelist Authentication do not tell you how to register the ID of your PVA when using the BF Skills project template in Visual Studio.

Do you just paste the ID that you get from the 'Provide ID for Allow List' link into the skillAuthenticationWhitelist setting in appsettings.json in your BF Skill project?
Like this?:
{
"oauthConnections": [],
"skillAuthenticationWhitelist": ["c6f99nnn-c7d6-4c32-97ed-fd2bb27xyz9999"],
"properties": {},
...

If that's right, and after I have republished my BF Skill to Azure, why then when I click 'Add a skill' and enter the skill manifest URL do I get two errors, and 'This skill could not be validated'?:

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+1 @AndyCW,

I am facing same issue.

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@Anonymous @AndyCW - Acknowledging the issue you're seeing. We'll have someone from the team provide you with a way to unblock yourself. Thank you.

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Thank you for trying skills preview!

Re: "Currently, Skills are only supported in English", there is an issue where we only support "en" in the skill manifest, and do not support "en-us". Unfortunately, the work around is to back out https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-solutions/pull/2727 from your skill until this is fixed.

Re: "There’s a mismatch in your skill endpoints",
We require that -
The skill manifest and skill messages endpoint are under the same url (4.6 only, will likely not apply to 4.7+)
A url in the app registration for the skill points back to the skill. This can be any url field in the app registration - Homepage is easy to set from the azure cli, but verified domain, privacy policy url, etc. also work.
For azure-cli, https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-solutions/pull/2587 shows how this can be done from deploy.ps1.
This can also be done from https://aad.portal.azure.com. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/quickstart-register-app (and this has a relevant section on setting a homepage for an AAD app, though the overall article itself is on an unrelated topic).

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