Concatenating variables - PVA with Microsoft 365 subscriptions

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Posted on by Samuel_AI

Hi,

I'm developing a bot within Teams, through our M365 license.

I want to concatenate two variables, before I send them to an action. For instance here, I would like to send "bot.question + bot.answer" to this action, instead of strickly "bot.question":

Is there any way to achieve this with the M365 license? With the regular PVA license, I would be able to concatenate variables using the "Set variable" action, but this option does not appear to be available in the PVA for M365 license.

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HenryJammes Microsoft Employee on at

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Don't think it's possible with PVA for Teams. You could use Bot Framework Composer dialogs, but these require premium licenses. The only way to achieve this in my opinion is to do the concatenate on the Power Automate side, once you've passed the 2 variables.

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Samuel_AI 9 on at

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Thanks Henry. I thought about this as well. That said, can you let me know how I can pass two variables to Power automate?

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If you define two parameters in the Trigger inside the flow the PVA action will prompt you to submit two parameters. You can then concatenate them in a Compose inside the flow.

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Yes, like @Pstork1 , with 2 input parameters.
That being said, PVA for Teams only covers the use of Power Automate with non-premium connectors, so, I'm not sure you can connect to OpenAI (through a connector or by making an HTTP request) @Samuel_AI

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Samuel_AI 9 on at

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I see. @HenryJammes, so there's no way to make a call to an API through PVA for Teams?

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Pstork1 69,218 Most Valuable Professional on at

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As @HenryJammes mentioned the only way to make a call to anything other than a standard connector is to have a Premium license. Then you can use a custom connector in Power Automate or one of the HTTP actions. But you can do things like REST calls to SharePoint or any of the other standard actions.

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HenryJammes Microsoft Employee on at

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The available capabilities included in PVA for Teams, as part of select Microsoft 365, are described here: Get access to Power Virtual Agents - Power Virtual Agents | Microsoft Learn

As far as I know, HTTP connector is a premium one (they show up with a diamond icon in the UI).
The standard connectors are listed here: List of all Standard tier connectors | Microsoft Learn

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The regular HTTP connector is Premium. But there are some actions in other connectors that will allow the use of certain HTTP calls. For example there is an action to send an HTTP REST call to SharePoint that is Standard.

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Samuel_AI 9 on at

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Understood. I've deployed an Open AI GPT4 service as an API, so I guess I will need to premium PVA license to call it.

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HenryJammes Microsoft Employee on at

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The PVA web app version has all the latest capabilities while PVA For Teams is still limited to the classic version. I would highly encourage to evaluate going for the full version of PVA.
You have an overview of what changes in this version here: Unified authoring canvas migration guidance - Power Virtual Agents | Microsoft Learn

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