Hide references to Citations

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Posted on by volodymyrlesiv

I would like to know, how can I hide references in my chatbot?

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cchannon 4,702 Moderator on at

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Sure, take a look at this older forum response from @HenryJammes : Solved: Re: Citations / references not showing in the chat... - Page 4 - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

In this forum post, the user had the opposite problem: Citations were not displaying and they wanted them to. Henry's response explains how you can feed a custom definition to an Adaptive Card response that creates an explicit spot for the citations.

In your case, you should be able to follow Henry's instructions, but remove the Citations chunk from his formula so it doesn't display in the card.

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manojsharmadcx on at

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Hi @cchannon , thanks for this answer. After removing citation part, the dangling references like [1],[2] etc. still remain. How can those be removed from answer. Tried using PowerFX formula but it apparently doesn't provide regex support.

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volodymyrlesiv 11 on at

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Hey hey) You can use SUBSTITUTE formula, if you want to remove all the dangling references, you can do something like this: SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(<variable>, "[1]", ""), "[2]", ""), "[3]", "")

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BenBjon 12 on at

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Thank you, this is exactly what I needed as well.

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BenBjon 12 on at

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I have an additional problem. Is there a way to filter out quotation marks from answers you get using Substitute? I can't seem to do any escape characters

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sgupt187 19 on at

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Hi, I am working on citation removal from generative answer node response but not able to do so . In Conversation boosting topic able to do because there is a variable which is of type record but in any other topic when I am trying to create a variable in generative answer node then by default it is of string type . So , not able to apply below formula for citations removal:
Substitute(Substitute(Substitute(Substitute(Topic.genRes.Text.Content, "[1]" , ""), "[2]",""),"[3]",""),"[4]","")
Can anyone tell me how can I implement citation removal from the response generated by generative answer node in any other topic other than conversation boosting?

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BenBjon 12 on at

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I needed a solution for this because I'm trying to send back a structured JSON reply, and wanted the citations gone.
After working on this for far too long, I found a formula that correctly filters out the citations and the trailing [1]'s. It doesn't require an adaptive card, it's just a single formula.
(Note, this only works for up to 3 citations, but it does work)
Here's the formula:
Trim( Substitute( Substitute( Substitute( Substitute( Substitute( Substitute(Topic.VARIABLE_HERE, ": cite:1 ""Citation-1""", ""), ": cite:2 ""Citation-2""", ""), ": cite:3 ""Citation-3""", ""), "[1]", ""), "[2]", ""), "[3]", "") )

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sgupt187 19 on at

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Thank you, BenBjon, for the solution. It works perfectly.

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mauldinjonas on at

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Where does this code go to be implemented into my topic? I have the remove citation code formula in my adaptive card.

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BenBjon 12 on at

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What I did is pass the answer from Generative AI into a variable and disable the message. Then, right after, I have a variable node that executes this formula. It replaces the original response variable with this formula, and I'm assuming you can then pass that modified variable into an adaptive card.

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