Unable to make Powerpages website as public

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Hello Everyone

I just did a very basic banking website using power pages (With help of copilot).

Its a very simple and basic power pages website where I have some navigation menu items like accounts, loans, Contact us, FAQ etc. I then used copilot to just design sample html pages for account types, loan types, a contact us form etc. I then linked these pages to the navigation items.

Now all i want to do, is make this "public" (its currently defaulted to private). But when I change private to public, it gives me this message

It says "unable to save" and stays in private mode. I did check if the user that I've logged into this environment as, is a system administrator, and I am a system admin in power platform admin centre. Please see screenshot below

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The end goal is to make this public, so that I can create a copilot studio chatbot against this public facing demo website ive created. I want to use this website as a "knwoledge source" so that I can demo to a customer, the capablities of the copilot studio chatbot, against this public website.

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mattavdven 125 on at

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Thanks for sharing the details of your setup. You’re correct — the issue is that your site is currently built in a Power Pages Developer Environment, which does not support publishing public-facing sites. Developer environments are meant for testing and prototyping, so the “make site public” option won’t work there.

To make your site public, you’ll need to:

Export the site as a solution from your Developer Environment.

Import the solution into a Production-type environment.

Ensure that the appropriate Power Pages licenses are allocated in that Production environment.

Once in Production, you’ll be able to set the site to public and then use it as a knowledge source for your Copilot Studio chatbot demo

This should resolve the issue and let you move forward with your scenario.

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SPUser1980 65 on at

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Hey mattavdven

Thanks for your response. its super helpful.

Just one more final question please. I understand that i cant make this public in this scenario. However i was intending to demo this to a potential client, on capabilities of a copilot studio chatbot against a public website. Also iam not sure if i have a production environment where i can import this as a solution (to make public)

so what are the options I have? Is there any way i can demo this website (with a chatbot) without having to export into a prod environment

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You cannot directly add the Power Pages site as knowledge source to your chatbot. Because the website is not public accessible. You can add the underlying Dataverse tables to your CoPilot chatbot as knowledge sources. But the tables have to contain data to use in a demo

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Hi mattavdven

thanks a ton that worked. However there is one final hurdle thats preventing me from demo'ing this. Its with the answer its giving.

-The website is now public and ive added it as a knowledge source for the bot

-Ive also added the linked html pages as additional knowledge source for the bot as attached here

-Also ive made sure i have turned on generative AI in the settings, and made these 3 knowledge sources (which are the main landing page, the sub html pages ) as official sources.

-But after publishing , when i search "give me the loan types" for example, it still returns the below message. Not sure what am i doing wrong?

I'm sorry, I'm not sure how to help with that. Can you try rephrasing?

-Here is the page that has the information of the loan types (which is already added as a knowledge source as you can see above)

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