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Hi, I realize that the bot built using PVA for Teams does not have the 'Set a variable value' option as seen in bot built with https://web.powerva.microsoft.com/ (now called Copilot Studio)
What should be done to turn on this option in PVA for Teams? Thanks
That's correct, the 'Copilot Studio for Teams' version (https://aka.ms/PVAForTeams) is still limited to the classic version (among many other limitations, as documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/requirements-licensing-subscriptions#microsoft-copilot-studio-for-microsoft-teams-plan).
In the PVA for Teams version, because you're not entitled to using the Bot Framework Composer, the only ways you can create and set a variable value are:
Henry
Hi @HenryJammes
Many thanks for your advice.
In my scenario, I am trying to do paging on records fetched from Dataverse to the bot. Imagine there may be N pages of records, and users only want to see 10 records at a time.
So, I need to pass the page Number back to the same Power Automate flow in a loop (reuse the same step in the Topic). A dynamic variable will be useful here.
Any further advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
If you're using 'PVA for Teams', isn't this limited to standard connectors?
I thought the Dataverse one was premium.
But yes, given all the limitations of PVA for Teams, I would try to manage any logic (looping, update of variables, etc.) in Power Automate itself.
I guess it is because that the account which I am using is also subscribed to Dynamics 365.
Yes any license to Dynamics or most paid Microsoft 365 and Office 365 (non enterprise) do specifically have dataverse and Teams and therefore PVA for Teams. It's documented I carefully researched to make sure my solution didn't need extra licenses.
That's exactly where I'm at,trying to loop on PVA and inside that loop is the call to the flow. That loop variable would precisely keep the state of the flow for the next iteration 😶
Hi @swax-andres
Could you attach the screenshots of your flow to explain how it should be done? A bit lost here.
Thanks
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Yours
Well, it (screenshot) won't help as I am stuck in the same scenario. In your case you want to carry-over a page number. I want to carry over a string (json formatted). But, I cannot find a way to re-assign a new value to an existing variable so I can have it on a loop.
On the screenshot example, there are two "Action" nodes (calls to a flow). The second one takes one of the outputs of the first one, and works great. But, in reality they should be just one looping over and over, and reusing the input variable (user message) and output variables (response and carry-over information).
Reaching this point, I will stop using for PVA for Teams for this solution and move to a custom Teams app in order to achieve this. The paid version is unfortunately a no-go for the scenario we are working on (cost). Having said that, I did test/play with the new PVA/Copilot designer and capabilities and those are awesome and the pricing is much, much more accessible than it was a few months back.
I couldn't find how to edit my previous response b/c it was created from another (accidentally created) profile, so here it goes:
Yes, any license to Dynamics or most paid Microsoft 365 and Office 365 (non enterprise) do specifically have dataverse and Teams and therefore specifically include in the documentation PVA for Teams. Point is, having access to Premium connectors is allowed as long as the flow is created and at runtime launched from the PVA for Teams designer.
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