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Hi, I have added my bot to several locations, my website , eg. How do I get the bot to launch with an initial text statement like a welcome without user input?
As far as I know Bots are always launched using trigger phrases. You can specify what those phrases are, but I don't know of any way to launch the bot without the user inputting some trigger phrase. But I did find this blog post on creating a canvas to display to the user and then launch the bot from that.
Make your Power Virtual Agents bot start the conversation using a custom canvas | Microsoft Power Virtual Agents
Hi @jpmarcer ,
You can see this documentation here: Automatically start a chatbot conversation - Power Virtual Agents | Microsoft Docs
Feel free to reply to this topic if you have any questions.
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