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Copilot Studio - Bot Administration
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Copilot Studio Generative AI retrieve documents from sharePoint.

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Posted on 4 Apr 2024 06:08:07 by 10

Hi
I am able to connect copilot to my SharePoint, but it is only retrieving links of documents that too only doc and pptx not xlsx or workbooks or any other format.

How do I resolve this.

 

- How do I get file instead of file links.( Power Automate Flow is my last option for retrieving as it's too slow)

- How do I include and have more relevant document (pdf,doc,xlsx,pptx) 

  • RR-22020015-0 Profile Picture
    2 on 22 Feb 2025 at 00:19:07
    Copilot Studio Generative AI retrieve documents from sharePoint.
    Could this be why?
  • adilei Profile Picture
    on 08 Apr 2024 at 13:18:48
    Re: Copilot Studio Generative AI retrieve documents from sharePoint.

    I don't know of any other way to achieve that other than scraping links and triggering a Power Automate flow. On another not, I'm still not convinced I understand the value of this user experience.

  • treav Profile Picture
    10 on 08 Apr 2024 at 09:30:19
    Re: Copilot Studio Generative AI retrieve documents from sharePoint.

    Okay

    Step 1: Flow <1>

    treav_0-1712567874062.png

    So here I have GenAI + Data from SharePoint

    Step2:

    I ask for a document x.
    Response <sharepointURL>/x.doc

    Now That goes into chat window 
    <2>

    treav_2-1712568184508.png

    Now I can send this response to whom I want by

    <3>

    treav_3-1712568336958.png

    But I want to add this as an attachment 
    Not link 

    I want to send an email with attached document No link in the message like <2>

    Alternatives I know of:

     

    Can use a flow/power Automate to add flow to get link and then doc but:

     - Too much time required in flow 

     - parsing text + links in <2> to only links is hard 

     

     

     



  • adilei Profile Picture
    on 08 Apr 2024 at 08:22:17
    Re: Copilot Studio Generative AI retrieve documents from sharePoint.

    I'm not following, sorry. Can you describe the desired user experience, step by step?

  • treav Profile Picture
    10 on 08 Apr 2024 at 06:58:30
    Re: Copilot Studio Generative AI retrieve documents from sharePoint.

     

     

    for the latter I can send email directly 
    but for the former I need to download the file from attachment and the end user may have to be given access to the file if given link which I don't want to.
    I also need to create a flow as per my knowledge to send file from links which would be very slow 

  • adilei Profile Picture
    on 08 Apr 2024 at 06:47:24
    Re: Copilot Studio Generative AI retrieve documents from sharePoint.

    What is the difference between providing a link and providing an attachment? How would the UX differ?

  • treav Profile Picture
    10 on 08 Apr 2024 at 06:32:00
    Re: Copilot Studio Generative AI retrieve documents from sharePoint.

    Actually what I want to know is

     

    I have a sharepoint with 10 files a,b, ...., j
    If I say copilot to get a from sharepoint it returns <sharepointurl>/a.extension
    what I want is in the chat itself the original file instead of  <sharepointurl>/a.extension like an attachment in email we can download. So that it removes going to sharepoint 

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