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Adding hyperlink in chatbot response .

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Posted on by pathfinder1729

I am getting an response from chat bot . Those response contains URL links. I want to replace those link with hyperlink before sending the message to user . How can i do that ?

I am aware of this

[Link Text](Link URL)

This will not work as URL link changes as well .

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Building Copilot Studio chatbots in Microsoft Teams

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stuermer 64 on at

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Hey @pathfinder1729!

Is the URL link part of a topic or do you get the link from a Power Automate action?

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HenryJammes on at

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Hi @pathfinder1729,

If you're saying the links are dynamic, then use a Power Fx formula to have Markdown URL formatting + dynamic values stored in variables.

Example:
"[" & Topic.URLName & "](" & Topic.URL & ")"

Henry

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pathfinder1729 12 on at

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So I am getting the links from "Create generative answers " block, and I don't want Url in my response , instead i want hyperlinks to those url

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@pathfinder1729, can you provide an example?

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pathfinder1729 12 on at

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I want to have hyperlinks to those URL in response , as those Big url do not look good .

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What should be the title of these URLs?

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stuermer 64 on at

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In the properties of the "Create generative answers" Action you can un-check the option that the Bot automatically post a message. What you can do instead is to create an action and pass the Answer Variable to Power Automate and try to do some trim / replace expression magic and transform the links into [Link Description](Link URL) Formats. After that you can pass that answer back into the Bot. Or you can try if you can achieve something similar with PowerFX right from PVA canvas.

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pathfinder1729 12 on at

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One approach would be to that every URL title could be same like "Support Docs"

Another approach would be that i cut few sections form Url(like the last word ) and use it as title

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As suggested by @stuermer, I would indeed explore using a Power Fx formula to manipulate the generated answer variable before sending it to the user, and if not possible in Power Fx, I would explore the same using a cloud flow.

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stuermer 64 on at

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Here you can find an example. It takes the generative answer and transforms it into URI components. With that we can identify a value to split the answer and the hyperlink. In the next steps we transform the answer back into a proper string and then we concat all blocks together, using the PVA markup syntax [Link Desc.](Link) . This should just show the concept, the solution is really static. E.g. it does not support multiple links and it uses ": " to split Text and URL. But the result is what you were asking for 🙂

If this solves your problem it would be great if you can mark this as the solution for your problem. Let me know if it works out for you.

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