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Copilot Studio: Detect Multiple Entity Types In A Question

In Copilot Studio you can detect multiple entity types (name, email, etc.) in a question node by choosing to identify “one of multiple entities”. Then after the User responds to the question, we determine which entity type was entered and…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - June 22, 2025
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  • Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio: Upload File To Chat Window In MS Teams

In Copilot Studio you can upload a file to a chat window and then perform actions on it like: run a prompt or save the file to SharePoint. This method shows how to upload a file to an Agent used…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - June 15, 2025
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  • Power Automate

Power Automate Add Attendee To Meeting And Don’t Email Others

In Power Automate you can add a new attendee to a meeting without emailing all current attendees. The trick is to do it with an Outlook – Send An HTTP request action. If you try to use the Outlook –…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - June 8, 2025
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  • Copilot Studio

Set Citation to Open Specific PDF Page In Copilot Studio

Citations can be customized to open a PDF to a specific page in Copilot Studio by appending the text “#page=3”. When the user clicks on the citation the Agent will navigate them to the page making it easy to see…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - June 1, 2025
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  • Copilot Studio

Change The Copilot Studio Agent Welcome Message

You can change the Copilot Studio agent welcome message by opening the Start Conversation system topic and changing the message contents. Depending on your use-case, you can also modify the Start Conversation topic to ask the user a question and…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - May 25, 2025
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Video: Add Copilot Studio Knowledge Using A Flow

Copilot Studio Agents cannot read files in a SharePoint document library over 7MB. But we also know that files uploaded as Agent knowledge have a much greater limit of 512MB. 📚 By using a recurring trigger Power Automate flow we…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - May 18, 2025
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  • Power Automate

How To Add Copilot Studio Knowledge Files Using Power Automate

Copilot Studio knowledge files can be added to an Agent with a Power Automate flow. This is helpful when SharePoint files are over the 7MB size limit. By uploading files from SharePoint and adding them directly to the Agent now…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - May 11, 2025
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  • Power Automate

How To Extract Tables From A PDF In Power Automate

Power Automate can extract tables from a PDF with the help of Azure AI Document Intelligence. Using the pre-built Layout model we can analyze any PDF document and get its information in a JSON. The output includes an array containing…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - May 4, 2025
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  • Power Automate
  • Power Platform ALM

How To Setup A Power Platform Environment Variable Secret

A Power Platform environment variable secret is a special type of environment variable. It makes a secure connection to Azure Key Vault to retrieve secrets. Only users who are assigned access to the key vault in Azure are able to…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - April 27, 2025
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  • Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio SharePoint List Knowledge Workaround

Copilot Studio cannot use a SharePoint list as knowledge but there is a workaround with Agent actions that delivers excellent results. The Agent can call a flow to get information about the SharePoint list columns and data types. Then it…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - April 20, 2025
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