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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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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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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 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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Insane Copilot Studio SharePoint List Knowledge Workaround!!

SharePoint lists can’t be added as knowledge to a Copilot Studio Agent but you can use a little known hack with Agent actions instead. And the results are amazing 😎 The Agent can use a flow action to determine the…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - April 13, 2025
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Power Automate: Perform An AI Prompt On A PDF Document

Power Automate can be used to run an AI Prompt on a PDF document. It’s surprisingly easy to do. Just create an AI Prompt and add a document or file as an input. Then connect the AI Prompt to a…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - April 6, 2025
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Power Automate Copy Files From Network Drive To SharePoint

Power Automate can copy files from a network drive to a SharePoint document library. Creating the flow to do this is simple. But the tricky part is installing the on-premises data gateway and configuring it properly. After the gateway is…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - March 30, 2025
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Setup Dataverse Git Integration For A Solution

A Power Platform solution can be connected to a Git repo for tracking and management of changes to code. This is known as source control. To do this, a Git repo must be setup inside an Azure DevOps project. Then…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - March 23, 2025
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Configure Pre-Deployment Stage Approvals

Power Platform pipelines can be enhanced to include deployment stage approvals. Although there are no-built-in pipeline approvals it is possible to create one using a custom Dataverse table and a Power Automate flow. Stage approvals are important because they help…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - March 16, 2025
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Perform A Delegated Deployment Using A Service Account

A delegated deployment in Power Platform Pipelines is performed by the service account rather than the user who pressed the deploy button. This is useful because we can grant the service account elevated permissions to the target environment while the…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - March 9, 2025
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