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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By : Srikumar Nair
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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By: Srikumar Nair

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams is a built-in, low-code data platform for Teams and enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps, flows, and intelligent chatbots using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents (PVA) embedded in Microsoft Teams. Without learning any coding language, you will be able to build apps with step-by-step explanations for setting up Teams, creating tables to store data, and leverage the data for your digital solutions. With the techniques covered in the book, you’ll be able to develop your first app with Dataverse for Teams within an hour! You’ll then learn how to automate repetitive tasks or build alerts using Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. As you get to grips with building these digital solutions, you’ll also be able to understand when to consider upgrading from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse, along with its advanced features. Finally, you’ll explore features for administration and governance and understand the licensing requirements of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and PowerApps. Having acquired the skills to build and deploy an enterprise-grade digital solution, by the end of the book, you will have become a qualified citizen developer and be ready to lead a digital revolution in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
10
Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
13
Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Adding flows to Power Virtual Agent bot

In this section, we will add more nodes that can act based on the user's selection of choices that we configured in the bot. In the following steps, you will see how a Power Automate flow can be invoked in response to the choices presented to the user:

  1. Select the Inform manager of an employee option and click Add node (represented by the + icon). Then, click the Call an action option, which will present the option to create a flow, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 7.13 – Calling an action from a topic branch

  2. This will take you to another screen where there are a few instant flow templates, as seen in the following screenshot. Let's pick the template with the name Power Virtual Agents Flow Template:

    Figure 7.14 – Flow templates in PVA

    Once the template is selected, you land on a familiar-looking screen, which is the Power Automate flow editor with two steps prepopulated for you, as seen in the following...