Power Virtual Agents with the Unified bot building Canvas is now Generally Available!

[Jameslew_MSFT]

Hi all,

We are very excited to announce that Power Virtual Agents with the Unified Bot Building Canvas is now Generally Available in all commercial geos.  This new release, being announced at Microsoft Build 2023, includes more generative AI features to preview in Microsoft Power Virtual Agents. Together, these features disrupt the traditional model of bot development and transform how conversational experiences are built.

• Unified bot building canvas (including new enhancements since public preview) —Generally available
• Copilot in Power Virtual Agents—Generally available
• New Generative Actions capabilities—Limited preview
• Generative Answers capabilities (including Sharepoint & custom data sources) —Public preview
• Azure custom language model integration—Public preview
• Instant generative bots for Microsoft Power Pages—Public preview

In addition, the team has extended the core capabilities that were introduced at public preview:

• PVA now supports emitting telemetry data to Azure App Insights for rich logging and traces
• Ability to manipulate JSON returned from power-automate objects with the new Parse Variable node
• Interactive Adaptive Cards with the "Ask with an Adaptive Card" node in the authoring canvas
• The new generative answers node, which lets you use Generative Answers anywhere in your bot's content
• Ability to send raw Bot Framework Activities and Events directly within Power Virtual Agents
• A new live demo ( https://aka.ms/pvademo) that lets you experience generative answers before creating your PVA account

Please check out our blog post ( https://Aka.ms/PVA-Build23 ) for more information about the new improvements in Power Virtual Agents, and if you're at Microsoft Build, we'll be appearing in Low Code and AI sessions throughout the event.  

Watch this video overview to see the full arc of modern bot building in action. And get your bot up and chatting with Power Virtual Agents—generally available today.

Thank you!

Power Virtual Agents Team

[SDKWireless]

That would be great! We have not received an update in GCC in a long, long time for PVA. I know it was put on hold with all the changes coming with AI. Hopefully we will see a roadmap date in the not-too-distant future. Thanks for the update!

[skerbel]

I was surprised to see the new options available when I logged into my GCC PVA bot today! However, whenever I try to create a new preview bot, or convert an existing classic bot to a new preview bot, I receive error messages. 

The error when trying to convert an existing bot is a simple "code: internal error".  

The error when trying to create a new bot is as follows: 

It looks like something went wrong. Please try again later.

Trace ID: Unexpected error: {"name":"StatusCodeError","message":"405","stack":"StatusCodeError: 405\n at https://gov.content.powerapps.us/resource/makerx/static/js/module/adaptiveFlow~advanced~9974d2d9.e9c...n at Generator.next (<anonymous>)\n at d (https://gov.content.powerapps.us/resource/makerx/static/js/module/adaptiveFlow~advanced~9974d2d9.e9c...n at i (https://gov.content.powerapps.us/resource/makerx/static/js/module/adaptiveFlow~advanced~9974d2d9.e9c...)"}

Please let me know what I can do to resolve these issues. Thanks!

[SDKWireless]

Yes, I receive the same errors

[SDKWireless]

@Jameslew_MSFT Any thoughts on the release to GCC? We are experiencing errors with the new functionality (unified canvas and converting classic to unified).

[experienced_pva]

Although I am not facing any error while converting classic bot to new unified canvas [Europe environment]  but few topics have error based on choice under condition and the unified canvas is extremely slow for me. I have to raise ticket with MS.

[HenryJammes]

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@skerbel wrote:

I was surprised to see the new options available when I logged into my GCC PVA bot today! However, whenever I try to create a new preview bot, or convert an existing classic bot to a new preview bot, I receive error messages. 

The error when trying to convert an existing bot is a simple "code: internal error".  

The error when trying to create a new bot is as follows: 

It looks like something went wrong. Please try again later.

Trace ID: Unexpected error: {"name":"StatusCodeError","message":"405","stack":"StatusCodeError: 405\n at https://gov.content.powerapps.us/resource/makerx/static/js/module/adaptiveFlow~advanced~9974d2d9.e9c...n at Generator.next (<anonymous>)\n at d (https://gov.content.powerapps.us/resource/makerx/static/js/module/adaptiveFlow~advanced~9974d2d9.e9c...n at i (https://gov.content.powerapps.us/resource/makerx/static/js/module/adaptiveFlow~advanced~9974d2d9.e9c...)"}

Please let me know what I can do to resolve these issues. Thanks!

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Can you raise a support request? 

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[ArhamMalik81]

it is not Showing on my "Overview" page 

this is all i got in "overview" page their is nothing like "Convert this bot" option..please help

[Robulane]

@ArhamMalik81 It seems that this is the screenshot from the overview of a "new" bot. You need to select "classic" bot that you want to convert in the bot list and then go to "Overview" page.

[ArhamMalik81]

This is my "Classic Bot" which i want to convert but no "Convert this bot " is shown.. this I select from the list of my bots and then go to the overview page..

[ArhamMalik81]

Also the purpose to convert the bot into unified is to enable the "General" option under Setting which is disable now 

by which I want to perform text to speech conversation through my bot..