I came across ways to develop bot skills with Azure Bot Framework. What I'd like to know is how to develop skills directly in PVA? The idea is to have a master PVA bot and then enhance it's skills on the fly with several PVA skill bots that could be installed independently through our app store or manually). Any thoughts?
Hi @csnarain
It's not possible to develop skills in PVA but you can always create Skills using Bot Framework SDK 4.7 now. However, there's an issue with the updated manifest right now which I am sure Product Team is working on resolving the issue.
Once it's done, I am hoping to write a detailed blog post on how to get started because the current documentation of skills are relying on old manifest which eventually will be replaced.
I hope it answers your question.
Hi @csnarain ,
Sure, so I think that PVA has a lot of limitations that Bot Framework allows you to do. (my experience)
But, you can develop the most features that you need on the Power Automate and "replace" (or try hehe) the Bot Framework per Power Automate. And if you need to do more development that Power Automate doesn't allow, you can use an external system and communicate with Power Automate.
So your system will be:
PVA (chatbot, messages, calls, and talk to the final user)
Power Automate (development process, business rules)
External system (development code that allows doing that what Power Automate has a limitation)
Hi @csnarain ,
You can see this webinar explaining better (Jan 17 Webinar: Integrating Bot Framework Skills with Power Virtual Agents): https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/jan-17-webinar-integrating-bot-framework-skills-with-power-virtual-agents/
And you can see this documentation (how to implement): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/advanced-use-skills
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/configuration-add-skills
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/advanced-use-dispatcher
If this answer resolves your question, please, make as a solution to help more users.
Thanks! 🙂
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