Create Your First Plugin Action in Microsoft Copilot Studio

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Microsoft Copilot Studio is here and it's making it easier than ever to be our own generative AI Copilots! In this video I'll explain what Copilot Studio is and talk about one of the new generative AI features that it has called Plugin Actions. If you want to connect your AI Copilot to your data and have access to the huge ecosystem of Power Platform connectors in your Copilots then you'll want to check this out to see how to get started.
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00:00 - Intro
00:24 - What is Copilot Studio?
02:20 - What is a Plugin Action?
03:05 - Create a new Copilot
04:00 - Using Generative Answers
05:16 - Adding a Plugin Action

[@gatskopsoftware8357]

Thanks April is there a extra costing for customers to use this and can you query dataverse from here

[@AprilDunnam]

Yes it is an additional license or if you have M365 Copilot license it is included. You can query dataverse with a plugin action

[@raymondhinton2688]

Thank you April. Your video was very helpful and I would like to see more.

[@AprilDunnam]

Thanks so much, I'm glad it was helpful! I will definitely be doing more Copilot Studio content. Everything just got a refresh so I need to put out some updated content

[@club-crm1080]

Excellent explanation, as usual! Yes, please a video about how to use Low code plaugins whould be VERY useful! thanks a lot for your valuable help!

[@GUILLAJP]

would love to see more about more complex plug-ins (smartsheet and sharepoint would be amazing) :)

[@MrSaradasahu]

Great video around the action plugins. Could you share your viewpoint on how to create a plugin action to understand complex SQL queries via text and create or store them within a database.

[@dewanjeesoma]

Thanks April, please add more
videos on custom connectors like Sharepoint list, SQL database

[@pkp044]

Hi April, Thank you so much for this video. As you mentioned, would you please create a video about creating a list item action and getting its details back to user

[@AntmanClashBro]

Hi April,
Love the content! Was wondering what I might be doing wrong since I am not able to see the vast plugin list. I am on the CoPilot Studio trial for my M365 license and have very limited plugins, literally just excel. When I go to enter variables in the variable fields they are also very limited aswell. Would you have any ideas? Is this a limited to US thing for the time being? I am in Australia

[@rwchecking]

Hi, thank you for cool
Video. Quick question what about the security, when you are using the plugin actions? For example calling a flow / using dataverse, will it take the context of the owner or copilot user?

[@wernernedreb3514]

awesome video! really great stuff. Do you know if the CoPilot studio bot can read documents in a sharepoint site or only skim the names of the files in the sharepoint site?

[@Ivy_Lv]

Hi April, this is really helpful to start the journey with Copilot Studio. I've tried to create my first coplilot with plugin action, but I cannot select any variables when setting the display for plugin action output. It just show as blank when I want to add variable into the display text. Do you have any idea about this?

[@UB-qc8yk]

Excellent Video. Could you demo, building a Co-Pilot for Expense Claims i.e. where a User would be able to add Expense Lines to an Expense Claim, add attachments and send it on for approval. To make it more interesting maybe point it to a Policy document, so that Expense Line items can be automatically rejected if they do not comply with policy e.g. any alcoholic drinks are automatically rejected. Would it be possible to incorporate policy compliance simply by pointing it o a Policy document or will "rules" need to be added to the Co-Pilot?

[@blake975]

how to add a plugin that makes an http request to my external api?

[@devendraparihar819]

Can you please create a video tutorial about adding email plugins to Outlook?

[@chugmeister]

Nice simple explanation. Would love to understand how to do this against a SQL database or service like Salesforce

[@geethuvarghese6544]

Have you found any resources for this ?

[@perttirytinki2363]

Thanks :)! GPT - answers video tutorial + nodes makings and results of source of topic with GPT-answer :)? how to use them different scenarious and others connectors and crm - sync use cases like update row or change the due date of invoice and how to configure adaptive cards -- tutorials please :)

[@pawanmishra6549]

Great content, thanks!

[@AprilDunnam]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!

[@General_halap]

Thanks April

[@AprilDunnam]

Thank you so much for your support!

[@edersilvarodrigues]

Obrigado 🤩🤩

[@AprilDunnam]

Thank you for watching!

[@hoasenfreak]

Sorry, but who needs a weather forecast??? Can you show plz show a useful action?