u/Independent-Way5878

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Copilot Studio / Teams Issue (or is it me?)

I keep trying to like the Copilot Studio product but I keep running into all sorts of odd issues that just don't make sense to me. I can usually find a work around, but not sure what to do with this one.

I've setup a Copilot Studio bot, published to the Microsoft Teams channel. I can @ mention the bot and the bot will respond. Great!

However, when I try to use it in a way I would think a normal human would use it, it doesn't do what I expect.

Example:

  1. There is a conversation thread happening in a Teams Channel.
  2. Someone @ mentions the bot something like "Do we have any information about this issue in our xyz tool / system?"
  3. The bot responds with "Sorry you didn't include any information for me to look up. What do you need me to look up?"

I've tried a few variations of that flow and have concluded that the @ mention to the bot only includes the literal @ mention text, and it does not include any of the conversation history. How do we fix this? if it's not a feature that exists, that seems like a really basic feature that this product should do.

Would love any solutions or ideas anyone else has.

PS: I tried to figure out what exactly is included in those runs, but I cannot see any of the Teams Channel conversations in the "activity" tab of the bot - which is where I would expect to see it.

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u/Independent-Way5878 — 1 day ago