From the course: Building in Microsoft Copilot Studio (July 2024)

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Variables, entities, and actions in Copilot

Variables, entities, and actions in Copilot

- [Instructor] Microsoft Copilot Studio is an integrated development environment for building your Copilots. To better use this powerful tool, we need to learn some common elements like variables, entities, and actions. As you already know, topics are the main building blocks for your Copilot. Topics can use the components like variables to save users' responses and track topic states. We also have access to system and environment variables. Entities, to identify a specific object from users' messages, like money, speed, and temperature. And actions, to perform a specific task. Microsoft Copilot Studio provides numerous connectors to us. Let's quickly look at them in Microsoft Copilot Studio. In my demo Copilot, select the topic Goodbye. In the Question note, it asks, "Would you like to end your conversation?" And it saves the response to the variable end conversation. Click the EndConversation variable to see its properties. It shows the variable name, the type as Boolean, and the…

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