Trigger bot topics by events
Important
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Nov 15, 2022 |
May 31, 2023 |
Business value
Many bots need to perform pre- or post-message processing logic to meet key business requirements. For instance, each message may need to be added to a central audit trail or scanned for sensitive PII which needs to be redacted before being processed and stored in analytics.
Feature details
Advanced triggering for Power Virtual Agents bots provides a powerful extensibility point enabling bot authors to add processing logic at key events within a bot, such as when a message is received and sent. A topic can now be triggered by events, enabling an author to leverage connectors, Power Fx expressions, or any other node type, ensuring key extensibility needs can be met.