“Topics is Engaged” ? – The Intrazone podcast

“Topics is Engaged” ? – The Intrazone podcast

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Viva Topics in Engage doubles the impact and access of your knowledge at your fingertips – and how you pay it forward to others.


 


On today’s episode, we hear from Raj Jain (Principal product manager – Viva Engage and Answers team at Microsoft) about all things topical about Viva Topics, specifically – the role of Viva Topics within your Viva Engage community discussions, questions, and announcements posts. The real value gives you a built-in knowledge management system that balances and refines the length of your internal communications without sacrificing the depth you pay forward to each person that reads your comm.


 


Two Viva apps, one great outcome. 


 


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The Intrazone guest: Raj Jain - Principal Product Manager - Viva Engage and Answers team.The Intrazone guest: Raj Jain – Principal Product Manager – Viva Engage and Answers team.


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How Microsoft Teams helps ISVs like ServiceNow expand business

How Microsoft Teams helps ISVs like ServiceNow expand business

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Digital collaboration has become the norm, and more promising apps and tools are available daily. The benefits speak for themselves: increased productivity, convenience, innovation—the list goes on. But there are still challenges to address.

The post How Microsoft Teams helps ISVs like ServiceNow expand business appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.

Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.

Transform your business with automated insights & optimized workflows using Azure OpenAI GPT-3

Transform your business with automated insights & optimized workflows using Azure OpenAI GPT-3

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OpenAI’s GPT-3 AI applications have become a buzzword in the industry. If you’re looking to boost your business operations and maximize productivity but are encountering technical barriers and resource limitations, the app highlighted in this article may be your answer.
It smoothly integrates Azure OpenAI into various business workflows, showcasing a spectrum of AI-powered demos. This demo highlight the technology’s capabilities and can help streamline your business operations while optimizing productivity.


 


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Let’s build your business process with OpenAI


Resources 




  • Azure OpenAI – Summarization & gain insights



  • Power Apps – To build front end

  • Power Automate – To build the process


Getting Started


1. Azure Open AI – Summarization & Gain insights



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3. Create 2 SharePoint Lists 



  • Prompts for your custom questions (change questions & prompt types as per your business requirements)

  • Conversation insights to save Open AI generated insights from the email text (change column names as per your business requirements)


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Scenario 1: Lets start with conversation insights. Assume you have an email enabled conversation. You want to get some insights from the email text.


To generate insights, PowerAutomate is used and then results are saved in SharePoint.

3. Create a PowerAutomate




  • Here are the steps to create a Power Flow:



    1. Go to flow.microsoft.com and click on “Flows”.

    2. Visit https://make.powerautomate.com/

    3. Click “New Flow” and name it “OpenAI-Insights“.

    4. It has many variables for multiple prompts at once and save insights from one conversation in SharePoint List.

    5. Build the entire flow according to your requirements.SAVITAMITTAL_1-1679083168954.png

    6. When a new email arrives-Choose email trigger if email’s conversation you want to use as a source to gain insights. Else you can use any other trigger depends upon where your conversations stores. e.g. Teams chat, SharePoint, blob storage or any other storage solution.

    7. HtmlToText-Get email body as a plain text using html to text connector.

    8. Get items– SharePoint Connector to get the prompts list to run on your email text to gain additional insights

    9. Initialize Variables-# of variables are initialized based on number of prompts

    10. initialize a variable called summary to store output.

    11. Apply to each -OPEN AI step loop through each prompt question on original conversation text to get the insight and save the result via case statement in the initialized variable.
      HTTP Connector

      Method: POST
      URI: https://resourcename.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/davinci003/completions?api-version=2022-12-01
      Headers content-type:application/json
      api-key:  [Azure Portal -> OpenAI resource -> Keys & Endpoints]
      Body   {
      “prompt”: @{variables(‘promptPhrase’)},
      “max_tokens”: 1000,
      “temperature”: 1
      }

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      ParseOpenAIOutput-Parse the response from OpenAI HTTP output.
      Click Generate from sample in Parse step and paste the below sample json to parse the response from HTTP output


      {
      “body”: {
      “id”: “cmpl-xxxxxxx”,
      “object”: “text_completion”,
      “created”: 1678909613,
      “model”: “text-davinci-003”,
      “choices”: [
      {
      “text”: “nThe main reason of the conversation is to give credit to travel company for their gracious refund of the cost of the no-show.”,
      “index”: 0,
      “finish_reason”: “stop”,
      “logprobs”: null
      }
      ],
      “usage”: {
      “completion_tokens”: 27,
      “prompt_tokens”: 91,
      “total_tokens”: 118
      }
      }
      }


      SAVITAMITTAL_0-1679199886668.pngAfter parsing we need to loop the array and assign the text to the variable
      Apply to each action. Select Choices from parse step output as the array property.
      Set  Output – variable “Summary” 

      Switch: It has 6 case actions based on number of prompts to set the each variable based on each HTTP Post call.


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       end of Apply to each -OPEN AI step #11 (loop through each prompt question and call OpenAI endpoint to get insights. Parse the response and save it in each prompt related variable)
       



    12. Create Item – Once all the variables are set then create an entry in the SharePoint Conversation insights list with original text and additional insightsSAVITAMITTAL_3-1679200897367.png




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How to utilize insights into a process
PowerApps can be created with SharePoint list to create a business process around insights generated by OpenAI on each customer conversation.
Dashboard->Details screen-> Process each conversation with Insights
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/app-from-sharepoint



 Dashboard – Vertical galley in PowerApps with SharePoint list ‘Conversation Insights’ as a Data Source 


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 Item details page with OpenAI insights to accelerate the customer service – Display form in PowerApps


 


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Stay tuned for more exciting blog content as we explore various potential scenarios.
Effortlessly extract text from documents, audio, and video files to generate valuable insights.

How to Create Your Own Portfolio Website in Minutes with GitHub Codespaces and Blazor

How to Create Your Own Portfolio Website in Minutes with GitHub Codespaces and Blazor

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Create, customize, and deploy your own portfolio website in minutes without installing any tools. All you need is a GitHub account and a few minutes to get started. We will use GitHub Codespaces and Blazor to build the website and Azure Static Web Apps or GitHub Pages to deploy it. 


 


You can find all these instructions and more in our GitHub Codespaces Repository.


 





 


GitHub Codespaces 


Now, with GitHub Codespaces you can create your own portfolio website in minutes without any extra tools or lengthy environment setup! All you need is a GitHub account. Follow these instructions to create your free GitHub account. 


 


GitHub Codespaces is a development environment that is hosted in the cloud. This means that you can get started coding right away in your browser – we set everything up for you ahead of time! You do not need to worry about setting up the right coding editor or tools.  


 


.NET Portfolio Site with GitHub Codespaces  


With the .NET Blazor Portfolio Site project template, all you need to do is launch your Codespace then follow the README instructions to customize your website. The goal is to give you a template you can immediately utilize to create your own website through GitHub Codespaces. 


 


This template shows you how to build your website using Blazor. Blazor is a UI Framework that lets you build frontend web applications with C#. The template is within the GitHub Student Developer pack, but anyone can access and use it! 



  • Who is this for? Anyone looking to create a portfolio site, learn web development, or test out Codespaces. 

  • How much experience do you need? Zero. You decide how much you want to customize based on your experience, and time available. 

  • Tools needed: None. No need to install anything! All you need is a GitHub account and web browser. 



  • Prerequisites: None. This template includes your development environment and deployable web app for you to create your own site. 


Get Started with the .NET Portfolio Website Template 



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  • Create a copy of the repository in your GitHub account. You can keep the repository name the same or change it if you would like.

  • At the top of the README, click on the Open in GitHub Codespaces buttonKatie_Savage_1-1678811758385.png

  • You should now be in a GitHub Codespace! Notice that it has the same layout as VS Code.


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  • Follow the readme on how to run a simple command to start up your website. In your terminal, you will need to run swa start.


 


Congratulations! You just ran your portfolio website!!


 


Next Steps: Customize and Deploy 


From here, you can continue to follow the instructions in the README to customize your portfolio website and deploy it! 


 


This project is built to be easily customizable. Each section of the site is a separate component, and your information needs to be set in only one spot. For each step, open the project in Codespaces, then you can make and commit your changes while within your Codespaces.



See Using source control in your codespaces for more Codespaces source control how-tos



To deploy your website, you can use Azure Static Web Apps or GitHub Pages. The README includes instructions for both deployment options.


 


Learn More


Check out our learning resources and coding curriculums to take these learnings to the next level!



 


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Manage your resource’s efforts with the new Assignments view!

Manage your resource’s efforts with the new Assignments view!

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When a Project Manager develops a resource-loaded work-back structure (WBS), the linear distribution of effort between resources is typically acceptable as a starting point to estimate effort and costs.   However, there are scenarios where a PM will need to be more granular in the definition of effort within a given time span for each resource (day, week, month) to reflect how the work will be accurately executed.


 


This precision influences two key components of the project planning: Resource Requirements and Financial estimates – which can be achieved with assignments tab. To access the contour editing grid, the project manager first selects the Tasks tab on the project main page and then selects the Assignments tab.


 


When the grid is initially rendered, it starts at the earliest assignment contour. If your schedule doesn’t contain any assignments that have effort, the grid will be blank and won’t render anything. The minimum value of a resource contour is zero, and the maximum value permitted is 9,999,999.


 


 


How to access?


 


Once you have created a new project and assigned the tasks to team members, Click on the three dots, “…” -> Assignments.  


 


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  1. Unlike in the Grid view, columns aren’t configurable. The only visible columns are: Assigned To, Task Name, Assignment Start and Finish date.

  2. Supports two methods for grouping: Group by Resource and Group by Task.

  3. Two views to update the efforts required: Weekly and Daily.


 


How to update task effort assigned to resources:


 


By default, when resources are assigned to a task in the schedule, their effort is linearly distributed to each resource, based upon that resource’s working hours and the project’s schedule mode.


 


 A project manager can use the resource assignment grid to refine the effort estimates of each resource that’s assigned to one or many tasks across the different time scales. This feature helps project managers produce more accurate cost and sales estimates, which are driven by the resource assignment contours that are generated when a resource is assigned to a task. Additionally, project managers can easily reflect the resource demand that’s required to build the demand in a resource requirement.


 



  1. View effort distribution of a resource across tasks and timeline (Grouped by Resource)image B.jpg

     



  2. Updating efforts required for a task (Grouped by Task)


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Resource calendars


 


The ability to edit a contour for a specific day is governed by the resource’s working days, as reflected in their calendar. If a cell is disabled for a given resource, that resource doesn’t have working days during that period.


 


A resource’s contours can extend beyond the assigned task’s current start and end dates. If a contour is updated so that it’s after the latest end date of a task or the earliest start date of a task, the task’s end date or start date will be changed as appropriate. However, if a contour is updated so that it’s earlier than the start date of a task that’s linked to a predecessor, the update will fail because the assignment will trigger the task to start before its predecessor is completed, and that behavior isn’t currently supported.


 


Co-authoring


 


Changes to the resource assignment grid are automatically reflected in any associated views, including the Chart, Timeline, Board, and Grid views. If multiple users are reviewing the project at the same time, any changes that one user makes will be reflected in the grid. Conversely, any changes that are made in the resource assignment grid will be shown to all other users who are viewing the project in the same session.