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Configure the demo website and add the bot to your live website

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Note

There is additional information available for people using Power Virtual Agents (preview).

When publishing the bot to the web, you can publish to a prebuilt demo website (which you can use to share the bot with your teammates and stakeholders) and to your own live website.

Tip

When should I use the demo website and when should I use my own website?
You should use the demo website only to try out the bot and share it with your teammates or other stakeholders who want to try out the bot. It's not intended for production uses, for example, you shouldn't use it directly with customers.
You should publish and use the bot on your live website for production scenarios, such as a help bot on your help webpage for customers to interact with.

Prerequisites

Demo website

You can edit the welcome message and suggested trigger phrases for the demo website. A welcome message helps prompt your teammates for what they should ask the bot about.

Tip

You can change the welcome message to explain the intent or purpose of the testing, and you can change it as often as you like. So you could create a welcome message asking to test out conversations related to store hours and then, after making updates to the bot, change the welcome message to ask testers to try conversations related to gift cards.

Update the demo website

  1. In the navigation menu under Settings, select Channels.

  2. Select the Demo website tile.

  3. Enter the welcome message you'd like to see alongside the bot in the Welcome message text field.

  4. Enter a list of suggested trigger phrases in the Conversation starters text field. Trigger phrases are what initiate specific topics, so you could customize your trigger phrases to specific topics that you want your teammates to try out.

    Share demo website.

To share the demo website link, copy the demo website URL and share it with your teammates directly.

Custom website

You can add your bot to a live website as an IFrame. Your live website can be a customer-facing external website or an internal site, like a SharePoint site.

You can also add the bot to your Power Platform admin center.

Add bot to your website

  1. In the navigation menu under Settings, select Channels.

  2. Select Custom website and then select Copy to copy it directly to the clipboard, or Share to email to open a new email message with the snippet included, in your default email app.

    Add bot to custom website.

  3. Provide the snippet to your web developer to add the bot to your website.