SharePoint Online Modern pages have header image banners in all modern pages; i.e., Communication or Team Sites. Header image banner needs a background image or text, it takes almost 40% of the page, and we can’t remove this section using User Interface.
If you want to turn this section ON or OFF, it is possible using PnP PowerShell command. Basically, it allows us to change the page layout from Article to Home. The homepage layout doesn’t have a header image banner section.
Remove the Header Image Banner Section
Open SharePoint Online Management Shell and run the below command in sequence.
This tutorial demonstrate, How to fetch azure SQL data into SharePoint Online using Business Connectivity Services and Secure Store Services.
SharePoint Secure Store Service
Quoting MSDN, the definition of SharePoint Secure Store Service is:
"Secure Store Service is a shared service that provides storage and mapping of credentials such as account names and passwords. It enables you to securely store data that provides credentials required for connecting to external systems and associating those credentials to a specific identity or group of identities. It is very common for solutions to try to authenticate to an external system in which the current user is known differently or has a different account for authentication. In such cases, Secure Store Service can be used to store and map user credentials required by the external system. You can configure Secure Store Service so that multiple users can access an external system by using a single set of credentials on that external system."
Business Connectivity Services
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) connections to data sources, such as SQL Azure databases or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services, that are outside the SharePoint site.
The interaction between users and bots is mostly free-form, so bots need to understand language naturally and contextually. The Cognitive Service Language APIs provide powerful language models to determine what users want, to identify concepts and entities in a given sentence, and ultimately to allow your bots to respond with the appropriate action.
Introduction
The Azure Bot Framework supports different types of rich cards and provides a richer interaction experience to the users in term of text, image, video etc.
In this article, I will show how to exchange a message between user and bot can contain one or more rich cards rendered as an image, video.
I have explained how to build FAQ based bot application using QnA maker for questions and answers. In this article, we will discuss about how setup Bot Framework development environment and we are going to consume QnA maker service.
This article will walk you through “How to Setup a Bot Framework development environment using .Net (C#)” and test the bot application using Bot Framework Emulator.
Navigate and place the Bot Controller.zip and Bot Dialog.zip template to below path
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual C#\
Launch the Visual Studio
Once you launch the Visual Studio 2017 and navigate to file -> new project -> You can get Bot Framework Template under Visual C# Template
You can create a bot application using Visual Studio Bot Application template or Download the Bot Application solution created by Azure Portal using Bot Framework SDK. In previous article, I have created the bot application in azure portal. I am going to download and update the solution.
Step to get the Microsoft Azure Bot Application Solution
1.Login to Azure Portal i.e. https://portal.azure.com and search for created bot name (my bot name is bot2018).
2.Select Web App Bot and you will navigate Web App Bot detail page.
3.Select Build under Bot Management
Online Code Editor Option open the codebase into visual studio online.
Download the source code using Download Zip file option.
Select second option i.e. Download
4.Once you download the solution. Unzip the source code. Launch the Visual Studio 2017.
5.File -> Open Project -> Select the solution.
6.Expand the Reference Section -> All DLL or Packages link will be in broken mode and need to update with latest version and packages.
7.Right Click the project and Select Manage NuGet Packages and wait for couple of seconds.
NuGet Package Manager will show the available updates. Select all packages and click Update.
8.Update Microsoft.Net.Compliers V2.6.1 to V1.2.1
9.Add Key and Value under App Setting in Web.Config file.
AzureWebJobsStorage, QnASubscriptionKey, QnAKnowledgebaseId. These values can be get from Azure Bot Application App Service Settings.
Open installed Bot Emulator. Select ellipse and click the App Settings
Download ngrok and add the reference to app settings in Bot Framework Emulator and click save.
Response by Emulator
You can start asking the question as crawled by QnA Maker and you will prompt with response
Publish and test visual studio solution in the azure platform
1.Navigate to Azure Bot App Services and click Get Publish Profile.
2.Select Visual Studio Project -> Right Click -> Publish option.
3.Select “Create new profile”
4.Select Import file and click publish.
5.Solution success and publish at the Azure Bot website url.
6.Test the bot framework in the azure portal.
Navigate to Azure Web App Bot and Select Test in Web Client under Bot Management section. You can start asking the question as crawled by QnA Maker and you will prompt with response.
Note I recorded the complete article available at my youtube channel.
What is Microsoft Azure Bot Framework? Microsoft Azure Bot framework enables the organization to build virtual agents known as Bots. Bots let users interact with intelligent solutions as though they are conversing with another person and assist end users and business users. Bot Connector let you connect your bot seamlessly to social channels such as Twitter, Slack, Facebook and other services. Even connect with web application using Iframe. What is QnA Maker? QnAMaker distills information into conversational, easy-to-navigate answers. QnA Maker is based on cognitive service and NLP. QnA Maker is a free, easy-to-use, REST API and web-based service that trains AI to respond to user's questions in a more natural, conversational way. Question and Answer uses FAQ content in Word, PDF, Excel and Web.
Let us get started with configuration. 1.Login to the QnA Maker Service via https://qnamaker.ai 2.Sign and login with your Microsoft account. Follow below steps to create QnA Maker Services 1.Click a Create New Service. 2.Give the service name (i.e. FAQKB). 3.Give FAQ site URL or upload the excel, doc or pdf with question and answer .
4.Click on create. 5.It takes a couple of seconds and redirects to a knowledge based page.
6.Click Test to verify the QnA Maker
7.Click Save and retrain -> Publish knowledge base
8.Click Publish one more time and you will re-direct to Rest End point page. Here you can find two important things, 1.QnAMaker Service ID 2.QnAMaker Service Subscription Key
Integrate the QnAMaker with Bot Application Navigate to Azure Portal i.e. https://portal.azure.com with your Microsoft Account or Subscription account, 1.Click New -> AI + Cognitive Service -> Web App Bot
2.Set all fields
3.Search your bot with name and click to open. Select Application setting under APP SERVICE SETTING. 4.Provide the QnAMaker Service ID and QnAMaker Service Subscription Key in QnAKnowledgebaseId and QnASubscriptionKey respectively.
5.Done with Bot Application. To test -> click Test in Web Chat and start typing the question and get answer as provided by QnAMaker crawler.
6.Last Section, Integrate bot application with multiple channels or use Iframe in web applications
7.Click on Edit or Get bot embed codes.
8.Select the embed code (i.e. Iframe and replace your secret keys with Secret Keys)
Note I recorded the complete article available at my youtube channel.
