Introduction
Combining ChatGPT with Power Apps can create powerful and interactive applications. Power Apps is a low-code platform by Microsoft that allows users to build custom business applications. Integrating ChatGPT with Power Apps can enhance your applications by adding natural language processing capabilities and interactive chatbots.
What is ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI. It is based on the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture and is designed for natural language understanding and generation. ChatGPT is specifically fine-tuned for generating human-like text responses in a conversational context. It can be used for a wide range of natural language processing tasks, such as answering questions, generating text, providing explanations, and engaging in text-based conversations.
OpenAI has released various versions of GPT, with ChatGPT being one of them. It has been used in applications like chatbots, virtual assistants, customer support, and more to interact with users and provide text-based responses. Users can input text or questions, and ChatGPT generates contextually relevant responses based on the training data it has been exposed to. It’s important to note that my knowledge is based on information available up to September 2021, and there may have been further developments or improvements to ChatGPT or other similar models since that time.
What is PowerApps
PowerApps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors developed by Microsoft that allows people with little or no coding experience to create custom business applications. These applications can be designed to run on web browsers, tablets, and mobile devices. PowerApps is part of the Microsoft Power Platform, which includes Power BI, Power Automate (formerly known as Flow), and Power Virtual Agents. It enables organizations to build tailored applications that address specific business needs and processes.
How to use ChatGPT and PowerApps all together
Integrating ChatGPT with PowerApps can be a powerful way to add conversational capabilities to your business applications. You can use PowerApps to build custom applications and leverage ChatGPT to provide natural language interfaces and chatbot-like interactions within those applications.
Lets see below steps how we can use ChatGPT and Power Apps all together.
Step 1: Sign into your account at https://chat.openai.com/. If you don’t have an account, please register.
Step 2: Initiate a conversation with ChatGPT by entering “top 10 job functions with concise descriptions in a table format without numbering” on the platform.
You will receive a list of the top 10 job functions with brief descriptions, as shown below.
Step 3: Copy the provided text, paste it into an Excel file, and save it in an Excel format under the title “Job function.”
Step 4: Navigate to https://make.powerapps.com/and click on “Home” on the left-hand menu. Then, choose “Start with data.”
Select “Upload an Excel file” and pick the Excel file you just created.
Your Excel file will now be displayed as a table. Opt to “Use the first row as column headers.”
After clicking, you will see that your column headers have been identified as “Job function” and “Description.”
Step 5: Modify the table by altering the display name and primary column. You can do this by clicking on “Table” or “Edit table properties.”
Upon clicking either of the above options, you will be presented with the following:
- You can modify the display name of the table.
- You can change the plural name of the table.
- You have the option to alter the description of the table.
- You can modify the primary column of the table.
- You can change the schema name of the table.
Once you’ve adjusted these table properties, your table should resemble the following:
Please note: This process will establish a new table in Dataverse with the name “crf9c_JobFunctions.”
Now, proceed to “Create app” at the bottom.
In just a few seconds, your app will be generated.
Your Power App is ready for use.
With this app, you can execute tasks such as creating, updating, and deleting records.
