
The Hidden Limitation of SharePoint Knowledge Sources in Copilot Studio
Introduction Copilot Studio makes it super easy to add SharePoint as a knowledge source to your agents. However, there is one issue that I keep running into, which is that we cannot read the properties of the documents in SharePoint. This is a problem because often important information about the document is not in the content itself, but rather in the properties of the document. Take this example below. The agent has been granted access to a document library. I have added a couple of documents and purposefully added a value to the property called ReferenceID that is not in the document content itself. When I ask the agent to provide the value that would be in the ReferenceID property, the agent is not able to provide the value. If the value was in the document content, the agent would be able to provide it. ...