Skills show 0 input 0 output in Power Virtual Agent

[arafattehsin]

Hello Team!

I am having an issue in connecting my skills with PVA.

What project is affected?

Power Virtual Agent / Skills

What language is this in?

C#

What happens?

I used this document to create a skill (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/skill-implement-skill?view=azure-bot-service-4.0&tabs=cs) and it works very well between v4.7 Bot and Skill. However, when the same manifest gets connected with PVA, it gives 0 input 0 output.

What are the steps to reproduce this issue?

Yes, keep the same manifest and you will know.

What were you expecting to happen?

I was expecting to give me n input, n output as I did not define any output or input. Even though I tried to modify my manifest as this and defined definitions in that, then it gave me an error that manifest is wrong.

Can you share any logs, error output, etc.?

Valid Manifest without definitions

{
"$schema": "https://schemas.botframework.com/schemas/skills/skill-manifest-2.0.0.json",
"$id": "AMABankSkill",
"name": "AMA Bank Skill bot",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "This skill extends the banking operations to facilitate the customer",
"publisherName": "Arafat Tehsin",
"privacyUrl": "https://www.arafattehsin.com/blog",
"copyright": "Copyright (c) Arafat Tehsin. All rights reserved.",
"license": "",
"iconUrl": "https://www.arafattehsin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/logo.png",
"tags": [
"arafat tehsin",
"amabank",
"bank"
],
"endpoints": [
{
"name": "default",
"protocol": "BotFrameworkV3",
"description": "Default endpoint for the skill",
"endpointUrl": "https://c2580f5b.ngrok.io/api/messages",
"msAppId": ""
}
],
"activities": {
"message": {
"type": "message",
"description": "Receives the user's' utterance and attempts to resolve it using the skill's LU models"
}
},
"definitions": {
"localeValue": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"locale": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The current user's locale ISO code"
}
}
}
}
}

Returns me this when I connect:

Any screenshots or additional context?

However, when I try to add definitions based upon this: https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-sdk/blob/master/schemas/skills/samples/complex-skillmanifest-2.0.0.json - I get an error:

Is it a correct place where I reported this issue? If not then kindly let me know where should I report this.

Thank you!

[lzc850612]

This seems like a PVA issue. I'm contacting someone from the PVA team to help you with this.

[lzc850612]

Please open a ticket in here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Virtual-Agents-Forum/bd-p/10292019

Closing this issue now.

[darrenj]

AppId is empty in the manifest - this should be populated with the AppId of your Skill?

[arafattehsin]

Hi @darrenj - no, I removed the AppID before posting it here but the problem was something else which @sbacha helped me fix it. All good now, it works like a charm!