FAQs

How to...?

...start a conversation with a welcome / intro message?

You will need behavior rules and an outputset for that.

For the behavior rules, you have three possibilities (ordered by recommendation):

1) Match for the action CONVERSATION_START

{
  "behaviorGroups": [
    {
      "name": "Onboarding",
      "behaviorRules": [
        {
          "name": "Welcome",
          "actions": [
            "welcome"
          ],
          "conditions": [
            {
              "type": "actionmatcher",
              "configs": {
                "actions": "CONVERSATION_START"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

2) check if the triggered action has never be triggered before

{
  "behaviorGroups": [
    {
      "name": "Onboarding",
      "behaviorRules": [
        {
          "name": "Welcome",
          "actions": [
            "welcome"
          ],
          "conditions": [
            {
              "type": "actionmatcher",
              "configs": {
                "actions": "welcome",
                "occurrence": "never"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

3) Check how often this rule has succeeded before.

{
  "behaviorGroups": [
    {
      "name": "Onboarding",
      "behaviorRules": [
        {
          "name": "Welcome",
          "actions": [
            "welcome"
          ],
          "conditions": [
            {
              "type": "occurrence",
              "configs": {
                "maxTimesOccurred": "0",
                "behaviorRuleName": "Welcome"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Outputset:

{
  "outputSet": [
    {
      "action": "welcome",
      "timesOccurred": 0,
      "outputs": [
        {
          "valueAlternatives": [
            {
              "type": "text",
              "text": "Some output here...",
              "delay": 3000
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "quickReplies": [
        // quickreplies here
      ]
    }
  ]
}

...say something based on what the bot previously said?

(Think of a form-like behavior, asking a couple of questions and sending these results somewhere.)

Check whether a certain action had been triggered in the previous conversation step.

{
  "behaviorGroups": [
    {
      "name": "Onboarding",
      "behaviorRules": [
        {
          "name": "Ask for Name",
          "actions": [
            "ask_for_name"
          ],
          "conditions": [
            {
              "type": "actionmatcher",
              "configs": {
                "actions": "some_previous_action",
                "occurrence": "lastStep"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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