We have PDF training courses that our employees are required to read through and acknowledge they've completed; traditionally this has been done via email with the user replying. Obviously, as our footprint grows this creates a mess of incoming emails to track and manually update training records.
Is there a way to put this PDF on SharePoint, require users to read through it and upon completion it then updates their training record within a SharePoint list?
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We have a an ecommerce platform where we need to store user session data in a database such as products viewed and products liked. When is the right time to call an API to store this data?
I don't want to call an API every time they open a new product.
I've experimented with DOM methods such as visibilitychange but on our website, every product is opened in a new tab so it's not ideal.
Should we use some background scripts such as service workers?
I am trying to generate some "quick reply templates" i.e possible reply according to previous messages in a chat thread using Api.ai/Dialogflow.
I have trained api.ai agent to some extent to generate replies only for some selected queries. Now, I want to enhance it to generate replies for more queries but training an agent manually for a large number of queries is not practically possible. Is there any way to train the api.ai chatbot dynamically by analysing the previous chat thread, i already have stored in db or using the data of ongoing chats.
Users are some sellers so i assume they will talk regarding there product only, so questions will be somewhat similar in every chat thread.
Looks like there is now the ability to train via the API: https://dialogflow.com/docs/training, along with uploading text files with training lists.
You can add more Training Phrases using the POST and PUT API methods for the /intents endpoint.
Any changes made via the API to alter the agent's behavior, initiate the training in the same way when you save an intent. This trains the agent with the changes delievered through the API.
There currently isn't a API for training.
If you have a log of the queries for your agent (via the API or your webhook), you could "train" your agent by using those log to determine the most common unanswered queries by looking at how many queries match the default fallback intent and create new intents and responses for those queries using Dialogflow's API: https://dialogflow.com/docs/reference/agent/intents#post_intents
I have this sample application regarding Change Requests.
If the form is saved, it will send a form as an email to the listed approvers.
The form has 2 actions - Approve and Reject.
Let's say the approver approves the CR. It will update the emailed form document but the document that resides in my local database won't. Is there a way for me to update the documents in my local database automatically if the recipient(approver) has approved/rejected the document form?
Not automatically, but you can add logic to the approve and reject actions to update the database.
If this database is shared on a server, one way would be to make it a mail-in database. Your approval actions could then trigger an email that goes to that mail-in database address. Your database would then need an agent to process the emails, perhaps simply just parsing the subject line which could contain the UNID or some key that says which document to update along with the response of approved or rejected. This would work in a distributed environment.
If the environment is not distributed, say everyone is always on the same network connected to the same Notes server, then you could write some Lotusscript code to update the remote database directly.
Remember the context that you'll be in. When the emailed form is open in an approvers Notes client, he or she doesn't have access to your local databases. So you'll need to have a place on the server that the response action can update.
The safest design for a highly distributed workflow application, (replicas on multiple servers and local replicas on users laptops) is to have the approvals and updates posted as new responses and not have updates directly to the main WF document. The WF document should then compute the statues based on the responses. Finally, an agent running on ONE server can post the status updates to the document and archive the responses.
This construct will eliminate (or reduce significantly) the possibility of replication and save conflicts. It is particularly needed for WF items that require multiple approvals from people who are disconnected or connected to different servers.
I've got some nice little LotusScript that I can put into the Click event of an Action Hotspot in a rich text field when I'm sending an email manually. Is there a way to programmatically create that in the UI?
My script determines the user's home server and then opens a specific document in the replica of a training database on their home server. I could create these messages with hotspots manually and provide them to the folks who want to email them out. Of course, time being money and the task being boring, I'd rather automate it. I know that I could do this by using a stored form, but am wondering if the greater capability exists, as I can see further applications for it.
One trick I used in the past was to create a profile document in a database, and store some rich text in a field on that profile doc. Then when I needed to programmatically send an email, I could get that rich text field from the profile doc and use AppendRTItem to get it into the body of an email. That should work with any type of rich text, including hotspots.
Note: this won't work in the UI to populate a new email. It does work if you are generating the emails completely in code, though.
I have a web application that monitors farms in certain areas. Right now I am having a problem of performing automation with some of the tasks.
Users of the web application can send reports or checkins using keywords. If the reports or checkins correspond to certain keywords, for example "alert", I need the web application to send an alert to the user via email using that web application. But that alert must be sent two weeks after the date of the report received, and to that particular user only.
Would it be possible to use cron to perform this? If not, can anyone suggest me a workaround?
A possible approach you might consider is to store an entry in a database for each of these reminder emails you need to send, at the time your user does whatever action in your application that determines the need to send that email exists. Include the recipient, the date to be sent, and the email content as content you store for each entry. Schedule a single cron job to run periodically to process these database records by due date, and populate an email template to be sent out. You can then either delete the database records, or a better option, include a column that indicates they were sent and mark them as sent.
It would help to provide which technology stack you're operating on and what the application is developed in. Others might be able to point you to technology specific approaches or pre-built plugins/extensions that already do this for the situation you're in, to help you avoid the need to write your own code for the solution.