When I look through my StackDriver logs I don't see anything that gives me anything I recognize from Slack (other than the text itself).
I'm looking at having DialogFlow reply in a thread to specific messages but I haven't been able to get any "TS" values or even "Channel" values.
How can I reference this in a Custom Payload response so that DialogFlow replies in a thread?
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I have created 2 chatbots using AWS lex and Azure bot framework each. I have integrated them with slack and they respond to the mentions in channels.
Currently, the bot responds as a new message however I want it to respond in the slack thread of the original message posted by the user. I tried to look for articles in various places but could not find anything helpful. Does anyone have any idea on how to achieve this or a reference to a GitHub repo for a sample?
Since you are able to post replies, I am assuming that you are using chat.postMessage API.
https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage
To send the reply as a thread, all you need to do is that add thread_ts argument in the api call.
(Provide original message's ts (timestamp) value to make this message a reply.)
I'm building a chatbot with Telegram and Google Dialogflow. When I integrate Dialogflow into Telegram via the Dialogflow "Integrations" tab, Dialogflow registers as a Webbhook service to intercept all received Telegram messages. Unfortunately, I cannot act on non-text messages like stickers, images and Telegram payment checkout messages.
I wish Dialogflow would forward all the received messages to my custom fulfillment webhook in the Fallback intent. In my webhook, I would be able to parse the received body and act on the unsupported telegram messages accordingly.
I know that there is a FACEBOOK_MEDIA event in Dialogflow. This event is fired when an image is sent via a Facebook messenger to Dialogflow. Is there something like a TELEGRAM_MEDIA or even a TELEGRAM_UNSUPPORTED event available?
I would really like to be able to act on more than just text messages in Dialogflow.
Do I need to add another layer between Telegram and Dialogflow to be able to act on all Telegram messages?
What I have analyzed so far:
I forward all Google Dialogflow interaction logs to Google Cloud stackdriver. It seems as if non-text messages are completely ignored by Dialogflow. I see no log entry at all when I send a non-text message to my telegram bot. On the other hand, when I send a text, the log and its JSON payload appears immediately in the stackdriver.
I created a fallback intent in Dialogflow and enabled "Enable webhook call for this intent" in the Fulfillment section. Unfortunately, my fulfillment function doesn't fire on any non-text events. Dialogflow blocks it in the first place.
For future reference, I will try to give a possible, but not an out-of-the-box solution to my own question. If someone has a better solution, this would be great.
It seems to me, that at the moment of writing this, a full interaction experience is only possible by implementing an intermediate layer between Telegram and Dialogflow. Telegram might contact this intermediate layer, which processes the received message and uses the Dialogflow SDK/API for the Google NLP goodness. For the (not yet) supported Telegram messages this intermediate layer must implement its own logic.
Currently, there seems to be no way to handle non-telegram text messages via dialogflow, however there is an open report about it here if it may interest https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/157202508
I made a facebook chatbot with dialogflow. My problem is that some users write messages to my bot that are longer than 256 characters.
Dialogflow just throws an error that the character size exceeded. As the result, the user has no answer.
I don't expect dialogflow to process the input. I just want to get this information in my backend, so I can send the user to the live chat.
Please, say me it is possible (and how ;) ).
By following this you will be able to set the custom webhook => Webhook setup
Make this server live with Ngrok with temporary later on you can migrate to your server
Now you will get event in which you will find your message sent from facebook messenger.
you can write simple JS function to send only 256 character to Dialogflow Functions
str.substring(0,255)
and send it to detectIntent in dialogflow function.
I'm trying to get the GET_STARTED payload with reference parameters firing to my chatbot running on a node express.js instance.
If I do a get started with refereral call with no active conversation thread, I can access the parameters no problem.
The issue is, however, if I click on a referral link with a conversation thread with my bot already open. I get no post to my fulfillment server.
I have enabled messaging_referrals within the facebook developer console, is there some Intent or Event I need to create within the dialogflow console to pass it to my webhook?
For Context:
Messenger ref parameter is not passed to dialogflow
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/dialogflow/oldK752j-Ok/GrwJajfwBAAJ
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/reference/webhook-events/messaging_referrals#customer-chat
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/discovery/m-me-links/
In case anyone stumbles upon this in the future, I received a reply from DialogFlow support, stating that they don't support this functionality.
I’m coding a bot using PHP-BotMan for complexity reasons and using Dialogflow query api to extract and manipulate the informations from the response. I saw examples and hints from people here and on dialogflow forum suggesting using context or events, some of them mixing both. What is the better way to handle this?
The flow of the application is:
user messages bot
bot queries (text or/and #event?) dialogflow
internally process a reply or return dialogflow slotfilling* request
text response bot reply user with last reply or asking to fill slot
Also, how can I be sure that a slotfilling process is finished with “actionIncomplete” only having two values, NULL or TRUE? The dialogflow query response doesn’t show wich slotfilling parameters are required or not…
Thanks for the help!!
slotfilling is when dialogflow sends a text response requesting required parameters to finish an intent, adding those replied values to the context
I was trying something similar to your scenario, here are few points i found helpful:
When Slotfitting with webhook, i can't use the "Required" params field since i have to control the input parameters via webhook (query database to provide options). Which means actionIncomplete field is not useful anymore.
I personally prefer to use context as it can add/remove params which gives you more control.
Hence the dialog was designed to use webhook to check all required params before move on to next conversation flow. and pop quick replies menu to ease and restrict possible input from users.
HTH.