I have developed a bot in Bot framework. Once user responds to the bot and bot is processing it, i need to show the typing indicator to the user in the meanwhile for every 2 seconds . It should be working across all conversations of the chat.
Easy as pie. Node.js bots send a typing indicator to the user by executing session.SendTyping();
If you want to see what this looks like in the framework, you can find the code here
Also, Microsoft has a documentation page that talks specifically about this.
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I'm building a teams app that contains some tabs and a bot.
Is it possible to, when an action is performed on a tab (i.e. clicking a button), initialize automatically a chat with the bot, or send a specific message?
Tks
Based on the comments above, what you're looking to do is implement "pro-active" messaging, where the bot itself initiates the conversation. It's definitely possible, and you can read more to get started here and here. The most important thing to know is that your user has to have installed the bot already, to get a "conversation context", but if they've installed the app, which includes the bot, to get the tab, then you're fine. You need to get some variables when they do install the app, which you hook into the conversationUpdate event to get access to. Give it a go and let me know if you have specific questions, here on SOverflow.
I am using Bot Framework SDK 4 Nodejs, and am going to deploy the bot on Skype. I need to save the conversation data/ chat history of the bot for every user.
I tried using the conversationState property accessor but it returns some JSON having data about the general chat/turn context - like the buttons the bot has prompted etc.
I want the sequential chat history like :-
Bot: "What do you want to do?".
User : "I want to generate a ticket" and so on...
For example when you run the Bot locally on the Bot Framework Emulator, it displays some logs at the bottom right hand corner. I want those exact logs or something similar to be stored and used in my bot.
Please help me out! Thanks!
The issue originates from the bot framework itself, when I add a new Facebook channel for the first time everything works as expected, what I am trying to do is connecting multiple FB pages to the same bot, I read somewhere that you can do this by re-entering the page info and clicking "resubmit", the problem is when the "resubmit" button is clicked without first clicking "Deauthorize" first causes a problem, when I analyzed the request with the browser's inspector it seems that EnableChannelForBot method throws an error.
Also we are developing a service where users can register and link their FB pages to the bot just like ChatFuel or any other famous bot platform, the main problem is that bot framework is asking for a specific page id and access token per FB bot and you must do it manually through the bot framework dashboard, can we have an easy way to register the bot to multiple FB pages and without having to do so manually through an API or something Similar? Please work with us to provide a solution for this as soon as you can, Bot Framework is vital to our work and migrating to another SDK is going to be very costly and time-consuming.
I don't think that connecting multiple Facebook pages to the same bot is supported. Where did you read that?
Also, there is no API currently you can leverage on to register your bot/enable Facebook channel.
Is there a way to send messages to channels without being provoked? For example every few hours a skype chatbot might remind you to call your mom.
I'm using Microsoft's new Bot Framework and the NodeJS sdk.
Yes... All of the built in Bot classes have a beginDialog() method which can be used to initiate a bot originated conversation with the user. The basics-naturalLanguage example shows a sample of this using the TextBot class and there's also the testBot example which shows this in action for all of the bots. For the TestBot you have to look at the 'dialogs/run-async.js' file to see the actual call.
I have been playing around with the Kik bot framework using Node and have a bot to chat with. I am using the onTextMessage event successfully, but have yet to get the onStartChattingMessage to fire. The docs are not very detailed, any idea when this gets invoked? I thought it would be when I start a new chat with the bot but that doesn't seem to be it. Or I am just holding it wrong. Code is on GitHub at https://github.com/jcapka/otherword/blob/master/server.js
Per https://dev.kik.com/#/docs/messaging#start-chatting this only happen
Under normal circumstances, you will receive this message once
when user that starts chatting with you for the first time.
If you are trying to get it to work but using the original username you have already chatted.
You'd have to make a new account to be able to get the first-time experience and have that StartChattingmessage
As an example I went and messaged your bot and I got this response `