I'm a bit confused on how Bot Builder is intended to be used if you want to connect to Slack as well as Kik.
Am I supposed to be using "builder.BotConnectorBot" or will I end up with a "builder.BotConnectorBot" and a separate "builder.SlackBot"? If so, does that mean I'm hosing two separate bots, one for Kik and one for Slack? Or can the same bot built using "builder.BotConnectorBot" be hosted once and work across every channel?
You only need to create a single bot. Just enable it for multiple channels in the portal.
Direct link:
https://dev.botframework.com/bots?id={YourBotId}
You develop one bot and you can use it across multiple channels (skype, slack, FB Messenger, Email, SMS, etc.). This is the main objective of BotFramework to abstract you to the channel implementations.
To add a new channel, you may enter in your bot and BotFramework dev portal and click in the channel you want to add. Some channels (like FB messenger and Slack) may require additional steps to setup the channel.
REF here.
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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.
When I put the Telegram Token in DialogFlow, I get the error Bot was not started. I have started the bot in Telegram app. How do I solve this?
let’s say we will make the bot to give answers about programming language
steps:
create new agent
create entities
create the words contained in the entities
create intents
enter training phases (DialogFlow will recognise parts of the phases containing entities you just created. it will give different colors for different entities)
set default responses
add google assistant (if needed)
add response for Google Assistant. activate Google Assistant Response. choose basic card. add the image link (we can do this later). put the search text
https://google.com/search?q=how+to+le...
add more responses (telegram, slack, web demo, twitter, facebook messenger, etc.). you will get a token for activating the integration (in this example) i use Telegram
add response to Telegram. add card. fill in the card. don’t forget to add the search terms (you can add image url later)
at action and parameters section, set prompts for responses if needed
go to integrations. choose telegram (or whatever you chose before)
follow the instructions on how to create a bot in a telegram here: https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/d...
copy the generated token
press start
there you go! now you have your own bot :)
I'm making a dialogflow agent that will be integrated with various platforms (Facebook messenger, slack and maybe a few others) that will have the basic functions of a informational chatbot.
The agent will be for a specific store and I'm wondering if it's possible to trigger some sort of welcome message once the user enters the geofence (in this case, the store)?
Thanks for the help. I haven't found any documentation for this on dialogflow specifically or anywhere else so anything will be awesome.
Note: I'm am not by any means dead set of dialogflow, if AWS Lex offers something like this and it's better, I will take a look. I'm just a bit more used to dialogflow.
This cannot be achieved just by using either Lex or Dialogflow. Because at the end of the day, you are using them to integrate with Messenger/Slack/Whatsapp and these apps will (for obvious good reasons) not share the user's location information with the bot. You will need a helper app which takes the user's location permission as well and triggers the bots for you.
Keep in mind that channels like Messenger and Whatsapp have restrictions over sending messages willy-nilly to users. Messenger has a '24+1' policy Whatsapp also you can only send free form messages in the 24 hour window. But after that you can send chargeable pre-approved "hsm" message templates.
I'm creating a bot with Dialogflow. It's quite straigtforward, and it worked on Telegram in no time. But things complicated when trying to integrate Dialogflow with Slack.
My bot is able to read direct messages from Slack, and I'm sure of it because the messages from Slack appear in the History section of Dialogflow. Good news there. In the same screen, I can see that Dialogflow answered all the messages Slack sent to it. But sadly, those answers don't appear in Slack.
By the way, just to confuse me more, the Dialogflow's test bot works flawlessly with Slack, publishing there with no issue. So, it's not anything related with the common values you have to copy from Slack and paste to Dialogflow to enable the integration.
It seems that my bot on Slack misses some kind of permission of the OAuth & Permissions screen, but I've tried some of theme, and I can't find the good one. Right now I'm using bot, chat:write:bot, im:write, and channels:read. I guess that only the two first ones are needed, but I'm totally lost and tried adding permissions with no reason. And then, I wrote this post.
Is there someone who has a simple bot that sends messages in direct messages on Slack? What are the needed permissions?
I had the same issue, it's quite easy to solve: just go on Manage Distribution in your bot's Slack API panel and click on the "Add to Slack" button.
That's all!
Under OAuth & Permissions, add "chat:write" to OAuth Scope. That will allow your bot to send messages to other users.
I'm developing Facebook messenger bot. Based on the official sample
here made by Node.js, Express, ES7.
I want to use Firebase database, trigger event.
If someone updates the database, send notice to certain people. I add source code "Child Changed" to "messages.js" in messenger-api-helpers, but it doesn't work.
I can check working "Child Changed" in HTML, but in messenger, I cannot.
Where should I write the trigger events code?
You should definitely use Facebook Messenger Broadcast API for this kind of functionality. This will broadcast a notice/broadcast to users.
Caveats:
You have to apply for this permission. (pages_messaging and pages_messaging_subscriptions.Takes about 1-2 days, but
can test on Admin/Test users of the app)
Each broadcast has to be a separate broadcast. (e.g. you can't send image and a text together, each has to be its own individual broadcast).
Have some kind of un-subscription option as well. FB user might think you are spamming even if you clearly say in the messages that your bot will send updates.
Use custom labels to create targetted sends. So you can either subdivide who you will send updates to about specific issues or just label people if they unsubscribe to your broadcast or not.
Basic workflow:
Get permission to broadcast.
On event in your Database. Start process.
Create message_creative_id via POST to endpoint
Use message_creative_id to POST a broadcast_messages
On a successful send you will get back broadcast_id