I Would like to know if this is possible. I would like to host on my own Heroku Server my ChatBot and deploy it with Gupshup on my Website. I want to add Wit.ai to manage NLP.
Is it possible to do that ?
If it is, How can I do that ? DO you have a sample to test this solution ?
Thank you
Yes, this is possible with the Callback option that Gupshup has. You can write your bot code and host it on the server then go to the Gupshup dashboard and create a bot using the callback option as in the screenshot.
This URL will receive all the information like message from the user, type of message,unique id etc. which you need to read and then respond back to the same callback.
More details can be found in this document.
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I created a Slack app that sends a series of interactive messages to a channel. In my Slack API dashboard, I see that I can create and remove hooks. Right now the hook url that I have set up in my code is the one for the Slackbot channel.
But the problem is that such a message only gets sent to me.
I want to send the Slackbot messages to Alice in situation A, and to Bob in situation B. Not just to myself, the guy who configured the app.
What's the best way to do this?
I would suggest that you should not use hooks for this. A more sane way to do this right would be via chat.postMessage Web API method which is documented here!
This is because hooks are tied to specific conversations and that approach quickly hits a wall on what it can really achieve, especially messaging different people. Once you start using the web API it's pretty simple. Just ask for the scope during app installation (remember to add that scope in your dashboard), subscribe to the event in your API dashboard and then you are good to go.
Everytime you send a message via that method, Slack will send you a payload which you can use for testing and logging etc.
You can see all the different ways to message programmatically inside Slack here.
Not sure how to approach this.
The flow kind of goes like this:
1. The client initiates a conversation with the chatbot asking for support.
2. Eventually the chatbot creates a message such as this on a team channel where support agents are available. From my understanding I can create links that would open group dialogues like so ? https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=user#email.com,user2#email.com or using the id ?
How can I do this for creating a group chat with the user AND the chatbot ? I tried adding it's ID and it didn't work for some reason but adding real users separated by comma worked.
If anything is there a way to use the Graph API to detect if a conversation was started between someone on the channel and the client ?
Based on a GitHub sample, I created a dialog bot in Teams that collects information from a user and sends that to a Flow (Microsoft Flow/Power Automate) with a HTTP POST call.
After that the Bot waits for a response and sends it back to the user. This generally would be sufficient if the timeout for the call wasn't limited to 2 minutes - sometimes it takes longer to get the complete actions in Flow and get the response.
My question is how I could accomplish the same without getting the timeout. REST seemed the easiest as I'm not a programmer..
I checked the GitHub sample for proactive messaging (https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/samples/csharp_dotnetcore/16.proactive-messages), and that worked in the Emulator when I enter http://localhost:3978/api/notify, but I have no idea how to use it published to Azure. What would be the endpoint and how I could pass the message text?
Thanks
You should do some code modify if you want to send an message based on proactive-messages demo .
You can refer to my previous post which will meet your requirement.
After you modify the NotifyController.cs file , you can use send messages to a specific user with steps below :
Connect to your bot get current user ID :
Send message to this user by rest client tool or post man :
Result :
If you publish your bot to Azure , lets assume your Azure App service host is :https://xxxxxx.azurewebsites.net , then your bot message endpoint will be :https://xxxxxx.azurewebsites.net/api/messages and your /notify function endpoint will be : https://xxxxxx.azurewebsites.net/api/notify . In brief , just use your Azure App service endpoint to replace http://localhost:3978 will be fine .
Hope it helps . If there is anything unclear pls feel free to let me know .
I have a bot, a client start a conversation with it using directline 3.0.
The bot follow a waterfall flow and at one step start an external process that do something. The process, finished the task use directline to start a new connection. i would like to send a message to the bot using a specific connection as the bot receive the message and can continue the flow. Is it possible?
Yes, this is possible using proactive messages. There is no need to use direct line, specifically, to create a new connection to send an activity. In short, in your bot's you will create a new API that external services can ping. As part of the process, when the API is hit, a conversation reference is created that, in short, allows you to pass any received data as an activity to the bot. When the bot receives the activity, you can setup logic to determine what the bot does next.
There is a SO post here that addresses this issue that you can reference. Additionally, you can refer to the BotBuilder-Samples GitHub sample for additional clarification.
Hope of help!
I am trying to build a bot and use it within a chat app. I think Microsoft Bot Builder is the one for me.
I looked into its documentations and tried them in the emulator.
I noticed that in these examples, you send texts to the bot either using
"consoleconnector" or "chatconnector", as the example shows.
server.post('/api/messages', connector.listen());
// Receive messages from the user and respond by echoing each message
back (prefixed with 'You said:')
var bot = new builder.UniversalBot(connector, function (session) {
session.send("You said: %s", session.message.text);
});
I don't want a new endpoint. I want to call the bot like calling a function: give the incoming message from a user and the function returns bot's response.
Is it possible? If yes, please tell me how to do it.
If it is not possible, then only way is to call it as a rest API as shown above.
In this case, do i still need "MICROSOFT_APP_ID" and "MICROSOFT_APP_PASSWORD"?
Note that, I don't want to deploy the bot to azure or aws now. I want to use it local.
Could anyone help me explain these? Thanks in advance!
The Bot Framework is built to function as an API - it takes a request and sends a response. The framework doesn't provide a callback or promise to capture the response so this approach simply wouldn't work. Take a look at the DirectLine API if you want to embed the framework within another application.
You need to use the MS App id and password for all channels apart from the Emulator. If you use DirectLine API, you will also have to pass a secret token.