Virtual Assistants

With some tasks, you may want to add a link to a message sent to a user that contains data too large for a message, for example, an message with a picture, abstract, and a link to a full article or report. This topic describes how to define a table…

You can use the WebHook node to subscribe to a message and WebHook events to capture real-time data from real-time events to show them to the user. You can use the WebHook node for server-side validation, execute business logic, or make backend server API calls. Also, you can use the…

The Service Node is a component type in a dialog task that you can use to add an API service to make REST or SOAP requests to third-party web services. You can use this node when you have the parameters needed for the API request using an entity or other…

A Script Node allows you to write JavaScript code in a dialog task. You can use the Script node to perform the following actions: Manipulate user input parameters before executing an API call. Manipulate the parameters from an API response payload before continuing with the dialog. Display custom error messages…

Virtual Assistants need to extract relevant information from the user utterance to fulfill the user intent. Take a look at this sample utterance: Book me a flight from LA to NYC on Sunday.  To act on this user intent, which is to book a flight ticket, the VA should extract…