Using the Workativ Assistant Dialog Creator, you can build general and complex dialogs.
1. You will be redirected to the Dialog Creator page that greets you with the Recognize Dialog pop up to specify when you want the dialog to be executed by the VA i.e. after checking the condition for which the dialog should be executed by the VA.
2. Click on the “Create One” button to create a Dialog.
3. Pop up will be opened to enter a name for the dialog and click on Create.
4. Here you can add conditions to recognize the dialog that you’ll be creating.
5. Map the Dialog with Intent, Entity, or Variable. This module also consists of options to add AND/OR conditions by clicking on the Add More button. With this functionality, you can make the Dialog recognize more than one condition.
6. To specify the type of condition, use the Select dropdown on the Recognize Dialog pop up. There will be three options to choose from: Intent, Entity and Variable.
7. Let’s say you select Intent, you’ll then be presented with another dropdown to select the Intent from the list of already created Intents. You can create a new Intent on the Recognize Dialog pop up itself by typing in the name of the Intent you want to create and clicking on Create New that appears after typing in the Intent name.
8. You can even specify the examples for that Intent on the Recognize Dialog pop up itself by typing in the examples on the pop up that appears after you specify the Intent name.
9. After selecting the Intent, you’ll be presented with another dropdown showing the intent is recognized.
10. You can add another Intent or an Entity or Condition using the And/Or logic operators. When you select Entity as the condition type, you’ll be presented with the following fields under it.
11. Under Entity, you can either select an already created entity or a pre-existing system entity and select a rule for it among is recognized, value is and value is not.
Condition: A condition is used to recognize the user or some of his/her traits while interacting with them. Some common examples of this can be recognizing a user based on his/her time zone, name, or even phone number.
For example, if you want to greet a user by their name, you can do so by setting the condition with the help of context variables which will recognize the username and greet them. We’ll get into more details of how you can use context variables as this section of the guide progresses.
Operators vary depending on whether you’ve decided to go with an intent, entity or a variable.
12. Inside the dialog dashboard, after creating your first dialog, you’ll be able to see two default dialog nodes already created for you: Welcome and Fallback.
The Welcome node helps you to welcome your users. You can use this node to make the Virtual Assistant (VA) greet the end-user as soon as the user starts a conversation with the VA. To add a welcome message inside the Welcome node, click on the Send Message option on the pop up menu that appears when you click on the + sign next to the parent node (first node).
Note: To see how the welcome dialog appears to users on chat, you can use try me to test the dialog. Check the link to know more about it: Try Me (Testing your Dialog Flow) Before you can use the Try Me option, you’ll have to deploy the changes that you’ve made to a dialog. To know more about Deploying changes, go here.
To know more about Send Message, click here.
Next comes the Fallback node. The Fallback node helps your Virtual Assistant to fallback to a response when a user input is not recognized. Inside the Fallback dialog, you can specify the message that the Virtual Assistant must display to a user when it’s not able to recognize their query. You can do this using the Send Message option on the pop up that opens when you click on the + sign next to the parent node (first node).
