A training course student recently asked me: Would be interested in hearing your views on how the DF market will develop in the coming years and scope for profit. Let me start with a disclaimer. I am only answering this question because someone asked me about it, and I feel like I am probably not the…
One of my training course students asked me this question about their Dialogflow Messenger bot: Your videos and courses helped me a lot to understand dialogflow. To finish my project i’m facing a specific issue, to return a dynamic hyperlink through fullfilment or webhook. First of all, I don’t recommend using the fulfillment library for…
This article is a follow up to the chapter on Webhooks in my Learn Dialogflow CX course. You first need to go through those videos to be able to understand this tutorial. The main thing that you need to do is understand the exact JSON format to use so that you can add, update or…
Recently someone asked me on Twitter what the BotFlo app does. There are many reasons to use the BotFlo app, and I wrote about them here. Then I noticed that deciding whether you need to use BotFlo for your specific bot can be turned into a decision tree – so I created a decision tree…
I recently got feedback from a reader. He was answering a question about a tool which Dialogflow should have but doesn’t. Debugging of dialog flow , which is very important tool that should be there Now, I don’t think you can “debug” Dialogflow by setting breakpoints the same way you would when writing code, at least…
I got this question on my YouTube channel recently: Hi, thanks for sharing this video! i have a question: – how i use Events JavaScript from dialogflow messenger (df-request-sent & df-response-received) I used the df-response-received event as part of my Dialogflow CX bot which helps you choose between ES, CX and Actions Builder. Here is…
(Edited transcript) All right, so i have an important announcement to make for this video. I have changed my website name to botflo.com and it used to be https://botflo.com. The reason I’m making this change is – actually there are a few reasons but the main reason is that this name is more suited to…
In this article, I will show you 4 features in Dialogflow Messenger which are somewhat obscure – in the sense that many people use the Dialogflow Messenger integration without really learning about them. And in my experience, almost no one knows ALL four of them. 1 Clicked suggestion chips are recognized as normal text message…
A reader recently asked me about the differences between ES and CX and Actions Builder. So I did what all chatbot geeks do, and created a chatbot to answer this question. You can interact with the bot at the bottom of this page. I built the bot using Dialogflow CX. Obviously, this is just a…
Updated for 2021 This is a list of MUST KNOW Dialogflow features. Without learning about them, it is possible that you might be wasting a lot of time as you are building out your Dialogflow bot. 1 Dialogflow Bulk Operations I have noticed an interesting thing in Dialogflow’s user interface. They try quite hard to…
Since Dialogflow is one of the best low code tools for creating NLU powered chatbots, I expect that a lot of people who are visiting this website are makers who prefer low and no code solutions. So I have listed some no code tools which can accelerate the development of your Dialogflow chatbot. Airtable Airtable…
While I am using Google Sheets as the primary example here, nearly everything I mention is equally applicable to Microsoft Office/Microsoft Excel REST APIs. Since people are often using Google Sheets to store their data, it would be very convenient to use Google Sheets itself as the backend for their Dialogflow bot. But I would…
