Course Updates

Course Updates

I have made a lot of updates to my courses recently. I have merged multiple smaller courses into larger ones. I merged a bunch of mini-courses into a single course called Dialogflow ES Mini Courses I merged the no-code courses – Dialogflow Building Blocks, Dialogflow Conversation Design, Dialogflow Blackholes and Dialogflow Flowcharts – into a…

The best Chatbase alternative for Dialogflow ES conversation analytics

The best Chatbase alternative for Dialogflow ES conversation analytics

First published: Nov 2017 | Last updated: June 2022 The Chatbase service, which was recently shut down, provided analytics for Dialogflow bots. However, it was missing an important feature: you had no way to ensure that the intent mapping was accurate. As a result, everything that was built on top of that assumption was not…

How to manage context from your Python webhook in Dialogflow ES

How to manage context from your Python webhook in Dialogflow ES

First published: 2017 | Last Updated: May 2022 This tutorial used to refer to inline webhooks before. But I have updated it to use a simple Python based webhook for two reasons: I don’t recommend using the fulfillment library and Python is better suited than NodeJS for Dialogflow bots. The problem A little while back…

Get your DialogFlow agent to initiate the conversation before user types a message

Get your DialogFlow agent to initiate the conversation before user types a message

First published: Aug 2017 | Last Updated: May 2022 So let us understand the question: When you work with Dialogflow you notice that it follows the “user types something -> agent replies with an answer” sequence. Suppose you wish to get the agent to say something before the user types anything, how do you do…

How to collect user input without follow up intents in Dialogflow ES

How to collect user input without follow up intents in Dialogflow ES

First published: Nov 2017 | Last updated: May 2022 Sometimes I see questions like these in the Dialogflow forum. So, I got one intent working. How can I now “move” the conversation to the next intent? Answer In Intent1, declare an output context called contextA. In the next intent you want to fire, use contextA…