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…
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…
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…
This is NOT an article which gives you a comparison of Python and NodeJS when building your Dialogflow bot. This is very specific to my website, and explains how you can make the most of the materials you find on it. Also, if you have already started using NodeJS, that is OK too. This article…
In this post I will explain how to send rich responses from your webhook code to Dialogflow Messenger. I will explain the steps for the Description rich response type, and you should be able to follow the same steps and do it for the other rich response types. Let us start with the agent we…
spaCy is a free open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python. You can use it to improve the accuracy of your Dialogflow bots. This is somewhat advanced material, and also requires that you already have a Python programmer on your team who is familiar with the basics of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Automatically group…
One of my students asked about creating and managing large Dialogflow ES bots. There are three different things you need to understand when creating large Dialogflow ES bots. How to select training phrases How to input the training phrases for a large bot How to maintain the training phrases for high accuracy What not to…
I recently saw a question on StackOverflow. Given that there are now two versions of Dialogflow, and multiple different ways to integrate the chatbot into your WordPress website in 2021, this topic is worth a revisit. In this article, I talk about the FREE options for integrating a Dialogflow bot into your WordPress website. Dialogflow…
As of this writing, there is no simple way to see the conversation history of your Dialogflow CX bot. Unfortunately this means you don’t have a good idea of how people are interacting with your bot. Oct 2022 Update Dialogflow CX now has the conversation history feature, but you can use the tool I have…
If you have been using Dialogflow ES for a while, you might have noticed that it can be quite tedious to create large FAQ chatbots because the interface gets slower as you keep adding more intents. Bulk upload intents from a spreadsheet One of the easiest ways to create a large FAQ chatbot is to…
If you use Zoho CRM, you can actually get all the information associated with a given lead by following a simple script. In my case, I am interested in getting information about Visits for users of my BotFlo app. You can follow this method and get the information for all the related lists associated with…
When you are asking questions about your Dialogflow ES bot, you might not realize that the bot has 4 layers, and if you don’t provide enough information it is very hard for the answerer. So here is the tip: Provide full information about the conversation layer. That will make it much easier for someone to…