Parameter

Both ES and CX support the concept of parameters.

If entitiesBoth Dialogflow ES and Dialogflow CX support entities and th... More are the categories or types of proper nouns, parameters are the actual values.

For example, “city” would be an entity type, and Dallas would be the parameter (entity value).

Dialogflow ES and CX allow you to extract parameter values from a user utteranceAn utterance is simply what the user says to the bot. Both E... More.

For example, look at the following parameter table in Dialogflow ES:

In this example, the parameter name is assigned by the user so they can use it in their agent.

The entity is the entity type, for example planet.

The value is set by Dialogflow depending on the requirements.

See also:

Parameter Default ValueIn Dialogflow ES you can set the default value of a paramete... More

This is how you can use the parameter value in the bot’s response:

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