How to use facebook message templates to offer a rich-text as integrating buttons, images, lists and other facebook messenger features in Watson. I'm following Facebook Messenger Developer but I don't know where should I insert the appropriate code? In the JSON editor of watson conversation or in the bot-facebook.js of botkit?
I tried this in the JSON editor of watson conversation but it does not work:
Screenshot of the JSON editor
You will need an orchestration layer to handle the encoding to the desired platform format, you then create an action within the middleware to handle this response. e.g FB messenger requires an object to be passed such as
"buttons":[
{
"type":"web_url",
"url":"https://petersfancyapparel.com/criteria_selector",
"title":"Select Criteria",
"webview_height_ratio": "full",
"messenger_extensions": true,
"fallback_url": "https://petersfancyapparel.com/fallback"
}
]
An example orchestration layer such as Botkit, or a better alternative Botmaster can be used alongside its extension fulfill that will allow you to create these objects and in the Watson dialog simply just add custom XML tags. E.g www.google.com this will then be passed to the orchestration layer which will send the relevant object. A code example using this method can be found here with some other Facebook actions.
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A Brief Overview of the Problem
I am trying to store JSON data on my SendGrid contacts for usage in dynamic email templates designed in the SendGrid GUI.
To start, within the SendGrid email builder I can write the following code within a codeblock:
Here is the handlebar code in that code block...
<ol>
{{#each user.accounts}}
{{#if this.isPending}}
<li>
{{this.name}} is <strong>pending activation.</strong>
</li>
{{else}}
<li>
{{this.name}} is <strong>active.</strong>
</li>
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
</ol>
When I go to preview that code & add some test data I get the following:
Here is the JSON code in that code block formatted a bit nicer...
{
"user": {
"accounts": [
{
"name": "Checking",
"isPending": false
},
{
"name": "401k",
"isPending": true
},
{
"name": "Savings",
"isPending": true
}
]
}
}
The Question
Everything mentioned above is PERFECT so far - this is exactly what I want... To populate email data based on dynamic content present on each contact the email is going to. Here is where I hit the roadblock, where is that JSON Test Data coming from on the contact when the real email is sent out? And how do I populate a contact with JSON data using the API?
As far as I can tell, there is no option to add this custom JSON data to a new contact when creating one via the API (or via the GUI, for that matter) (see API docs here)
When I set up this email to send out to my SendGrid contacts via a SendGrid automation flow, does anyone know how to populate the JSON used by my code block for showing pending/activated accounts with data specific to each user?
Thank you, I greatly appreciate any help on this!
I think that JSON data is actually only useful when you are using the API to send an email with a template. You then provide the JSON data as dynamic_template_data and it is populated in the email template.
When dealing with Automations, you need to pull the data from the contact record itself. You can get the data you have on a Contact in the Tags section of the template designer.
There are a number of fields that already exist on contacts, like first_name, last_name, email, address_line_1, etc. You can also add Custom Fields which give you further fields you can use on your contacts. Custom Fields can be created by adding new columns on an CSV upload of your contacts, by creating them in the SendGrid admin or by creating them via API.
If you are using the API to create or update your contacts, you can pass an object of custom_fields as part of the contact record in the API request. For example:
const data = {
"contacts": [
{
"email": "ryan39#lee-young.com",
"custom_fields": {
"w1": "2002-10-02T15:00:00Z",
"w33": 9.5,
"e2": "Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank."
}
}
]
};
Note that to set custom fields on a contact when you create/update by the API like this, you need to use the custom field ID as the key in the custom_fields object (like the example above, the IDs "w1", "w33" , "e2" were used). If you need to know those IDs, you can use the API to get all field definitions.
Once you have added Custom Fields they will also be available as Tags in the design editor, then you can use them in the email design.
The only thing is, I notice you are using an array of accounts in your example. If you need an array of arbitrary data, then I don't believe you can achieve that with contact data and automations. You can set individual custom fields for, say, a checking account, 401k and savings. But you cannot have arbitrary data in a custom field. If you really need the data to be arbitrary, then Automations might not be right for you and you should send your emails out using the send mail API and providing dynamic template data.
Google deprecated the old GMB API v4.9 account.locations.get endpoint, and replaced it with Business Information API v1 locations.get.
Code change that affects me is:
Removal of LocationState object. The existing fields have been moved into Metadata.
The new Metadata object does not return the attributes LocationState object contained before. The ones I'm interested in are:
isVerified
isPublished
isSuspended
isDisabled
isDisconnected
etc...
My question is:
How could I get this data without using deprecated endpoints?
Try Verification API getVoiceOfMerchantState
isVerified (verify),
isPublished (hasVoiceOfMerchant=true AND hasBusinessAuthority=true),
isSuspended (complyWithGuidelines),
isDuplicate (resolveOwnershipConflict).
isDisabled & isDisconnected have no equivalent in new API
As far as I can see, based on the link you have sent it is written:
Endpoint URL:
Endpoints for all business information, attributes, categories, chains and locations search are accessible at https://mybusinessbusinessinformation.googleapis.com/v1/ instead of https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/
The path name for locations endpoints has changed from
accounts/accountId/locations/locationId to locations/locationId
Maybe it was better if you could provide the request uri in the previous version so we could help you more precisely. Anyhow, what I tested in the google playground is as follows:
open [https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground]
after setting your clientId and Authorisation stuff, in the Request URI write
https://mybusinessbusinessinformation.googleapis.com/v1/locations/XXXXX?readMask=storeCode,metadata,profile,serviceArea,labels,adWordsLocationExtensions
instead of XXXXX, write your locationId
you can write different readMask fields, The possible fields for readMask are:
play with different fields to check if you have your desired one or not readMask="storeCode,regularHours,name,languageCode,title,phoneNumbers,categories,storefrontAddress,websiteUri,regularHours,specialHours,serviceArea,labels,adWordsLocationExtensions,latlng,openInfo,metadata,profile,relationshipData,moreHours";
If above does not help you, in the link below I see that all metadata attribute of a location might be:
Click [here] (https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/businessinformation/rest/v1/accounts.locations#Location.Metadata)
I'm recently started to use Jovo framework to build the App for Google Home device based on Dialogflow. The app is working fine. Now decided to do the integration with Facebook Messenger via Dialogflow. It's working fine. I can trigger the bot to start from the Messenger plus can see the output and so on but have two questions:
the output in FB messenger looks like this: [speak]Some text inside[/speak],
can we remove the SSML tags from the output, is there a way to strip
those tags before tell() or ask() methods are triggered, I have tried
using the this.googleAction().setResponseObject() method, have
checked how to response JSON looks like and then created the object
to pass with the property fulfillmentText, where I removed those
tags, it works that way but this is not efficient and looking for sth simpler
is there a method to use, sth like setResponseObject() but without alexaSkill() or googleAction "prefix" obj, where we can prepare a custom object so we can send custom JSON response. I'm asking cause I want to use FB Messenger specific output like buttons: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-messages/buttons. Is this is possible using JOVO
Since the release of Jovo v2.1 (read the announcement here), you can build Facebook Messenger chatbots with Jovo using Dialogflow Integrations.
Regarding your questions:
1) This is fixed with the latest update
2) You can set custom payloads with the new this.$dialogflow.setCustomPayload('facebook', payload) helper method
We have a notification which will post data to an application using the application end point.
notification ABC{
post = savedetailsurl
body = {{.|json}}
useBody = true
}
So the end point will save all the details in mysql DB.
Now in our template we call another end point to get the details which we saved using the webhook in notification.
template ABC {
use the " getDetailsUrl" and use the details in forming the email
}
Now the problem is race condition. Sometimes the details are not saved yet in the backend (mysql), and getDetailsUrl is called. So we get the empty result.
Is there are way to solve the race condition.
Bosun's notification system is designed to be very basic. If you want something more advanced you will need to use a separate system to generate the notification details and/or handle the alert workflow. Some people have used pagerduty or other monitoring systems like Shinken to do more advanced notifications or alert management.
Your best bet is to skip the built in notifications and do everything in a external system. You can still use the http://bosun.org/api to integrate with the various alert states (crit/warn/ack/close/etc) or you can change your alerts to use log = true to bypass all the built in states and create your own workflow.
I have a requirement to insert new Workfront users through the API, which I am able to do. However, I need to update a Custom Form item with an employee id. With a new user, the Custom Form must be attached before the employee id can be update. I am using the following url to attach the form:
https://<url>/attask/api/user/<userguid>?sessionID=<sessionid>&updates={'objectCategories':[{'categoryID': '225845d1800010d52527455df2a27f0fe2','categoryOrder':0,'objCode':'CTGY'}]}&method=put
The result is a HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
Is it even possible to attach a Custom Form to a user? Or is there another way that it can be done through the API?
For reference, I had to work through the exact same question. You are correct in your update that you need to use the most recent version of the API (as of this post, that would be 6.0) but for others who are wondering, the syntax is as follows:
https://<url>/attask/api/v6.0/USER/<userID>?apiKey=<key>&updates={"objectCategories":[{"categoryID":"<customFormID>","categoryOrder":0,"objCode":"CTGY"}]}&method=put