A dialog is the building block of your chatbots. You can create multiple dialogs and put them together to make a flow. When triggered, your bot goes through each dialog in the flow sequentially. You can also redirect your bot using conditions to a dialog in the same or a different flow or stopped by an action. You can configure dialogs for the following outcomes:
- Send a message or collect input from your customer
- Trigger actions, or
- Execute logical workflows based on conditions
Adding a new dialog
You can add as many dialogs as required to a single flow. You can choose to include either a message or an action.
A message will display your input to the customer.
The action option will carry out an activity (or run it in the back end) for your customer.
Formatting options
When you're showing a message to your customers, you can use text, images, hyperlinks, and emojis. You can also choose to format the text that you use. You can use the default shortcuts for formatting or make use of them from the menu. We support bold, italic, underline, unordered list bullets, ordered list bullets, subscript, superscript, and strikethrough.
APIs, Parameters, Functions
You can access placeholders (including APIs, parameters, functions, and other dialogs) by clicking on the bottom right icon. If you don’t find a suitable placeholder, you can create a new API, parameter, or function from here.
Getting inputs from your customer
If you want to collect input from your customers, click on the +Get Response text and choose an appropriate input option. Each input option has specific field properties associated with it.
Delete dialog, make private, and make inactive
When you’re changing the way your bot behaves, you might want to
Delete a dialog: Remove the dialog permanently from your flow
Make it private: The dialog will be visible internally, but your customers won’t see it, or
Make it inactive: Deactivate the dialog. You can choose to activate it later.
These options can be accessed when you hover over the dialog you wish to edit. Since these are sensitive choices, we will ask you to confirm if you want to carry on with it.
You can also differentiate between regular dialogs, private dialogs, and inactive dialogs as private and inactive dialogs will have tags to identify them.