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This sample demonstrates the use of suggested actions.

Concepts introduced in this sample

What is a bot?

A bot is an app that users interact with in a conversational way using text, graphics (cards), or speech. It may be a simple question and answer dialog, or a sophisticated bot that allows people to interact with services in an intelligent manner using pattern matching, state tracking and artificial intelligence techniques well-integrated with existing business services.

Suggested actions

Suggested actions enable your bot to present buttons that the user can tap to provide input. Suggested actions appear close to the composer and enhance user experience by enabling the user to answer a question or make a selection with a simple tap of a button, rather than having to type a response with a keyboard. Unlike buttons that appear within rich cards (which remain visible and accessible to the user even after being tapped), buttons that appear within the suggested actions pane will disappear after the user makes a selection. This prevents the user from tapping stale buttons within a conversation and simplifies bot development (since you will not need to account for that scenario).

To try this sample

  • Clone the repository.
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-samples.git
  • [Optional] Update the appsettings.json file under botbuilder-samples/samples/csharp_dotnetcore/08.suggested-actions with your botFileSecret. For Azure Bot Service bots, you can find the botFileSecret under application settings.

Prerequisites

Visual studio

  • Navigate to the samples folder (botbuilder-samples/samples/csharp_dotnetcore/08.suggested-actions) and open Suggested_Actions.csproj in Visual Studio
  • Hit F5

Visual studio code

  • Open botbuilder-samples/samples/csharp_dotnetcore/08.suggested-actions folder
  • Bring up a terminal, navigate to botbuilder-samples/samples/csharp_dotnetcore/08.suggested-actions
  • Type 'dotnet run'.

Update packages

  • In Visual Studio right click on the solution and select "Restore NuGet Packages".

Deploy this bot to Azure

You can use the MSBot Bot Builder CLI tool to clone and configure any services this sample depends on.

To install all Bot Builder tools -

Ensure you have Node.js version 8.5 or higher

npm i -g msbot chatdown ludown qnamaker luis-apis botdispatch luisgen

To clone this bot, run

msbot clone services -f deploymentScripts/msbotClone -n <BOT-NAME> -l <Azure-location> --subscriptionId <Azure-subscription-id>

Further reading