So I have been experimenting with different Response types for DialogFlow through Actions: Actions Responses and Webhook/Fulfillment.
And so far, I have been able to generate proper responses for types like List, Basic Card, Suggestion Chips successfully. What I need now is a list-based response that lets the user open a link in a browser when touched as well as "not" generate a chat bubble. "Browsing carousel" fits the criteria: Browsing Carousel.
I have successfully created and simulated the output with 2 sample items. The issue is when the user wants to continue the conversation. As per the Guidance section in the help above, the browsing carousel:
By default, the mic remains closed after a browse carousel is sent. If you want to continue the conversation afterwards, we strongly recommend adding suggestion chips below the carousel.
From this what I understood is that the user has to invoke the App again by saying "Ok Google, talk to [app]". This doesn't seem very user-friendly as the user expects to return back to the conversation she was having with the agent after she has looked through the links from the carousel. Please note, I have simulated the flow using the Google Actions Simulator on Console.Actions page.
As soon as I invoke the intent with the Browsing Carousel, it is shown to me with the sample Items. But when I enter/say the next command to continue the conversation, the agent simply returns with:
We're sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again.
And the REQUEST/REQUEST window as well as the ERRORS/DEBUG are empty. I have logged calls to the Webhook and there is no call received.
The question: Is there a way to give the user the ability to browse an informative link from a response "list" (not Basic Card) and return to the conversation without ending it.
Here is the response for Browsing Carousel from RESPONSE window in Actions > Simulator (note I've removed non-relevant parts):
{
"conversationToken": "[token info]",
"expectUserResponse": true,
"expectedInputs": [
{
"inputPrompt": {
"richInitialPrompt": {
"items": [
{
"simpleResponse": {
"textToSpeech": "You have the following 2 options:",
"displayText": "You have the following 2 options:"
}
},
{
"carouselBrowse": {
"items": [
{
"title": "Test 1",
"description": "Desc 2",
"image": {
"url": "[some url]"
},
"openUrlAction": {
"url": "[some url]"
}
},
{
"title": "Test 2",
"description": "Desc 2",
"image": {
"url": "[some url]"
},
"openUrlAction": {
"url": "[some url]"
}
}
]
}
}
],
"suggestions": [
{
"title": "Continue"
},
{
"title": "End"
}
]
}
}
}
],
"responseMetadata": {
"status": {
"message": "Success (200)"
},
"queryMatchInfo": {
"queryMatched": true
}
}
}
For all those who are using the Simulator to test the Browsing Carousel and seeing that it stops responding after the output, please use a device instead to test it. When you use a device to render the output and use the Carousel response, it doesn't kill the conversation but turns off the mic. This is the intended behavior. One can introduce Suggestion chips to assist the user to continue the conversation.
Updated: Also make sure each Webhook Intent call has a proper response with Simple Response. As long as the response has required textual and audio information correctly setup, the Simulator will not fail.
I tried to connect DialogFlow and Actions on Google, so I created some intents, connected the services, added explicit and implicit invocations etc, but when I try the bot in the simulator https://console.actions.google.com/project/[projectId]/simulator/ it always gives me the error:
"Failed to parse Dialogflow response into AppResponse, exception
thrown with message: Empty speech response"
even tough inputType was "KEYBOARD".
What I tried so far:
I did set "Response from this tab will be sent to the Google Assistant integration" in Dialog Flow (do you have to set it for every single intent?), but I don't see any extra setting for speech.
I disabled the second language, first I had also intents in German
I also turned off the Fullfillment Webhook (implemented in API v1 and then also v2) with no change
I only found this user with the same problem https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/dialogflow/xYjKlz31yW0;context-place=topicsearchin/dialogflow/Empty$20speech$20response but no resolution.
the fulfillment checkbox is checked at the intents
The bot works fine when I use it through "Try it now" on the very right in Dialog Flow or in the Web Demo https://bot.dialogflow.com/994dda8b-4849-4a8a-ab24-c0cd03b5f420
Unfortunately the docs don't say anything about this error. Any ideas?
Here a screenshot of the error on the Actions integration:
This is the full debug output:
{
"agentToAssistantDebug": {
"agentToAssistantJson": {
"message": "Failed to parse Dialogflow response into AppResponse, exception thrown with message: Empty speech response",
"apiResponse": {
"id": "c12e1389-e887-49d4-b399-a332188ca946",
"timestamp": "2018-01-27T03:55:30.931Z",
"lang": "en-us",
"result": {},
"status": {
"code": 200,
"errorType": "success"
},
"sessionId": "1517025330705"
}
}
},
"assistantToAgentDebug": {
"assistantToAgentJson": {
"user": {
"userId": "USER_ID",
"locale": "en-US",
"lastSeen": "2018-01-27T03:55:03Z"
},
"conversation": {
"conversationId": "1517025330705",
"type": "NEW"
},
"inputs": [
{
"intent": "actions.intent.MAIN",
"rawInputs": [
{
"inputType": "KEYBOARD",
"query": "Talk to Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot"
}
]
}
],
"surface": {
"capabilities": [
{
"name": "actions.capability.MEDIA_RESPONSE_AUDIO"
},
{
"name": "actions.capability.WEB_BROWSER"
},
{
"name": "actions.capability.AUDIO_OUTPUT"
},
{
"name": "actions.capability.SCREEN_OUTPUT"
}
]
},
"isInSandbox": true,
"availableSurfaces": [
{
"capabilities": [
{
"name": "actions.capability.AUDIO_OUTPUT"
},
{
"name": "actions.capability.SCREEN_OUTPUT"
}
]
}
]
},
"curlCommand": "curl -v 'https://api.api.ai/api/integrations/google?token=TOKEN' -H 'Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8' -H 'Google-Actions-API-Version: 2' -H 'Authorization: AUTH_TOKEN' -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Cloud-Functions/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)' -X POST -d '{\"user\":{\"userId\":\"USER_ID\",\"locale\":\"en-US\",\"lastSeen\":\"2018-01-27T03:55:03Z\"},\"conversation\":{\"conversationId\":\"1517025330705\",\"type\":\"NEW\"},\"inputs\":[{\"intent\":\"actions.intent.MAIN\",\"rawInputs\":[{\"inputType\":\"KEYBOARD\",\"query\":\"Talk to Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot\"}]}],\"surface\":{\"capabilities\":[{\"name\":\"actions.capability.MEDIA_RESPONSE_AUDIO\"},{\"name\":\"actions.capability.WEB_BROWSER\"},{\"name\":\"actions.capability.AUDIO_OUTPUT\"},{\"name\":\"actions.capability.SCREEN_OUTPUT\"}]},\"isInSandbox\":true,\"availableSurfaces\":[{\"capabilities\":[{\"name\":\"actions.capability.AUDIO_OUTPUT\"},{\"name\":\"actions.capability.SCREEN_OUTPUT\"}]}]}'"
},
"sharedDebugInfo": [
{
"name": "ResponseValidation",
"subDebugEntry": [
{
"debugInfo": "API Version 2: Failed to parse JSON response string with 'INVALID_ARGUMENT' error: \": Cannot find field.\".",
"name": "UnparseableJsonResponse"
}
]
}
]
}
Also "debugInfo" sounds like an internal problem:
"API Version 2: Failed to parse JSON response string with
'INVALID_ARGUMENT' error: \": Cannot find field.\"."
Here a screenshot of the welcome intent:
ps.
It took me AGES to figure out, what
"Query pattern is missing for custom intent"
means - so I just document it here: In Dialog Flow - Intent - "User says" you have to DOUBLE CLICK on a word in the text input field when you want to set it as query parameter - which seems to be required for Actions on Google.
This happened to me. If this happens for an Intent you just added in the Dialogflow console and you are using Webhook fulfillment for the action, check the intent's fulfillment settings and ensure that the Webhook fulfillment slider is on. Evidently new intents don't automatically get webhook fulfillment: you have to opt each one in piecemeal (or at least, that was my experience).
I experienced this situation too.
My problem was that I used a SimpleResponse in my fulfillment index.js without referencing to it. So the solution for me was to add SimpleResponse like this in index.js:
const {dialogflow, SimpleResponse} = require('actions-on-google');
So, always check if you aren't using any dependencies without including it in your js-file.
Probably not the most common cause of the problem, but it can be.
I got this when running through the codelabs tutorial (https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/actions-1/index.html#4) and didn't name my intent the same name as it is referenced in the webhook script:
I came across this error when trying to develop my own WebHook. I first verified that my code was called by looking into the Nginx log, after which I knew there was a problem in my JSON output because I based my output on outdated examples.
The (up-to-date) documentation for both V1 and V2 of the API can be found here:
https://dialogflow.com/docs/fulfillment/how-it-works
This example response for v2 of the dialogflow webhook API helped me to resolve this error:
{
"payload": {
"google": {
"expectUserResponse": true,
"richResponse": {
"items": [
{
"simpleResponse": {
"textToSpeech": "this is a simple response"
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
Source: https://github.com/dialogflow/fulfillment-webhook-json/blob/master/responses/v2/ActionsOnGoogle/RichResponses/SimpleResponse.json
You can find more examples in the official github repository linked above.
Another possibility is if you have a text response (even an empty one) like so:
Then you need to click the trash can next to the response to clear it out to use the webhook.
The Actions on Google support helped me fix this problem:
I needed to add a text as Default Response to the intent used for Explicit Invocation.
I have followed everything in the following shopify question which is basically the same thing but what is described there is not working for me at all. Here is the request I am sending to the transactions endpoint:
{
"transaction": {
"amount": "0.01",
"kind": "sale"
}
}
and here is the response I am getting:
{
"errors": {
"kind": [
"sale is not a valid transaction"
]
}
}
I am thinking something has changed with shopify's API since that seemingly duplicate question was answered.
Trying to get the impressions per notification of specific group(by using ref).
By the api you can set a group for notifications by adding ref param to the notification request
That worked fine.
Now i am trying to use the API for getting insights as explained here:
insights
I still dont understand how to pass the ref param.
this is my execution:
../app_insights/app_notification_impressions?breakdowns[0]=ref&access_token={access-token}
And in return I get this:
{
"data": [
{
"time": "2014-12-09T08:00:00+0000",
"value": "44",
"breakdowns": {
"ref": "no_ref_specified"
}
}
]
}
How I am passing the request the ref value?
I tried all kind of combinations and I get errors.
I posted notification with diff ref. ref=test0099 and Now I see this:
{
"data": [
{
"time": "2014-12-09T08:00:00+0000",
"value": "3",
"breakdowns": {
"ref": "no_ref_specified"
}
},
{
"time": "2014-12-10T08:00:00+0000",
"value": "1",
"breakdowns": {
"ref": "test0099"
Maybe there is some bug over there?
thanks,
ray.
Edit:
Stating your findings
for some reason you cant notify with ref which is only numeric or start with numeric
Again, it still comes to down to file a bug.
From IRC, just stating that you should file a bug.
As long as the app is a canvas app and a game you should be able to see the desired response
HTTP POST /13608786/notifications with App Token and
template=Yo this is a test
ref=test0099
You should receive the notification
And be redirected to the canvas page
https://apps.facebook.com/philippeharewood/?fb_source=notification&fb_ref=test0099&ref=notif¬if_t=app_notification
The insights will reflect the same
HTTP GET /app/app_insights/app_notification_impressions?breakdowns[0]=ref
{
"data": [
{
"time": "2014-12-10T08:00:00+0000",
"value": "1",
"breakdowns": {
"ref": "test0099"
}
}
]
}
This issue apparently to be a bug.
I have assigned this into facebook developers and now they taking care of it.
tracking at: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1512426199028095
I'm getting an odd error from the Facebook ADs API. Sending the following payload:
{
"campaign_group_id": "54321",
"bid_type": "ABSOLUTE_OCPM",
"name": "Hello AdCampaign",
"bid_info": {
"ACTIONS": 1
},
"targeting": {
"behaviors": [
{
"name": "BEHAVIOR NAME",
"id": 12345
}
],
"geo_locations": {
"countries": [
"US"
]
},
"page_types": "feed"
},
"campaign_status": "ACTIVE",
"daily_budget": 100
}
Providing this payload to the ads api is returning the following error message:
You are requesting a transaction which requires the adgroups to be normalized, but normalize failed because Normalization expects a collection
Which has an associated error code of 1487079 which.. I cannot find documentation for.. ANYWHERE.
This will work, if I remove the behaviors attribute of targeting.. but of course that isn't desirable. So it's something to do with the behaviors.
As per the docs, I believe page_types should be a list. Try this:
{
...
"page_types": ["feed"],
...
}