Conversation always ending after the welcome message from the action - actions-on-google

I’m using the Node.js client library to write my action, but the microphone gets closed after the first message and I never get the answer from the user.
This is the code I’m using:
let intent = assistant.getIntent();
switch (intent) {
case WELCOME_INTENT:
assistant.tell(‘Hi! Tell me something and I’ll repeat it.');
break;
}

You should use assistant.ask() when you expect a response from the user. The assistant.tell() method speaks back the text to the user and ends the conversation by closing the microphone.
More details at https://developers.google.com/actions/develop/sdk/dialogs-and-fulfillment.

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Thunderbird78+: How to check for message create, reply and forward

I am a beginner in thunderbird addons so I really appreciate if you can help me. I am trying to find a way in my background javascript to check whenever a user has opened the window for create a new message, reply a message and forward a message. I want to put a default text in the message window before the user is gonna send it. I know thunderbird 78+ should only uses web extension APIs and i found this Compose API but how to use it in my background script.
https://thunderbird-webextensions.readthedocs.io/en/78/compose.html
It looks like setComposeDetails() is what you want.
setComposeDetails(tabId, details)
Updates the compose window. Specify only fields that you want to change. Currently only the to/cc/bcc/replyTo/followupTo/newsgroups fields and the subject are implemented.
tabId (integer)
details (ComposeDetails)
I have note tried it, but I suppose that either details.body or details.plainTextBody from the ComposeDetails object can be used to pass the default text you want to use. So I would try something like this in the background script:
let details = {
body: "This is my default text",
};
browser.messages.setComposeDetails(tabId, details);
You might have to combine it with a call to messages.getComposeDetails() if empty fields in details reset the values in the composer window (I don't know).
If you want to call this when the user opens a new compose window, I would look at the window.onCreated event. If you want to do it right before the message is sent instead, you should look at the compose.onBeforeSend event. All of them are described in the API documentation.

MS Bot framework i want to put a form builder in an open conversation

I want to start Form conversation chat in Microsoft Bot framework.
if(user says hello)
{
reply = what u want to listen hi or hello
if(user says order)
{
reply= start a formbuilder.form with order form workflow
}
if(user says hello)
{
reply= hello
}
}
My problem is the first thing i do always works
example: if i say first chat line as order it starts order form but it never goes to the normal conversation mode even if the form ends.
if i start hi then it always goes in hi mode never goes or create order form on typing order.
Need it to be dynamic
you can use below code to end your conversation when you are in a dialog or a conversation flow ends.
context.Done<object>(new object());
or
context.Done(true);
do let me know if you need any help further
Per my understanding, you want start specific dialogs while triggering different words like "hollo" for greeting dialog, "order" for form dialog.
I think there are two methods to achieve this in C#:
You can leverage Recognize intents to implement LUIS, which can identify your users' intent from their spken or textual input, or utterances. Trigger specific dialogs for each LUIS intent.
For this solution you can refer to the official document Recognize intents and entities with LUIS using a prebuilt domain for details, and refer to https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/CSharp/intelligence-LUIS for a sample for your reference.
You also can build Global message handlers using scorables in your bot application for yourself. With which, you can route users to certain fuctionality by using words like "help," "cancel," or "start over" in the middle of a conversation when the bot is expecting a different response.
Please refer to https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/CSharp/core-GlobalMessageHandlers for the sample for this solution.
Hope it helps.

Can’t Override Default Cancel Intent

Is there anyway that I can add a custom message when user says ‘Cancel’ or ‘Exit’ to end the conversation?
I have added intent for these utterances and connected it with my webhook but the message I send back in app.ask() is not displayed or read.
This is currently a known issue and you cannot override these words currently. You can handle handle other words like "quit", "finish", "exit", etc.
Done using API.AI. (see the picture)
http://i.imgur.com/WDQWmwb.png
As per this specification
Conversation Exit google assistant
probably you will only able to do an app.tell() in your webhoook because this must be a final Intent (you can tell something to user but not ask and waiting for a response), see point five of suggested configuration:
Enable Set this intent as end of conversation
In every case if you use a weebhhok take care: The maximum execution time allowed for conversation exit requests is 2 seconds

Is it possible to have Lync communicate with a REST API?

I have created a basic REST API where a user can ask for an acronym, and the web-page will return the meaning of the acronym via a POST call.
The majority of my end-users don't use the Internet as much as they use the Microsoft Lync application.
Is it possible for me to create a Lync account, and have it pass questions to my API, and return the answers to the user? Meaning the user just needs to open a new chat in Lync rather than a new web-page.
I'm sure this is possible, but I can't find any information on Google or on the web. How can this be accomplished?
Thanks very much.
Edit :
Adding a bounty in the hopes of someone creating a simple example as I believe it would be very useful for a large number of devs :).
Yep, absolutely. UCMA (the Unified Communications Managed API) would be my choice of API to use here, and a good place to start - UCMA apps are "normal" .net applications, but also expose an application endpoint, which can be added to a user's contact list. When users send messages, that can trigger events in your application so you can take the incoming IM, do the acronym translation and return the full wording.
I have a bunch of blog posts about UCMA, but as of yet no defined collection of "useful" posts to work through, but coming soon! In the meantime, feel free to browse the list.
-tom
To elaborate on Tom Morgan's answer, it would be easy to create an UCMA application for this.
Create an UCMA application
Now this doesn't have to be complicated. Since all you want is to receive an InstantMessage and reply to it, you don't need the full power of a trusted application. My choice would be to use a simple UserEndpoint. As luck would have it, Tom has a good example of that online: Simplest example using UCMA UserEndpoint to send an IM.
Make it listen to incoming messages
Whereas the sample app sends a message when it is connected, we need to listen to messages. On the UserEndpoint, set a message handler for instant messages:
endpoint.RegisterForIncomingCall<InstantMessagingCall>(HandleInstantMessagingCall);
private void HandleInstantMessagingCall(object sender, CallReceivedEventArgs<InstantMessagingCall> e)
{
// We need the flow to be able to send/receive messages.
e.Call.InstantMessagingFlowConfigurationRequested += HandleInstantMessagingFlowConfigurationRequested;
// And the message should be accepted.
e.Call.BeginAccept(ar => {
e.Call.EndAccept(ar);
// Grab and handle the toast message here.
}, null);
}
Process the message
There is a little complication here, your first message can be in the 'toast' of the new message argument, or arrive later on the message stream (the flow).
Dealing with the Toast message
The toast message is part of the conversation setup, but it can be null or not a text message.
if (e.ToastMessage != null && e.ToastMessage.HasTextMessage)
{
var message = e.ToastMessage.Message;
// Here message is whatever initial text the
// other party send you.
// Send it to your Acronym webservice and
// respond on the message flow, see the flow
// handler below.
}
Dealing with the flow
Your message flow is where the actual data is passed around. Get a handle on the flow and store it, because it's needed later to send messages.
private void HandleHandleInstantMessagingFlowConfigurationRequested(object sender, InstantMessagingFlowConfigurationRequestedEventArgs e)
{
// Grab your flow here, and store it somewhere.
var flow = e.Flow;
// Handle incoming messages
flow.MessageReceived += HandleMessageReceived;
}
And create a message handler to deal with incoming messages:
private void HandleMessageReceived(object sender, InstantMessageReceivedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.HasTextBody)
{
var message = e.TextBody;
// Send it to your Acronym webservice and respond
// on the message flow.
flow.BeginSendInstantMessage(
"Your response",
ar => { flow.EndSendInstantMessage(ar); },
null);
}
}
That would about sum it up for the most basic example of sending/receiving messages. Let me know if any parts of this need more clarification, I can add to the answer where needed.
I created a Gist with a full solution. Sadly it is not tested because I'm currently not near a Lync development environment. See UCMA UserEndpoint replying to IM Example.cs.
I never used Lync but while I was looking at the dev doc, I stumble upon a sample which could be what you're looking for.
Lync 2013: Filter room messages before they are posted
Once you have filtered the messages, you just need to catch the acronym and call your custom code that calls your API.
Unless I'm missing something, I think you could do it with a simple GET request as well. Just call your API like this yoursite.com/api/acronym/[the_acronym_here].
You can use UCWA (Microsoft Unified Communications Web API),is a REST API.For detail , can reference as the following..
https://ucwa.lync.com/documentation/what-is-lync-ucwa-api

How to kill a GWT RPC which has not yet completed

My code is for sending Emails to multiple users.User will click on send button,and rpc will be called. Now if user clicks on Cancel button .Ongoing rpc should be cancelled. . Can anyone help ?
I googled a lot, they have introduced the concept of Request Builder. But I am not getting any perfect idea.
Make your async method return a Request instead of void so you can call cancel() on it.
For the same reason, asynchronous methods do not have return types; they generally return void. Should you wish to have more control over the state of a pending request, return Request instead.
— Source: https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideServerCommunication#DevGuideCreatingServices
FYI, you can also use RequestBuilder as the return type, you'll then have to call the send() method by yourself (after possibly customizing the request, e.g. adding headers) to actually make the request to the server.
And of course, if you need to tell the server to abort the processing, you'll have to make another RPC call.
The request is asynch, so the client side can do anything it wants.
All you need to do is add a flag to indicate that the request should be cancelled, and then change the onSuccess method to check the flag and do nothing if it is set.
You should clear the requestCancelled flag each time you make a request - or else after the first request is cancelled, you won't be able to make another one...
e.g.
boolean requestCancelled = false;
void onSuccess(...)
{
if (!requestCancelled) {
// actual response handing code
}
}
If you really want to cancel the request on the server side, it is a lot more complicated. You could do this by sending a second request - one where the fuinctionality is to cancel a request.
To make this work, the "cancel request" has to set a field somewhere the "email request" can read. The "email request" needs to check if the "cancel field" has been set.
// server side Impl
void cancelRequest()
{
// You need to implement this class and ensure it really is a singleton
// and thread safe.
RequestStatusSingleton.setCancelled(true);
}
void serverSideEmailFunc()
{
while(modeEmailAddrs && ! RequestStatusSingleton.getCancelled()) {
// get next address and send email
}
}
Obviously this is a lot of work. Have you considered:
Not having a cancel button on your GUI?
Getting the server to process emails a few at a time (i.e. client sends multiple requests until server tells the client all emails are done).
I totally understand your user. No one wants to wait for 15 seconds.
There is no standard way to "kill" the request, because there is no way to know where your server/datastore is in implementing it. Unless you deal with a process that can be put in a single transaction that can be rolled back, you will have to implement your own logic. For example, if you asked the server to save an entity, you will have to tell the server to save this entity again, but this time without the changes.
Also, think again about your use case. Why a user wants to kill the request? May be he simply wants to go to another place in the app. Then there is no need to kill the request: when the response arrives, check if the user is still in the same place patiently waiting. If not, do not execute onSuccess().