I am trying to create a workspace.
Will create a chatbot using Watson Assistant.
The tutorial I'm referring to is for Watson Conversation.
Can you point me where to look - it's just a different interface.
Thanks,
G
A workspace is now called a Skill. So click the Skills tab next to the home page and click create new.
There is a tutorial inside the Watson Assistant documentation that is continually kept up to date that may be easier to follow.
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I already finish the chatbot, but I have no idea of how to upload it to my website, please, help :)
I tried to look for some code to send to the IT developers, but cannot find it :( And the IT guys are too busy, so I'ld like to get the answer by myself so I can send it to them if I'm not able to apply it. Thank you. (Btw: I'm not an IT person... :( )
Where to start?
The dialog / conversation part of your Watson Assistant part chatbot is available as a REST API.
There are several deployment options available. For the more popular choices the Assistant tooling provides integrations. So if you want to access your chatbot through slack, or facebook messenger or on a word press site then look at the documentation as to how - https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/assistant?topic=assistant-deploy-integration-add
If you are developing your own application or web-page, then your developers will need to design the User Interface and handle the quirks of your dialog. eg. Decide how to display images, options etc., all from the API, which is essentially only message in, response out - https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/assistant-v2#send-user-input-to-assistant. There are samples available for them to base from - eg. https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/assistant-intermediate
If your website is using Wordpress, there is a very easy way to deploy the chatbot to it using a wordpress plug in - https://wordpress.org/plugins/conversation-watson/
I have implemented a chatbot with Watson Assistant. There is a preview link integration available but this has the disadvantage that HTML and emojis are not supported. Using this and this tutorial I can integrate my bot into Facebook Messenger and Skype. But this only works on local devices and I cannot easily distribute it to other people for testing.
What I would like to do is to let several people test my chatbot simulatenously on their own smartphone with full functionality (HTML rendering, emojis). The integration should be very easy for them, for example just opening a webpage or just adding the bot to their Facebook Messenger or Skype (not so many steps as in the above links).
Is this possible?
You can fork this repository and replace the credentials with yours:
https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/assistant-simple
Then host it wherever you prefer (you can host it on IBM Cloud as part of the Lite account) and share the link with the people you want to test it.
I'd like to bring through entities from another system (e.g. Salesforce) into the Watson chatbot in order to allow the user to interact with them. e.g. Rather than explicitly defining "Customer" and then building a list of customers in Watson I'd like it to integrate and bring through all active Customer records from salesforce, each as their own entity. Is it possible to dynamically update Watson's entity list based on a table in another system?
There is no built-in functionality for that, but it can be done. Watson Assistant / Watson Conversation has an API and SDK support for adding entities. I have used that technique as part of the EgoBot project.
However, I would recommend to integrate Salesforce as a regular backend. Here is a tutorial for how to have a database as backend. Another option, depending on what you want to accomplish, is to look at the Salesforce to Watson integration. There is also a Salesforce / Watson SDK for that.
I want to make a chatbot using IBM Watson for Skype. I am not getting any tutorial to integrate it with Skype. I am confused with various tools and platforms like botkit, chatfuel, IBM Conversation Middleware etc. Anyone can show light on it?
Watson Conversation is one REST API endpoint, so you can build some Skype app for call the Watson endpoint with code.
You can use botkit-framework, have support with Microsoft Bot Framework, including Skype, but you would have to adjust for the new botkit additions by writing some of your own custom code.
Obs.: Try to talk with Skype people professionals to see how to connect one bot API, in this case, Watson Conversation Service.
Reference: Mitch Mason
Wondering if anyone knows about developing a Google Glass app for another person. Someone who is in the Glass Explorer program has asked me to help them with developing an app (which I'm happy to do) but it looks like I will need to sign in as that person in the API Console. Is this correct? Is there any way for me to prototype separately?
There is indeed a way to do this without logging in as your colleague. Join the project team on the API console. Just follow these steps:
Have your Explorer friend create an API Console project and enable the Google Mirror API for that project from the services panel.
Have them go to the team panel for that project. Have them add your account to the project's team.
This enables you to develop on the same project, but since you're not an Explorer you cannot enable or disable the Mirror API for this project.