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watsonx Assistant

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External Link Management within the Watson Assistant console

Virtual assistants will often provide links to external websites as part of its dialog. There's currently no easy way to manage these external links within the console. It would be nice to easily configure an external link so that it displays to a...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Simple folders without settings

When creating a folder you must decide whether digressions are allowed or not. To simplify the top level dialog structure is would be nice to be able to organise nodes in folders without these settings (they would act simply as containers which ha...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Export Recommender results

User Story: As a chatbot developer, I want to have the Watson Assistant Recommender export the results (to CSV file or otherwise) so that I can easier work with the results to increase the effectiveness of my chatbot. This export would be very...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Functionality already exists

Slim UI and Better Layout

When you start to get serious adding entries into the Entities and Intents section of the Watson Assistant, I can't but help think that your UI is too fat. I can barely view 5 entries whilst the rest of the screen is occupied with irrelevant ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Default Typing Indicator Time Setting

Have a setting within Watson Assistant that allows those configuring the conversation to set a default time period for typing indicator dots to appear in between speech bubbles. This value would be consumed and used by the user interface.
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Add logs API for skill versions

I would like to be able to maintain context and history in my chat-application that is using the skill versioning in Watson Assistant. My chat-app is working with the development-version of the Skill. But when I assign the Assistant any other vers...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Planned for future release

Horizontal scrolling of the dialog window

When you have a deep tree with many child nodes in chain the deeper nodes are hidden in the right part, specially if you have opened the "Try it our" panel.It would be much more convenient to have the ability to scroll horizontally through the dia...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Select Many Intents

When downloading or deleting intents it would be great if you can shift and click many intents when downloading or deleting so you don't have to click each one. Also when you download if the description would be exported with intents list
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

API to Retrieve Chat History

An API to retrieve the chat history per session or conversation ID. Currently the only way to do this is through the Logs API, and this is a lengthy and complicated process.
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

set context before check for slots

Before checking the slots it's possible to set one or more context variables, for example I have an array in the context with the information of clients in objects but in the course of the slots I only require a specific data, I could set a new va...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration