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watsonx Assistant

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Rename the "confidence" value to "score"

In mathematics, the standard way to refer to the numeric output representative of certainty of a classification algorithm is as a "score." The name of this in the json structure returned by Watson Assistant currently is "confidence". However, this...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Increase Space Allowed For Chatbot Name

The chatbot name for Web chat instance in Watson Assistant is limited to 18 characters. There is space for 38 characters in the chatbot top bar. It would be great to have at least 30 characters available as that doesn't compromise Watson UI by nam...
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Add Clearing functional to Web Chat integration.

It would be better to add a functionality behind (X) close button to clear the chat. Either a minimize(-) button and a close button to clear and minimize the chatbot box.
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

vgwActSendDTMF command action for Phone Integration

We are using Watson Assistant service with Phone Integration we need to play a beep tone after a message from the assistant with Voice Agent we used the command vgwActSendDTMF but now that action is not available in Phone Integration. Our idea is ...
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Status labels for dialog nodes

For every dialog node, user will be able to add status labels with color code to the node for their own references. Example of labels: draft (red), in review (orange), reviewed (cyan), final (green), etc
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Make outbound calls with Phone Integration

We are developing a proposal that included a voice agent to make calls using Watson Assistant dialogs. I see that these features are deprecated ( https://community.ibm.com/community/user/watsonapps/blogs/mitch-mason1/2021/02/08/announcing-voice-ag...
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Control of the API version on Bluemix Interface

Watson Conversations offers not only the API but also quite a complete interface that can be used by logging in Bluemix. In many projects, when business and experts train the system, they use the Bluemix interface. It is more or less intuitive an...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Web Integration Focus Trapping

We need the focus to be trapped within the widget itself to accept tabbing around within the widget for accessibility purposes. There is currently no real workaround since the disabled enter button prevents tab priority assignment and cannot be ta...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Allow custom json elements/components

In the old version of Watson Asssitant the format of a reponse component was not rescricted to a few components. This was very good as it allowed flexsible extensions and custom UI interactions to be develop directly in WA without additional backe...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Analytics allow quick selection of all intents/entities

Often the developer or chatbot maintainer wants insight into most intents or entities. The current UI is very inconvenient for this. A user have to select each intent and upon selection of a single intent a search query is sent to the backend. So ...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration