Thank you Mitch and Rohann,
For bringing this to my attention. And, I apologize to you Rohan for the error. It's a terrible mistake for builders of code because we rely upon published material to build software applications. How can we distinguish between 'what is' and 'what isn't' when the publication clearly, and unambiguously states what should be deployed with WA.
Thanks again Rohann and Mitch for bringing this to my attention. It's a learning experience for me as well. I hope the material gets pulled from the site, and updated as-soon-as-possible.
Sincerely,
Yvonne
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Yvonne R. McGinnis
DevOps (hopeful), Systems Administration
Obama Foundation, Chicago
Chicago Cato, Illinois
773-886-5579
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu December 17, 2020 09:49 AM
From: Mitch Mason
Subject: Whatsapp to Watson chatbot integration
Hi Yvonne,
I'm not sure who from IBM is stating that we feel that Watson Assistant should always be deployed on Slack. From a Product Management point of view for Assistant, we believe you should be deploying your Assistant on whatever channels your customers want to chat on. Most commonly this is going to be your website, or over the phone, but also includes messaging channels like WhatsApp, Slack, or Facebook, but should not be limited to any one. Assistant should help your customers wherever its most convenient.
In addition, the knowledge center article was very well written, but unfortunately its a bit out of date. Thanks for sharing it and I'll work on getting it updated. We now have a built in, simple to deploy Slack integration (as well as a few other channels including WhatsApp) that we now host and maintain and manage for you. You simply get your Slack credentials and copy/paste them into your Assistant integrations tab, and the rest just works. Its much more streamlined than building and maintaining your own integration even with sample Github code.
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Mitch Mason
Original Message:
Sent: Tue December 15, 2020 05:18 PM
From: Yvonne McGinnis
Subject: Whatsapp to Watson chatbot integration
Hi Rohaan,
IBM recommends when integrating Watson Assistant with a chatbot to use a Slack Bot to chat with your Watson Assistant (WA).
if you need information on how to get started working with WA, and integrating or utilizing a Slack bot with WA, visit:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS7P7S_vehicles/watson-assistant-solutions/slack/about_slackbot.html
Here, you can access information on how to get started with WA and your Slack Bot to chat with WA.
You can also find information on cloning your Slack Bot repository to work with in GIT. There are guidelines on setting the proper parameters/configurations in working with WA and Slack Bot. Good-luck!
I truly hope this helps.
Yvonne
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Yvonne R. McGinnis
DevOps (hopeful), Systems Administration
Obama Foundation, Chicago
Chicago Cato, Illinois
773-886-5579
Original Message:
Sent: Mon December 14, 2020 05:15 AM
From: Rohaan Nadeem
Subject: Whatsapp to Watson chatbot integration
Hi All!
I have integrated WA with my Assistant chatbot via Twilio and also a search skill developed via Watson Discovery. My problem is with the quantity of messages generated and sent by the search skill.
I found an option to restrict the number of responses and it is working perfectly in the web hosted chatbot (screenshot attached) but it is not working in the WA chat (screenshot attached). Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be and how to solve it?
Thanks!
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Rohaan Nadeem
Original Message:
Sent: Tue November 24, 2020 01:38 PM
From: Collin Murray
Subject: Whatsapp to Watson chatbot integration
Integrating with WhatsApp is now available as a Beta feature.
See: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/assistant?topic=assistant-deploy-whatsapp
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Collin Murray
Original Message:
Sent: Mon November 09, 2020 06:02 PM
From: Neethipudi Suman
Subject: Whatsapp to Watson chatbot integration
anyone tried integrating whatsapp with watson chatbot?
request your inputs
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Neethipudi Suman
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