Chatbot Settings

Bot Settings tab gives a general overview of the bot with the possibility to define the following:

• Bot Name
• Bot Description
• Channel
• Sender
• Language
• Escape Phrases
• Session Timeout
• Session Re-engagement
• Voice enablement
• URL shortening and tracking

All changes you make on the Settings tab are saved automatically.

• Bot name - displays the name you gave your chatbot and can be changed here.
• Bot Description - if you want to add a description of what purpose the chatbot serves.
• Channel - displays available channels. The channel you selected when creating the chatbot cannot be changed.
• Sender  - type of sender will depend on the selected channel. Once you save the sender, you can no longer change it.
• Language - choose one of the following options: English, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Other (Latin), and Other (non-Latin).
  English, Spanish, and Portuguese support the following NER attribute types:

• Country
• Relative date
• City
• Number
• Day of week
• Date

Other languages support the following NER attribute type:

• Number

All languages support Custom attribute types. You can define your own attribute and provide a list of accepted values. Answers extracts the attribute details from the end user's message.

You can change the language of the chatbot through the Settings tab at any time. However, if your chatbot contains NER attribute types that the new language does not support, these attributes would be invalid. You must correct the error before you activate the chatbot. Example: your chatbot language is English and you create the Start Date NER attribute with the Date attribute type. If you then change the language to Arabic, the Start Date NER attribute would be invalid because Arabic does not support the Date NER attribute type.

• Voice Messages - allow you to send dynamic and customized text-to-speech messages to your customers in any supported language. Enable this option to enable voice selection in the chatbot builder, as well as to enable speech-to-text recognition from incoming voice messages. Note enabling this option will incur additional costs.
• Escape Phrases - are used to send the user back to the dialog with intent Default (used when the intent is not recognized). You can add more than one phrase considering what is the most common way for your end users to leave conversations. Use Enter key to save the value.
• Session Timeout - is a drop-down list that enables you to select how many minutes will the bot wait until deciding that the conversation is over and cannot be continued where it left of. Once the timeout is reached, this means that the session between the chatbot is over and the whole conversation context deleted. If the end users return to the conversation, a new session will start from the introductory dialog.
• Session Re-engagement – use it to send a reminder to the end user that the session is about to expire. The time values for each option will depend on the previously selected time period in Session timeout.

•     ►In-dialog message is triggered when the user has stopped replying to the bot while inside a dialog (where the chatbot expects a return message, as in Attribute or Process User Input element) 
     ►Outside the dialog message is triggered if the conversation between the end user and the chatbot stopped outside a defined dialogue (there is no input expected from the user) but the conversation can still continue while the session is active and if the user 

• URL Shortening and tracking - Trim long URLs which you are sending in chats to reduce screen space being taken up and character count using shortening.