Oracle Digital Assistant messaging
In this guide, we explain how to integrate Oracle Digital Assistant with the Infobip platform using WhatsApp as a channel.
Prerequisites
- Infobip account. If you don't have an account, you can create one.
- WhatsApp sender.
- Oracle Digital Assistant account.
- Oracle Cloud tenant
Once you have your Infobip account and have verified your phone number, you're automatically assigned a testing WhatsApp sender. Navigate to Apps > WhastApp to view your senders.
When you've finished testing and you want to have dedicated senders, request one directly from Infobip web interface.
• How to request a verified WhatsApp sender
Features
- Inbound and outbound text messages
- Outbound text messages with postback actions
- Inbound and outbound media messages (image, audio, video, file)
- Inbound location messages
- Outbound cards with supported actions: postback, call, URL
User Guide
Skill Installation and Configuration
Oracle Digital Assistant is created in the Oracle Cloud tenant. This is provided by Oracle as a playground for developers.
1. Access the Oracle Cloud tenant.
2. Introduce the name of the tenant provided by Oracle.
- Sign in with the provided credentials. It can be SSO federated or by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- At the welcome screen, you’ll see the added skills. Click the menu in the top left corner and navigate to Development.
- Create a new channel. This is how you connect the Infobip platform with the Oracle Digital Assistant or Skill. Under Channel Type, you must select Webhook as a way to integrate with Infobip.
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To assure the right communication, between WhatsApp and Oracle Digital Platform, verify the Skill created for the integration is selected. To do this, navigate to Development > Channels.
Select the channel created in the previous step and make sure that the skill is selected in the option Route to.
- Once the channel and skill are routed, you will get the following information:
Be sure to store your Secret Key for future configurations. Also, make sure the channel is enabled, to avoid communication issues.
SKILL
Infobip provides the skill or it can be obtained by collaboration with the client’s development.
Testing
Once the configuration, skills, and channels are up to date, test out the integration with the sender provided by Infobip.
- In Oracle Digital Assistant, navigate to Development > Skills > Infobip > click the Play button.
- Now you can use the test environment.
- If the test environment works, use it to test it in a real conversation with a sender using WhatsApp.
The WhatsApp conversation will be integrated within the Digital Assistant with all its available features.
To see metrics on how your conversations perform, navigate to Analytics.
Here's how the message looks like when delivered:
