I'm trying to figure out how to get Facebook Messenger to show follow-up prompts from QnA Maker using BotFramework v4 and Node.js.
I've managed to get the follow-up prompts showing in WebChat:
I managed this after following the great advice from Matt Stannett in this thread: How to implement cards in a QnA question which has follow up prompts and uses them in the cards
However, when it comes to getting them to appear in Facebook Messenger, I'm really struggling.
I was hoping it would be as straightforward as defining some channelData for Facebook Quick Replies in my onMessage code, as I just need Facebook to pass back a simple text payload. I thought I could do it in a similar way I got the prompts showing for Webchat, code below:
this.onMessage(async (context, next) => {
this.logger.log('Processing a Message Activity');
const qnaResults = await this.qnaMaker.getAnswers(context);
// Show choices if the Facebook Payload from ChannelData is not handled
if (!await this.processFacebookPayload(context, context.activity.channelData)) {
if (context.activity.channelId == 'facebook') {
if (qnaResults[0]) {
const { answer, context: { prompts }} = qnaResults[0];
let reply;
if (prompts.length) {
const quickReply = {
channelData: {
"messaging_type":"RESPONSE",
"message":{
"text":"test1", //answer,
"quick_replies":[
{
"content_type":"text",
"title":"test2",//prompts.map({ displayText }),
"payload":"test3",//prompts.map({ displayText })
}
]
}
}
}
reply = quickReply;
} else {
reply = answer;
}
await context.sendActivity(reply);
// If no answers were returned from QnA Maker, reply with help.
} else {
await context.sendActivity('I\'m sorry, I don\'t have an answer for that. Please ask me something else, such as: \n\n "What Is Mental Health?" \n\n "What Is NeuroDiversity" \n\n "Help"');
}
} else {
// If an answer was received from QnA Maker, send the answer back to the user.
if (qnaResults[0]) {
const { answer, context: { prompts }} = qnaResults[0];
let reply;
if (prompts.length) {
const card = {
"type": "AdaptiveCard",
"body": [
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"text": answer,
wrap: true
}
],
"actions": prompts.map(({ displayText }) => ({ type: "Action.Submit", title: displayText, data: displayText })),
"$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
"version": "1.1"
}
reply = { attachments: [CardFactory.adaptiveCard(card)] };
} else {
reply = answer;
}
await context.sendActivity(reply);
// If no answers were returned from QnA Maker, reply with help.
} else {
await context.sendActivity('I\'m sorry, I don\'t have an answer for that. Please ask me something else, such as: \n\n "What Is Mental Health?" \n\n "What Is NeuroDiversity" \n\n "Help"');
}
}
}
// By calling next() you ensure that the next BotHandler is run.
await next();
});
This isn't working though. What I do get is QnA replies for any questions I ask that don't have a follow-up prompt set in QnA Maker, so I know that the IF statement is correctly identifying Facebook as a channel and that an answer has follow-up prompts associated with it. I think I just haven't got the code right for the quick replies in Facebook.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!