Duplicate images in slack for one URL

[phanipulagala (satya)]

My slack bot is giving me two pictures for one URL

one big image and one small image How to eradicate this. i want only one picture per URL.

domain.yml file

slots: city: type: text

intents:

• greet
• goodbye
• affirm
• deny
• mood_great
• mood_unhappy
• bot_challenge
• get_weather
• cmt
• browser_support
• getting_access_to_cmt
• case_manager_tool_url
• logging_into_case_manager_tool
• logging_out_of_case_manager_tool
• ask_help

entities:

• city

actions:

• action_get_weather

responses: utter_greet:

• text: “Hey! How are you?”

utter_cheer_up:

• text: “Here is something to cheer you up:” image: “https://i.imgur.com/nGF1K8f.jpg”

utter_did_that_help:

• text: “Did that help you?”

utter_happy:

• text: “Great, carry on!”

utter_goodbye:

• text: “Bye”

utter_iamabot:

• text: “I am a privacy-support-bot, powered by Satya”

utter_the_weather:

• text: “the weather is cool”

utter_ask_location:

• text: “for which location”

utter_browser_support:

• text: “Case Manager tool is supported on all browsers that is available from PC@IBM App Store”

utter_getting_access_to_cmt:

• text: "If you do not have access to Case Manager Tool, request access for the tool through AccessHub(https://ibm.idaccesshub.com/ECM). "

utter_case_manager_tool_url:

• text: “Case Manager Tool production system is available at the following URL: https://dsr-cmt.bpm.ibmcloud.com/baw/run/navigator/”

utter_logging_into_case_manager_tool:

• text: “Access the production URL and use your IBM intranet ID and password to log in to Case Manager Tool.” image: “https://dpeg.s3.jp-tok.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/Login_DSR.png”

utter_logging_out_of_case_manager_tool:

• text: “To log out of Case Manager Tool, click on the dropdown twisty that appears on top right next to your name and select Logout.” image: “https://dpeg.s3.jp-tok.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/Logout_DSR.png”

utter_cmt:

• text: “case manager tool basics” buttons:
  • title: “Browser Support” payload: “/browser_Support”
  • title: “Getting Access to CMT” payload: “/getting_access_to_cmt”
  • title: “Case Manager Tool URl” payload: “/case_manager_tool_url”
  • title: “Logging into Case Manager Tool” payload: “/logging_into_case_manager_tool”
  • title: “Logging out of Case Manager Tool” payload: “/logging_out_of_case_manager_tool”

utter_ask_help:

• buttons:
  • payload: /affirm title:
  • payload: /deny title: text: Did that help?

session_config: session_expiration_time: 60 carry_over_slots_to_new_session: true

[phanipulagala (satya)]

I could easily fix this by instead of sending

await self.client.chat_postMessage( channel=recipient, as_user=True, text=image, blocks=[image_block], )

send an empty string as text (the text field is not even required by the slack API if the message has blocks) like this:

await self.client.chat_postMessage( channel=recipient, as_user=True, text='', blocks=[image_block], )

[robynbitner]

I’m having the same issue, however, I am using docker-compose which makes it a lot harder to change the source code of channels/slack.py. Are there any work arounds when writing code in actions.py?

[robynbitner]

I have found a solution

attachment = {
	'image_url': image_url,
	'text': ''
}
dispatcher.utter_message(attachment=attachment)