How to execute an action with custom actions

Rasa Open Source
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Hey everyone, I need help with executing an action with a custom action. Is it possible ?

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@Venkat check FollowAction Ref: Events | Events

return [FollowupAction(“action_current_date”), FollowupAction(“action_time”)]

Good Luck! Hope this will help.

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@nik202 Can you give an example , because I have never used followups

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in follow-up action the action given as the follow-up will be executed after a defined function but I want it to executed after an if statement

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You can only execute an action after a whole action completed.

Do you want to continue the code after the if statement?

  • If yes, then just duplicate the code into the new action (or preferably write a function)
  • If not, then you can return [FollowupAction(action_name)] inside the if
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@ChrisRahme but ,what is the syntax that should be used to run the specified action

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As mentioned previously by Nik and I,

return [FollowupAction("action_name")]
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@ChrisRahme will this work tracker.followup_action("action_name")

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Where did you get that syntax?

Please check the tracker docs to see available options for the tracker.

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@ChrisRahme I got it here Action latest_action_name, followup_action, latest_input_channel return none - Rasa Open Source - Rasa Community Forum

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@Venkat check this thread may be this will help you: https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa-sdk/issues/120

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Wow, that thread is almost 3 years old, be careful :slight_smile:

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@ChrisRahme seems like this method would work , Have to check the source code of rasa core

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@nik202 Thank you very much for the suggestion

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@nik202 I tried out nik’s method in interactive training and the bot recognizes the action but it doesn’t give out any output and to be specific I’m trying to execute a custom action with a custom action will this work

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@Venkat its ok please see this thread of discussion:How to call custom action from another custom action - #10 by saurabh-m523