How to reject a slot during form filling

[athulvingt (Athul Suresh)]

can someone tel me how to reject a slot during form filling using custom slot mapping? This query is regarding this post

Chitchat or FAQ is not working for me during custom slot mapping of form filling. The suggested solution is to reject slots, but I couldn’t find a way to do it.

@fkoerner

Looks like the problem is that you’re not rejecting the requested name slot

[athulvingt (Athul Suresh)]

@nyejon

I did end up getting it working.

In the extract method I returned an empty dictionary when the value doesn’t match what I am looking for.

In the validate method, I return a dictionary of the slot value if the validation is a success and if it fails then i return: return {"slot_name": None}

This along with the rules and stories seems to work as expected now.

Another issue I discovered was that when some of my slots had “influence_conversation: true” with a null initial value, rules stopped working as expected.

There seemed to be a bug with this working with the rules so after either setting an initial value, or setting influence conversation to false, the rules started working as expected

check this solution