# How to send user input data to action file

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-send-user-input-data-to-action-file/13237>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [July 21, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-send-user-input-data-to-action-file/13237 "2019-07-21T04:15:39Z")\
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having a problem to send user input to an action file. could someone tell what needs to be set in domain file and in the action file to read the input which user sent and return the response as dispatcher.utter\_message .

i have a intent:servicename which will ask for service name to user then this data as to pass to action file. how to read this data in action file? i did not get enough information to understand this concept . could some one tell me

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