# I want to know the use case of unfeaturized slot **URL:** \ **Category:** Rasa Open Source\ **Created:** [July 18, 2019, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123 "2019-07-18T10:55:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![suraj.padhy.gm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@suraj.padhy.gm](https://forum.rasa.com/u/suraj.padhy.gm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/1 "2019-07-18T10:55:37Z")
Went through the documentation, still not clear where to use the unfeaturized slot. Almost every slot i declared as text with few list and categorical types. Can someone please explain what is the significance of using a unfeaturized slot ? Thanks in advance… ---
**Author:** ![tyd](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/tyd/32/3030_2.png) [@tyd](https://forum.rasa.com/u/tyd)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/2 "2019-07-19T10:02:12Z")
Hi @suraj.padhy.gm! You use an [unfeaturized slot](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/core/slots/#unfeaturized-slot) when you have data you want to store which shouldn’t influence the dialogue flow. Its value is ignored when predicting the next action the bot should run. For example, this could be useful if you get information from an API call (e.g. `user_id`) in a custom action and want to store it ---
**Author:** ![AnandS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@AnandS](https://forum.rasa.com/u/AnandS)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/3 "2020-06-12T07:37:36Z")
am facing a similar situation … I have a bot to collect feedback/Compliments/Complaints from employees. have 2 fields 1. Empcode - Entity, Slot- unfeaturized - Collected at the beginning of the flow, validated against a database - Works well … 2… have a form with 1 Field , Grievancetext - No Entity, Slot - Unfeaturized. Once the employee is validated and chooses to write a feedback, the flow triggers a form to collect the free form text. However, if the text contains dates, numbers, or amount like 12,000/- , the slot empcode get updated with the date, or number or amount. What could be the problem, am I missing something? e.g.: Empcode = 10007777 - it had this Empcode =02-06-2020 - gets updated. GrieText =response was awaited on 02-06-2020, can you revert ? can you advice on how to stop this behavior? Thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![tyd](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/tyd/32/3030_2.png) [@tyd](https://forum.rasa.com/u/tyd)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/4 "2020-06-12T09:08:05Z")
@AnandS This sounds like an issue with entity extraction, not slot featurization. Have you tried figuring out what is going on using [rasa shell --debug](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/user-guide/command-line-interface/#talk-to-your-assistant) to see what happens? ---
**Author:** ![AnandS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@AnandS](https://forum.rasa.com/u/AnandS)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/5 "2020-06-12T11:57:42Z")
thanks @tyd for the revert. checked it with --debug I see that as one enters the text , DIETClassifer is firing and classifying it as as one of the intents in nlu.md “ask\_question” and matching the appropriate entities trained in Inform intent and EmpCode is one of the entities. However, my understanding was that the text/content in a unfeaturized slot should not trigger prediction? I would expect it to just pick up the text and store in the slot for it to be saved. is it not ? _unfeaturized_ slots to simply store the information without influencing the predictions.(taken from RASA Blog) . any thoughts ? ---
**Author:** ![AnandS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@AnandS](https://forum.rasa.com/u/AnandS)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/6 "2020-06-26T06:01:33Z")
Hi @tyd ,I have managed to fix the problem. 1. Inform Intent - New training data added to with the free form text with dates, amount and numbers 2. the Intent triggering the form - Added the conditions to ignore Entities in domain file. Thanks for your guidance . Regards! ---
**Author:** ![baurjanj](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/baurjanj/32/15523_2.png) [@baurjanj](https://forum.rasa.com/u/baurjanj)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/7 "2021-04-30T20:30:25Z")
Has the unfeaturized slot been deprecated? I don’t see it in the documentation anymore. What is its new equivalent? ---
**Author:** ![tyd](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/tyd/32/3030_2.png) [@tyd](https://forum.rasa.com/u/tyd)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/8 "2021-05-03T08:03:28Z")
@baurjanj “The slot type `unfeaturized` is deprecated. Please use the property `influence_conversation` as described [here](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/domain#slots-and-conversation-behavior) or the slot type [`any`](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/domain#any-slot) instead.” from [rasa docs](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/domain#unfeaturized-slot) ---
**Author:** ![baurjanj](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/baurjanj/32/15523_2.png) [@baurjanj](https://forum.rasa.com/u/baurjanj)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/i-want-to-know-the-use-case-of-unfeaturized-slot/13123/9 "2021-05-03T18:07:48Z")
@tyd - can you please also share with me the latest document on how to get a user input from the assistant and pass it to the custom actions to further use to query db. Demonstration with actual example would be highly appreciated!