I'll make a guide/tutorial on the RulePolicy. What should I include?

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Hi all.

My name is Vincent. I’m part of the devrel team and I’ll be making some extra content on this topic. I’ve already made a video on the idea behind the RulePolcy from the ML perspective but I’ll work on making a proper blog post/guide on rules too. I’ll also create a git repo that contains a full example of how rules interact with forms.

I want to make sure that I answer the questions that most folks are facing. So feel free to ask away below and I’ll use it as inspiration for content.

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Hello,

for me the basics of the rules were relatively simple. As I started with forms, it got more difficult. I think your example should include a form with:

  • happy path if all data is correct
  • unhappy path if the user utters (“stop”, “break”, “abort”)
  • unhappy path and stop the form if the user utters chitchat three times
  • handle diggressions if the users asks for more information about a specific slot
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I’m nearly done with the first blog post that should help explain “why” rules were introduced. I’ll make another blog-post that explains how to use rules together with forms.

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The first guide can be found here. It helps explain why the RulePolicy got created and what role it has.

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For me the most tricky part is also the interaction between forms and rules. Things that I would love to see, not just implemented, but also explained:

  • How can a form be deactivated with a rule?
  • How can a form be deactivated within the code of a custom validation action?
  • How can we interrupt a form, do something else (both handling some chitchat and executing a second form) and come back to the original form? What is the role of/ How to use ActionExecutionRejected and LoopInterrupted events?
  • When does the value of active_loop change? How to reflect this is rules?
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It’s added on my todo-list for this quarter to create 1 (maybe 2) examples that demonstrate exactly this.

Thanks for the feedback!