# Invoke intent from custom action for FAQ intent

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/invoke-intent-from-custom-action-for-faq-intent/55920>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [October 24, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/invoke-intent-from-custom-action-for-faq-intent/55920 "2022-10-24T22:21:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![MelT](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/melt/32/21530_2.png) [@MelT](https://forum.rasa.com/u/MelT)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/invoke-intent-from-custom-action-for-faq-intent/55920/1 "2022-10-24T22:21:24Z")

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Hi all, I know it is possible to invoke an intent from custom action which works nicely for regular intents but is there also a way to do so for retrieval intents like faq/name?

This works for a regular intent:

```auto
    data = {
          "intent": {
              "name": "pseudo_user_intent",
              "confidence": 1.0,
            }
         }

    return [
        ActionExecuted("action_listen"),
        UserUttered(text="/pseudo_user_intent", parse_data=data),
      ]

```

Unfortunately this does not work:

```auto
    data = {
          "intent": {
              "name": "faq",
              "confidence": 1.0,
            }
         }

    return [
        ActionExecuted("action_listen"),
        UserUttered(text="what is your name", parse_data=data),
      ]

```

“what is your name” would be a NLU training example. Any ideas how to make this work?