# Set user input as intent after button click **URL:** \ **Category:** Getting Started with Rasa\ **Created:** [December 11, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433 "2018-12-11T12:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chemseddine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@chemseddine](https://forum.rasa.com/u/chemseddine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/1 "2018-12-11T12:26:00Z")
Hi, Need help to set the user input as an intent, after a special utter. in my stories I have something like: ``` ## story1 * bonjour - utter_bonjour * confirmer - utter_etape1 * ideasmine - action_SendIntentProblemeSite - action_SendIntent_B_S ``` I know that after utter\_etape1 the user will give me his ideasmine but I realy don’t know what this will be like. (can’t extract entity, and don’t have examples to set at first) the intent ideasmine is realy random sentences. So I want to do something after utter\_etape1 that allows the user to tape his message and click on button “ok” and in this button ok I will set like a payload to the intent ideasmine. the next action after intent ideasmine is to extract the user input and set it as slot to re use it later (you said previously [slot ideasmine] …). Or is there any way to tell the bot to listen to the next user input after utter\_etape1 and set it directly as ideasmine intent. Can any one help please? ---
**Author:** ![JiteshGaikwad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@JiteshGaikwad](https://forum.rasa.com/u/JiteshGaikwad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/2 "2018-12-11T12:54:54Z")
hey @chemseddine you can read this doc… [https://rasa.com/docs/core/api/interpreter/#buttons-and-other-structured-input](https://rasa.com/docs/core/api/interpreter/#buttons-and-other-structured-input) ---
**Author:** ![JiteshGaikwad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@JiteshGaikwad](https://forum.rasa.com/u/JiteshGaikwad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/3 "2018-12-11T12:58:05Z")
you can do in this way too… ## story1 - bonjour - utter\_bonjour - confirmer - utter\_etape1 buttons: - title: “button1” payload: “intent ideasmine random sentence” - title: “button2” payload: “other random intent sentencd” - ideasmine - action\_SendIntentProblemeSite - action\_SendIntent\_B ---
**Author:** ![chemseddine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@chemseddine](https://forum.rasa.com/u/chemseddine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/4 "2018-12-11T13:06:27Z")
Thank you for your answer, actualy i tried that. But this is not what I want, here is an example: ``` bot: write your ideas now, and then click on the button. user: random ideas that comes to my mind (I want to take this sentence and set it as a slot called ideasmine, and i want my bot to recognize it as an intent "ideasmine" to follow the story) bot: ok your idea is : random ideas that comes to my mind. ``` If i do like you said, I’ll use a button with payload: “/ideasmine” but in this case the bot will just understand that this was intent ideasmine but will not asnwer with ok your idea is : random ideas that comes to my mind ``` class action_SendIntentProblemeSite(Action): def name(self): return 'action_SendIntentProblemeSite' def run(self, dispatcher, tracker, domain): message = tracker.latest_message #print(message) return [SlotSet('intent_probleme_site', message)] class action_SendIntent_B_S(Action): def name(self): return 'action_SendIntent_B_S' def run(self, dispatcher, tracker, domain): loc = tracker.get_slot('intent_probleme_site') response = """ ok your idea is : {}. """.format(loc['text']) dispatcher.utter_message(response) ``` ---
**Author:** ![JiteshGaikwad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@JiteshGaikwad](https://forum.rasa.com/u/JiteshGaikwad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/5 "2018-12-11T13:09:40Z")
hey @chemseddine you use unfeaturized slot [Slot Types](https://rasa.com/docs/core/api/slots_api/#unfeaturized-slot) ---
**Author:** ![chemseddine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@chemseddine](https://forum.rasa.com/u/chemseddine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/6 "2018-12-11T13:12:23Z")
I’ve updated my message to show my actions. I actually want the bot to recognize the user input as intent ideasmine in order to follow the story and not ignore it ---
**Author:** ![JiteshGaikwad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@JiteshGaikwad](https://forum.rasa.com/u/JiteshGaikwad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/7 "2018-12-11T13:15:13Z")
so you can define unfeaturized slot in your domain.yml file ---
**Author:** ![huberrom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/huberrom/32/1209_2.png) [@huberrom](https://forum.rasa.com/u/huberrom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/8 "2018-12-11T13:19:56Z")
If you don’t have any example for your intent, rasa will not be able to recognize it. The only idea that comes to my mind is to add a pop up in your chat with a text field and then when the user press the “Ok” bouton in the pop up, you send the payload. Slack has a pop up, it’s called dialogs : [Interacting with users through dialogs | Slack](https://api.slack.com/dialogs) ---
**Author:** ![chemseddine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@chemseddine](https://forum.rasa.com/u/chemseddine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/9 "2018-12-11T13:23:36Z")
I’ll try it, not sure if I explained well my problem. My problem is that the bot don’t have any way to predict that : ``` user: random ideas that comes to my mind ``` is an ideasmine intent, the bot will not know because I don’t know how what this intent will have as input; so I just have an intent called ideasmine but with random things. Actualy my problem is exactly as @huberrom said. I thought I could use a button and after the user click on it I save the input as slot ideasmine and payload: \ideasmine ---
**Author:** ![huberrom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/huberrom/32/1209_2.png) [@huberrom](https://forum.rasa.com/u/huberrom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/10 "2018-12-11T13:26:15Z")
You can use a button, but it’ll be the chat job to add the text as the payload, not rasa ---
**Author:** ![chemseddine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@chemseddine](https://forum.rasa.com/u/chemseddine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/11 "2018-12-11T13:30:12Z")
and this is done by what you told me? for slack for example I have to use dialogs? is it easy to do? I’am new to this. Any examples? ---
**Author:** ![huberrom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/huberrom/32/1209_2.png) [@huberrom](https://forum.rasa.com/u/huberrom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/12 "2018-12-11T13:38:33Z")
Well using slack you’ll have to use a dialog yes, it’s “easy” to implement but not sure how to do it with Rasa. I didn’t try the rasa integration with Slack, but I pretty sure it’s not handling dialogs yet. To my opinion you need to : - Override the slack channel component ([rasa\_core/slack.py at master · RasaHQ/rasa\_core · GitHub](https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa_core/blob/master/rasa_core/channels/slack.py)) to open a route for dialogs in SlackInput class - Create the form for your dialog ([Interacting with users through dialogs | Slack](https://api.slack.com/dialogs)) this part is pretty easy - Create a function to send the payload in SlackBot class ([rasa\_core/slack.py at master · RasaHQ/rasa\_core · GitHub](https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa_core/blob/master/rasa_core/channels/slack.py)) - Set the route you create in your slack bot in the “Interactive components” ([https://api.slack.com/apps/ACR0LN1DJ/interactive-messages?)](https://api.slack.com/apps/ACR0LN1DJ/interactive-messages?)) I don’t have an example for you sorry, I think it’s going to need a little bit of work to implement it. Maybe someone has a better solution. ---
**Author:** ![chemseddine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@chemseddine](https://forum.rasa.com/u/chemseddine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/13 "2018-12-11T13:42:14Z")
Thank you for the answer. I’ll try to found a way to do it. My stupid solution was to tell the user to begin his message by ideasmine: and then in my intent indeasmine i added ideasmine: But it’s not good to tell the user to begin his sentence with: … any way thank you for your answers, thank you also @JiteshGaikwad ---
**Author:** ![huberrom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/huberrom/32/1209_2.png) [@huberrom](https://forum.rasa.com/u/huberrom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/14 "2018-12-11T13:43:44Z")
Yeah when I started using chatbot, I had the same idea but it’s not the good way to do it ---
**Author:** ![JiteshGaikwad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@JiteshGaikwad](https://forum.rasa.com/u/JiteshGaikwad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/set-user-input-as-intent-after-button-click/3433/15 "2018-12-11T13:50:32Z")
Welcome @chemseddine and thanks to you too @huberrom 😉