# Skip NLU classification for free text

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/skip-nlu-classification-for-free-text/57405>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [March 2, 2023, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/skip-nlu-classification-for-free-text/57405 "2023-03-02T06:38:38Z")\
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Hi,

I have a usecase which needs to follow the following rasa-form flow -

1. User says I wish to book an appointment
2. Bot asks for appointment time and user fills a time value which is taken from a slot mapped to an entity.
3. Bot then asks for appointment location and user enters a city name which is taken from a slot mapped to an entity.
4. Bot then asks for a subject/message for the appointment. User enters free text.
5. Bot should skip nlu classification and should just fill this free text as the slot value.
6. End of rasa-form

Now, the problem is with step number 5. I went through - [Capturing free text in forms](https://forum.rasa.com/t/capturing-free-text-in-forms/31357) as well as docs about free\_text → [Domain](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/domain/#from_text) and my current slot configuration for ‘message’ slot in domain.yml is as follows - message: type: text mappings: - type: from\_text

However, this didn’t help me. The message is getting detected in location slot for some reason. I just want this slot to take free text as input, skip nlu classification and provide a response of whatever free text user enters.

Thanks in advance

Note: I’m using Rasa 3.0.2

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