Start Bot with Action

Rasa Open Source
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Hey there, I had a question on how to start a conversation with the bot asking a question rather than a user initiating the question. So for example:

bot : Hi I’m bot, what is your name? User responds…

So I dont want the user to say hi first rather the bot start the conversation. How do you do this in rasa?

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Hi @sks8100,

You can manage it by front end. Before conversation on icon click of bot icon you have to send initial message of Hi.

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what if you wanted the bot to do all the questions and have the user answer? can that be done in the backend?

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Hi @sks8100 ,

You can Invoke an External Intent to achieve this, with curl command you just have to dump your external_intent and respective action to that intent will be displayed to the targeted user’s chat.

Here is the link from where you can take reference. External Intent

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Yes , even if you want to run any specific event you can use rasa API.

Here is a reference for you. https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/pages/http-api#operation/triggerConversationIntent

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There’s action_session_start that you can override to initiate your session in a different way. link

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