beeva-enriqueotero / beeva-poc-msbotframework

Proof of Concept with MS Bot Framework & QnA

beeva-poc-msbotframework

Proof of Concept with MS Bot Framework & QnA

Azure account

• Use an existing Azure account. Or set-up a new one.
• Recommended to set-up billing alerts

qnamaker.ai

• Create new service
• Train Knowledge Base
• Test
• Publish
• View settings

Microsoft Azure Bot Service

• Go to portal.azure.com
• Create a bot (Web app Bot or Functions Bot (*))
• Select name and pricing plan
  • For a Functions Bot, the Azure Bot Service will run on Azure Functions in consumption mode.
  • For a Web App Bot, the Azure Bot Service will run as standard Azure Web App. (45€/month)
• Select Question and Answer template
• In Application Settings, edit QnAKnowledgebaseId, QnASubscriptionKey and QnAEndpointHostName
• In Build, edit, open online code editor
• In online code editor, edit BasicQnAMakerDialog.cs.
• Set scoreThreshold to 0.0 and edit default No good match in FAQ message.
• Open console, and execute build.cmd
• Test

Connect to Slack

• Follow https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/channel-connect-slack
  • Build slack App
  • Add redirect url via permissions
  • Add a bot user
  • Enable events on event subscriptions
  • Enter slack credentials on https://dev.botframework.com/

Advanced

• Test, edit, retrain and publish the update knowledge base.
• Change the default message. See instructions
• Add web chat: <iframe src='https://webchat.botframework.com/embed/chatbot-gc-qna?s=YOUR_SECRET_HERE'></iframe>

Issues

• Not able to deploy and test a Functions Bot