GC on platforms (Web, iOS and Android)

GC on platforms (Web, iOS and Android)

What is Guided Conversations? 

Guided Conversations is a comprehensive conversation builder platform that easily integrates with other applications. GC has ready-to-use components that allow you to build a predefined flow for any use case that you have in mind.

How has GC benefited businesses that use it?
  • Establishing adaptable self-service workflows.
  • Constructing automated conversations to assist prospects and customers.
  • Developing in-app guidance to support sales and service calls.
  • Minimizing the need for developer intervention.

What are blocks?

Blocks are the fundamental units of the Zoho Desk's Guided Conversations flow Builder. The GC flow builder offers blocks that cater to various business scenarios. Whether you need to display images or add emojis to create a welcoming message for your customers, you can achieve it all by using the appropriate blocks in the flow you are building.

Why use GC ?

  • Ensures your customers receive support at any time, even outside of normal business hours.
  • Easily transfer the conversation to a support agent.
  • Display multimedia content. This can include images, text, GIFs, or videos to engage users and provide necessary information or instructions.
  • Capture text, numbers, dates, and choice options to guide the conversation based on user inputs.
  • Lowers the need for a large customer service team, thereby reducing costs.
  • Gathers leads by engaging with visitors and capturing their contact information.
  • Manages numerous customer interactions simultaneously, making it ideal for growing businesses.
  • Create webhooks through GC to send or receive data from third parties external systems with GC bot.
  • Automate the creation, updating, and retrieval of contact information.

Compatibility with available GC blocks

When designing a flow for a web-based chatbot, all available blocks are compatible and can be seamlessly integrated into the conversation. This means you can utilize a wide variety of interactive elements, such as text, buttons, images, videos, sliders, and more.
For example, you can use text blocks to display important information, button blocks to provide users with choices, image and video blocks to enhance engagement with visual content, and slider blocks to allow users to select values from a range.

Block-wise limitations for web

Text message block

Field
Mandatory field
Character limit
Additional details

Block name

Yes

100

 <> " ' ,  
are not allowed

Question field

no

4096

-

 

Info card block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , not allowed

Question field

Yes

4096

-

Image

No

 -

Accepted formats include: jpeg, png , gif , tiff , bmp , heic

Size of the image should not exceed 14 MB.

Image label

No

250

<> " ' , are not allowed

Title

Yes

 -

Title label

No

250   

<> " ' , are not allowed

Title value

Yes

200

HTML tags aren't allowed

Subtitle

No

 -

 -

Subtitle value

Yes

250

HTML tags aren't allowed

Subtitle label

No

250

<> " ' , are not allowed

 

Button block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

-

Button

Yes

75

-

Button name

Yes

length based on channel

-

 

Button block (Dynamic button)

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

-

Choice card (Static)

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Block name
Yes
100
<> " ' , are not allowed
Question field
Yes
4096
Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.
Image
No
-
-
Image label
No
250
<> " ' , are not allowed
Image variable
Yes
250
Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.
Title
Yes
-
-
Title label
No
250
<> " ' , are not allowed
Title value
Yes
200
HTML tags aren't allowed
Title variable
Yes
250
Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.
Subtitle
No
-
-
Subtitle label
No
250
<> " ' , are not allowed
Subtitle value
Yes
250
HTML tags aren't allowed
Subtitle variable
Yes
250
Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.
Description
No
-
-
Description label
No
250
<> " ' , are not allowed
Description value
Yes
250
HTML tags are not allowed
Description variable
Yes
250
Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.
Button
No
-
5 buttons are allowed
Button label
No
250
<> " ' , are not allowed
Button value
Yes
250
HTML tags are not allowed
Button website address
Yes
Checking if its a valid URL
 -
Button variable
Yes
250
Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.
Text
No
Count = 5
 -
Text label
No
250
<> " ' , are not allowed
Text value
Yes
250
HTML tags are not allowed
Text variable
Yes
250
Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.
Button variable
Yes
250
Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.
Text
No
Count = 5
 -
Text label
No
250
<> " ' , are not allowed
Text value
Yes
250
HTML tags are not allowed
Text variable
Yes
250
Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number. 

Choice card (Dynamic card)

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Image

No

-

-

Image label

No

250

<> " ' , are not allowed

Image variable

Yes

250  

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Title

Yes

-

-

Title label

No

250

<> " ' , are not allowed

Title variable

Yes

250  

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Subtitle

No

-

-

Subtitle label

No

250

<> " ' , are not allowed

Subtitle variable

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Description

No

-

-

Description label

No

250

<> " ' , are not allowed

Description variable

Yes

250  

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Button

No

-

-

Button label

No

250

<> " ' , are not allowed

Button variable

Yes

250  

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Text

No

-

-

Text label

No

250

<> " ' , are not allowed

Text variable

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

 

 Operation block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.

Validation error message

No

1000

-

Expression

Yes

Invalid expression

-

 

Fork block 

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Path

Yes

-

A total of 50 paths can be created

Name

Yes

250

Numbers (0-9), alphabets (a-z) and some symbols (_-().:‘!/Space)  are allowed.

Criteria

Yes

-

5 criteria can be added

Right variable

Yes

250 for string and number

 

Else path

No

-

-

Name

Yes (If 'Else path' is enabled)

250

-

 

Jump block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Output variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

 

Webhook

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Block Name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

URL

Yes

-

-

Response variables

No

102

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

-

 

User-input limitations

Text block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

-

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Validation error message

No

1000

-

 

 Media input

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250  

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

-

 

Email block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

 

URL block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250  

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

-


Currency block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

-

 

Calendar block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available.

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

-


Number block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

-

 

Location block

Field

Mandatory field

Character limit

Additional details

Question field

No

4096

Few options in the rich editor text will not be available

Block name

Yes

100

<> " ' , are not allowed

Variable name

Yes

250

Special characters are not allowed except underscore (_)

Cannot start with a number.

Validation error message

No

1000

 -

 

Steps to create a new flow for web, iOS or Android

1. Go to Setup > Self Service > Guided Conversations.
2. Select the department in which you want to build the conversation flow and click Create Flow.



3. In the Create Flow form, enter Name and Description and choose WebiOS or Android for the conversation flow and click Next.



Once you select Web, iOS or Android, the blocks that are not compatible will be displayed.


Steps to edit an existing flow and changing it to a flow for Web, iOS or Android 

1. Go to Setup > Self Service > Guided Conversations.
2. Select the department in which you have built the conversation flow.
3. Click on the ellipsis next to the flow you want to edit and select Edit.

 

4. Select Edit.

5. In the Edit Flow form, select Web, iOS or Android or both and Save.


 

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