Interacting with a bot

Interacting with a bot


You can interact with any bot built on Zia Skills in conversational English - just like how you speak or text a fellow human being. The bot understands your natural language and would try to answer your questions or carry out your instructions.  

While all bots can accept inputs and respond in a textual format, a bot embedded in a mobile app can additionally listen to your voice and talk back to you.

Once you open the bot, the onboarding screen with a list of actions that the bot can perform will be displayed. If the bot does not have custom onboarding screen configured, then "Hi, How may I help you? " will be shown as a welcome message, when the bot is opened up. 

You can either choose one from the list or type your message in the text box. The text box also has a help icon to switch between the onboarding screen and chat screen (screen to converse with the bot).


 

After the message is given, the bot will respond with a reply. The reply will be an answer to the question asked or the result of the instruction given. In case, if the bot needs more information to answer the question or to perform the instruction, it might prompt for some additional information conversationally. For instance, if you are trying to book an event, then the bot may prompt questions to get the details like the name of the event, the type of event, event days and so on.

For certain questions, bot displays options from which you can select one or many options according to your requirements. After selecting, click the apt button (if available) to proceed with the instruction. If no buttons are displayed, the selected option would be immediately submitted to the bot. For example, for the "event day" question, the bot may provide you with options like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on.



Sometimes, bot allows you to skip certain questions which are considered optional for processing that instruction. So if you are not willing to answer a particular question, this option will be helpful.

Similarly, if the answer given by you is in an invalid format or if the bot is not able to infer meaningful data from your message, then the bot will prompt for the same input repeatedly, till it gets a valid answer. 

At any point, if you do not wish to continue the current context of the conversation further, you can use the "Stop" option. Stop will make the bot drop the current context in the conversation and you can start over the conversation with some other instruction. 

To access the "Stop" option, and "Skip" option (if available) for a particular question, click the arrow button  in the text box



   
Upon receiving all the required details, bot performs the desired operation and displays the final output. The output can be a message, table, image, bulleted list and more.  

                     

You can further continue your conversation with the bot with some other question or instruction. The bot would also display suggestions related to the previous instruction. You can either select one from the suggestions or enter a new message and continue the interaction.

Similar to showing suggestions, the bot may also ask a follow-up question to proceed with the conversation. You can either answer that question or type a new message to proceed with the new action.



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