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entity error: Synonym value cannot be used as an item name

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I'm creating my first chatbot in Teams. I made an entity called PM tool. It has several items, including one called PMW. While testing my bot I discovered that it recognized PMW but not pmw in user input. That surprised me since natural language rules ought to equate them.

 

But since they weren't, I added pmw as a synonym to the PMW item. And I got this error: Synonym value cannot be used as an item name. So since I can't add case variations of my item, how do I force the bot to recognize pmw as the PMW item?

 

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  • Pstork1 Profile Picture
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    In my experience the way to avoid case sensitive issues is to always use the full lower case version.  Try replacing 'PMW' with 'pmw'.  When you use the lowercase version I think you will find it responds to both cases.

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