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Hi folks
I created a skill using Bot Framework 4.7 SDK with the manifest 2.0. When I try to connect to my skill with Bot Framework bot, it works very well. However, upon connecting it with PVA, it gives me an error (which is super unfriendly).
Environment / Tenant Setup
It's a trial environment with PVA and the same tenant is also has a trial for Azure to create the Bot registration process.
P.S Also, please note that the Bot Framework Bot I tried with Skill was on a different tenant and even then it was working fine.
Hi There,
I have an issue which is very much related to this but not quite the same. I have a skill that works fine in the latest version of Composer as well as directly in Azure when you test with the test feature.
I have created a skill manifest and this adds and validates perfectly fine in my PVA. However, when I add it as an action and test it, I get aa default error message 'Sorry I didnt understand that'
I have added the botid to the allowed list of my skill bots appsettings as per below
"skills": {
"allowedCallers": [
"*"
]
},
I dont seem to get any error messages or anything meaningful which explains why the bot is not invoking correclty. It takes 3 non-required parameters which aren't needed to fire up the bot as per below manifest
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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"$schema": "https://schemas.botframework.com/schemas/skills/v2.2/skill-manifest.json",
"$id": "ParkingMax",
"name": "Parking Max",
"version": "1.0",
"publisherName": "Microsoft",
"endpoints": [
{
"name": "default",
"protocol": "BotFrameworkV3",
"description": "Default endpoint for the skill",
"endpointUrl": "https://parkingmax.azurewebsites.net/api/messages",
"msAppId": "170c9cdd-9e3f-4e52-b511-8b47f592a86f"
}
],
"activities": {
"message": {
"type": "message",
"description": "Parking Max",
"value": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/initValues"
}
}
},
"definitions": {
"initValues": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"origin"
],
"properties": {
"clientid": {
"type": "string",
"description": "160"
},
"module": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ParkingMax"
},
"domain": {
"type": "string",
"description": "bpademo.co.uk"
}
}
}
@csnarain was this calendar skill hosted locally when you got this working?
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Thanks @pawan-msft and Team for this. 💪 Can you share with us "Book a Flight" skill Bot code? It´s a good example of multiturn skill with input and output with adaptive card. it would be very useful to see it and try to implement it in PVA. Thanks!!
@ArafatTehsin- Thanks for all your help. It finally worked. I enabled the Calendar skill as well in PVA. Here is the manifest file that actually worked at my end (both for calendar skill and other skills).
{
"$schema": "https://schemas.botframework.com/schemas/skills/skill-manifest-2.0.0.json",
"$id": "CalendarSkill",
"name": "Calendar Skill",
"description": "The Calendar skill provides calendaring related capabilities and supports Office and Google calendars.",
"publisherName": "Microsoft",
"version": "0.8",
"copyright": "Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.",
"tags": [
"calendar",
"skill"
],
"endpoints": [
{
"name": "production",
"protocol": "BotFrameworkV3",
"description": "Production endpoint for the Calendar Skill",
"endpointUrl": "{Our URL}/api/messages",
"msAppId": "{Our App ID}"
}
],
"activities": {
"message": {
"type": "message",
"description": "Receives the users utterance and attempts to resolve it using the skill's LU models"
}
}
}
That's good news! @csnarain - I would request you to to do this first (we'll talk about Calendar Skill later on)
Did you get 0 input 0 output when your skill was added? If that's the case then replace your activities and add this. Try and let me know. 🙂
"activities": {
"message": {
"type": "message",
"description": "Receives the user's' utterance and attempts to resolve it using the skill's LU models",
"value": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/accountNumber"
}
}
},
"definitions": {
"accountNumber": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
],
"properties": {
"locale": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The current user's locale ISO code"
}
}
}
@ArafatTehsin- I finally managed to fix it. I have no clue on what exactly fixed it but somehow I was able to add the skill now :-). Thanks a lot for all your help. The next big task I have is to integrate the calendar skill bot (https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-solutions/tree/master/skills/csharp/calendarskill) with PVA. Unfortunately the skill doesn't do anything. If I try to add in the full manifest file from this repo and add the skill to PVA, it doesn't accept it. To sum it up, the skill is now added to PVA but doesn't do anything. Any thoughts are much appreciated.
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