How to hook Luis into a Bot Framework FormDialog

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I have a Dialog class which is a FormDialog (say, FormDialog< SandwichOrder>; one which builds an order for a sandwich, as per the bot framework documentation website). The SandwichOrder includes a "Price" property.

I also have a Dialog class which derives from LuisDialog which gets the price (based on, say, the size and/or province).

How can I hook Luis functionality into a Form Dialog?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '16 at 23:21

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Currently it is not possible to call a Dialog in a form field step. But you can have your custom implementation of IRecognize for a Field in the form (in this case "Price") and in the IEnumerable<TermMatch> Matches(string input, object defaultValue = null) implementation call into your Luis model and return all the possible TermMatches based on the detected entities by Luis.

answered Apr 15 '16 at 23:21

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do you know if this functionality is being built in at all? It does seem a bit clunky to create our own custom fields simply for the purpose of jumping out to check a LuisIntent as well. – JPThorne Apr 26 '16 at 09:51
It is definitely in the backlog. I suggest add this as an idea to the [bot builder feedback](https://feedback.botframework.com/forums/354222-bot-builder-sdk) site, so other people can vote for it. – Shahin Shayandeh May 12 '16 at 17:51
Would love to submit it as an idea (think I may have already done so) But I since noticed that https://feedback.botframework.com/ is 'retired'. Any idea where it moved to? – JPThorne Sep 05 '16 at 06:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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This post: Custom fields with FormBuilder in the Microsoft Bot Framework appears to suggest an answer, and a way to implement your own custom field which implements IRecognizer. I haven't gotten it to work yet though.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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answered Apr 26 '16 at 08:25

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How to hook Luis into a Bot Framework FormDialog

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