Handling various message with IDialog

Question

Let's say you have a ContactUsDialog, PizzaOrderDialog as well as a MyOrderDialog. The user sends a message like: 'how far along is my pizza order' - How would you know which dialog to start?

    public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Post([FromBody] Activity activity)
    {
        if (activity != null)
        {
            switch (activity.GetActivityType())
            {
                case ActivityTypes.Message:
                    await Conversation.SendAsync(activity, () => new ContactUsDialg());
                    await Conversation.SendAsync(activity, () => new PizzaOrderDialog());
                    await Conversation.SendAsync(activity, () => new MyOrderDialog());
                    break;
        }
        return new HttpResponseMessage(System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Accepted);
    }

You can't do that. You need to decide which one is the root dialog and the in the root dialog re-route to others as needed. — Ezequiel Jadib, Nov 16 '17 at 16:48
I thought so... Can I use LUIS to accomplish this? Any examples? Thanks! — Richard Bailey, Nov 16 '17 at 16:59

Ezequiel Jadib · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-17T10:36:06.583

You can't do that in the way you are trying to. You need decide which one will be the root dialog and the re-route messages to other dialogs.

A few samples that might help you:

core-MultiDialogs: to understand how to call/forward messages to child dialogs
intelligence-LUIS: to understand how to use LUIS

And yes, you can use LUIS as root dialog and then call child dialogs. Some posts that might help too:

Handling various message with IDialog

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