Importing Intents From File

Intents and expressions can be massively imported from a file to avoid manual creation on every new chatbot and speed up each training phase.

The import file must be a comma delimited CSV file using some or all of the columns specified below.

Column

Description

Required

key

The key of the intent

No

name

The name of the intent. If the intent exist, it will be overwritten.

Yes

locale

The locale of the intent, according to the table below

Yes

expression

Expression associated to the intent.

Yes

activation

The activation mode of the intent.

No

activation_confidence

The confidence of the automatic or reply activation, expressed with a number from 0 to 99.

No

auto_reply

The text that should be used as a direct reply when automatic activation is detected

No

behaviour

The name of the target behaviour when using automatic redirection

No

interaction

The name of the target interaction when using automatic redirection

No

All imports are additive to the currently existing intents and expressions.

The file must contain column names. The import will start from the second line as the first line is assumed to contain column names. If your file is using special characters such as grave, acute accents or other symbols make sure that the physical file encoding is set to UTF-8.

Locale string must be specified according to the following table:

Locale

Language

en

English

es

Spanish

de

German

it

Italian

fr

French

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