Bubblescript

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dialog main do
  say "Welcome at Restaurant Sienna đź‘‹"
  show image "restaurant.jpg"
  say "We serve traditional Italian pizza's."
  
  say "We are located at Joan Muyskenweg 22 in Amsterdam"
  show location [4.91505839, 52.3326472]
  
  ask "What would you like to order?"
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}"
  
  say "Goodbye"
  stop
end

Say, ask & show

dialog main do
  say "Welcome at Restaurant Sienna đź‘‹"
  show image "https://storage.googleapis.com/botsquad-assets/workshop/restaurant.jpg"
  say "What can I do for you?"
end

dialog trigger: "about" do
  say "We serve traditional Italian pizza's."
end

dialog trigger: "location | address" do
  say "We are located at Joan Muyskenweg 22 in Amsterdam"
  show location [4.91505839, 52.3326472]
end

dialog trigger: "order" do
  ask "What would you like to order?"
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}"
end

dialog trigger: "stop | close | bye" do
  say "Goodbye!"
  close
end

Dialogs and triggers

# same as main
dialog __main__ do
  say "Hi!"
end

# fires when there are no more dialogs left to execute
dialog __root__ do
  say "What can I do for you?"
end

# fires when a user message isn't triggering anything else
dialog __unknown__ do
  say "I don't understand"  
end

# triggers when a close statement is fired
dialog __closed__ do
  say "Goodbye!"
end

Special dialog triggers

Prompt … Continue

Variables

# string
v = "This is a string"
say v

# integer
v = 10
say v

# list
v = ["a", "b"] 
say first(v)

Variables are used to temporarily store information.

 

Variables don't need to be defined upfront.

 

Simply assigning a value termines the variable type.

String variables

Integer variables

List variables

a = [1, 2, 3, 4]

# is the same as

a = [
  1, 
  2, 
  3, 
  4
]

# a list can also contain strings:

a = [
  "first",
  "second",
  "third"
]
dialog __main__ do
  prompt ["What can I do for you today?", "What else can I do for you?"]
end

dialog __unknown__ do
  random do
    say "I don't understand"  
    say "I'm not sure what you mean"
    say "Sorry, I don't get it"
  end
end

Once...do & Random

dialog __unknown__ do
  once do
    say "I don't understand"  
    say "I still don't understand"
  after
    say "Sorry, I don't think this is working"
    stop
  end
end

https://doc.botsquad.com/bubblescript/statements/#once                             https://doc.botsquad.com/bubblescript/statements/#random

dialog __main__ do
  say "Welcome at Restaurant Sienna đź‘‹"
  invoke about
  show image "restaurant.jpg"
end

dialog trigger: "about" do
  invoke about
end

dialog about do
  say "We serve traditional Italian pizza's."
end

Invoke a named dialog

dialog __main__ do
  say "Welcome at Restaurant Sienna đź‘‹"
  invoke about
  show image "restaurant.jpg"
end

dialog about, trigger: "about" do
  say "We serve traditional Italian pizza's."
end

Named dialog with trigger

about

__main__

__root__

main

dialog.stack

order

dialog about, do: say "We serve traditional Italian pizza's."

Short form dialog notation

  • comma (,) behind the dialog name
  • semicolon (:) behind the do
  • no end

Intents

An intent is the user’s intention.

 

"what is the weather like today?"

or

"will it rain today?"

 

are examples of how a user would express her intention to know the weather forecast of today.

Supported intent classification methods

BML a compact string matching language specifically designed to match user input against a predefined and fixed patterns
QnA built-in engine based on open source algorithm (Bert)
DialogFlow Google intent classification service

Intent definition using BML

# public constant that holds an intent that matches on a BML list
@what_is_the_weather_today intent(match: [
  "what is the weather like today", 
  "will it rain today"
  ])

# dialog that will trigger on this intent
dialog trigger: @what_is_the_weather_today do
  say "I don't know anything about the weather."
end

Examples of BML

what is the weather like today?

what will be the weather?

what is the weather tomorrow?

will it rain?

will the sun shine?

do you see the sun?

Text

@about   intent(match: ["about _ (restaurant | sienna)"])
@address intent(match: ["what _ (location | address", "where be _ ( you | restaurant)"])
@order   intent(match: ["i _ order", "i _ buy"])
@close   intent(match: ["bye | close | stop | goodbye | exit"])

dialog trigger: @about, do: invoke about
dialog trigger: @address, do: invoke address
dialog trigger: @order, do: invoke order
dialog trigger: @close, do: close

dialog about do
  say "We serve traditional Italian pizza's."
end

dialog address do
  say "We are located at Joan Muyskenweg 22 in Amsterdam"
end

dialog order do
  ask "What would you like to order?"
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}"
end

Intent, trigger, dialog pattern

dialog __main__ do
  prompt ["What can I do for you today?", "What else can I do for you?"]
  
  dialog label: "About️", do: invoke about
  dialog label: "Location", do: invoke address
  dialog label: "Order", do: invoke order
  dialog label: "Nothing", do: invoke close
end

Inner dialog labels

dialog order do
  say "Let's take your order…"
  
  ask "What pizza would you like to order?",
    quick_replies: ["Margherita", "Pepperoni", "Hawaii"]
    
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}!"
end

Quick replies

dialog order do
  say "Let's take your order…"
  
  ask "What pizza would you like to order?",
    expecting: ["Margherita", "Pepperoni", "Hawaii"]
    
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}!"
end 

Expecting

dialog order do
  say "Let's take your order…"
  
  ask "What pizza would you like to order?",
    expecting: ["Margherita", "Pepperoni", "Hawaii"]
  
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}!"
  
  dialog trigger: "caprese" do
    say "The Caprese Pizza is out of order"
  end
  
  dialog trigger: "pasta" do
    say "We don't serve pasta's, only pizza's"
  end
  
  dialog __unknown__ do
    say "Sorry, that is not on our menu…"
  end
end  

Inner dialog triggers

dialog order do
  say "Let's take your order…"
  
  ask "What pizza would you like to order?",
    expecting: ["Margherita", "Pepperoni", "Hawaii"]
  
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}!"
  
  dialog trigger: "caprese", do: say "The Caprese Pizza is out of order"
  dialog trigger: "pasta"  , do: say "We don't serve pasta's, only pizza's"
  dialog __unknown__       , do: say "Sorry, that is not on our menu…"
  
  dialog __returning__ do
    say "Let's continue with your order…"
  end
end  

__returning__

dialog order do
  menu = ["Margherita", "Pepperoni", "Hawaii"]
  
  say "We serve #{length(menu)} different pizza's:"
  
  repeat item in menu do
    say item
  end    
  
  ask "What pizza would you like to order?", expecting: menu
  
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}!"
  
  dialog __unknown__, do: say "Sorry, we only serve #{join_and(menu)}…"
end  

List

@base_url "https://storage.googleapis.com/botsquad-assets/workshop/"

@menu [
  %{title: "Pizza Marherita", image_url: @base_url + "pizza_marg.jpg"},
  %{title: "Pizza Pepperoni", image_url: @base_url + "pizza_pep.jpg" },
  %{title: "Pizza Hawaii"   , image_url: @base_url + "pizza_haw.jpg" }
]

@menu_titles pluck(@menu, "title")

dialog order do
  say "We serve #{length(@menu)} different pizza's:"
  
  ask "What pizza would you like to order?",
    quick_replies: @menu, 
    expecting: @menu_titles 
  
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}!"
  
  dialog __unknown__, do: say "Sorry, we only serve #{join_and(@menu_titles)}…"
end  

Maps & global constants

@base_url "https://storage.googleapis.com/botsquad-assets/workshop/"

@menu [
  %{value: "Margherita", title: "Pizza Margherita", 
  	image_url: @base_url + "pizza_marg.jpg", subtitle: "$5.95"},
  %{value: "Pepperoni" , title: "Pizza Pepperoni" , 
  	image_url: @base_url + "pizza_pep.jpg" , subtitle: "$6,95"},
  %{value: "Hawaii"    , title: "Pizza Hawaii"    , 
  	image_url: @base_url + "pizza_haw.jpg" , subtitle: "$7.95"}
]

dialog order do
  item_picker = input_method("item_picker", 
    caption: "Please select", 
    mode: "single", 
    items: @menu)
    
  ask "What pizza would you like to order?",
    expecting: item_picker
  
  say "We'll start preparing your #{answer}!"
end 

Web Widgets

List

Gallery / Card

Buttons

UI Components (web & messenger)

Text

Multi select

Form

Location picker

Numeric

Wait control

Closed control

Web Widgets (alternative keyboard)

  if length(order) > 0 do
    say "Ok, we'll prepare your #{join_and(order)}"
  else
    say "You didn't order anything"
  end  

  branch do
    order == nil       -> say "You ordered nothing"
    length(order) == 1 -> say "We'll prepare your product"
    length(order) < 3  -> say "We'll prepare your products"
  else
    say "You ordered too many products"
  end

  branch length(order) do
    0 -> say "You've ordered nothing"
    1 -> say "We'll prepare your product"
    2 -> say "We'll prepare your products"
  else
    say "You ordered too many products"
  end  

Conditionals

dialog order_line when length(order) >= 5 do
  say "You reached the maximum order size…"
end

dialog order_line when length(order) == 0 do
  ask "What pizza would you like to order?"
  invoke order_line
end

dialog order_line do
  ask "Do you want another pizza?"
  invoke order_line
end

Guards

@datetime entity(match: "[time=pickup_time]")

dialog ask_pickup_time do
  ask "When would you like to pick-up your order?", expecting: @datetime
  pickup_time = date_format(answer.pickup_time.value, "{D} {Mfull} at {h24}:{0m}")
  
  dialog __unknown__ do
    say "That doesn't seem to be a valid date or time"    
  end
end 

Entities

perform calculate_price
say "The total price is $ #{total}"


task calculate_price do
  total = 0
  
  repeat item in order do
    pizza = first(@menu[title: item])
    price = replace(pizza.subtitle, "$", "")
    total = total + number(price)
  end
end 

Tasks

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Script - files

Content files

dialog main do
  repeat item in @menu do
    say item.title    
  end
end

CMS

type: form
storage:
  type: script 
  script_title: menu
title: Ordering menu
icon: shopping-cart
description: Configure your ordering menu

form:
  schema:
    type: array
    title: Answers
    items:
      type: object
      properties:
        value:      { type: string, title: Value }
        title:      { type: string, title: Title of the dish }
        image_url:  { type: string, title: Image URL }
        subtitle:   { type: string, subtitle: Price }
      required: ["value", "title", "image_url", "subtitle"]    
  
  ui_schema:
    classNames: "collapsible-array--field"
    items:
      ui:field: collapsible_array
      ui:options:
        caption_template: '<b>{{title}}</b> <span class=right>{{subtitle}}</span>'
      ui:layout:
      - title:         { sm: 8 }
        subtitle:      { sm: 4 }
      - image_url:     { sm: 12 }
      image_url:
        ui:widget: image
      value:
        ui:field: auto_uuid
      ui:order: ["title", "image_url", "subtitle"]

json schema

Intents

Intent training

intents:
  -
    id: "about"
    label:
      $i18n: true
      en: "About"
    match: []
    provider_agent: ""
    provider_id: ""
    provider_name: "about"
    provider_type: "qna"
utterances:
  about:
    negative:
      $i18n: true
      en:
        - "i don't want to know about you"
        - "tell me about your personnel"
    positive:
      $i18n: true
      en:
        - "about restaurant sienna"
        - "what type of restaurant is this"
        - "what is this for restaurant"
        - "what kind of restaurant is this"
        - "what kind of restaurant is sienna"
        - "information about the restaurant"
        - "what can you tell me about restaurant sienna"
        - "tell me about the restaurant"
        - "i want information about the restaurant"

intents yaml

dialog ask_email do
  ask "What is your email address?", expecting: @email
  user.email = answer.email.value
  remember user.email
  
  dialog __unknown__, do: say "That isn't a valid email address"    
end  

User Data

Tagging

dialog confirm do
  perform calculate_price
  say "The total price is $ #{total}"
  say "We will prepare your order for #{pickup_time}"
  perform send_order
  tag "ordered"
end 

Mail

task send_order do
  summary = "
  You ordered:\n - #{join(order, "\n - ")}\n
  Total price: #{total}\n
  Please pickup at #{pickup_time}"
  
  mail user.email, "Order Confirmation", summary  
end

Connect (as PWA)

PWA settings

manifest:
  background_color: '#f0f0f0'
  display: standalone
  orientation: portrait
  theme_color: '#990000'
splash_screen:
  title: Restaurant Sienna
  description: Order your pizza's
  call_to_action: Start
  footer: 'I have read the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.botsquad.com/terms">terms and conditions</a>'
appearance: app

PWA yaml

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