High-level overview into the Virtual Assistant, Skills and Analytics.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Virtual Assistant | Customers and partners have a significant need to deliver a conversational assistant tailored to their brand, personalized to their users, and made available across a broad range of canvases and devices. This brings together all of the supporting components and greatly simplifies the creation of a new bot project including: basic conversational intents, Dispatch integration, QnA Maker, Application Insights and an automated deployment. |
| Skills | A library of re-usable conversational skill building-blocks enabling you to add functionality to a Bot. We currently provide: Calendar, Email, Task, Point of Interest, Automotive, Weather and News skills. Skills include LUIS models, Dialogs, and integration code delivered in source code form to customize and extend as required. |
| Analytics | Gain key insights into your bot’s health and behavior with the Bot Framework Analytics solutions, which includes: sample Application Insights queries, and Power BI dashboards to understand the full breadth of your bot’s conversations with users. |
Create, deploy, and customize your own Virtual Assistant and Skills using these walkthroughs.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Quickstart: Create your first Virtual Assistant
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Deploying your own assistant using the Virtual Assistant template |
| 2. Customize your Virtual Assistant
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Personalize your assistant, change the name, branding, QnA |
| 3. Create a new Skill
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Creating a new Skill using the template |
How-to guides for achieving more complex scenarios.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| How-To: Enable Linked Accounts | Enable users to link third party accounts (e.g. Office 365) to your Assistant |
| How-To: Migrate from the Enterprise Template
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Guidance on how to move from an Enterprise Template based Bot to the new Template |
| How-to: Migrate the Virtual Assistant (Beta Release 0.3) solution to the Virtual Assistant Template
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Guidance on how to move from the original Virtual Assistant solution to the new Template |
| How-To: Send activities from your assistant to users proactively | Adding proactive experiences to your assistant |
| How-To: Customize Azure Resource Deployment | How to customise the provided ARM template for different deployment scenarios. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| How-To: Add a new Skill to your Assistant | Adding a Skill |
| How-To: Add Skills to an existing SDK v4 bot
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How to add Skills to an existing bot (not Virtual Assistant template). |
| How-To: Convert an existing v4 SDK Bot to a Skill
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Steps required to take an existing and make it available as a skill. |
| How-To: Develop a Skill | Best practices for developing your Bot Framework Skill |
Reference documentation providing more insight into key concepts across the Virtual Assistant, Skills and Analytics
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Template Outline | An outline of what the Virtual Assistant template provides |
| Architecture | Detailed documentation covering what the template provides and how it works |
| Generating bot responses | Your Virtual Assistant can respond in a variety of ways depending on the scenario and the users active device or conversation canvas |
| Managing backend client events | Events enable custom apps or device experiences to pass device or contextual user information to an assistant behind the scenes. |
| Deployment scripts | Reference for deployment scripts provided in the Virtual Assistant Template |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Skills Architecture | Under the covers of the Skill Implementation, SkillDialog, Adapter and Middleware |
| Parent Bot to Skill Authentication | Principles, Flow |
| Skill Token Flow | How a Skill can request a User authentication token |
| Skill Manifest | Overview of the Skill Manifest file and it's role with Skill registration and invocation |
| Skill CLI Tools | Detailed information on the Skill command line tool and the steps it performs on your behalf. |
| Calendar Skill | Add calendar capabilities to your assistant. Powered by Microsoft Graph and Google. |
| Email Skill | Add email capabilities to your assistant. Powered by Microsoft Graph and Google. |
| To Do Skill | Add task management capabilities to your assistant. Powered by Microsoft Graph. |
| Point of Interest Skill | Find points of interest and directions. Powered by Azure Maps and FourSquare. |
| Automotive Skill | Industry-vertical Skill for showcasing enabling car feature control. |
| Experimental Skills | News, Restaurant Booking and Weather. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Application Insights | Detailed information on how Application Insights is used to collect information and powers our Analytics capabilities. |
| Power BI Template | Detailed information on how the provided PowerBI template provides insights into your assistant usage. |
| Telemetry | How to configure telemetry collection for your assistant. |
Check out our Known Issues for common issues and resolutions.
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