For a small error, on step 5 of the knowledge guide, it states "Rename the .env.example file to be .env and update it with valid credentials."
When downloading the zip, there is a file called env.example (missing the . at the beginning)

More important error here:
The following credentials are asked when replacing the environment variables:
However, these credentials don't exist

# Replace the credentials here with your own.
# Rename this file to .env before starting the app.

# Watson conversation
CONVERSATION_USERNAME=<add_conversation_username>
CONVERSATION_PASSWORD=<add_conversation_password>
WORKSPACE_ID=<add_conversation_workspace>

# Watson Discovery
DISCOVERY_USERNAME=<add_discovery_username>
DISCOVERY_PASSWORD=<add_discovery_password>
DISCOVERY_ENVIRONMENT_ID=<add_discovery_environment>
DISCOVERY_COLLECTION_ID=<add_discovery_collection>

# Watson Natural Language Understanding
NATURAL_LANGUAGE_UNDERSTANDING_USERNAME=<add_nlu_username>
NATURAL_LANGUAGE_UNDERSTANDING_PASSWORD=<add_nlu_password>

# Watson Tone Analyzer
TONE_ANALYZER_USERNAME=<add_tone_analyzer_username>
TONE_ANALYZER_PASSWORD=<add_tone_analyzer_password>

# Run locally on a non-default port (default is 3000)
# PORT=3000

The auto-deploy is trying to create a free Discovery environment (which is important if you only have a free trial), but you only get one of those in an org.

If it fails, see the troubleshooting tips in the README. You could set DISCOVERY_ENVIRONMENT_ID in your .env or your bluemix env to just use an existing one or one you created.

But this is kind of a hassle. Should we try creating pay-as-you-go instance or somehow make this easier to work-around?

I downloaded this project and tried to run it. But i am constantly getting this error as shown below.
Any help can be appreciated.

Right at the beginning of the dialog there is a Pay Now button.
The console shows output, but the chatbot is not showing any.

test coverage is pretty minimal right now

Here is what I added in app.js file:

// ADD SPEECH TO TEXT INTEGRATION CODE HERE

var sttEndpoint = vcap.speech_to_text[0].credentials.url;
var stt_credentials = Object.assign({
username: process.env.SPEECH_TO_TEXT_USERNAME || 'aaa',
password: process.env.SPEECH_TO_TEXT_PASSWORD || 'bbb',
url: process.env.SPEECH_TO_TEXT_URL ||
'https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-text/api',
version: 'v1',},vcap.speech_to_text[0].credentials);

// ADD TEXT TO SPEECH INTEGRATION CODE HERE

var ttsEndpoint = vcap.text_to_speech[0].credentials.url;
var tts_credentials = Object.assign({
username: process.env.TEXT_TO_SPEECH_USERNAME || 'xxx',
password: process.env.TEXT_TO_SPEECH_PASSWORD || 'yyy',
url: process.env.TEXT_TO_SPEECH_URL ||
'https://stream.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api',
version: 'v1',
},vcap.text_to_speech[0].credentials);
// Endpoint to be call from the client side
app.post('/api/message', function(req, res) {
	var workspace = process.env.WORKSPACE_ID || '<workspace-id>';
	if (!workspace || workspace === '<workspace-id>') {
		return res.json({
			'output': {
				'text': 'The app has not been configured with a <b>WORKSPACE_ID</b> environment variable. Please refer to the ' + '<a href="https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/conversation-simple">README</a> documentation on how to set this variable. <br>' + 'Once a workspace has been defined the intents may be imported from ' + '<a href="https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/conversation-simple/blob/master/training/car_workspace.json">here</a> in order to get a working application.'
			}
		});
	}

//ADD TEXT TO SPEECH GET TOKEN ENDPOINT HERE
app.get('/api/text-to-speech/token', function(req, res, next){
watson.authorization(tts_credentials).getToken({ url:
tts_credentials.url }, function(error, token){
if (error) {
if (error.code !== 401)
return next(error);
} else {
res.send(token);
}
});
});

//ADD SPEECH TO TEXT GET TOKEN ENDPOINT HERE

app.get('/api/speech-to-text/token', function(req, res, next){
watson.authorization(stt_credentials).getToken({ url:
stt_credentials.url }, function(error, token){
if (error) {
if (error.code !== 401)
return next(error);
} else {
res.send(token);
}
});
});`

we should use https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk and the VCAP credentials to auto-configure the conversation and r&r service with the artifacts in data/

Deploy is failing due to long hostname. Can random route be set to false for successful deployment at first attempt?

I followed every step described in the README file to deploy it locally, env file is the only one that I've modified in order to put the key values of the data requested:

• ASSISTANT_AUTH_TYPE

• ASSISTANT_APIKEY

• ASSISTANT_URL

• SKILL_ID

• NATURAL_LANGUAGE_UNDERSTANDING_AUTH_TYPE

• NATURAL_LANGUAGE_UNDERSTANDING_APIKEY

• NATURAL_LANGUAGE_UNDERSTANDING_URL

• DISCOVERY_AUTH_TYPE

• DISCOVERY_APIKEY

• DISCOVERY_URL

• DISCOVERY_ENVIRONMENT_ID

• DISCOVERY_COLLECTION_ID

Then I run npm install and npm start:

Error: Missing required parameters: apikey
    at Object.getMissingParams (/Users/myuser/behind/watson-banking-chatbot/node_modules/ibm-cloud-sdk-core/lib/helper.js:102:11)
    at Object.validateInput (/Users/myuser/behind/watson-banking-chatbot/node_modules/ibm-cloud-sdk-core/auth/utils/helpers.js:61:39)
    at new IamAuthenticator (/Users/myuser/behind/watson-banking-chatbot/node_modules/ibm-cloud-sdk-core/auth/authenticators/iam-authenticator.js:47:17)
    at getAuthenticatorFromEnvironment (/Users/myuser/behind/watson-banking-chatbot/node_modules/ibm-cloud-sdk-core/auth/utils/get-authenticator-from-environment.js:63:29)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/myuser/behind/watson-banking-chatbot/app.js:50:10)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:955:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:991:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:811:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:723:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:848:19)

I even tried to do it again (deleting repo), but the same result is printed.

The chat starts with a yes or no question with buttons, but the yes button is not working for me.

Current deploy ends with workspace ID needed. This has been automated in watson-online-store and should do similar here.

Please refer to the following document for details and migration instructions https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/cf-deployment-tracker-client-node/wiki/migrating-to-the-new-metrics-tracker-client.

@markstur Facing this issue! Please help!

Repository URL is not valid. The repository must be on https://git.ng.bluemix.net

I am finding it hard for the Chatbot to answer any Discovery Questions from the docs. Ant tips?

See examples below - it is using the Conversation answers based in Confidence level even though I am typing in questions straight from the docs

It is picking up the Conversation intent and responding

Demo Github Issues.docx

I was wondering if I can use it in Android application

It appears that this tutorial is suffering from the same incorrect api key credentials to the Watson Assistant as several of the other tutorials on the site. The same error message appears in the logs as in this linked issue, and the same fix needs to be applied after the app is built by the pipeline.

IBM/watson-google-assistant#36

the video should show:

• how to deploy the app with the deploy to bluemix button
• basic interaction with the app

The Deploy to Bluemix (via button) is broken because the manifest requests 'free' but the plans changed so now we need to request 'lite'

The automatic setup of Discovery typically tries to create a collection before the environment is ready. This causes an error. On restart (should be automatic on bluemix) the problem goes away.

Ideally the code would do some wait-for-available logic to make this more seamless.

2 problems...

1. "undefined" is just a coding error on that error message. In this case it has a location to use.

2. Why not return details for Mombai? This is happening because this pattern was split into US/India versions. The India version has both Mombai and NY while the US version is just unable to return details when specifically asked about Mombai. Why not answer?

Watson says I should "Upgrade to the latest version to enable new features" with the current workspace loaded from JSON. I'm assuming it should be upgraded, tested, exported so that we can get rid of that message and also validate with latest version.

the example in the video and screenshot is cryptic and the Assistant dialog no longer recognizes it. A more clear version of the question works fine.

Need to fix the intents or at least fix the examples.

Hi,

How can I translate this chatbot in french ?

tks,

Skipping a deployment with the script provider because this repo's name does not match one specified in .travis.yml's deploy.on.repo: IBM/conversational-banking

Hi, I try to figure out How watson-conversation-setup.js and watson-discovery-setup.js are used to setup Watson services in IBM cloud? Where are they called? Is there any additional required configuration?

I like to reuse the same logic.

Thanks
Lee

Attempted to create a Wealth Management Chatbot project from the FinTech Starter kit. The creation of the project failed with no error information. See attached screen capture.

The automation of the Assistant skill upload no longer works with the default permissions. Need to document workaround.

I tried 'Deploy to IBM Cloud' option, but it fails.

It fails with the error - 'Start unsuccessful'.

All services are provisioned. But application is crashing continuously

The input box is resizing so I don't see all my text.

Some of the other centering and sizing looks a little off too. TBD. Looks like stylesheet regression.

Retrieve and Rank , docs do not upload ,except the docx ones. Any ideas ? I have the conversion service too

Travis are now recommending removing the sudo tag.

"If you currently specify sudo: false in your .travis.yml, we recommend removing that configuration"

Function got renamed (was a typo) but is still referenced in the dialog html.
Was partially fixed.

In step 2 (Create Config Map), it says...
The other settings for Assistant and Discovery were collected during the earlier setup steps (DISCOVERY_COLLECTION_ID, DISCOVERY_ENVIRONMENT_ID and SKILL_ID).
There is no setup step in either this document or in the parent tutorial document (https://github.com/IBM/watson-banking-chatbot/blob/master/README.md). Please add a link to the "earlier setup step".

In step 2 config map screen shot, it shows key and value for TONE_ANALYZER_APIKEY and TONE_ANALYZER_URL but the chatbot tutorial step 2 (https://github.com/IBM/watson-banking-chatbot/blob/master/README.md) doesn't indicate adding TONE_ANALYZER service ... nor does the table above this screen shot.

Mark and Saurav,

I saw you names on the code pattern for "Create a cognitive banking chatbot".

I am trying to install this and seem to have most of it working. But I cannot seem to get the responses correct for Watson Discovery or Natural Language Understanding. Has something changed?

I am running this local so I can see the log messages go by. Here is what I get when I ask the following in chat:
"can use atm in any city" - response: "Sorry, I cannot understand that. Please rephrase the question." It does not look like it is getting parsed and run in Discovery.
"can I use an atm in any city" - response: "Sorry I currently do not have an appropriate response for your query. Our customer care executive will call you in 24 hours." But it does look like it is getting into Discovery.
"do you have branch in mumbai" - response: "Sorry, I cannot understand that. Please rephrase the question." Looks like it recognizes this as a location, but it seems to go back to Assistant.

I installed this with the "Run locally" option. Initially when I just did the "Deploy to IBM Cloud" option, it seems to do something strange with the Discovery and NLU service. So I dropped both of those services and recreated them.

It seems like Coversation Assistant and Tone Analyzer are working fine for the pattern.

Is there any way to help me diagnose the problem? I am willing to set up a Web Session at any time to run through this with you.

Thanks for any help.
Brendan

The stored assistant dialog JSON was updated. It was tweaked to work in the UI, but is now the API upload needs fixing.

Also, quick test got this "Service offering 'assistant' not found." -- so it looks like the manifest.yml is wrong now too???

"do you have branch in mumbai" - response: "Sorry, I cannot understand that. Please rephrase the question." Looks like it recognizes this as a location, but it seems to go back to Assistant.

This probably broke when the dialog was pruned to work with a light plan.

This pattern can not be executed with a lite plan Watson Assistant instance due to the lite plan limit of 100 dialog nodes. Is it possible to reduce the number of dialog nodes in banking.json to enable folks with lite accounts to benefit from this code pattern?

I am using chrome webkit for speech recognition since it works much better for my purposes. But how can I implement this tool in the right way ? My text does not get analysed by watson by doing it like this...

 if(finalTranscripts.includes('?')){
           API.sendRequest(finalTranscripts, this);


          }

Can someone help me out ?

CONTRIBUTING.md points to github.ibm.com
It should point to https://github.com/IBM/watson-banking-chatbot

Creating app watson-banking-chatbot-20190408212730597...
Mapping routes...
Binding services...
FAILED
Unexpected Response
Response code: 409
CC code: 60016
CC error code: CF-AsyncServiceInstanceOperationInProgress
Description: An operation for service instance wbc-discovery-service is in progress.

Finished: FAILED

Better description of how the stuff is auto-uploaded, then add the custom upload instructions as optional at the end.

Better description of what you can ask the bot. The Disco retrieval is tricky.

2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR fs.js:114
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR throw err;
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR ^
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'data/conversation/workspaces/banking.json'
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR at Object.openSync (fs.js:443:3)
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:343:35)
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR at Object. (/home/vcap/app/app.js:93:37)
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:776:30)
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:787:10)
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
2019-08-23T14:00:56.16-0700 [APP/PROC/WEB/0]ERR at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
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Mark and Saurav,

I saw you names on the code pattern for "Create a cognitive banking chatbot".

I am trying to install this and seem to have most of it working. But I cannot seem to get the responses correct for Watson Discovery or Natural Language Understanding. Has something changed?

I am running this local so I can see the log messages go by. Here is what I get when I ask the following in chat:
"can use atm in any city" - response: "Sorry, I cannot understand that. Please rephrase the question." It does not look like it is getting parsed and run in Discovery.
"can I use an atm in any city" - response: "Sorry I currently do not have an appropriate response for your query. Our customer care executive will call you in 24 hours." But it does look like it is getting into Discovery.
"do you have branch in mumbai" - response: "Sorry, I cannot understand that. Please rephrase the question." Looks like it recognizes this as a location, but it seems to go back to Assistant.

I installed this with the "Run locally" option. Initially when I just did the "Deploy to IBM Cloud" option, it seems to do something strange with the Discovery and NLU service. So I dropped both of those services and recreated them.

It seems like Coversation Assistant and Tone Analyzer are working fine for the pattern.

Is there any way to help me diagnose the problem? I am willing to set up a Web Session at any time to run through this with you.

Thanks for any help.
Brendan

I want to use this chatbot in Android app how can I do that ?

I am trying to deploy the FAQ bot but I am facing a few challenges. I have a few questions too

1. Importing a skill with the banking.json file is failing after multiple retries with an error "We could not import your Skill. Unable to fetch access token for account: 382fd61942c14fa287c5f95e3c1b5274"
2. Can this FAQ bot be tweaked for a different domain by changing the documents uploaded for the discovery service (and not having any intents, entities and dialogs)?

Thanks!