Quick Start

Last updated: July 18th, 2018

Create an account

Create an account from the VIABI website with your company email and your password.

Choose VIABI API

Fill your information and submit.

Your application will be reviewed and your account activated within 24h. You will receive an email with your conversational API credentials

Installation

Android

Download the Android version of VIABI Get it on Google Play

iOS

Login page

Login with your credentials and get access to the dashboard from your desktop device

Create conversation

Once your account is active you can create conversations and start making voice commands.

Login to Dialogflow, the conversational API made by Google with the credentials sent to you by email after that your account have been activated.

  1. Let's create an intent

  2. We are going to add in our example a training phrase
    Book a meeting for tomorrow at 9

  3. Surround the parameters we want to extract in our example
    Day : Tomorrow
    Time : at 9

  4. To make the user fill all the parameters, mark the as required and add a prompt
    Day : For what day ?
    Time : Which hour ?

Testing

You can test the training phrases in the right sidebar of the interface and see which parameters are extracted with the response. Once the testing phase in the conversational API are working you can make voice commands from the VIABI interface

Training phrases

The more you add training phrases, the more chance you will get to match a query from your users

Parameters

You can get the original user parameter input with $name_of_parameter.original

Followup intents

You can add intents that follows a previous one. In practical cases, you will sometimes ask for a user confirmation before continuing to the next steps. To do so, we will create a follow-up intent.

Let's take our previous example of booking a meeting. It could be a good idea to ask the user if the date extracted is correct and if he want to save it in his schedule.

We are going to :

  • Add a follow-up intent Yes for confirmation
  • Add responses for this intent

You can get the parameters filled from the previous intents by calling the context of this intent witch takes the form of #[name of the context].[name of the parameter].

More

You can have more information of how to use the conversational API from the official Dialogflow documentation.

Connect with your data

Sometimes you will need to save or display some information from your server. To do so, we will connect VIABI API with the data of your server.

PHP
With composer

composer require growithis/viabi:dev-master

Or

Download Github repository

Download from Github

Code sample
  1. Create a file named endpoint.php in the root directory of your application
  2. Copy and paste the current code to manage the request coming from the conversational API
  3. Make sure that your application endpoint is like https://yourdomaine.endpoint.php from your dashboard
<?php

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

use VIABI\VIABI;

$v = new VIABI();

$v->setApiKey('YOUR_API_KEY_TOKEN');

$action = $v->getAction();

date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');

if($action == 'savemeeting') {

$parameters = $v->getParameters();
$date = $parameters['date'];
$time = $parameters['time'];

/*

Your stuff here, in our example we will extract the parameters of the date and time of the meeting and the user ID and save them into the database

*/

$v->setSpeech("Meeting requested from user ID : ".$v->getUserId()." for ".date('Y-m-d',strtotime($date))." at ".date('H:i',strtotime($time))."");

$v->display("<h3 style='text-align:center'>Example of display</h3><table style='margin:auto;width:50%' border><tbody><tr><td style='width:50%'>Date</td><td>".date('Y-m-d',strtotime($date))."</td></tr><tr><td>Time</td><td>".date('H:i',strtotime($time))."</td></tr></table></tbody></table>");

//Set context and it's lifespan //$v->addContext("Context-name", "4");

/* return the response */ $v->response();

} ?>

API KEY TOKEN

Your API KEY TOKEN can be found from your dashboard when you are logged in your VIABI account

End point

Be sure that the endpoint filled in your API dashboard includes the code above

Meeting booking example

Back to our meeting booking example, go to the conversational API and choose the Bookmeeting intent

  1. Set the action to savemeeting
  2. Enable the fulfilment at the bottom of the page
Nodejs

Coming soon

Java

Coming soon

Python

Coming soon

Users

Sometimes we have multiple users who record or ask for some queries from the backend with VIABI. We want to be able to get their information from our backend.

Create users

From the Dashboard go to Users and add a new one


Add an email, password, private ID and phone number. The private ID is the ID that will be retrieved from the backend and with what we will be able to identify who made a record. In the previous example we will be able to know that a user added a meeting in the calendar and then we would be able to display it on it's schedule in a further functionnality.

Retrieve user data

User ID can be retrieved by from the Backend with the method getUserId() from the library of your preferred language in the section above

Support

Sometimes we have multiple users who record or ask for some queries from the backend with VIABI. We want to be able to get their information from our backend.

Contact us

Hope this documentation will help you to create your own VIABI and create wonderful apps for you and your users.

If you find any difficulty to make your VIABI API work, feel free to reach us support@growithis.com