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Copper Contributor

Jun 19, 2020

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Skill Dialog: endDialog() does not work

Hi, I am implementing a dialogRootBot that will call a skillDialogBot. My dialogRootBot is able to invoke the skillDialogBot. The conversation can progress until the point where the skillDial...

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Abhijit_MSFT
Jun 21, 2020
voonsionglum, End dialog method provides the collected data as return value back to the parent context. This can be the bot's turn handler or an earlier active dialog on the dialog stack. This is how the prompt classes are designed. Please check documentation (Implement Dialog, Using Dialogs)to get the clear idea on how Dialogs work

voonsionglum

Copper Contributor

Jun 23, 2020

For the sake of reference, when using stepContext.beginDialog(), it appears that we cannot reliably endDialog() if the waterfall dialog does not have a prompt step added. If there is a use case where we want to use a skillDialogBot and call a specific dialog in the skillDialogBot via stepContext.beginDialog(), and the called dialog is only doing processing (eg. call REST APIs) without the need to prompt users for further information, at the end of the processing, we can opt to end the conversation instead.

Hence, assuming we have finalStep() bound to the waterfall dialog as the last step, just use the following in finalStep()

return await stepContext.context.sendActivity({
   type: ActivityTypes.EndOfConversation,
	code: EndOfConversationCodes.CompletedSuccessfully,
	value: stepContext.options
});