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user1371314

Reputation: 832

Chaining one or more dialogs in bot framework dynamically

I have a conversation where a user can enter into a form. Before they can enter the form they need to authenticate and then potentially after authentication they may need to answer a few more questions before the target form is invoked.

So lets say I have 3 dialogs A, B and C. The aim is to display C but we may need to display A and potentially also B first.

How do i neatly create a chain that caters for all scenarios (only C, A and C and A, B and C etc)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 870

Answers (1)

Ezequiel Jadib
Ezequiel Jadib

Reputation: 14787

You don't need a chain for this. You set C as your root dialog. There you add the logic to check for example if it's authenticated or not. If it's not, then you FWD the message to the A dialog.

From the A dialog you should go back to C and C should decide if this goes to B or not.

In the AzureBot sample, they are doing something pretty similar here. You will see that they are trying to retrieve an auth token; and if the token is not present, they forward the message to the dialog responsible for handling the auth.

If you don't know how to call/fwd to dialogs, please read this.

Upvotes: 1

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