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boogiehound
boogiehound

Reputation: 173

Get value of a suggest button in messenger

I've run in to some issues with suggest buttons in Facebook messenger. When i get the response from the user, i get the Title field back, and the value is lost. This works fine in the bot emulator, but not from Facebook messenger. Here is the code for creating the buttons:

        var reply = context.MakeMessage();
        reply.Text = "What can i do for you?";
        var suggests = new SuggestedActions();
        var actions = new List<CardAction>();
        foreach (var button in utter.Buttons)
        {
            actions.Add(new CardAction
            {
                Title = button.Text,
                Type = ActionTypes.ImBack,
                Value = button.Payload,
                Text = button.Payload,
                DisplayText = button.Text                    
            });
        }

        suggests.Actions = actions;
        reply.SuggestedActions = suggests;
        return reply;

When a user presses the button, i want the payload back to msbf, but i only get the button title. Could anyone please shed some light on what's happening here?

Version

I'm using Bot Builder version 3.12.2.4

Upvotes: 2

Views: 276

Answers (1)

boogiehound
boogiehound

Reputation: 173

This seems to be a bug in the BotBuider SDK. Adding 

activity.Text = activity.GetChannelData<dynamic>()?.message?.quick_reply?.payload ?? activity.Text;

in MessagesController.cs resovles the issue.

Solution from this issue on github: https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/issues/3555

Upvotes: 2

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