2 minutes read You may want your bot to speak first when launched on your website. Example: Greet the user or show a context-based recommendation, and then the user can start the conversation accordingly. In this tutorial we will see how to act proactively in Botpress. To make the bot act proactively, below Read more…
< 1 minute read Botpress uses SQLite by default and provides Postgres support out of the box. In cases where you need high security, data integrity and reliability, you should use Postgres. Botpress supports Postgres 9.5 or higher. This tutorial will see how to switch from SQLite to Postgres in Botpress. Main principle SQLite: Read more…
< 1 minute read In order to enable Pro license in Botpress for your production system, you need to contact the botpress team and according to your needs they will provide a trial license for some duration. This trial license is provided based on below information Hostname: Hostname of the box where your bot Read more…
< 1 minute read Let us see how to upgrade Botpress bot to the latest Botpress version. Follow below steps. Export bot from old version in admin page (This would create a bot_<botid>_<timestamp>.tgz file) and import in the new version by providing bot id and the import file. Download latest botpress binary from official Read more…
3 minutes read This tutorial we will see how to get started with React to extend existing capabilities of Botpress, by createing custom components. We will also answer what, why andcreate first react code. What An open source javascript library for building user interfaces. It can be used with both single page and Read more…
4 minutes read Botpress is an excellent bot framework, which is on-prem, and open-source, with plenty of options for customizations. This already has some built-in components like text, card, carousel, image, and dropdown, but what if we want something entirely different. Let us create a custom component in Botpress? In this tutorial, we Read more…
1 minute read Working on a terminal is so much fine, to add up on this fun here are 6 clever Linux commands that are a must to know, that takes less time on your part to display information in interesting and useful ways. at This can run a command at a specific Read more…
< 1 minute read Update 14/09/2020: Now you can create your custom module using a new tool that you can download from here. Checkout above video for more details. The simplest way that worked for me was to copy the existing complete-module to a custom module, say test-module. Copy examples\module-templates\complete-module to modules\test-module location Next, Read more…
< 1 minute read You are ready with your chatbot, now is the time to place your chatbot in your million dollar website and start engaging customers. In this post we will see how to add Botpress Chat Widget to your website using a JavaScript code snippet. This code snippet has to be placed Read more…
< 1 minute read I had a requirement where I needed to display the timestamp in each dialog. For this to work we will see how we can create a message wrapper over dialog in Botpress. This is done by creating a controller which uses a wrapper and added this controller to lite\index.jsx Note: Read more…