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Botpress uses SQLite by default and also 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. Main principle SQLite: Self contained, very lightweight, file based and fully open-source RDBMS known for Read more…
In order to get Pro license 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 will be Read more…
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 site. Copy existing bot folder from your older workspace to new one a. Read more…
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…
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…
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…
I had a requirement where I needed to display the timestamp in each dialog. This is done by creating a controller which uses a wrapper and added this controller to lite\index.jsx Note: Since v12, debugger already uses the MessageWrapper and only one can be set at a time. Instead, enable Read more…
Assuming you already have a custom CSS file if not below are some pointers on some CSS classes I modified. Copy your custom stylesheet to modules\channel-web\assets\infa-style.css (here infa-style.css is my custom stylesheet) In Botpress v11.x provide details of the above stylesheet in modules\channel-web\src\views\lite\main.jsx file In Botpress v12.x (latest at the Read more…