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watsonx Assistant

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Export and Import only Dialog

Allow to import only dialogue , right now, you can only import or export intentions and entities separately, but it is necessary to export a dialog of a workspace and import it into another workspace. if possible, the posibility to export only sel...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Allow the confidence threshold criteria for disambiguation to be configurable

Currently WA (premium) uses a calculation of confidence within 55% of top intent for disambiguation candidates. This is too sensitive for some training sets (the range increases with higher confidence levels, triggering disambiguation more often t...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Ability to configure one entity as a synonym for another entity

This will enable configuring WA entities with less effort. There are scenarios where one entity and all its synonyms can be applied to another entity with additional synonyms (Mostly in a hierarchical entity model). As of now we have to manually c...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Watson Conversation - loops for dialog responses

AFAIK, the expression language does not allow looping through data. I a conversation, you often have the situation that multiple entities are recognized. You can easily create a response for one recognized entity. But you may want to loop through...
about 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Enable Instana monitoring for Watson Assistant

Instana not possible to use for Watson Assistant. WA pods are evicted. The root cause of the issues was that the Instana product injects a jar file into a temporary directory, called EmptyDir, which has a preset limit of 1Mi. The Instana jar is ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Close API gaps for dev to test to prod deployment process

Need well documented and supported process for building skills / collections on a dev environment, then test, then propagate to two separate production clusters for HA DR.We seem close to that with export/import APIs that can be driven by CI/CD pi...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 1

Analytics in Read Only Profile for Continual Improvement

BMC Helix integrates Watson Assistant to support Virtual Agent activities for Enterprise customers. The continual improvement process with Helix Knowledgebase (external to Watson) requires Weak Understanding output/analytics access for knowledge w...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

When changing Intent name, offer to change corresponding dialog nodes

When we change an intent name, then all the dialog nodes that use it have errors because the old intent name no longer exists. We suggest that when an intent name is changed, then the option is provided to also change where it is used in dialog.
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Add Video Option to Watson Assistant

Currently, users have to leave the Assistant to watch a video. It would be great to have "video" as an options just like "text" or "image".
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Add logs API for skill versions

I would like to be able to maintain context and history in my chat-application that is using the skill versioning in Watson Assistant. My chat-app is working with the development-version of the Skill. But when I assign the Assistant any other vers...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Planned for future release