Questions and Allen

Allen's Assistant might be jealous, but realizes everything is fine when he discusses Action links - what this little known feature about the Assistant is and how powerful they can be for Marketing or many many other uses.   Google's documentation:  https://developers.google.com/assistant/engagement/action-links

Sometimes things do change for the better! Although how we handle Lists and Collections with Actions Builder is different, there are some advantages to this new approach. Allen answers your questions about why the new method is better, and how we use Lists and Collections under Actions Builder.

Are you having problems with writing training phrases that handle when users select a List option? There's a reason they don't work, and Allen explains why!

The new Actions Builder sounds like it's good (it is!), but is it right for my needs? That answer may be more complicated, as Allen explores with the help of a chart from Denis Valášek. (You can see Denis' chart at https://bit.ly/3fsagg6)

Giorgio Robino asked a question about the differences between Scenes in Action Builder and Contexts in Dialogflow. Allen provides an answer!

Your user has said something, and you'd like to move from the Intent you're currently in to a different one. How can you do this? Allen answers that question - but it may not be what you want to hear.

One of the rich response types is a card, but how can we use it effectively? Allen discusses a few ideas, and a couple of things to be careful about.

From "simple" responses to a fully Interactive Canvas and everything in between, Allen takes a quick run-through of what our options are to respond and prompt the user in our Actions.

During a Scene in the Actions Builder, the Assistant takes several steps to come up with the message to send to the user. Allen explores how it builds the Prompt Queue and what it does.

The basic building block of the Action Builder is a Scene. But what do we do with it? Allen gives an overview of how a Scene works.

A new tool to play with! A new tool to confuse us! Allen gives a quick overview of the Actions Builder and Actions SDK and how they differ from Dialogflow.

People have lots of questions about what an Intent is and how to use them! Allen answers your questions while his Assistant contributes snark.

Allen takes a look at some of the tools you can use to get started building Actions for the Google Assistant

Allen answers your questions about how to get started developing for the Google Assistant.