The list below represents the features, updates, and fixes included in the Orbita Voice GA Release for April 2021.
Breaking Changes
The inline login with HTML directive is no longer supported in the docked chatbot. Consider using Adaptive Cards for inline login. Refer, Login using Adaptive cards.
The Implicit grant will be deprecated on April 30, 2021, by amazon. It is imperative that you switch to Auth code grant authorization type as soon.
Please refer to the below document for more details.
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/login-with-amazon/implicit-grant.html#deprecation-notice
Experience Manager
Clicking on the Project Title on the top left corner of the screen will take you back to the Project Home page.
Clicking on the Orbita icon will take you back to the Experience Manager home screen (Project listing screen).
While creating Lists, you will see the “Remaining characters” counter at the bottom of each list value. If the number of characters exceeds 140, you will see a warning message “Exceeded the slot value character limit of 140 characters“ but you can still save it.
When you try to publish a skill to Alexa with the slot values having more than 140 characters, you will get an error message as below
Attention: This project currently contains a slot that has characters that exceed the Amazon limit of 140. Please update the project accordingly. For more information, https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/create-the-interaction-model-for-your-skill.html
Extended the new User Interface to other modules including Intent Library, Lists, Answers, Calendars, Simple FAQ, Adaptive Cards, Prototypes, Dashboard, Email Templates, Schema.
In the Globa email templates, replaced the token field with the Select Persona field. You can now choose the Persona from the drop-down.
Experience Designer
In the Answers Manager node, you can now select a Fallback KB after selecting the K-Graph (Primary KB). If the topic/relationship pair doesn't return a fact from the Primary KB, the Answers Manager node will then check for an answer from the fallback Fallback KB before replying to the chatbot user.
The Fallback KB will be visible only if the K-Graph is selected.
Fallback KB is an optional field.
In the Say node, you can define a hyperlink to trigger an utterance.
In the below example, we have used a link to trigger the “Hello world” utterance.
1. Double click on the say Say node to edit it. Select the Text tab.
2. Select a word in the Chat text field of the Text tab.
3. Click on the link Link icon.
4. Select utterance:// from the protocol Protocol dropdown.
5. Give the utterance in the URL field.
In the chatbot, clicking on the link will return the utterance “Hello world“.
The new features that are implemented in the SMS node are “Unicode scalars, characters, segments, Message size, Total size sent”.
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Adaptive cards will now be able to handle user-defined functions that can be executed from CustomJS on success and on error. Refer
Answers
While adding a Related Topic, the Select a Related Topic dropdown will only fetch 15 topics from the KB. You can search for the topics in the search field.
Added the error messages that are specific to the errors encountered while importing Knowledge Base.
When we import a default type k-graph into a content KB, then the warning message is as shown.
When we import a content type k-graph into a default KB, then the warning message is as shown.
When we import one type of content KB into another type, then the warning message is as shown.
When we upload a KB to another KB where none of the other schemas are matched with the uploading one, then the error message is as shown.
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Fixed the bug that displays error Duplicate Intent Name even with only one intent added
In the Experience Designer > say node, even if the user checks the “Disable Any State Check For Next Request” option, the next request is triggered by the intent with the state set as “Any State“. This is now fixed.
For more information on the usage of State, refer How do I use state?.
We have fixed the broken links and updated the duplicated videos. You can now click on the corresponding link to get a video tutorial to learn more.
The bug that logs you out of Experience Manager even if you click on the Stay signed in button on the Session Expiry pop-up is now fixed.
In IOS Safari, the UI bugs such as issues with scrolling, date and time directive overshoot into the keyboard, date and time icon missing, empty space between the chatbot and the keyboard are now fixed.
When the project side navigation menu is minimized, the bug that doesn't allow you to click on the other Main menu icons (Create, Design, Report, Develop) when one of the main menu icons is already selected is now fixed.
The collapsed project side navigation menu disappears on clicking the ESC button on the keyboard. This is now fixed.
In Flow studio, editing the flow details and clicking on the save button will no longer open the flow studio flow.
Improved the performance while bulk indexing documents to Elastic search.
Removed the hardcoded text that is rendered while using Rating and Yes/No controls in Flow studio in Alexa display devices.
In the Organization Settings > Redis cache, keys will not be generated when cache TTL is set to zero.
Broken links when rendered through the chatbot are now fixed. The chatbot user will now be able to click on the link and open them without errors.