The list below represents the features, updates, and fixes included in the Orbita Voice GA Release for January 2020.
What’s new
Breaking Changes
In Answers, the property
msg.payload.orbita.multimodalis being deprecated from the next release.
Please consider using the newly added property pathmsg.payload.multiagentfor the same effect.
Experience Manager
In schemas, we introduced a new field type for the text area. The admin user will have control over the number of characters that are allowed in the text area.
"fieldType": "textarea"In Flow studio, added a new “Link flow” node which can link two flow studio flows.
During project export, you will now see a new option to download the json to a file.
The copy to clipboard option will be disabled if the export json file size is more than 1mb.
For more information, see Export and import modules from a projectProject import can be done using the file or by pasting the json code.
From this release, the web browser suggestions will be blocked in the Experience Manager’s text fields.
During project export/import, upon successfully exporting or importing the json, a notification popup that the export/import is successful is shown to the user.
Experience Designer
Empty pTags appended above and below the user’s chat bubble in the web chatbot is removed.
Changed the labels of the Content node.
Added a new tab ‘settings’ in the Bot view template node. The settings tab is preloaded with the default CSS values which are made editable.
Enabled VUX designers to edit the display name of the Orbita NLP node.
NLP
Added a new property ngram to the NLP response. If the ngram property is part of the request, the NLP service will generate ngrams for the utterance in the response.
Extended the NLP support to extract Entity values or its synonyms with the following characters ~\'-()!@%.,?/_; ${}+^[]<>
The duplicate entries in synonyms are removed from the NLP result.
A maximum of 10 entities can be selected in the NLP node.
The Confidence score is mapped per entity and the scoring is not done for all entities.
Flow Studio
Link flow node allows you to link two flows. A feature that is similar to flow jumping in the https://orbita.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OCS/pages/7471593/Guide+to+Flow+Studio#Programmatically-jumping-to-anywhere-in-the-flow document.
In Options(choose many) control, added a checkbox “none of the above” in the choices tab. Enabling this will include the “none of the above” option in the chatbot along with the other choices.
Answers
Bulk import/Export is available for topics, relationships, and interrogative listing screens.
The below properties when fed to the Answers manager node in Experience Designer, will override the default slots that are selected in the node.
msg.payload.orbita.answers.termmsg.payload.orbita.answers.relationshipmsg.payload.orbita.answers.whQuestionTopics that are not used in the facts will have an unused tag attached to them.
You can configure default fact content for a topic if no relationship is found. For this, you have to use the Any relationship from the dropdown while creating the fact content.
Enabled auto-complete feature to the buttons in the Facts edit screen.
Added a new tab “Reports” on the settings page. This tab contains the conflict in names within the Kgraph.
Conflicts between the topics' synonyms.
Conflicts between the relationships' synonyms.
Conflicts between the topic names and topic synonyms.
Conflicts between the topic names, topic synonyms, relationship names and relationship synonyms.
Autocomplete feature is enabled while adding related topics. An empty click on the text field will list all the topics except the current topic.
General Improvements
A few issues were fixed in the current release, including but not limited to the ones described here. If you have any questions regarding an issue not listed below, please contact us.
In Answers, any leading or trailing zeros given in the topic title will get trimmed.
In Answers, if no topic and no relationship is found in an utterance, the topic will not be taken from the session.
In Answers, the search is no more case sensitive.
In Answers, the timestamps change only if actual changes are made.
In Answers, Changing the letter case will not create new items.
Minor UI fixes in the chatbot.
The leading and trailing spaces present in the slots will now be trimmed while saving.
Improved the performance of the Deployment screen.
Fixed the bug on the profile picture in participant’s Calendar events.
When answering to the single input question, if a user gives an utterance that is not recognized as a valid response, the flow studio will not repeat the question but will assign the utterance to a new slot and proceed with the flow.
The flow versioning tab will be visible for all the projects (existing and new) in the environments that has flow versioning enabled.
The link-in and link-out nodes will now retain the links while exporting the Experience Designer flows through an API.
Engineering Notes
Additional technical information can be found in the Engineering Notes for each of the builds included in the GA Release.
Engineering Notes for Build 4.0.61&62