Glossary:Input

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An Input is the text string used to match to an incoming query from a user.

For example:

The Verbots KnowledgeBase contains Rules. The screen shot below shows a loaded KnowledgeBase which contains the Rule "This is a Hello Rule". You can see that it contains one "Input" with the text string "Hello".

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When a user types in "Hello" the Verbot will respond with the Output "Hello! How are you today?"

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As you can see, Inputs are a very important part of Rules. You can also use synonyms as Inputs. For example, you might want a Rule that fires when a user types "Hello" or "Hi," To create a Rule like this, you could add two Inputs for that Rule: one Input as "Hello" and one as "Hi."

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Also, you can create a synonym file for "hello" that contains both, "hello" and "hi" in "Tools-->Synonyms". Once you have created the Synonym file, you can just type in "(hello)" in the Input box and it should match to both "hello" and "hi."

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For more information on Synonym creation see: Creating Synonyms.
For more information on using Synonyms see: Using Synonyms.
For more information on Synonyms see: Synonym.

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