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How can I use bot builder to capture data in a conversation bot?



Edited May 20, 2024


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Hi Isaiah Allekotte

Thanks for this.

Three questions:

  1. I'm assuming we have to have a 'transfer to agent' step even if we are in an after hours condition branch of the flow, otherwise the ticket won't be created? So essentially 'transfer to agent' is the step that creates the ticket even though we might be out of business hours.
  2. What types of fields are supported in flow builder? Is the documentation somewhere listing the supported field types. Sorry, I tried googling and couldn't find anything. It would be great to be able to use the description field so when a ticket is created, we could ask the customer for a summary of their request and it would be in the body of the ticket (description) instead of a custom field*.
  3. Is it possible to present a form for customers to complete as a step? I guess the workaround could be to send them to the relevant form page via a button/url link - it's just that this method is a bit jarring ;)

* The reason for this is if we create a custom field (such as a text field) to capture some additional request details from the customer in the messaging widget, this field must be viewable by an end user. This would then need to be on a ticket form otherwise the ticket won't display this information in the ticket, and therefore if a customer goes directly to a Help Centre (HC) form, they will see the custom field asking for additional details etc - which doesn't make sense as the normal description field is already there. I know we can hide fields etc by customising the HC theme, but this doesn't help Zendesk customers who might not know how to do this.

Many thanks

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Joyce

Zendesk Customer Care

Hello,
 
To answer your questions:
  1. The 'Transfer to agent' step is a required step in the bot flow in order for tickets to be created on messaging requests sent within and outside your business hours. You can also check this article for more information about this step.
  2. Bot builder only supports Text and Dropdown fields. The article Why aren't all my custom fields appearing as options in the bot builder? provides more information on this.
  3. Flow builder doesn’t support forms today. To capture information, you can use the Ask for details to collect information from end users during the conversation. Or like the workaround you are thinking of, presenting a relevant form link to the customer. 
 
Hope this helps!

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Any updates on when/if the Zendesk Answer Bot will allow us to add a stage/step to link to forms? We do not currently use the “Transfer to Agent” stage/step, as we work remotely and have a small team. Ideally, we would like all unresolved chats to lead to forms for ticket submission.

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Gin Atkins

Zendesk Product Manager

Hi Betty,
You could use the send message step, adding a button with a URL to a linked form. More information can be found here.

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Hello, do we know if soon it's going to be able to capture data also on Social (whatsapp, facebook) bots without having to use SunCo ? Seems like a huge limitation. Thank you

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