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Answer BOT Step limit
Posted Oct 04, 2023
I have reached my limit! Well not me personally, but the Answer BOT has. It seems there is a 2000 step limit, in total, that you can have. Each of my Answers take 18 steps, some a couple more, some a couple less.
I am told the reason for this is speed and efficiency, and more than that it will cause performance issues. It would help to know what kind of performance issues.
We need somewhere around 3000 steps to in order to implement the BOT. With out that, its a non-starter for us.
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Daniel Aron
Hi all, answer linking is now available when building bots. With answer linking you create a reusable set of steps as an answer, and then link to it, rather than duplicating a series of steps in multiple places throughout your bot configuration. We expect this will help to avoid hitting the step limit, the main issue highlighted in this thread. Please give it a try and let us know how you go!
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Shawna James
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Lisa Tam
Hi Mike,
Thanks for sharing your feedback. This limit is in place to ensure no publishing issues will occur and also to keep the canvas performance optimised where it can be edited with no significant lag.
Can you share more details about your bot answer flow designs? Eg. Does it contain a lot of repetitive steps? If so we do have answer linking planned for Q4, 23 to help with managing repetitive flows which should help reduce the number of steps in the bot.
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Elina
Same with us! We do have many repetitive Flows, since this is the only way our customers can find the right answer to their inquiry. Are there any news to when the answer linking will be live? Thank you very much!
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Daniel Aron
Hi Elina, thanks for the feedback. The team is actively working on answer linking and at this stage we expect to release it in January 2024.
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Mike Petersen
I understand that you are working on Answer Linking, but can you tell me a bit about it and how it is going to work.
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Morgan
We've hit the limit too. We have the same agent handoff steps in all of our bot flows, so it sounds like the new solution will greatly benefit us.
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Ruby Montenegro
We went from a very complex bot provider with no limitations like this to the Zendesk messaging bot. This 2000-step limitation is a big hurdle for our use case and was never mentioned. Answer linking will be helpful, but it can only do so much. We want to expand our bot to be as useful for containment as our old one. Sometimes answers are similar but exclude some parts of other answers, so custom steps are required even though the answers are similar. Any optimizations in this step limitation issue would be very beneficial for our bot.
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Rachel Gerard
This was presented to us as a solution to help filter out a lot of the frequent inquiries we get. The 2000 step limit was never mentioned once and now we just hit that limit. We need more steps as we have 7 brands to account for + selling direct. 2,000 steps is just not enough.
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Shiyu Zhu
Thank you for your feedback. Our team is currently working on a solution to the step limit issue, which will be released in the next few months. This feature allow you to reuse and link steps, eliminating the current problem.
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Isaac L.
It is January and it was mentioned that Answer Linking would be live by Q4 2023, and then that it would be live January 2024.
Is there a better expectation date for answer linking features to be implemented? I have hit the 2000 steps limit due to a very repetitive flow through the option steps offer progression. The Answer Linking would be the perfect resolution to the issue. Are we thinking February? March?
Is there any other idea you can provide as an alternative to providing "option like" questions to customers without manually adding hundreds of steps?
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Ruth Buan
+1 Isaac L.
Here are a few chatbot functions related to steps we've liked from our previous vendor:
Hope you can make these available this year!
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Amelia
We would also like the ability to be able to link to another step in the same flow.
For instance, if we include a step that presents five options for the different packages we offer, we would like the customer to be able to click on one option, return to the beginning, and then have the ability to click on another option if they desire further information.
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Natavia Morris-Lambo
This 2,000-step limit creates a large issue for me and my team. Linking Steps would be a great solution if the limit can't be increased. We have multiple options within an answer and each one needs a resolution question and transfer to the agent option. This counts for a large percentage of my step limit.
Is there any information on road mapping for this kind of function?
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