Form Builder (Deprecated)

A simple module that allows you to add form flows to the Node Bot Builder SDK.

Installation

npm install botbuilder-forms

Usage

const builder = require('botbuilder')
const formBuilder = require('botbuilder-forms')

const connector = new builder.ConsoleConnector().listen()

const questions = [
  {
    field: 'Number',
    question: 'What is your mobile number?',
    prompt: 'Is this your phone number: {Number}?',
    validation: '^(07[0-9]{8,12}|447[0-9]{7,11})$',
    repromptText: 'Sorry, that doesn\'t look right. Please enter a valid mobile number beginning with 07 or +447'
  },
  {
    field: 'Postcode',
    question: 'What is your postcode?'
  }
]

const bot = new builder.UniversalBot(connector, [
  function (session) {
    session.beginDialog('FormBuilder:/', {questions: questions})
  },
  function (session, results) {
    console.log(results)
  }
])

bot.library(formBuilder.createLibrary())

Questions

The questions object is passed into the dialog through the dialog arguments parameter. The questions object can consist of the following properties:

• field
• question
• prompt
• validation
• repromptText

The only mandatory properties are field and question, unless you are planning on passing entities as well, in which case the prompt and repromptText fields also become mandatory. The validation property consists of a regex string, which is later converted to a RegExp.

Entities

Entities can be passed to the form builder via the arguments parameter. In order to format them correctly, the entityCheck helper has been included. It takes the following arguments:

• {array} entities - An array of entity data that been returned from LUIS.
• {array} requirements - An array of entity titles that you want to detect.
• {integer} threshold - The minimum LUIS confidence threshold that you want each entity to meet.
• {function} callback - A callback to return the results.

It can be used as following:

  bot.dialog('EntityExample', [
    function (session, args, next) {
      formBuilder.entityCheck(args.entities, ['Number'], 0.7, function (data) {
        session.dialogData.entities = data
      })
      builder.Prompts.confirm(session, 'Do you want to proceed?')
    },
    function (session, results) {
      session.beginDialog('FormBuilder:/', {questions: questions, entities: session.dialogData.entities})
    },
    function (session, results) {
      console.log(results)
      session.endDialog('Thank you for completing the form.')
    }
  ])

  let questions = [
    {
      field: 'Number',
      question: 'What is your mobile number?',
      prompt: 'Is this your phone number: {Number}?',
      validation: '^(07[0-9]{8,12}|447[0-9]{7,11})$',
      repromptText: 'Sorry, that doesn\'t look right. Please enter a valid mobile number beginning with 07 or +447'
    },
    {
      field: 'Postcode',
      question: 'What is your postcode?'
    }
  ]

A working example can be found in examples/entities.js. Simple run npm install and node examples/entities.

Examples

The following examples are available:

Basic

Basic form flow without LUIS entities. Run with node examples/basic.

Entities

Similar form flow to 'Basic' example, however, it makes use of the entityCheck helper to process any entities LUIS has identified. Run with node examples/entities.

Tests

npm test

Contributing

Pull requests are more than welcome. Please ensure you abide by Standard JS coding standards.