Amazon Lex - List

Amazon Lex - List

With Blahbox, it's possible to send a list to the virtual assistant's user using Amazon Lex

To make Blahbox display list , the JSON code below must be pasted in the "Custom Markup" of the appropriate "Response", in Amazon Lex Console:

  1. {
  2.     "bbox_list": {
  3.        "title": "Countries",
  4.       "items": [
  5.         {
  6.           "title": "United State",
  7.           "imageUri": "https://cdn1.eminza.com/images/product/600/034/6/034636/alfombra-velours-redonda-bandera-americana.jpg",
  8.           "textToSend": "United State",
  9.           "description": "Amazing Country"
  10.         },
  11.         {
  12.           "title": "Italy",
  13.           "imageUri": "https://previews.123rf.com/images/itana/itana1710/itana171000147/88367248-bandera-de-italia-en-forma-de-un-bot%C3%B3n-redondo-con-un-ligero-resplandor-y-una-sombra-el-s%C3%ADmbolo-del-d%C3%ADa-de-.jpg",
  14.           "textToSend": "Italy",
  15.           "description": "The best pasta"
  16.         }
  17.       ]      
  18.     }
  19. }

JSON Description

bbox_list
items
 Every item represents a line of the list. You can place as many items as you wish, although it's not recommended to place more than five
   title
 Title of the image
   imageUri
 URL of the image that you wish to display
   textToSend
 When the user clicks on the text, the text in that element is automatically sent to the assistant.
   description
 Description. (Text)


Limitation: The space available for in the "Custom Markup" is 1000 characters. If more items are required to be added to the list and the JSON code exceeds 1000 characters, the list must be implemented with a Lambda function as shown in the following instructions:


Blahbox interprets every element of the JSON and shows it to the user as is shown below:



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