convo.ask not receiving the callback on replies- Ciscospark

[rajmohan1955]

Hi Guys, I have created a room on cisco spark and I am trying to initiate a conversation in that room. I am able to ask the question in the room but I am not receiving the control in the callback when someone replies.

bot.startConversation({
user: TestRoomId,
channel: TestRoomId,
text: 'dummy'}, 
function(err, convo) {
         convo.ask({
         channel: TestRoomId,
         text: 'What are you doing?',
         pattern:'yes'}, 
         function(res, convo) {
                   convo.say(res.text + ' is not a good enough answer.')
                   convo.next()
                   }) })

[jonchurch]

User needs to be a user id. Conversations are carried out 1 to 1 and therefore will ignore any messages sent by users other than the one you initially start the convo with.

This might work as a DM convo, channel and user are probably the same there idk

Spark is unique in that for some events, like bot_channel_join, the user field passed on the payload is the subject, not the actor, of an action.

IE bot_join has user: <BOT_IDENTITY> with an actor_id: <ACTING_USER> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:49 PM rajmohan1955 notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Guys, I have created a room on cisco spark and I am trying to initiate a conversation in that room. I am able to ask the question in the room but I am not receiving the control in the callback when someone replies.

bot.startConversation({ user: TestRoomId, channel: TestRoomId, text: 'dummy'}, function(err, convo) { convo.ask({ channel: TestRoomId, text: 'What are you doing?', pattern:'yes'}, function(res, convo) { convo.say(res.text + ' is not a good enough answer.') convo.next() }) })

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[rajmohan1955]

@jonchurch what I am trying to do is, I want the bot to post a question on the cisco spark room based on some logic. Then basis the answer in the room I want to take necessary action. What is the way to make this happen.

[benbrown]

You should pass the text only into convo.ask. Those extra options may be confusing Botkit.

Also, make sure you @mention your bot every time - in Spark, bots can only hear direct mentions.