Orchestrator - QnA Maker Alterations support

[AndreaLeonangeli]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm currently exploring QnA Maker Alterations and the ability of the Bot Framework Orchestrator to handle them. With a .qna QnA Maker knowledge Base file definition and a separate .json/.qna (downloaded and converted with the appropriate bf-cli commands) file of QnA Maker Alterations, the command to create an orchestrator .blu file does not seem to take into account the QnA maker Alterations.

The consequence is that a given query that uses an alteration may result with a high confidence score when QnA Maker receives it but QnA Maker will never receive the query if the Orchestrator does know nothing about Alterations, giving a low score in the "orchestration layer".

Describe the solution you'd like

The command bf orchestrator:create takes into account QnA Maker Alterations feature in a given .qna or .json file and the Orchestrator is able to address a user query that contains an alteration to QnA Maker.

[jrpavoncello]

+1 This was a feature of the old dispatch-cli tool that we relied on heavily. Is there a workaround for the time being?

[ChandraChinta]

After installing botframework cli on latest node, Orchestrator commands not working. Is Orchestrator production ready? Is there any updated documentation step by step guide to configure bf orchestrator ? Is it recommended to use it on production or not?

[tracyboehrer]

As QnA is on a deprecation path, no new QnA features will be added.