[Question] How to send hidden message to bot on button click?

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[Question] How to send hidden message to bot on button click? #3285

Closed SerendioSoftwares closed 7 years ago

SerendioSoftwares commented 7 years ago

System Information

SDK Language: Node
Development Environment: Botbuilder

Issue Description

The 2nd parameter is displayed as user send-back on Button click in Hero-Card botbuilder. I would communication to occur without an explicit message on the chat screen. For eg: the bottom code could display "Selected" to the user while sending "60" to the bot.

Code Example

builder.CardAction.imBack(session, "60", "$40-$60")

PrasadGautham commented 7 years ago

postback doesnt work???

nrobert commented 7 years ago

If you have a look to Rich card documentation (here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-add-rich-card-attachments) you will see that you have the following choices (at least):

imBack = Text of the message to send to the bot (from the user who clicked the button or tapped the card). This message (from user to bot) will be visible to all conversation participants via the client application that is hosting the conversation.
postBack = Text of the message to send to the bot (from the user who clicked the button or tapped the card). Some client applications may display this text in the message feed, where it will be visible to all conversation participants.

So you should change imBack to postBack

SerendioSoftwares commented 7 years ago

Thank you for the replies. My problem is with this aspect of postback: " For some channels this may get mapped to a imBack."

I wish to send back a Json object and it would look really odd if it were to appear on the chatbox.

Additionally how do I send a secret message to the chatbot apart from posting the user reply on the screen.

nrobert commented 7 years ago

On which channel(s) do you want to send your json?

SerendioSoftwares commented 7 years ago

At the moment, skype and messenger- both dont have this problem. But we plan on expanding to Kik, Slack and as many channels as possible.

And, How do I send a secret message to the chatbot apart from posting the user reply on the screen?

nwhitmont commented 7 years ago

The postBack action type is the only way to do this, but as you mentioned, only some channels support it.