ryanmark1867
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4 years ago @lchamber-luc - Facebook documents a 20 character limit for text in quick replies (the kinds of buttons we're using to display the movie names in step 3 of demo 1) -
"The text to display on the quick reply button. 20 character limit." in https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/reference/send-api/quick-replies/
I searched extensively and I don't see any way around this limit on the maximum text length for quick reply button text.
An alternative (has some risk for demo 1 at this stage) is to use a carousel rather than quick replies in step 3. The carousel could have the movie poster, movie title, and a button that when clicked would perform the same action as the quick replies in step 3 currently. Carousel title can be 80 characters long, so this would address the truncated movie title problem.
PROS:
- allows full movie title to be shown in step 3 of demo
CONS:
- non-trivial, net new coding effort. I estimate 3-4 hours to implement & test
- performance will be worse for showing the carousel in step 3 than it is for quick replies in step 3
- kind of heavy weight treatment for this stage of the demo, and IMO makes too much of the overall demo interaction dependent on carousel (would be steps 3, 5, and 7
I'll wait for us to discuss pros and cons before I make any code changes related to this.
buttons titles get truncated to about 20 characters. may make it hard to identify the movie. is there a way to widen the button?
Test on iPhone 7 and iPad