NativeChat Documentation

Learn how to develop, train, test and publish chatbots with NativeChat.

Getting Started

Read through some general explanations about what NativeChat platform can do and how it works.

  • Overview - Introduction to the basic terms of chatbot development and development workflow of NativeChat.
  • Design & Planning - A list of best practices when developing a chatbot.
  • Tutorial: Comprehensive - In-depth guide on all important NativeChat concepts.
  • Tutorial: Quickstart - Shows you how to build a sample chatbot for booking an appointment with a doctor.

Cognitive Flow Configuration

Learn how to define conversations and steps in each conversation of your bot.

  • Overview - Explains the basic terms used when defining a cognitive flow.
  • Conversations - Explains the different types of conversations.
  • Steps Configuration - Documentation for the configuration of all types of steps and their properties.
  • Working with Bot Memory - How to store, access and format data from bot memory.
  • Settings - Configuration of the general bot settings.
  • Authentication - Configuration of 3rd-party authentication from the bot.

Natural Language Processing

Learn how to train your bot’s understanding of what users say.

Testing & Debugging

Tips and tricks for testing and debugging your bot.

Publishing

NativeChat bot can work on variety of channels - web, mobile, or social media. Check the how-to guides on publishing yours.

  • Publishing - Publishing your bot on all supported channels.

Analytics

Learn more about the analytics data provided by NativeChat. Use this information to improve your bot’s performance and functionality over time.

  • Overview - Introduction to the metrics.
  • Engagement Metrics - Learn how many people are using your bot and how successful they are.
  • User Retention Metrics - Learn how many unique users interact with your bot and how much time they spend chatting with it.
  • Understanding Metrics - Learn how well your bot understands what the users say.
  • User Feedback Metrics - Learn how positive your users rate the usefulness of their interaction with the bot.
  • Search Metrics - Learn how often your bot offers search for not recognized phrases, how often users accept and how positive they rate the search results.
  • Channel Metrics - Learn which channels you have published your bot on are preferred by your users.

Settings

  • Version Control - Use Version control to save the current state of your bot’s cognitive flow, question answering, conversation triggers, and entities.
  • Authentication Methods - Advanced authentication for endpoints used in the webhook steps of your bot.
  • External History Storage - Configure your bot to send each completed conversation’s data to the specified endpoint and delete it from Progress’ data storage systems
  • Low Confidence Suggestions - Configure your bot to provide suggestions when it understands the user message with low confidence.
  • Search Fallback - Configure your bot to search for an expression when it does not understand the user message.
  • User Feedback - Configure your bot to ask the user for feedback after it has answered an FAQ, finished a conversation or executed search.
  • Live Agent Hand-off - Configure live agents to which your bot can transfer the session when instructed by the user.

Administration

  • Overview - NativeChat organization administration and role-based access control.