Laiye Chatbot Widget

Content Type: Widget
Categories: Utility

Overview

Initialises a Laiye Chatbot instance within a Mendix application.

Documentation

Laiye Chatbot

Provides an interface to a Laiye Chatbot instance from a Mendix application.

Features

  • Creates an interface from your Mendix application to a Laiye Chatbot instance.
  • Allows you to pass custom variables and values across to the Chatbot instance

Usage

  • Add widget to any layout that you want to provide a Chatbot instance through
  • Copy the token from the 'Integration' tab of the appropriate 'Laiye Widget' user channel, https://app.mindsay.com/channels?tab=client, and specify that in the Mendix widget
  • Define any custom variables you want to pass to the chatbot (note: variable names cannot include dashes). Variables can be one of two types:
    • Expression: a value that is derived from an expression
    • Attribute: a value that is derived from a String attribute

Issues, suggestions and feature requests

https://github.com/lindski/aq-mx-laiyechatbot/issues

Development and contribution

  1. Install NPM package dependencies by using: npm install. If you use NPM v7.x.x, which can be checked by executing npm -v, execute: npm install --legacy-peer-deps.
  2. Run npm start to watch for code changes. On every change:
    • the widget will be bundled;
    • the bundle will be included in a dist folder in the root directory of the project;
    • the bundle will be included in the deployment and widgets folder of the Mendix test project.

Releases

Version: 1.0.0
Framework Version: 9.9.2
Release Notes: Chatbot widget initialisation Support for custom variables