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I have created a formflow in botframework. I want to change the confirmation options, by default it takes 'Yes' and 'No'. but i want it to proceed instead 'Yes', even if user inputs 'OK', 'Ya', 'Yeah' etc. how i can add options for confirmation

OmG
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Laks
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  • I know there are some ways to alter the way the form asks questions. this is done with annotations. But I haven't tried it yet with confirmations. Here is the documentation : https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/csharp/builder/sdkreference/dd/df7/namespace_microsoft_1_1_bot_1_1_builder_1_1_form_flow.html#a28ef6a551a3611e4a6abe06659797313 – Xeno-D Mar 22 '17 at 09:57

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You need to add the new terms to the Yes array of the FormBuilder configuration. Something like:

public static IFormBuilder<T> CreateCustomForm<T>()
    where T : class
{
    var form = new FormBuilder<T>();
    var yesTerms = form.Configuration.Yes.ToList();
    yesTerms.Add("Ya");
    form.Configuration.Yes = yesTerms.ToArray();

    return form;
}

That then you can use like:

 return CreateCustomForm<MyForm>()

The reason of this would be something like the following:

The Confirmation field, set it's type to bool. At some point, a recognizer is defined for the field, based on it's type. In this, case, the Confirmation field will use the RecognizeBool recognizer.

The recognizer uses the Yes/No arrays defined in the form's configuration (which initially they are retrieved from the resource file) for doing the parsing.

When the Confirmation field is added to the Form, a ConfirmStep step is also added. The ConfirmStep is the one that later in the game ends up calling the recognizer to do the matching and parsing of the terms.

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