When creating a google actions the name not allowed and blocking me from Saving

Question

I am trying to create a Google Action and I am getting this error:

Your sample invocations are structured incorrectly. Make sure they all include either your app name or pronunciation, and trigger your app.

Even if I set the name to

Dr. Detroit

and the pronunciation to

doctor detroit

I'm totally confused with this. any help is appreciated.

make sure your "Sample invocations" match what you put in the pronunciation section. — Wassim Chegham, Jun 15 '17 at 22:38
It is quite likely I was trying to link the API.ai application to a Google Actions app and they were not named the same, so not playing nice together. — Rich Elswick, Jun 20 '17 at 00:57

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '17 at 10:07

6

I also got the same error. It comes because of the fact that your sample invocations does not include the full name of your app/action. Try to make it exactly the same and it might work. I got mine working the same way.

answered Dec 09 '17 at 10:07

Suyash

146
2
6

not sure exactly what fixed this, but I am calling it complete now. I didn't put in enough info at top. But I believe it was something along these lines. I am now able to save it. – Rich Elswick Jun 25 '18 at 12:58

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '18 at 22:53

3

It's because they all have to be of the form "Talk to <APP NAME>" or "Ask <APP NAME> about X", etc.

I agree that this is not made very clear, but this is what they mean by "… and trigger your app".

There's a list of allowed phrases here: https://developers.google.com/actions/localization/languages-locales

answered Feb 07 '18 at 22:53

黄雨伞

1,904
1
16
17

this wasn't the problem as that is pretty straight forward. At the time, it wasn't even allowing me to save the action. – Rich Elswick Jun 25 '18 at 12:55

Aditya Anand · Answer 3 · 2018-06-24T11:37:50.543

I also got the same error our sample invocations are structured incorrectly. Make sure they all include either your app name or pronunciation and trigger your app. What actually helped me is?

For the app Dr. Detroit

You can use invocation as Talk To Dr. Detroit. This will fix the problem.

Talk To will help the app to get triggered.

Other Trigger Phrases are:

"let me talk to $name"
"I want to talk to $name"
"can I talk to $name"
"talk to $name"
"let me speak to $name"
"I want to speak to $name"
"can I speak to $name"
"speak to $name"
"ask $name"
"ask $name to ..."

From the reference doc: https://developers.google.com/actions/localization/languages-locales

Here is the ref link: Build Actions for the Google Assistant tutorial by codelabs https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/actions-1/#0

Google documentation on Action on Google

https://developers.google.com/actions/console/publishing#linking_to_your_actions

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 14 '18 at 12:08

This solved my same issue.

View Logs in simulator window. Expand log for Sending request with post data and make sure that inside rawInput element query attribute is matching with your sample invocation (overview -> app information -> details -> sample invocation)

Hope this can solve your issue.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 18 '17 at 11:55

0

Put the same name in the invocations as the full name of your application.

answered Dec 18 '17 at 11:55

Shlok Nangia

2,355
3
16
24

isn't this the same answer as provided by @Suyash – David Dec 18 '17 at 12:15

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 27 '19 at 12:07

0

In this case, make sure that Sample innovation name and display name should be the same.

Then there will be no error encountered at the release stage.

answered Jan 27 '19 at 12:07

knlsharma

1
1

When creating a google actions the name not allowed and blocking me from Saving

6 Answers6