More control over Dialogflow's date period

Asked Jul 16 '19 at 04:02

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I'm trying to get Dialogflow to report sales in different time periods. When I ask things like

what's the sale last month
what's the sale in march 2011

They work fine. However, if I didn't specify "last" or year, Dialogflow always think I'm asking about the upcoming period (which I guess works great for restaurant booking, etc.). For example, "what was our sale in april" would guess that I mean April of next year.

Should I write a fulfillment to deal with this or is there a way to specify only historical periods only?

Another related question is it has trouble understanding notations like 2010q1 or q2/2015 which is quite common in economics and finance. "q1/2000" would extract only q1 (correctly, but with the upcoming q1). "2000q1" wouldn't be recognized at all.

Thanks!

asked Jul 16 '19 at 04:02

Art

You can create an entity to handle the "year" specifically. – Satish Pandey Jul 17 '19 at 17:22
Right. I just thought that this might be something Google already have built in.. `@sys.date` for example you can choose `$date.recent` – Art Jul 17 '19 at 23:09
Okay. Is your problem solved? – Satish Pandey Jul 18 '19 at 16:01
Not really. Guess I'll have to parse it myself. – Art Jul 18 '19 at 16:39
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Okay.. tell me if you need any help regarding this. – Satish Pandey Jul 18 '19 at 16:51
Maybe this would help other people. Just found out that suppose you have entity named `yourdateperiod`, with value `$yourdateperiod`, you could add another entity with value `$yourdateperiod.original` and get that from the request ^^ – Art Jul 19 '19 at 00:20

More control over Dialogflow's date period

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