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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 7 – Working with XDB Data and Application Insights

AlexSeptember 4, 2017July 8, 2019

How cool would it be if you could get XDB data out of Sitecore just using a simple instruction to your bot? Getting XDB data out of Sitecore using a...

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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 6 – Publishing and publish notifications

AlexSeptember 3, 2017July 8, 2019

Publishing specific items or just the entire database? Just ask a Bot and it will be done. Publishing your website with the Microsoft Bot Framework I’ve implemented several intents for...

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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 5 – User Management

AlexSeptember 2, 2017July 8, 2019

Managing Sitecore users normally requires you to log into Sitecore, navigate to the User Manager and lookup the specific user. This could also be done with the bot. Sitecore User...

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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 4 – Rebuilding Sitecore indexes

AlexSeptember 1, 2017July 8, 2019

Rebuilding indexes, who doesn’t do this on almost a daily base? Logging into Sitecore, navigate to the control panel, opening the indexing manager and check that index you would like to rebuild. From that moment it is just waiting for it to finish.

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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 3 – LUIS model and FormFlow

AlexAugust 31, 2017July 8, 2019

"We have created a Bot for you!" doesn't mean "We have created 300 if-statements for you!". Microsoft Cognitive Services gives you LUIS and you must use this Language Understanding Intelligent...

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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 2 – Secure communication

AlexAugust 28, 2017July 8, 2019

Expecting things to be secure isn't an option. Communication in a secure manner between the Microsoft Bot Framework and Sitecore. Secure communication between the Bot and custom API’s in Sitecore...

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Leveraging the Microsoft Bot Framework to operate Sitecore

AlexAugust 26, 2017July 8, 2019

For the SUGCON 2017 Alex van Wolferen created a chatbot that leveraged the Microsoft Bot Framework to operate Sitecore.