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# App Templates

## **Objective**

This document will help you to create an App using an App Template for Amazon Lex using the iX Hello platform.

Before setting up a custom app, you should have Amazon, Lex, and iX Hello accounts. For steps to create these accounts, click [here](/ixhc/channels/amazon/create-amazon-developer-account.md), [here](/ixhc/apps/lex-publishing-auto-manual.md), and [here](/ixhc/general/ix-hello-create-account-original.md) respectively. Next, you need to have you Amazon security profile setup. For detailed steps to do this, click [here](/ixhc/apps/lex-publishing-auto-manual.md).

## **Steps**

1. Import App template
2. Publish App to Lex
3. Activate app
4. Test the app

## **Import App Template**

Download the following template file content, copy and it in notepad and save as a JSON file.

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1. Download the following template file content, copy and it in notepad and save as a JSON file.

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2. On the left panel, open **Apps**, then **App Templates**, and select **Import Templates**.

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3. Import the downloaded template from Step 1 above. Provide a **Template Name** and click on **Save**.

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4. After the template has been successfully imported, you can see it under Apps > App Templates.

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5. On the new row, click on **Create App** to create the new App from the imported template.

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6. Fill in **App Name**, a short description of the app (optional), and click on **Create App**. The Selected Template field is already populated.

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7. You can expect following message after successful app creation. Close the Success window.

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8. Click on **View App** at the top of the page. A list of the Custom Apps will appear. Open the newly created App by clicking on the Name.

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## **Publish App to Lex**

1. Go to the Publish Tab. You can now publish the App to multiple iX Hello supported channels. Here, we are going to publish the app to Amazon Lex.

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2. Select the Amazon LWA account to publish the app and click on **Publish to Lex.**

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3. The following success message shall appear.

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4. Select the Amazon LWA account to publish the app and click on ‘Publish to Lex’.

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5. Click on Go to Lex app in Step 11 or Login to “developer.amazon.com” and choose the link “Lex”.

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Once clicked on "**Test Lex Bot**", you will be redirected to App Publishing screen, and the Test Bot will appear at the right corner showing the App name along with the welcome message:

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Query the bot with the Utterance "Find contact for person" and then provide the contact-name of whom you would like to see the phone number, for ex: type Leanne Graham. Bot will provide the response with the full name and the phone number.

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Congratulations!

You have successfully completed Publishing an app using App Templates on Lex.


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