App Templates

Objective

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

Before setting up a custom app, you should have Amazon, Lex, and ixHello accounts. For steps to create these accounts, click here, here, and here respectively. Next, you need to have you Amazon security profile setup. For detailed steps to do this, click here.

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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Contact finder Rest API template.json

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

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Contact finder Rest API template.json

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

Publish App to Lex

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

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

1. The following success message shall appear.

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

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

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:

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.

Congratulations!

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