Random answers by chat bot

[Zuvala]

Hi there

I’ve created a little chat example. I think its quite nice on its own, but I have a question regarding the random functionality.

The bot should be able to generate random answers based on a set of values.
So how do you get a random string from a list in Axure?

Currently I use multiple cases with if statements - but obviously this doesn’t scale well.
Maybe adding another repeater would be a solution, but this creates just a lot of junk in the file.
What is your solution to this problem?

Here is the file:
Chat-Repeater.rp (84.4 KB)

And here is a preview:

[Alyssa_Axure]

Hmm, another way to do it would be to store your bot responses in a repeater column, with the response numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3) in another column. You could then have your button generate a random number, store it in a variable, and then refresh the repeater that contains your bot messages. OnItemLoad of that repeater, you can use a condition to check whether the randomly generated variable value matches the row number of one of your repeater rows, and if true, then that repeater adds the message from that matching row to the repeater that contains your chat message.

Here’s an example of the expression that would generate a random number between 1 and 3, for a repeater that has 3 bot responses (3 rows):

I’ve attached the sample file that allows you to add a random bot response to your existing repeater. Hopefully this helps!Random Response with Repeater and Math.Random().rp (57.5 KB)

[Zuvala]

Neat!
Many thanks for the example.
Cheers

PS: I have also found this topic. In case someone is looking for a solution with strings only.

String split function and arrays

Hi! As you can see, rather than creating an array, split() creates a comma delimited list. (Axure doesn't have arrays.) Okay, fine, but you'd think if that's the non-array solution here, Axure would have provided a string method like listItemAtIndex(). Well, they didn't. Here's a shabby workaround. Live sample To use it in your code, you can hide the UI, set text of both the list and the desire index fields using Set Text, use Fire Event OnClick on the Go button, and grab the text of …