YM Platform Developer

Course Description

Duration: 1 Hours 30 Minutes

Overview

Are you a programmer who wants to understand how to customize Conversational Chat bots programmatically on the YM platform? In this course, you will learn the core Programming concepts of YM Platform known as Cloud Functions in order to customize your Chat bot. You will write custom logic using Cloud Function – Objects and methods, and test that logic using the built-in testing tool. You will explore how Cloud Functions interacts with UI of the platform. You will get hands-on experience writing code to customize your chat bot interface to support different channels, as well as a brief introduction to the built in Database.

Role : Developer

Level : Expert

Duration : 1 Hours 25 Minutes

Audience

This course is designed for developers, with a good understanding of NodeJS, JavaScript and ElasticSearch programming concepts, who additionally have experience building chatbots using the UI of YM platform, and need to be able to write programmatic customizations to both the business logic and user interface layers using Cloud Functions.

Pre-requisites

• NodeJS –

o Asynchronous programming

o Promises / Await

• JavaScript

• ElasticSearch Queries

Course Objective

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Write business logic customizations using Cloud Functions Objects and Methods.

• Design programmatic solutions that take advantage of YM Platform

• Customize the user interface Programmatically

• Build a bot end to end using programming

Course Outline

The following topics are included in this course:

Lesson 1: Overview of Cloud Function Tab

• Pre-requisites

• Data flow through functions

• Cloud Function Categories

Lesson 2: Objects

• app.memory

• app.context

• app.options

• app.data

• app.translate

• app.source

• app.profile

• app.datastore

• app.prediction

Lesson 3: Methods

• app.sendTextMessage

• app.quickReplies

• app.sendCards

• app.executeFunction

• app.start

• app.predict

• app.setStep

• app.setMultipleSteps