Managing services
You can use Emulator to keep track of and manage services that your bot depends on. Behind the scenes, Emulator relies on and updates your .bot file. See here to learn more about bot file.
You can also use the MSBot CLI to add/ update connected services that your bot depends on.
See here to learn more about consuming your .bot file in your bot.
Emulator can automatically find and list all services tied to your azure account. See here to learn more about logging into your azure account.
To add a LUIS.ai service configuration, click on [+] under services and choose Language Understanding (LUIS)
- If you are logged in, Emulator will find and list all LUIS applications tied to your subscription
- You can manually add the service by clicking on add a LUIS app manually. See here to learn more about finding relevant IDs and keys.
To add a qnamaker.ai service configuration, click on [+] under services and choose QnA Maker
- If you are logged in, Emulator will find and list all QnA Maker Knowledge bases tied to your subscription
- You can manually add the service by clicking on connect to a QnA Maker knowledge base manually. See here to learn more about finding relevant IDs and keys.
To add a LUIS.ai application created using the Dispatch CLI, click on [+] under services and choose Dispatch
- If you are logged in, Emulator will find and list all Dispatch applications tied to your subscription
- You can manually add the service by clicking on connect to a dispatch model manually. See here to learn more about securing your authoring, subscription and relevant IDs and keys.
.bot file supports keeping track of additional services including storage, Azure application insights, generic service types. Emulator does not support managing these services yet. However you can use the MSBot CLI to add and manage them.