How can I display a custom message to the user?

Hey ​@andrewwhitley - are these content activities in the middle of the flow? The assistant will not reliably send the message of a content activity in the middle of a flow. Only the last content activity will take priority in the final response of the assistant.

Hey Kevin, that is good to know. In my current use case, I have a decision policy and based upon a condition, the content activity is leveraged and then I use the Exit action to end the plugin. In this case it is the last content activity to run, but it is not executed. Is there any way to send content at any time during the plugin execution?

I have tried having the Content Activity on its own just to test it giving a reply, and I have yet to get it to work. I have also tried having it after an Action Activity at the end of the flow.

I assumed if there was text in the Content Activity it would be displayed verbatim to the user.

​@dmc Can you provide more context on what you are trying to accomplish with the content activity? 

I was originally wanting to reply to the user with specific text after an Action Activity finished but was not able to get it to display. So I changed to just have a Content Activity in the Conversational Process. I have the Content Type as “Text” and for the share text I just have “Your return text is: Returned text to be here”.

For the plugin Editor I have the Trigger to be conversational, some triggers for testing and then the conversational body to be the Conversational Process.

What gets returned after being triggered is just information based on the trigger text and does not return the text in the Content Activity.

Am I using it wrong?

I see, the way content activities work is the following:

The text you pass in gets sent to an LLM and processed by it, and then the LLM returns that information, but it’s currently non-deterministic, so if it’s not valuable, it may not return that information. 

I assume the `Returned text to be here` is a message from a previous action activity?

No, I hard coded that text. I wanted it to be as basic as possible to try to get it to return the text as is.

Got it, you will need to use the notify expression for your use case. That’s the only way you can get a verbatim message

Looks like that is only available in the Compound Actions.

For the Conversational Process Content Activity is there a way to check the logic used if it is skipped or not or a way to set things so it is more likely to be displayed than not?

In the Logs app you can see the content activity being sent to the LLM

Could you try below prompt in Content activities share text;

Always, and without fail, show this to user ”Your return text is: {{return_text_variable}}”

Hello ​@Kevin Mok

I have the following return statement in my compound action:

  - return:
      output_mapper:
        top_apps: 
          MAP():
            items: data.top_apps
            converter:
              app: item.application
              adoption_percent: item.adoption_percent
        display_instructions: '"Always display all top_apps to the user"'

This compound action is the first action in my conversational process. The next action is a api call that gets a list of all possible applications and has a required slot called “description”. I need to show the output of the top apps to help the user choose what applications are applicable for them, however it never actually outputs this unless I mark the second action as “Require consent from the user before executing this activity.” While I am able to get it to output, I don’t want to make the user click confirm just to show this list as they really aren’t confirming anything. Can you help in this situation?