Microsoft bot: How to log each conversation step?

Question

I'm learning how to build a Microsoft Bot and I need to send every message (ie log the user progress through the bot) to an API.

Let's say I have these dialogs with 3 steps each:

• /
• /welcome
• /onboarding
• /finish

When a user joins the conversation (Root dialog), I need to make a POST to our API with the following data:

{ "conversationId": "8n21b2mkmdb9abi26", "dialog": "root", "step": 1 }

And then, for each following user message, I would update that conversation in our server with the dialog and step.

I tried to use the middleware hook, but it doesn't have the information of which dialog/step the user is currently in.

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

The middleware feature gives you access to the session object. Store the metadata you need in the session object, then access it in your logging middleware.

For a code example, check out: Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples - Middleware and Logging with BotBuilder Node SDK