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Audit log of User/Builder/Admin’s activities

Background: watsonx Orchestrate is used for accessing company’s essential records and performing enterprise's operations. For critical operations, recording of activities for auditing purpose is required. Solution: Examples of critical operations ...
about 2 months ago in  1 Under review

Sharing of admin privileges for skills

Currently, only the originator of a skill can update/delete that skill. This is the case in both the catalog and in a customer's tenent. If the skill needs to be modified by someone else, that is not possible. Recommend 1. the originator has the a...
3 months ago in  0 Future consideration

As a developer (WO builder role) I need to be able to debug my work e.g. by access to logs / traces so that I am able to overcome errors

As a WO builder when working with the SDK I need to use a development IDE / Text editor to work with YAML / JSON files to add the needed Watson Orchestrate skill annotations and to generate the package structure to be able to control my desired Sk...
11 months ago in  0 Future consideration

Don't jump to page 1 of intent list after editing an intent (Classic Watson Assistant)

When I edit an intent on page 3 of the intent list, then return to the intent list, I want to remain on page 3 of the intent list, not jump back to page 1. This change would make it a lot quicker to work on a lot of intents.
22 days ago in  1 Not under consideration

Index the content in the background, not when user is searching

At the moment, every time you edit your assistant, then search in the intents/entities/dialog, your content is first indexed, which limits your productivity. Instead, the content indexing should be running in the background even before the search ...
22 days ago in  0 Under review

In a skill flow, allow searching of the output values from previous skill while mapping to the next skill

Search ability of output value to pass in next skill while building composite flow. E.g. below, get all cases returns more than 100 values. To pass one specific value, we have to scroll though the list and select right one. It would be nice to hav...
2 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Parameter Store that can save values from skill responses and requests.

How does it work: Some kind of string datastore, that is shared between all skills. Skills can optionally pull from this datastore every time they are run, and also save to this data store. These settings can be treated as input for skills in the ...
24 days ago in  3 Under review

Skill builder should be able to see the content of a skill flow

Today if you are not the author of a skill flow, you cannot see its content. You cannot see how it has been created and what other skills it is using. It would be nice if, based on your role, you could at least see the content of a skill flow.
3 months ago in  0 Under review

Conversational skill

Background: Currently, invocation of skill is single shot of REST API call. We would like to use skills (connection to external services) in conversational way. Solution: That means, Skill can be called in sequence of conversation, Skill called ca...
25 days ago in  3 Planned for future release

Chat UI Text Responses

The text that is shown in the text window of the Chat UI is very hard on the eyes and the font very small. In the interest of accessibility, it is not user friendly. Either enable the text to be larger or a lot bolder. As a user who wears glasses,...
3 months ago in  1 Under review