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Trigger skills based on some event or schedule

In addition for he user to be able to request to do something, it would be quite productive to allow wxO to act on my behalf in certain circumstances such as a specific time of the day or a certain document being added to a certain folder.
almost 2 years ago in  1 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 month ago in  3 Planned for future release

support additional content types: octet, plain text, multi form

Description of the specific solution idea: Ability to support additional media types: multipart/form application/octet-stream text/plain What are the top risks associated with this idea: Value Usability Feasibility - need to understand effort and ...
3 months ago in  2 Planned for future release

Allow async skills and skills that take longer than 30 seconds from assistant builder

Allow asynchronous skills and skills that take longer than 30 seconds to run from & come back to my AI assistant
about 2 months ago in  1 Planned for future release

User authentication for Watsonx Orchestrate with Active Directory (Azure AD)

User authentication and access to Watsonx Orchestrate should be configured in the Active Directory (Azure AD). It should support groups and user access from the Active Directory. This is an enterprise requirement mainly requested by big companies....
7 months ago in  0 Planned for future release

Consecutively claim task from chat window.

Allow users to execute tasks on the chat screen without having to return to the task list when user tasks are assigned consecutively. Define an option in the activity settings to set whether or not to Claim tasks consecutively. and If this setting...
4 months ago in  1 Planned for future release

Allow change version of automation services

Currently we can specify version of automation service such as BAW workflow only when we add skills. if we release a newer version of automation service, we have to re-define skill again. it is convenient if we can update version after initial dep...
8 months ago in  0 Planned for future release

Enhancing Custom Output Forms for Comprehensive Data Display

Currently, Watson Orchestrate's Custom Output Forms lack support for retrieving specific fields from lists or arrays, limiting the collaborative display of data from different skills. This idea proposes an improvement to enable the extraction and ...
3 months ago in  1 Planned for future release

Enhancing Error Handling to Accommodate Text-formatted Responses

In the existing Watson Orchestrate framework, our error handling mechanism is adept at parsing JSON data. However, a potential enhancement lies in addressing scenarios where the response is received in text format. Introducing a comprehensive solu...
3 months ago in  1 Planned for future release

Allow Grouping of custom skills on the Skills & Apps page

I would like to group the custom skills created by me for user experience.
9 months ago in  1 Planned for future release