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Ability to pass inputs and access outputs of Conversational Skills on Assistant Builder

When an action is created from Skills on Assistant builder on Orchestrate, that action should be able to take inputs from the assistant context. With this we can pass information available on Watson Assistant context to the skills while invoking t...
7 months ago in  8 Delivered

Expose watsonx Orchestrate non-interactive automations as a service

Our clients can do most of their work through watsonx Orchestrate Chat, interactively accomplishing their day-to-day tasks. Sometimes, they need to re-use a logic created as watsonx Orchestrate Automation and would like to call that logic from an ...
6 months ago in  9 Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in  0 Delivered

Call Generative AI from a watsonx Orchestrate Automation Workflow

Currently, it is possible to call a decision component or another workflow component from a wxO workflow. However, it is not possible to call a generative AI component from a workflow. We would like to be able to: prepare multiple email templates ...
6 months ago in  2 Delivered

Role based access control to restrict some skills execution for particular users or user roles

As a Builder or admin of the tenant I should have ability to control who can invoke a specific skills, fine grained access control for skill execution.
about 1 year ago in  0 Delivered

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
9 months ago in  1 Delivered

Allow adding multiple skills at the same time

I have to add one skill at a time and then have to sit there while I get an error message "server is busy processing the previous request". This forces me to sit there and then wait 10 seconds until i can add another - bad user experience. Instead...
over 1 year ago in  1 Delivered

Full mobile support

Most of the UIs look ok on mobile but we need the whole experience to be mobile-friendly as some of us are rarely/never on personal computers or laptops, but rather on tablet (e.g. retail such as hair salon mgr) or even mobile phones.
over 1 year ago in  2 Delivered

Append more than one property as an input to next skill

There is no ability to add / append the values of two or more output fields from the previous skill and send it as input to next skill. For example, I am getting "EmployeeID = 12345A" and "ApprovalStatus = Documents are Approved" From a custom ski...
over 1 year ago in  0 Delivered

Rich email text editor to add clickable links and images for more professional look

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over 1 year ago in  3 Delivered