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Introduction
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Templates are complete bots and add-ons that are pre-designed, and pre-configured bot structures,These are made by developers and other users to provide easy pre-made bot structures for users to use and increase accuracy and efficiency in their work. Any user can easily create their own template by following the template creation steps below.
Templates can include all the flows, variables, automation, tools, menus, and widgets of a premade bot.
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Use Cases
There are several templates available in the UChat template store and each is built for specific purposes. Some of the specific use cases are mentioned below:
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Education: Supporting students with course information and learning resources.
The Template Store
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To install a template from the store simply head to the template store and from there users can access many templates that are created by users and UChat developers.
The prices of bots can range from being free to paid, users can select and install the specific type of bot from the UChat Template store.
Installing Bot from the Template store
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Lets take this bot as an example to be installed in from the template store.
The process contains three simple steps but they require some attention to each of them for the bot to be installed correctly. To proceed just click on the Install template button.
Step 1
Step 1 is to make sure that the bot’s construction is suitable for the work that has to be done by the bot.
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The steps represent the number of nodes that are used in achieving the required task of the bot while the custom fields represent the number of variables created by users especially for this bot . The number of sub flows represents the number of flows that will be installed in the bot . Keywords represent the number of special keywords used in the bot.
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Step 2
The second step is to make sure to choose the right bot that the template bot will be used in if there is no bot to be used in, then the system will ask the user to create a new bot first in order to install a bot template.
Users can search for specific bots that they have already created on their workspace and choose one of the bot that the template bot will be used in. Users should make sure that the correct bot is selected before advancing to the third step.
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Step 3
The final step describes more about the bot that is to be installed .
Finally, to install the bot simply click on the “install now” button to get a link to the bot. The new bot template will be installed .
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Creating a Bot Template
UChat allows its users to create their own bot templates which can also be sold at their own price or kept free for other users.
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Before just jumping to create a bot template Users should also know about the options on this page which will help them achieve better results in creating bot templates.
My Bot templates.
This option allows users to look at all the bot templates that they have already created.
Bot Template Installs
This option allows users to look at all the bot templates that are already installed.
Bot Template sales
This feature allows users to look at how much sales are generated of the bot templates that are created for selling purposes.
New Template
Users can create Bot Templates by clicking on the new template button to initialize the process of creating a new Bot template.
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This is the first step in creating a bot template. In this step the user is asked to specify the source bot which is the bot to be made into a template. The users must make sure that the correct source bot is selected.
Step 2
The second step in the process of bot template creation is the selection of the type of bot that is to be made into a template.
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Bot Template
This option takes the complete bot and makes it into a template that will either create a new bot for the users or replace the existing bot for the user with the installed template.
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Sub Flow Template
The sub flow template allows users to take the bot template and use it in the existing bots which can work as a part of the existing bot. The user can simply choose the flows that are to be present in the sub flow template to create a sub flow template.
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Step 3
After selecting one of the two options of Bot template and Sub flow template another page containing information about the bot will appear. This page is known as the content review page which shows the content that the bot already contains. The information is displayed on the right side within the box of content overview.
Step 4
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This step allows users to give a name to their template and further explain details in description while also giving a specified version of template which is optional.
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This way in simple steps users can make their own templates.
Editing Template
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Editing Template allows users to further customize the template behavior for other users .
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To update the template, you will need to go back to the source flow in "All Bots", edit it and come back to click "Update Flow" here. The system will list the differences between the old version and the updated version.
Installing Publishable template
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When installing a publishable only template the system will inform the user about the template being publishable only and the user would not be able to view or edit the template flows.
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After installing the template the flows will not open because the flow was only publishable
Editable Template
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The editable only template at the time of installing will notify the user about the behavior of the template .
The users can only see the folder and the number of flows installed in the bot but cannot take a look at what is inside the folders similar to the situation with publishable only templates.
Viewable only templates
At the time of installing a viewable only template the system will inform users about the conditions and the restrictions of a viewable only template
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