Creating Your Own Bot

Once you get the experience of using the provided bots you are likely to want to create your own. For this purpose, we have created a template framework that you can use called 'Template-Y'. This bot keeps your aiml and code separate from program-y so that you do not get corrupted from GitHub pulls

Template-y

Template-Y is as the name suggests a template for how to build your own bot, based on one of the core bots provided in Program-Y. The reason for this template and structure is to allow you to create your own aiml, set, map and rdf files and keep them in a folder schemA that maps back to Program-Y but allows Program-Y repo to be updated and pulled from GitHub without it conflicting with your own Bot development.

Each folder in this template contains a README.txt explaining the reason for the folder, the contents it should contain and how to specify the correct config options to keep the 2 folders separate.

Naming Your Project

Obviously, no one wants to create bot/project named templatey. So you need to some manual tweaking of folders and config files as follows. Assumption here is that the top level folder is the name of your project

1) Rename template-y to NAMEOFPROJECT, the name of the bot/project you want to call it

2) Rename src/templatey to /src/NAMEOFPROJECT

3) Rename test/templatey to /test/NAMEOFPROJECT

4) Replace any reference to templatey in config.yaml with NAMEOFPROJECT

5) Replace any reference to templatey in logging.yaml with NAMEOFPROJECT

6) Replace any reference to templatey in console.sh with NAMEOFPROJECT

In addition, there are some config options you can decide on in config.yaml

1) Decide which overrides you want by switching the following config items
     overrides:
       allow_system_aiml: false
       allow_learn_aiml: false
       allow_learnf_aiml: false

2) Specify the location of the learnf file if you set allow_learnf_aiml to true in overrides

     defaults:
      learn-filename: ./aiml/learnf.aiml

3) Decide if you want to generate a braintree. xml file by uncommenting the following lines
    #braintree:
    #  file: ./braintree.xml
    #  content: xml
   See the Program-Y for more details about what the braintree can be used for