article by Frank Nimphius, December 2020
The attachment type is a useful feature of the System.CommonResponse component, especially when the messenger is rendering images as part of a conversation.
A feature I was looking for is the ability to add a title string or a header text. So far I helped myself by adding a text response before rendering the attachment response. Well, I've done that so far.
As of Oracle Digital Assistant 20.08, the attachment type supports the headerText property, which in combination with the footerText property can produce output as shown below.
As you can See, a text message is rendered before and after the image. The BotML for this is shown in the image below
Notice the headerText and the footerText properties.
Note: The "\n" character does not work on all messengers as a line break. The screenshot is taken using the embedded conversation tester in Oracle Digital Assistant.
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