Way to provide an EntityRecommendation?

[itoledo]

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Can't find a way to provide an already user-submitted entity to the LocationDialog, like you can with a FormDialog. Scenario: intent and entity provided by Luis. Something like this...

        [LuisIntent("donde_esta")]
        public async Task ProcesarDondeEsta(IDialogContext context, IAwaitable<IMessageActivity> activity,
            LuisResult result)
        {
            EntityRecommendation lugar;
            var entities = new List<EntityRecommendation>(result.Entities);
            result.TryFindEntity("lugar", out lugar);
            if (lugar != null)
            {
                Debug.WriteLine($"detectado entity: {lugar.Entity}");
                entities.Add(new EntityRecommendation(type: "Lugar") { Entity = lugar.Entity });
            }

            // how to provide entity???
            var dlg = new LocationDialog(Constants.VIRTUAL_EARTH_API_KEY, context.Activity.ChannelId, "Qué lugar estás buscando?", LocationOptions.None, LocationRequiredFields.None);
            context.Call(dlg, BuscarPlaceComplete);
        }

[kgrashad]

Hi @itoledo. Apologies for the late reply. I am not sure what you would pass an entity to the LocationDialog. Can you provide an example of what you are hoping to achieve by doing so?

[itoledo]

Hi @kgrashad , thanks for answering! Let's say I have a LuisIntent that searches for a place. This intent has a parameter/entity called "place". So if the user says "find the empire state building" I can receive "empire state building" into my LuisIntent.

I want to feed "empire state building" to the LocationDialog, so it can help me disambiguate the location. Maybe there another empire state building somewhere?

Hope this makes it clear enough :)

[kgrashad]

I actually like this scenario and see it as a useful feature to have. I marked it as enhancement and we will spec it for the next release which should be around early Feb.