Allow .LU files to be dropped into Composer and referenced

[UAWILSO]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I work for an enterprise company and we are doing some R & D on Microsoft Bot Kit. We have many bots that re-use many of the same intents and entities. I dropped a .LU file into the folder structure for Composer, but it seems to not load it in correctly, nor can I reference it from the Dialog GUI.

It is frustrating to have this many intents and entities, and have to go into every single trigger/dialogue in order to edit them. As well as having to copy/paste any intents that I would want to re-use.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to be able to drop in or load intents/entities from LUIS and reference them in my bot dialogs from triggers. I also want them to be able to be referenced from the workflow GUI inside the triggers. This will allow re-use of the intents/entities as well as a better way to edit them.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have considered doing this outside of the Bot framework composer, but this is not ideal as a long term solution.

Additional context

Here is what shows up if I drag in a custom .LU file that I have created and dropped into the language-understanding folder.

Notice how all the defined entities end up in only the bottom intent.

Here I try to reference these intents/entities, but am unable to.

Missing intent condition in workflow GUI.

[ryanisgrig]

Hello @UAWILSO and thank you for engaging with the Composer project. We'll take this issue as a feature request and add it to the backlog for prioritization. We do not have an ETA at this time for when this feature will be available.