How to spawn a webbot - to start / go back to a conversation

[tidjee]

Hi,
In my conversation, I want to show a webpage to the user, so that he can check items he wants to order. I need to go back to the conversation afterward. When I try to spawn an instance of the bot, I'm having an error in bot.createconversation.

It use " let bot = controller.spawn({}); " which works well with facebook bot but does not seems to be enough for web bot.

I'm having the following error 👍
"info: An error occurred while sending a message: TypeError: Cannot read property 'json' of undefined"

When I look at the code, it's bot.http_response that is undefined.

Here is the code :

goto_checkout: function (controller, message) {
    let bot = controller.spawn({});
    bot.createConversation(message, this.checkout);
},

Many thanks !

[DnsFilth]

Hi, I'm getting the same error, did you find out how to do it?

[peterswimm]

Take a look over here:
https://github.com/howdyai/botkit-starter-web/blob/master/docs/botkit_web_client.md#embed-botkit-in-a-website-with-iframes

[DnsFilth]

so this function doesn't work?

function sendAlertToBot(alert_message) {
controller.spawn({}, function(bot) {
bot.say(alert_message);
});
}