Overview (Dialogflow)
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Actions on Google lets you extend the functionality of Google Assistant with
Actions. Actions let users get things done through a conversational
interface that can range from a quick command to turn on some lights or a
longer conversation, such as playing a trivia game.
Dialogflow is a conversational platform that lets you design and build
Actions by wrapping the functionality of the Actions SDK
and providing additional features such as an easy-to-use IDE, natural language
understanding (NLU), machine learning, and more.
To extend Google Assistant, you build an Action with the following steps.
Design your Conversation
Before developing, you should design your conversation, or the user interface
for your Action. The conversation describes how users invoke your Action, the
valid things that they can say to your Action, and how your Action responds to
them.
Learn more
Create an Actions on Google developer project and Dialogflow Agent
Go to the Actions console and create a developer project.
The project lets you define metadata about your Action and manage and track
your Action through the approval process. Once you have a project, you can
create a Dialogflow agent that defines all your Actions.
Learn more
Define Actions
You define Actions in your Dialogflow agent with intents that define entry
points into your Action's functionality. For example, say you wanted to build an
Action that could purchase some goods, check the status of orders, and to show
some daily deals. You can define intents that are triggered by saying:
- "Ok Google, talk to My Favorite Shoe Store to purchase some shoes"
- "Ok Google, talk to My Favorite Shoe Store to check on my order"
- "Ok Google, talk to My Favorite Shoe Store to show me today's deals"
Learn more
Build and deploy fulfillment
When an Action in your Action is invoked, it calls fulfillment to start a
conversation with users to fulfill the Action.
To create your conversation, you define intents in Dialogflow to create your
conversation's grammar, or the things users can actually say to your Action.
When users actually say something to trigger an intent, your fulfillment is
called and returns a response back to the user.
This back and forth request and response happens repeatedly until your
fulfillment has enough information to complete the task.
Learn more
Submit your Action for approval and make it available to users
Learn more
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Last updated 2024-09-18 UTC.
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Actions let users get things done through a conversational\ninterface that can range from a quick command to turn on some lights or a\nlonger conversation, such as playing a trivia game.\n\nDialogflow is a conversational platform that lets you design and build\nActions by wrapping the functionality of the [Actions SDK](/assistant/df-asdk/actions-sdk)\nand providing additional features such as an easy-to-use IDE, natural language\nunderstanding (NLU), machine learning, and more.\n\nTo extend Google Assistant, you build an Action with the following steps.\n\nDesign your Conversation\n------------------------\n\nBefore developing, you should design your conversation, or the user interface\nfor your Action. The conversation describes how users invoke your Action, the\nvalid things that they can say to your Action, and how your Action responds to\nthem.\n\n[Learn more](/assistant/df-asdk/design)\n\nCreate an Actions on Google developer project and Dialogflow Agent\n------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nGo to the [Actions console](https://console.actions.google.com/) and create a developer project.\nThe project lets you define metadata about your Action and manage and track\nyour Action through the approval process. Once you have a project, you can\ncreate a Dialogflow agent that defines all your Actions.\n\n[Learn more](/assistant/df-asdk/dialogflow/project-agent)\n\nDefine Actions\n--------------\n\nYou define Actions in your Dialogflow agent with intents that define entry\npoints into your Action's functionality. For example, say you wanted to build an\nAction that could purchase some goods, check the status of orders, and to show\nsome daily deals. You can define intents that are triggered by saying:\n\n- *\"Ok Google, talk to My Favorite Shoe Store to purchase some shoes\"*\n- *\"Ok Google, talk to My Favorite Shoe Store to check on my order\"*\n- *\"Ok Google, talk to My Favorite Shoe Store to show me today's deals\"*\n\n[Learn more](/assistant/df-asdk/dialogflow/define-actions)\n\nBuild and deploy fulfillment\n----------------------------\n\nWhen an Action in your Action is invoked, it calls fulfillment to start a\nconversation with users to fulfill the Action.\n\nTo create your conversation, you define intents in Dialogflow to create your\nconversation's grammar, or the things users can actually say to your Action.\nWhen users actually say something to trigger an intent, your fulfillment is\ncalled and returns a response back to the user.\n\nThis back and forth request and response happens repeatedly until your\nfulfillment has enough information to complete the task.\n\n[Learn more](/assistant/df-asdk/dialogflow/fulfillment)\n\nSubmit your Action for approval and make it available to users\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\n[Learn more](/assistant/df-asdk/submit-project)"]]
