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Need Help with Microsoft Bot Framework

Utsav Tulsyan 21

Hi,

I am working on a bot using Microsoft Bot Framework v4 and LUIS v3 (Cognitive Services by Azure). I am using the botbuilder-ai library which is part of the Bot SDK. I want to set the timezone for the LUIS model response which uses the prebuilt entiity- datetimeV2.

I tried using the "datetimeReference" parameter which is part of the LuisRecognizerOptionsV3 but the response still used UTC.

I also want to know about enterprise support for Microsoft Bot Framework and LUIS

Please reach out to me on ******@publicissapient.com

Thanks and Regards,

Utsav Tulsyan

romungi-MSFT 48,906 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2021-01-08T08:48:52.49+00:00

@Utsav Tulsyan I am curious to understand if you are seeing the time zone mentioned in your response as datetime V2? I think this prebuilt entity uses the canonical form of datetime so I have not seen an option to set it from the app settings.
Utsav Tulsyan 21 Reputation points

2021-01-08T09:05:19.607+00:00

@romungi-MSFT Thanks for your response. Yes this is the prebuilt entity datetimeV2. The LuisRecognizerOptionsV3 mentions a parameter datetimereference which is used to set the reference time zone for determining the response of datetimeV2. But when I use the parameter it still gave the same response. In the documentation it is not mentioned how to use datetimereference, I tried these formats: '2020-01-01T00:00:00' and '2020-01-01 00:00:00'. But it did not work. Please help with this.
romungi-MSFT 48,906 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2021-01-08T11:31:45.687+00:00

Updated my comment as an answer due to 1000 char limit on Q&A comments

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romungi-MSFT 48,906 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2021-01-08T08:48:52.49+00:00

@Utsav Tulsyan I am curious to understand if you are seeing the time zone mentioned in your response as datetime V2? I think this prebuilt entity uses the canonical form of datetime so I have not seen an option to set it from the app settings.
Utsav Tulsyan 21 Reputation points

2021-01-08T09:05:19.607+00:00

@romungi-MSFT Thanks for your response. Yes this is the prebuilt entity datetimeV2. The LuisRecognizerOptionsV3 mentions a parameter datetimereference which is used to set the reference time zone for determining the response of datetimeV2. But when I use the parameter it still gave the same response. In the documentation it is not mentioned how to use datetimereference, I tried these formats: '2020-01-01T00:00:00' and '2020-01-01 00:00:00'. But it did not work. Please help with this.
romungi-MSFT 48,906 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2021-01-08T11:31:45.687+00:00

Updated my comment as an answer due to 1000 char limit on Q&A comments

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romungi-MSFT 48,906 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@Utsav Tulsyan I have checked the implementation of this further in the github repo, according to this it seems to return values based on the response from LUIS app. If it is entity type builtin.datetimeV2 the resolution is returned if there is one or the timex values. This response in turn seems to be from the recognizers library implementation which is an open source repo used by LUIS. From what I see with testing from recognizers text it returns values based on how the utterance is input. For example, I tried this with the recognizers text it extracted the following in the response.

result=recognize_datetime("I'll go back 8pm today", Culture.English)

response:

[  
        {  
                "start": 13,  
                "end": 21,  
                "resolution": {  
                        "values": [  
                                {  
                                        "timex": "2021-01-08T20",  
                                        "type": "datetime",  
                                        "value": "2021-01-08 20:00:00"  
                                }  
                        ]  
                },  
                "text": "8pm today",  
                "type_name": "datetimeV2.datetime"  
        }  
]

I tried these formats: '2020-01-01T00:00:00' and '2020-01-01 00:00:00'. But it did not work.

For this case are you actually passing this format in your utterance or bot?

Utsav Tulsyan 21

Hi @romungi-MSFT I am passing the datetimereference in the bot. Code snippet:

const { LuisRecognizer } = require('botbuilder-ai');  
   
class MyRecognizer {  
    constructor(config) {  
        const luisIsConfigured = config && config.applicationId && config.endpointKey && config.endpoint;  
        if (luisIsConfigured) {  
            const recognizerOptions = {  
                apiVersion: 'v3',  
                datetimeReference: ‘2020-01-07 10:00:00’   //static only for testing purpose. to be changed to dynamic time in user’s timezone  
            };  
            this.recognizer = new LuisRecognizer(config, recognizerOptions);  
        }  
    }  
   
    get isConfigured() {  
        return (this.recognizer !== undefined);  
    }  
    async executeLuisQuery(context) {  
        return await this.recognizer.recognize(context);  
    }  
}

romungi-MSFT 48,906 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2021-01-08T12:48:36.663+00:00

@Utsav Tulsyan I have come across a very similar issue but with the prediction endpoint options where the datetimereference is set but the json was not passed correctly. Could you try using the datetimereference in a similar way in ISO 8601 format?
Utsav Tulsyan 21 Reputation points

2021-01-08T13:42:52.06+00:00

@romungi-MSFT Using the format '2020-01-01T00:00:00+00:00' worked. Thanks a ton!
Edit: I do think the document should have mentioned this.
romungi-MSFT 48,906 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2021-01-08T13:50:28.277+00:00

@Utsav Tulsyan We will certainly pass this feedback to our SDK team to provide more information on the parameters. Please feel free to accept this response as an answer if it helped. Thanks!!

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