How to add custom settings in the appsettings.json file and use it inside Bot Composer v2.1.2

Question

I have been using bot composer v1.4 and have defined some custom properties inside appsettings.json. In v1.4, inorder to get the property values inside a dialog flow, I can use "settings" keyword. For eg: if in appsettings.json, there is a property key-value as "version":"12", inside the dialog flow, I can access this value using ${settings.version} and that works, both if run locally as well inside azure bot service.

Recently I updated the composer to 2.1.2 and ran it inside local. It worked fine and had no issue. But when I published the app to the azure bot service, somehow it is unable to pick these properties. Also, one weird thing I noticed is that, everytime I start publishing the app to the azure, the appsettings.json file gets refreshed and the custom properties defined gets omitted, and only defined default properties stays inside the file.

I need a workaround to solve the problem. Any leads will be appreciated.

Answer 1

@Satya Naik Thanks for the question. we would recommend raising an issue in the following bot-composer repo for the team to check on this. Also please add the error details that you are getting.