Get a random value from Var/User/Bot

[Thielak]

Reading the forum I found out you can add multiple values to a variable (e.g. <User Add="test">value1</User>) and then list them using <User List="test" />.
Is there any way, or would it be possible to add a way to pick one single value at random (like <User Random="test" />)?

[Fantom]

I don't think thats possible with values in user settings variable. Even if you modified the "List-Separator" and "List-End" variable values for Bot settings it would have a global impact which would be bad. I think the right way to get this done is via a custom adapter.

[Thielak]

I understand, I just thought it would be nice to create a Model like "tell me one of your favorite movies" and the bot answering with one from the list using something like <Bot Random="Favorite_Movies" />

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<Siml Version="1.0">
 <BotSettings>
  <Variable Name="Favorite_Movies">
   <Value>Contact</Value>
   <Value>God Father</Value>
   <Value>Life Is Beautiful</Value>
   <Value>Green Miles</Value>
  </Variable>
 </BotSettings>
</Siml>

[Leslie]

There you go.

Try

SIML Code

<Random Get="favorite_movies" Source="Bot"/>

in v2.1.3

Please note this hasn't been committed to the specification and is an additional add-on to the Random tag implementation. If in the future there's any change, running the the SIML optimization tool (will made available in Bot Studio) would automatically adjust your SIML code.

[Thielak]

Try

SIML Code

<Random Get="favorite_movies" Source="Bot"/>

in v2.1.3

That works perfectly, thank you!

I'm sorry if I haven't thought of it before but I had more ideas about variables with multiple entries.
More specifically, I thought about something like <Bot Count="favorite_movies" /> to get how many entries there are, and maybe a <Bot Get="favorite_movies" Index="2" /> to get a specific one.
I'm not sure if the second one would even be feasible to implement or if either of them would be useful in the eyes of the devs, but throwing ideas at you can't hurt right