Extending a Digital Assistant

Extending a digital assistant enables you to customize it in several ways. When a new version appears in the Skill Store, you can transfer your customizations to the new version by rebasing.

Not that you won't be able to modify an installed assistant or skill directly, but you can create an extension of it and then modify that extension. For more information on extending skills or digital assistants, refer to the ODA documentation. There you'll find details about what extending a skill or digital assistant is for, and the difference between cloning and extending.

Here's what you need to do to extend a digital assistant:

  1. Click icon to open the side menu, then select Development, and then Digital Assistants.

  2. Search for the digital assistant.

  3. In the tile for the digital assistant you want to extend, click context menu icon, then select Extend.

  4. Fill out Display Name and Name. You should provide a display name and name that's different from the name of the digital assistant you're extending.

  5. Click Extend.

  6. Click the tile of the new digital assistant, and note the skills included in it.

When you extend a digital assistant, the base skills that were in the original version are carried over to the extended version of the digital assistant.