Building a chatbot application

So far, you've created a chatbot engine in Watson Assistant, created a Slack workspace, and integrated the Bot app, which you can use in that Slack workspace.

Here, we will combine these services with Node-RED and create a mechanism with Node-RED so that the bot will answer when talking in Slack's workspace.

Follow these steps to create a flow:

1. Connect Watson Assistant to Node-RED. Access your Node-RED service dashboard via Resource list on IBM Cloud. Select the Connections tab and click the Create connection button:

   Figure 12.33 – Create a new connection on Node-RED

2. Select the Watson Assistant service you created and click the Next button:

   Figure 12.34 – Create a new connection on Node-RED

3. Click the Connect button with the default options to finish the connection setup. Doing this operation will restart the Node-RED application, which will take a few minutes to complete:

   Figure 12.35 – Finish creating...