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/AWS1/CL_LM2=>CREATESLOT()

About CreateSlot

Creates a slot in an intent. A slot is a variable needed to fulfill an intent. For example, an OrderPizza intent might need slots for size, crust, and number of pizzas. For each slot, you define one or more utterances that Amazon Lex uses to elicit a response from the user.

Method Signature

IMPORTING

Required arguments:

IV_SLOTNAME TYPE /AWS1/LM2NAME /AWS1/LM2NAME

The name of the slot. Slot names must be unique within the bot that contains the slot.

IO_VALUEELICITATIONSETTING TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_LM2SLOTVALELICITATI00 /AWS1/CL_LM2SLOTVALELICITATI00

Specifies prompts that Amazon Lex sends to the user to elicit a response that provides the value for the slot.

IV_BOTID TYPE /AWS1/LM2ID /AWS1/LM2ID

The identifier of the bot associated with the slot.

IV_BOTVERSION TYPE /AWS1/LM2DRAFTBOTVERSION /AWS1/LM2DRAFTBOTVERSION

The version of the bot associated with the slot.

IV_LOCALEID TYPE /AWS1/LM2LOCALEID /AWS1/LM2LOCALEID

The identifier of the language and locale that the slot will be used in. The string must match one of the supported locales. All of the bots, intents, slot types used by the slot must have the same locale. For more information, see Supported languages.

IV_INTENTID TYPE /AWS1/LM2ID /AWS1/LM2ID

The identifier of the intent that contains the slot.

Optional arguments:

IV_DESCRIPTION TYPE /AWS1/LM2DESCRIPTION /AWS1/LM2DESCRIPTION

A description of the slot. Use this to help identify the slot in lists.

IV_SLOTTYPEID TYPE /AWS1/LM2BUILTINORCUSTSLOTTY00 /AWS1/LM2BUILTINORCUSTSLOTTY00

The unique identifier for the slot type associated with this slot. The slot type determines the values that can be entered into the slot.

IO_OBFUSCATIONSETTING TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_LM2OBFUSCATIONSETTING /AWS1/CL_LM2OBFUSCATIONSETTING

Determines how slot values are used in Amazon CloudWatch logs. If the value of the obfuscationSetting parameter is DefaultObfuscation, slot values are obfuscated in the log output. If the value is None, the actual value is present in the log output.

The default is to obfuscate values in the CloudWatch logs.

IO_MULTIPLEVALUESSETTING TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_LM2MULTIPLEVALSSETT00 /AWS1/CL_LM2MULTIPLEVALSSETT00

Indicates whether the slot returns multiple values in one response. Multi-value slots are only available in the en-US locale. If you set this value to true in any other locale, Amazon Lex throws a ValidationException.

If the multipleValuesSetting is not set, the default value is false.

IO_SUBSLOTSETTING TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_LM2SUBSLOTSETTING /AWS1/CL_LM2SUBSLOTSETTING

Specifications for the constituent sub slots and the
expression for the composite slot.

RETURNING

OO_OUTPUT TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_LM2CREATESLOTRESPONSE /AWS1/CL_LM2CREATESLOTRESPONSE