[RavenclawDev 252] Re: checking if an agent has been restarted

[Udhyakumar N]

A small clarification.

What is the difference between reopening all the agents except Welcome
prompt at the end and the method you just described?

-Udhay


On 4/16/07, Antoine Raux <antoine at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Svetlana,
>
> We had a similar issue in Let's Go so let me describe it and how we
> addressed it. Hopefully that'll help you.
>
> At the very beginning of the dialog, the system gives an introduction
> message ("Welcome to Let's Go (...) To get help say HELP (...)"), which we
> do not want to repeat on a start over (in that case we just want "Okay let's
> start from the beginning. What can I do for you?"). The solution was to
>
> 1) define an inform prompt for starting_over as "Okay let's start from the
> beginning." (this prompt is automatically spoken by the standard StartOver
> agency)
>
> 2) define a Let's Go specific StartOver function.
> The latter is done by adding:
>
>         CUSTOM_START_OVER(LetsGoPublicStartOver)
>
> to the CORE_CONFIGURATION section, and define a function called
> LetsGoPublicStartOver() as follows (sorry for the potential spurious line
> breaks...):
>
> // D: define the start-over routine for lets go public
> void LetsGoPublicStartOver() {
>         // Resets only the subttree in charge of the actual task
>         // (so as not to repeat the introduction)
>         CDialogAgent& rda =
>
> pDTTManager->GetDialogTaskTreeRoot()->A("/LetsGoPublic/PerformTask");
>         rda.Reset();
>
> pDMCore->PopTopicFromExecutionStack(pDTTManager->GetDialogTaskTreeRoot());
>         pDMCore->ContinueWith(pDMCore,
> pDTTManager->GetDialogTaskTreeRoot());
> }
>
> In our case, this function restarts the PerformTask subtree instead of the
> whole tree (the introduction prompt is not in PerformTask).
> Of course, you could do other stuff in this function...
>
> So here is how we solved our problem. I hope that'll help you solve yours.
> Let me know if you have questions...
>
> antoine
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ravenclaw-developers-bounces at LOGANBERRY.srv.cs.cmu.edu
> [mailto:ravenclaw-developers-bounces at LOGANBERRY.srv.cs.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of
> Svetlana Stenchikova
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30 PM
> To: ravenclaw-developers at cs.cmu.edu
> Subject: [RavenclawDev 250] checking if an agent has been restarted
>
> Hi,
>
> does RavenClaw have any facility to check if the dialog has been
> "restarted"?
>
> I would like to play a different message when the dialog is
> 'restarted' than when it is 'started' for the first time, but I do not
> see how I can check for that.
>
> When a user says 'restart' all agents are recreated, so that all
> reset, reopen counters start from 0 again.
>
> I can add to  DialogAgent  a static variable 'countCreated', which
> counts every time any agent is created, but this is not a nice
> solution.
>
> Can someone suggest a better way?
>
> thank you
> Svetlana
>
>
>