Handling multiple dialogs in Microsoft bot framework

Question

I am creating a bot using Microsoft bot framework , the bot will be receiving orders for a restaurant , I want to know how can I handle multiple dialogs , like for example the customer makes the first order , then i want the bot to ask do you want something else? then the customer says yes/no , incase of yes to repeat the same dailog again with keeping the state of the first one , what I am seeing in the documentation now is only one conversation and one dialog.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

To manage multiple dialogs you need to use the Dialog Chains. You can either manage the stack of dialogs explicitly (using Call/Done) or implicitly using the Chain fluent methods. Here is sample of how to use it.

If the set of things that the user can select are already predefined I would then recommend using FormFlow. The Pizza & Sandwich samples are good examples of how to handle orders with a predefined set of options.