Copy or Export template of a Bot Framework Composer bot?

Question

Is there any way to copy a bot that was created in Botframework composer?

Essentially, we have a bot and we want to create a variant of it. I'd be happy with exporting a template that someone could load so they don't have to re-create all the basic dialogs.

I've tried just copying the folder but there are just too many dependencies to try to rename everything.

But it's just too much work to enter all the dialogs again manually.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

1. Encapsulate what you want to reuse in a dialog(try to keep everything you really need outside of the main dialog, main lg and main lu)
2. Create a new bot with a new name
3. Copy over the dialogs to reuse and call them or the main one from the root dialog of the new bot. (Copy all the dialogs inside of the dialogs folder into the new project)

That should work.

Never played with it but creating a package with those subdialogs and adding it to the new bot would also work. Then you can tweak it.