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Using built-in intents

Documentation for the classic Watson Assistant experience has moved. For the most up-to-date version, see Using built-in intents.

Using built-in intents

Content Catalogs provide an easy way to add common intents to your Watson Assistant dialog skill.

Intents you add from the catalog are meant to provide a starting point. Add to or edit the catalog intents to tailor them for your use case.

The latest content catalog, named Covid-19, is available in Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish only. For more information about language support for the catalogs, see Supported languages.

Adding a content catalog to your dialog skill

  1. Open your dialog skill, open the Content Catalog page.

    Screen capture showing available catalogs

  2. Select a content catalog, such as Banking, to see the intents that are provided with it.

    Screen capture showing Banking category intents

    Intents that are added from a content catalog are distinguishable from other intents by their names. Each intent name is prepended with the content catalog name.

  3. Add a content catalog to your dialog skill by clicking the Add to skill button.

  4. Go to the Intents page to see the intents that you added from the catalog listed.

Your skill trains itself on the new data.

After you add a catalog to your skill, the intents become part of your training data. If IBM makes subsequent updates to a content catalog, the changes are not automatically applied to any intents you added from a catalog.

Editing content catalog intents

Like any other intent, after you add content catalog intents to your skill, you can make the following changes to them:

  • Rename intents
  • Delete intents
  • Add, edit, or delete intent user examples
  • Move an example to a different intent