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Change button type in Telegram channel (with custom actions)

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post by brunohjs on Nov 10, 2020

Hi everyone! I don’t really like the layout of the inline buttons on Telegram, as there is little space for text. In the Rasa documentation it is not clear to me. So I’m creating this topic to facilitate the community.

To change the type of buttons, just pass the button_type parameter in the utter_message method.

The result is this:

In the button_type parameter, it is possible to pass the following values: inline (default), vertical and reply.

Hope this helps.

post by stephens on Nov 16, 2020

Here’s an example. The button type value can be inline, vertical or reply.

  utter_buttons_inline:
  - buttons:
    - payload: /affirm
      title: Yes
    - payload: /deny
      title: No
    text: These are inline buttons
    button_type: inline

post by alloky on Nov 22, 2020

How does it work? I get yml parsing error while trying to add this param to domain.yml

 Key 'button_type' was not defined.

post by stephens on Nov 23, 2020

@alloky Make sure the spaces are present.

post by stephens on Dec 21, 2020

There’s a known issue with button_type introduced with 2.0. Should have a fix for this soon.