### How do I test my custom actions?

Greg, how can we export the tracker to use it in custom actions test? Thanks in advance!

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### Session Timeout Callback function

Okay, I´ll check them out. Thanks!

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### Action_session_start

[@rudi](https://forum.rasa.com/u/rudi) did you manage to solve this problem? I´m having the same problema, action_session_start only triggers when the user sends a message after the expiration time.

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It works for me, thanks! I also added at the beginning an AllSlotsReset() event, just in case, don’t know if it’s needed. Thanks again!

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### Error: Python inputs incompatible with input_signature

Thanks for the tip!

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### How to manage a users 'name only' response

Ohh, thanks a lot! I already did it yesterday haha. I guess it should be nice to have an option to “attach” a txt file for a lookup. Thanks a lot!

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Hi there!
[@ChrisRahme](https://forum.rasa.com/u/chrisrahme) your solution also works for me, thanks a lot. However, is there a way to use a lookup table from (for example) a txt file where each line represents a possible value of the entity? Thanks again!

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### Multiple custom action messages not showing in Rasa X

[@Liam](https://forum.rasa.com/u/liam) did you manage to solve it? I´m having the same problem: when using more than one dispatcher.utter_message in a custom action it only prompts the last message. I´m also using Windows.

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### ERROR asyncio - Task exception was never retrieve

Having the same error, for me it was enough to uninstall and install rasa again. Hope it helps for someone!

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### Current way of letting the bot start the conversations

Actually I´d already tried it and I couldn´t go through it.

```python
class ActionSessionStart(Action):
    def name(self) -> Text:
        return "action_session_start"

async def run(
        self, dispatcher, tracker: Tracker, domain: Dict[Text, Any]
    ) -> List[Dict[Text, Any]]:
        # the session…
```

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Thanks [@Tobias_Wochinger](https://forum.rasa.com/u/tobias_wochinger)! I´ll check it out!

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Hi there!  
First of all thank you for trying to solve my question.  
I´m new using this library and I was wondering which is the best way of letting the bot start the conversation. Just from rasa shell, it wouldn’t be integrated in any external platform.  
Example:  
Bot: Hello, I´m here to solve you a…