Well I've created a QnA knowledge base and I can use it as the back end for a

bot. so now I just need to go ahead and create that bot. Well here I am in the
Azure portal ready to create my bot. So I'll just go ahead and add a new web app
bot, search for that, and we'll add one of these and just like before. When we
create our bot we have to give it a name, so I'm gonna call mine BadJokes - that's
fundamentally what it does. We'll put it into the appropriate subscription that
we want to use, and we will put it into our existing resource group that we
created for our QnA service earlier on. So we'll put on the West US. We'll choose
the appropriate pricing tier for that - I'll just go with the the free tier; and
then we need an app name. Again that's already gone, so we'll just add something
on the end of that to give us a unique name. We're going to use the appropriate
template - I'm gonna use a template that's gonna let me use the QnA maker. We'll
stick with C# this time just for a change, but what we'll do is go down and
choose the question-and-answer template; and then we are going to finish off this
this wizard. It's going to create the app service plan in the West US and it
will create some storage for that bot as well, and some apps insights. So we'll go
ahead and and choose create; and now we're going to validate those settings.
We'll just scroll along here a little bit and then it's going to go off and
deploy that new bot... and then when the bot has been deployed, we are ready to go
and look at that resource. We'll have to make a few changes before we are
ready to use this because we have to connect it to our QnA service, so to do
that I'm gonna go and take a look at the application settings for this app
service and I'll just load those; and if I scroll
down a little bit here I can see a number of different application settings
that we need to use and that are some that are specific to working with the QnA
service. we need a QnA authentication key, we need an endpoint host name, and we
did
a knowledge base ID. Now all of that information is available to us in the
QnA knowledge base that we deployed, and I can see that information here. So the
first thing I need here is the knowledge base ID and that's this GUID here in the
URL; so we'll just go ahead and copy that to the clipboard and then we'll put the
knowledge base ID in here. And then we also need the the endpoint hostname
and if I go back to here there's the the host so I can see endpoint host name. And
we need an authentication key as well and if I go back to here there's the
authorization endpoint key there so we'll grab that and we'll
put that in here as well. So those are the three settings we need to connect
our bot to our QnA knowledge base. So I'll go ahead and save those settings, and
that's
gone ahead and updated those app settings for me. So I'm now ready to go
and test my bot and I can just go and test that in the web chat interface.
Up it comes and I'm ready to start so I can start off just by being polite and
saying hello and I get back my response from BadJokes hello.
Why did the chicken cross the road
and I get by my proper response to the other side. So we've now created a bot
and we've connected that to our QnA knowledge base and we can then deploy
that bot through any of the regular channels the bots can be connected to
through and it will use that knowledge base to answer the questions that users
submit to it.