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This documentation supports the 20.02 version of BMC Helix Chatbot.

To view the documentation for the current version, select 20.08 from the Product version menu.

You must configure BMC Helix Chatbot or a chatbot for your application so that your application can work with different user communication channels such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business on-premises, and SMS, which uses Twilio.

For example, you might want to provide Short Message Service (SMS) chatbot conversation facility to your application users. To provide the SMS facility, you must configure your chatbot to work with Twilio so that your application users can interact with a chatbot by sending text messages through their mobile devices.

You can also use more than one communication channel in an application, such as Microsoft Teams and Twilio to enable conversation through SMS.

This section provides information about how to configure your chatbot to work with the supported communication channels:

ActionReference
Create a chatbot for your application by using the Slack collaboration service.

Enabling Slack in a chatbot application

Enable Skype for Business on-premises for a chatbot application.Enabling Skype for Business on-premises in a chatbot application
Enable a SMS chatbot conversation in an application by using Twilio.

Enabling an SMS chatbot conversation in an application

Enable Microsoft Teams channel for a chatbot application.Enabling Microsoft Teams in a chatbot application by registering inline with Microsoft App Studio
Format the chatbot responses so that a the message are displayed suitably for a communication channel.Formatting chatbot responses to be displayed in communication channels