IBM Watson Workspace Starter Bot

This is a sample Workspace bot that uses the IBM Watson Workspace Bot Framework and IBM Watson Workspace SDK.

Quick Start

1. Open a command line (terminal) and change directory to the workspace-starter directory.
2. Install dependencies by running npm install.
3. Create a .env file per the dotenv instructions in Local Development documentation.
4. Run npm run-script dev from a command line.
5. Copy the URL seen in step 2 Use 'https://cdf9d82f.ngrok.io/<APP_ID>/webhook' as your webhook URL in Watson Workspace message for later use.
6. Click the Create new app button on the Developer Apps page.
7. Enter the App Name and the Description of App.
8. Click Create.
9. The next dialog will give you the App ID and App secret. You need to save these values to the respective environment variables in the .env file called APP_ID and APP_SECRET.
10. Click on the Listen to Events link.
11. Click on the Add an outbout webhook button.
12. Give the webhook a name (any name will do) and select any of the events. The message-created and message-annotation-added events are particularly useful.
13. In the Webhook URL text box, specify the URL for your app you copied previously. For example, https://cdf9d82f.ngrok.io/a7cfbdac-cdab-3d6f-ae13-0654b6b8e880/webhook.
14. Copy the Webhook secret from the resulting dialog to the WEBHOOK_SECRET property in the .env file.
15. Make a change to index.js and save. This causes the chatbot to restart and load the updated .env file.
16. Back in you browser, select the Enable button to complete the process.
17. Follow the instructions in Share App to add the app to a space.
18. Go write some code!