Strategy ONE

Customize Bot Display Using the General Panel

Beginning in Strategy One (March 2025), bots have been enhanced to improve responses and the bot creation process. For more information on the enhancements, see Strategy One (March 2025) Enhancements.

  • You can continue to create bots, as well as edit and use bots created in previous versions. For an introduction, see Auto Bots: Customized Stand-Alone Bots (prior to March 2025).

  • To enable the new bots, contact Strategy support. For an introduction to the new bots, see Auto Bots: Customized Stand-Alone Bots. For steps to create a new bot, see Create a Bot.

Use the General panel to customize the bot's display and behavior to align with specific industry requirements or personal preferences. You can:

  • Customize how the bot displays by changing the bot's name, logo, greeting, colors (using the panel theme), and color palette for visualizations

  • Customize how bar and line charts display in the bot by setting the Y-axis origin and whether data labels display, beginning in Strategy One (June 2025)

  • Enable or disable saving answers as snapshots to refer to later

  • Enable or disable interpretation of your bot answers

  • Enable or disable automatically-generated question suggestions and define how they work

  • Add links to external websites to provide more extensive or detailed information

Customize the Bot's Display

  1. Create a new bot or open an existing bot and click the Edit icon in the upper right.
  2. Click the General panel .

  3. Customize the display of the bot:

    • Bot Name: Type a name, which can be different than the name displayed in Library. The Bot Name displays within the bot.

      You can manually set i18n strings in this field. The Bot Name should not exceed 50 characters.

    • Active: Click the toggle to enable or disable the bot.

      When you disable a bot, it is unaffected in authoring mode. Once you click Save, the bot is disabled as indicated by the inactive status message.

    • Bot Cover Image: Click Edit to change the cover image that displays in Library. You can select one of the sample images or paste a URL to your own image. Click Save.

    • Bot Greeting: Type the greeting text. A greeting can help users by setting expectations regarding the bot's capabilities and purpose while adding a personality.

      You can manually set i18n strings in this box. The Bot Greeting should not exceed 500 characters.

  4. Define the bot's colors:

    • Panel Theme: The panel theme defines the colors for different elements on the bot. In the drop-down list, choose a predefined theme or Custom to create your own theme.

      • If you choose Custom, specify a color for the Background, Text, Secondary Color, Accent Color, and Canvas Color by using the color picker or typing a hex code.

        • The Canvas color displays behind the Background color, like a border.

    • Visualization Palette: Select the color palette for visualizations created by the bot. A color palette applies to the objects, such as a graph's bar risers or heat map's rectangles, in all visualizations throughout the bot. You can create custom palettes using the Application Editor in Workstation.

  5. Beginning in Strategy One (June 2025), you can customize how charts display in the bot with these settings: 

    • Y-axis Origin: By default, the Y-axis origin of line charts is determined by the lowest values of the data. Select Zero from the drop-down list to set the origin at zero.
    • Enable Data Labels: Bar and line charts do not display labels by default. Enable this setting so users can more easily identify data and directly compare values.
  6. You can enable or disable saving answers to My Snapshots. When enabled, users can save the bot responses they want to refer back to later in the My Snapshots panel. Click the toggle for Allow Saving Answers to "My Snapshots".
  7. You can enable or disable interpretation, which provides transparency into how the bot interpreted and executed your question. Viewing the interpretation affirms the logic and criteria used, building trust and confidence in the bot's responses. For more information, see View AI Interpretation. Click the toggle for Enable Interpretation.
  8. You can enable or disable insights, which provides insights beyond a basic response. Click the toggle for Enable Insights.
  9. Beginning in Strategy One (June 2025), you can enable or disable auto complete, which displays a list of matching column names as a user types. Using auto complete helps with accuracy because the exact object needed is selected. It helps avoid ambiguity and incorrect responses, especially when multiple objects share a similar name. Click the toggle for Auto Complete.
  10. Type a Hint to display in the input field of the bot. For example, the image below shows the default hint of "Ask me a question".

    You can manually set i18n strings in this box. The hint should not exceed 50 characters.

  11. You can enable or disable question suggestions by clicking the toggle for Enable Question Suggestions. If you enable question suggestions, customize the behavior:
    • Automatically Generated Suggestions: Select the number of automatically-generated question suggestions to display. The default is three and the maximum is five.
    • Add Custom Suggestion: Click Add and type a custom suggestion. You can Delete any custom suggestion that you create.
    • Question suggestions are overwritten by prompt visualizations.
  12. Sometimes the information a user needs might be extensive or detailed. To avoid long text in the chat, you can add a relevant link to an external website. You can add up to three links, which display at the top right of the bot panel. You can Deleteany link that you create. To add a link:
    1. Click Add Link and type a link name, up to 50 characters. This name displays on the bot when Display Format is set to Text Only or Icon + Text. It appears as a tooltip when only the icon is displayed.
    2. In the drop-down list next to the link's name, select the icon to display. Icons display when Display Format is set to Icon Only or Icon + Text.
    3. In Paste a URL, type or paste the link's URL.
    4. In the Display Format drop-down list, choose how the links display on the bot. In the image below, a link displays with a globe icon and the text "Strategy".

  13. To continue creating or editing a bot, see Create a Bot.