Ability to Forward Briefing to Multiple Skills

  • Resolved comedyplugs

    (@comedyplugs)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hello. Your plugin is helping me out alot. Is there a way to add individual briefings that will go to individual Alexa Skills. For example, I would like to create a briefing post for NY Events – that go to a Alexa Skill called NY Events. I would like to create a briefing post for NJ Events – that go to an Alexa Skill called NJ Events.

    I tried to add 2 briefing posts with different titles and I used a category of ny and nj. Then when I added the feed to the Alexa skill as:

    /wp-json/alexa-fb/v1/briefings/?category=ny (Alexa SKill for NY)
    /wp-json/alexa-fb/v1/briefings/?category=nj (Alexa Skill for NJ)

    It just shows the title to one of the briefings on the alexa – then says the title of each briefing, but only reads the first briefing.

    I guess my question is with one install of this plugin on one wordpress site – can
    I have the different briefings go to totally separate Alexa skills – or is it just one Alexa skill with multiple feeds to that one skill?

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  • Plugin Author andrewfitz

    (@andrewfitz)

    You are welcome, and thank you for the kind review!

    Thread Starter comedyplugs

    (@comedyplugs)

    Just wondering.. a couple of things…

    (1) Would you be able to add a “clone to draft” link for the posts/briefings? I have a lot of posts that are somewhat repetitive in content.

    (2) I also noticed this today. For example, I have a briefing that is working perfect on Alexa. So this briefing is letting people know about a comedy show that is going to happen on March 19th. That briefing works fine. Alexa pulls it up – no problem.

    But what I did was overwrite the briefing in WordPress with a new show that is going to happen on March 30th. But this briefing I scheduled for March 20th. The idea is that as soon as the March 19th show is over the scheduled briefing will then publish on the 20th – with the new show (March 30th) now going to Alexa.

    When the scheduled post – publishes.. it works fine with the new briefing (March 30th)… but while it is sitting there scheduled… the old briefing (March 19th) won’t go through to Alexa now (even though I didn’t publish anything new yet (its just in a scheduled state). Alexa states that there is an issue with the skill. As soon as the scheduled post publishes.. it’s back up though.

    Plugin Author andrewfitz

    (@andrewfitz)

    Hi, this could happen if that’s the only briefing and if it’s in draft mode it won’t post any into the feed. Amazon is probably expecting at least 1 briefing to be live per feed. I would suggest not overwriting it like that and instead create new briefing each time, this is so they all have their own id which tells Amazon it’s a new item.

    You can install a clone/duplicate post plugin that supports custom post types and it will clone the briefings fine. I use this: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/duplicate-post/

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by andrewfitz.
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