Customizing Discobot for your site

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:bookmark: This guide explains how to customize Discobot, the built-in assistant bot in Discourse, to better match your community’s persona and needs.

:person_raising_hand: Required user level: Administrator

Discobot is a special user in your Discourse community that helps new members learn about the platform. As an administrator, you can customize various aspects of Discobot to better fit your community’s style and requirements.

Modifying Discobot’s user profile

To customize Discobot’s profile:

  1. Go to Admin > Users and select the Discobot user.
  2. Select “Preferences” or click “Visit this user’s preferences page to edit their profile”:
    Accessing Discobot's preferences
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Once in the Preferences section, you can modify the following settings:

Account settings

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  • Name: Click the “Edit” button to change Discobot’s name.
  • Image: Click the “Edit” button to upload a new avatar image.
  • After making changes, click the “Save Changes” button.

Profile settings

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Customize Discobot’s profile information as needed.

Email settings

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Adjust email-related settings as needed.

Updating Discobot’s welcome message

To change the welcome message sent by Discobot:

  1. Go to Discobot’s profile (https://example.discourse.com/u/discobot/summary) and select “Messages”.

  2. Click on “Sent”.

  3. Find a greeting message that you want to modify.

    Locating Discobot's sent messages
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  4. Copy a unique part of the message, such as “I’m only a robot”.
    Copying part of Discobot's message

  5. Navigate to the Admin Interface (https://example.discourse.com/admin)

  6. Go to Appearance > Site Texts (https://example.discourse.com/admin/customize/site_texts)

  7. Paste the copied text into the search window. When the greeting message appears, click “Edit”.

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  8. Update the greeting message and click “Save Changes”.

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Limitations and additional information

  • You can reuse existing variables in messages (like %{title}), but you cannot add new ones.
  • Discobot must remain an administrator; this role cannot be removed.

For further customization needs or feature requests, consider posting in the feature category.

Last edited by @hugh 2024-07-19T02:45:16Z

Last checked by @hugh 2024-07-19T02:45:34Z

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Is it possible to make a new conversation discobot with With members and make a new certificate for them ?

I am admin to an educational forum and I want to make a new conversation with a new certificate :slight_smile:

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No, you cannot currently customise the full experience.

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Is it possible to know the codes for messages such as %{title}

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Excuse me for my many questions :slight_smile:

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Questions are fine. :slight_smile:

You can reuse any existing variables in the message but you cannot add new ones.

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many thanks @HAWK
Is it possible to define the existing variables if possible? :slight_smile:

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I suggest adding that either

  1. People need to update the Discobot’s profile About me because it’ll still say message or mention @discobot even after you change its name

or

  1. Maybe Discourse could remove the username from the default message? I went ahead and edited our About me to just say

Hi, I’m not a real person. I’m a bot that can teach you about this site. To interact with me, send me a message or mention me anywhere.

Just in case we have to change it again, we don’t need to remember to also change the About me.

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Is this something that’s going to be possible in the future? The current question/answer format of fortune and quote is sufficient for what I have in mind.

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@codinghorror is extending the discobot functionality on our roadmap at all?

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That’s a good point we should make that copyedit, @tshenry can you take it? No need to deal with it retroactively just for new ones. Say “mention me by name” so editing the name doesn’t require editing the “about me”.

@hawk we don’t plan on extending discobot at the moment.

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Should be done with the following!

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11820

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Does Discobot have to be a Moderator or can I take this role away from him? I mean, will he still work then?

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As far as I can tell from looking at the code and the UI, Discobot should never be able to become a moderator.

If you meant an admin, then no, unfortunately there is no way to take the admin role away from DIscobot at this time.

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お答えいただきありがとうございます。ここ数回の投稿で、ディスクボットのユーザー トレーニングと高度なユーザー トレーニングをカスタマイズすることは可能ですか、それともまだ標準ですか? 「カピバラ」という言葉で多くの検索トラフィックがありますが、別の用語を試すこともできますか?

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実際には、私が言及しているのはここにあるものかもしれません: Customizing Discobot for your site - #7

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管理者がチュートリアルの特定の部分をオンまたはオフにすることはできますか？

たとえば、「不適切」フラグを選択するように求めるフラグチュートリアルがあります。このフラグは、ユースケースに適さないため、インスタンスでは非表示になっています。その結果、ユーザーはチュートリアルを完了できません。このセクションを無効にする/スキップするだけであれば、チュートリアルを再度有効にすることができます。

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いいねを無効にする場合と同様に、投稿に「いいね！」できる機能を無効にする場合と同様に、手順の指示を変更できます。いいね！を無効にする - Discobotチュートリアルを更新する

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手順の削除や追加はできませんが、既存の手順の本文（トリガーは除く）はカスタマイズできます。

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これを担当し、フォーラムの主題に関する質問に答えるようにトレーニングしたいと考えています。LM / chatgptなどを使用します…可能ですか？

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ディスクボットをカスタマイズしようとするよりも、独自のAIペルソナ/ボットを作成する方が良いでしょう。

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