How to Connect Continually as Data Source
The integration allows you to get data on new chatbot responses from Continually. For example, you can transfer new responses to GoogleSheets or CRM or duplicate them in a group with managers in Telegram. Integration will allow you to automate the data processing process as efficiently as possible using the different services you use.
Let's go through the entire Continually setup steps together!
Navigation:
1. What data can I get from Continually?
2. How to connect your Continually account to ApiX-Drive?
3. Link for get data.
4. Example of chatbot data.
To start setting up a new connection, click “Create connection”
Select the system as the Data Source. In this case, you must specify Continually.
Next, you need to specify the action, “Get DATA”.
The next step is to select the Continually account from which will get the data.
If there are no accounts connected to the system, click “Connect account”.
Enter the name of your account (if necessary) and click "Save".
After this, the page will reload and the saved account will automatically selected.
If this does not happen, select the created account from the list.
Copy the link in the "URL for receiving data" field and go to your Continually account.
In your Continually account, go to the Bots section and select the bot for which you want to get data.
In the Add object section, go to Power-Ups and add an External API block to your bot script. In this case, we added it at the end, after all the user data in the chatbot has been collected.
Next, go to the added External API block, in the URL and method field, paste the previously copied link from ApiX-Drive, select the POST data sending method, check the Add parameters box to match the names of the fields that will be sent to Webhooks with the Continually fields, in this example we will add fields from all bot blocks.
To match the values of fields, in the KEY NAME field write the field name, in the VALUE field simply insert the field name in curly braces, for example {@field}.
Additionally, you can read about the purpose of the fields in this Continually documentation: https://help.continual.ly/article/283-external-api-json-structure
Click Save and Publish to save.
Webhooks transfer connection is complete.
Note! After setup, our system will not immediately have test data and a list of fields, because nothing has come to the new URL yet.
It is necessary to commit an event, for example, write to chat.
After that, at the Test stage in the Data Source, fields with data will displayed.
If this does not happen, click "Load test data from Continually" or repeat the test data generation, or wait for a while, the data does not come immediately, but within 1 minute.
If necessary, you can set up a Data Filter, or click "Continue" to skip this step.
To find out how to configure the Data Filter, follow the link: https://apix-drive.com/en/help/data-filter
Now you can see test data for one of the messages.
If the test data does not appear automatically, click "Load test data from Continually" or try generating actions in your Continually using testing.
If you are satisfied with everything, click “Next”.
Note! After setup, our system will not immediately have test data and a list of fields, because nothing has come to the new URL yet.
It is necessary to commit an event, for example, write to chat.
After that, at the Test stage in the Data Source, fields with data will displayed.
If this does not happen, click "Load test data from Continually" or repeat the test data generation, or wait for a while, the data does not come immediately, but within 1 minute.
This completes the entire Data Source setup! See how easy it is!?
Now you can start setup the Data Destination system.
To do this, setup it yourself or go to the help section "Data Destination", select the service you need as Data Destination, and follow the setup recommendations.
Good luck!
