The Canvas
Learn to build powerful AI conversations using the Canvas in your NLX workspace
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Learn to build powerful AI conversations using the Canvas in your NLX workspace
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The Canvas is a visual and interactive design tool for building your conversation flows. Each conversation flow has its own Canvas to build all steps and possible paths. Every Canvas begins with a non-editable Start node from which your conversation will progress.
Located at the top of your Canvas when opening a flow, the toolbar provides a host of options while you assemble or maintain an application's workflow:
Add node: Select a node to add to the Canvas
Hand tool: Click and pan around the Canvas
Magic layout: Adjust flow nodes into a level, aligned display
Undo/redo: Undo or redo the last action on the Canvas
Flow: Swap between flows attached to the current application set
Analyze: View traffic data from deployed applications
Validation (Show issues): Check for missing error handling, infinite loops, or other issues in the flow
Save: Commit all changes made while in the Canvas
Test: Enable the test widget to converse with the application from the existing flow
Activate one or more modes simultaneously from your Canvas toolbar:
You can continue to modify and build with your flow while these modes are activated. Simplify select the Canvas to adjust the flow and save changes.
Zoom in/out: Press Ctrl/Cmd key while scrolling mouse wheel or moving two fingers up/down on a trackpad
Move: Pan the Canvas by sliding two fingers along the trackpad or press + hold Spacebar while using your mouse to click and drag
Right-click the Canvas or a node to activate the shortcut menu for additional options:
Paste, Undo/Redo
New node: Select a node to add to the Canvas
Zoom controls
Analyze: Easily identify cycles (great for detecting if any unintentional infinite loops exist) or disconnected nodes
Search: Trigger search bar
Copy, Cut, Duplicate, Delete
Change color: Recolor node header for visual labeling
Zoom selection: Magnifies on selected node
Highlight selected: Add to bookmark in Canvas toolbar
Extract to new page: Moves selected node(s) to a new page within the intent flow and adds Redirect nodes for moving between pages
Bookmark: Right-click on a node to add a highlight and keep it bookmarked or use the Analyze option in the to bookmark isolated or infinite loop nodes
: Scan content, trigger quick commands, and deliver generative prompts
Application: Swap between applications where the
Pages: and swap between them to contain branches of the current flow
: Set up intent training data, attach slots, manage translations, restore versions, and enable additional configurations
Analyze: Enable to view from flows in production or filter to specific conversation sessions and troubleshoot the user's path
Validation (Show issues): Displays detected logic or UX errors within your flow. Select the warning icon that appears above any node to read the validation error from the node's side panel
Test: To access the Test widget and test from the start of the current
Explore keyboard shortcuts and additional options via the .
