[Video] How ‘Continue from’ works in IBM Watson Conversation

In this video I demonstrate how the order of dialogue nodes affects the Jump to… or Continue from… feature in IBM Watson Conversation.

Continue conversation button from in IBM Watson Conversation
This button goes by several names including Continue from and Jump to.

Until just now, I was unclear about the Continue from / Jump to feature. I followed the car tutorial provided by IBM and the feature worked. Then I created my own chat bot, and it sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t.

Why was Continue from / Jump to not behaving consistently? Because I did not realize how the order of the nodes affects it.

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