How to accept the Free form text as input to Amazon Skill Kit?

Question

I\'m required to create a Amazon Skill Kit to open a ticket in our ticketing tool. By looking at the examples for Amazon Skill Kit, I couldn\'t find a way of accepting the f

Answer 1

As you think about what users are likely to ask, consider using a built-in or custom slot type to capture user input that is more predictable, and the AMAZON.SearchQuery slot type to capture less-predictable input that makes up the search query.

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To get the value in your application you will have to this

event.request.intent.slots.IntentName.value