How to create open-ended slot in lex

Question

I\'d like to create a notes/feedback field in my Lex bot, but it appears difficult to do.

It seems like AMAZON.LITERAL used to do this, and current suggestions are t

Answer 1

In my case, feeding random data to the slot did not work. It used to capture only a part of input for the slot or most of the time it assigns NULL to the slot.

To solve this problem, I just made a slot without any data and in the DialogCodeHook I assigned the inputTranscript data into the slot.

slots = intent_request['currentIntent']['slots']
slots['your_slot'] = intent_request['inputTranscript']

Please comment/answer if you find a better way to do this.