Convert Date & Time

a. From your Chatfuel dashboard, open the new bot called "JSON API Tutorial & CodelessBot Template" 

b. Find the group containing the name of this plugin.

c. Click on the arrow next to the plugin name to clone this group and blocks from the template into your own Chatfuel Bot.

d. Navigate back to the Chatfuel Dashboard

e. Open your Bot and find the new plugin group that you just cloned. 

f. Open the new Plugin block and enter in your CodelessBot access key and secret key.

Tip: Rename the plugin block to something more meaningful. For more details, refer to the Getting Started Guide.

After you download and installed the Quick Start Template...

1. From the ManyChat sidebar, click on the Flows"
2. Open the folder "CodelessBot Templates"
3. Find the flow containing the name of this plugin. 
4. Create a copy by click on the three dots icon on the right
5. Then click on duplicate
   
6. Feel free to rename this new flow and move it to a different folder
7. Open up the flow and click on the "Starting Step" to modify the information you'll be sending to CodelessBot

For more details, refer to the Getting Started Guide.

Provide any date and time you want to convert as text.

You can also use the special keyword “now” for current date and time.

Use the CodelessBot plugin wizard for commonly used formats or use any combination below:

YYYY – Four digit year (e.g. 2019, 2020)
    YY – Double digit year (e.g. 19, 20)

    M – Single digit month (e.g. 1, 2, … 12)
  MM – Double digit month (e.g. 01, 02, … 12)
 MMM – Abbreviated month (e.g. Jan, Feb, … Dec)
MMMM – Month (e.g. January, February, …. December)

     D – Single digit day of month (e.g. 1, 2, … 31)
  DD – Double digit day of month (e.g. 01, 02, … 31)
 ddd – Abbreviated day of week (e.g. Mon, Tues, … Sun)
 dddd – Day of week (e.g. Monday, Tuesday, … Sunday)

     h – Single digit hour of day (e.g. 1, 2, … 12)
     H – Single digit hour of the day, military time (e.g. 0, 1, … 23)
    m – Single digit minute of the hour (e.g. 1, 2, … 59)
  mm – Double digit minute of the hour (e.g. 01, 02, … 59)
    s – Single digit second of the minute (e.g. 1, 2, … 59)
  ss – Double digit second of the minute (e.g. 01, 02, … 59)

    a – Lowercase AM/PM indicator
    A – Uppercase AM/PM indicator

   z – Abbreviated timezone
   Z – Timezone offset (e.g. -07:00, -08:00)  

Defaults to “UTC” if not provided.  Use the CodelessBot plugin wizard to select a valid timezone.

Defaults to “en-US” if not provided. 

Valid options are en-US (English US), en-GB (English UK),  fr (French), de (German), it (Italian), pt-BR (Portuguese Brazil), pt-PT (Portuguese Portugal), es (Spanish), vi (Vietnamese).

Valid values are -520 to 520.

Valid values are -3650 to 3650.

Valid values are -525600 to 525600.

Default value: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds

When adding units of time to a date, the exact order in which various units are added will matter due to changes in daylight savings and leap years.

If you provide a partial list like “weeks, minutes” then the partial list will be merged with default order.  Weeks and minutes will be added first, respectively, and then all remaining units of time (years, months, days, hours, seconds) will be added using default order.

1. In this plugin block, scroll down to the "JSON API" card
2. Copy and paste the code from the Plugin Wizard into the textbox. (Or you can enter the correct value by referring to the descriptions above.)

Tip: Make sure the "Send as" is set to JSON. Not URL encoded or Full JSON Profile.

a. Click over to the "Body" tab in this external request 

b. Next, copy and paste the code from the Plugin Wizard into the "Request Body". (Or you can enter the correct value by referring to the descriptions above.)

c. If there are any "Replace With placeholder" in the code, you'll need to replace them with the correct matching custom field by clicking on "Add a Variable".

d. To check if you set this up correctly, click on "Test the Request" on the right and you should get a success "200 OK" response

e. Click on the blue "Save" button

After the JSON API card, you can add additional Chatfuel cards to:

1. Send a message to the user with the result
2. Add a new card "Go To Block" with a condition to redirect users to a different blocks depending on the result

Note: These are just some ideas. You are not limited by the 2 ideas above.

Finally, to save and make use of the results, you'll need to save the answer(s) from the CodelessBot to ManyChat custom field(s). To do this:

a. Click over to the "Response mapping" tab.

b. All the answer(s) are already listed for you under the first column "JSONPath". (For more detail about each one, see description above).

For each answer, select the ManyChat custom field you want to use to store the value from CodelessBot. Feel free to delete any that you don't need.

c. Click on "Save" when you're done. After this external request step, you can add a next step where you're:

• Sending a message to share the results with users
• Add a new Condition step to redirect users to a different step or flow depending on the result