Getting transcript from a custom action

I’m trying to create a custom action to get the conversation transcript. Problems started trying to get the connectionString from settings, it always returns null(no issues with container name). I can see the values in chatbot appSettings. Find below the code I’m using

  StringExpression containerExpression = "=settings.runtimeSettings.features.blobTranscript.containerName";
  var containerName = containerExpression.GetValue(dc.State); //OK
  StringExpression connectionStringExpression = "=settings.runtimeSettings.features.blobTranscript.connectionString";
  var connectionString = connectionStringExpression.GetValue(dc.State); //Returns Null

Am I doing something wrong? What is the best way to do this? Also, I was trying to see if there is a way to access the built-in BlobsTranscriptStore service/middleware but I couldn’t find a way to do it. Thanks in advance for all your help on this.

[dmvtech]

Hi @jcmorara You can get the settings from the runtime just as you would get any settings from a .NET core app.

But if you want to get as an expression (or other memory variables other than settings.___ (turn.,user.,etc), that should be possible too. Let me take a look and see if I can find what may be the issue.

[dmvtech]

hi @jcmorara I’m going to close this as it seems as though this has been answered. Please let me know if you have further questions.

To work around this issue, a couple of ideas are:

1. Create .NET classes in your project that can populate these values and then share to your custom action.
2. Derive from the existing botbuilder classes and change the code to suit your needs.
3. Store the value in another (additional) field with a path that wouldn’t be blocked that it could be pulled from.