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A Button gambit asks a question and offers a fixed set of answers. The end user selects one, the selection is stored in the gambit’s variable, and each choice becomes its own branch in the builder.

When to use it

Reach for Button when the answer belongs to a short, known set: a help topic, a yes or no, a department. Every choice you add is a branch you can route. Use Auto Suggestion instead when the list is long, and Card when each choice needs an image.

The gambit and its editor

Every page in this section shows the same demo flow: Start, a Welcome message, the gambit this page covers, then End. The gambit sits third, selected, with its editor open on the right. The rest of the screen is dimmed. The gambit in the builder carries one handle per option, plus a Free Input handle while Allow Free Text is on. Below the label row, the editor holds Messages, Options, and Configuration, followed by the POST Action and Conditions switches.

Messages

The bubbles the agent sends before it waits for a selection. Each message has a rich-text field and a Delay (ms) value. The delay sets the pause before the bubble is sent. Add Message appends another bubble, and the image icon attaches an image. Type @ in a message to insert a captured variable.

Options

Each row is one choice. Add Option appends a row and shows how many you have used out of a maximum of 10.
A value of STOP or UNSUBSCRIBE conflicts with the opt-out keywords and can unsubscribe the end user automatically. The editor flags the row when you type one.
With more than one language configured, each option carries its own translation, and a row missing one is marked Missing translation. See Languages.

Configuration

Typed answers leave through the Free Input handle, so you can route a typed reply somewhere other than the option branches.

POST Action and Conditions

POST Action runs an API call or custom code once the selection is captured. Conditions routes on variable values. While it is on, its branches and a Default handle replace the option handles. Both are covered in Flow control and branching.