How do I get the value of the entity?

[rossida]

I have an utterance: "Who does @employee work for?" The entity is Employee, so within my Topic flow, how do I get get the value of the entity???   Therefore, if I enter the following in the Virtual Agent:"who does John Doe work for?", I want the Topic is get just the entity's value: "John Doe".  HOW can I get this??

[rossida]

Thanks for the reply!

This is what I did:

- I created an Input variable called: vaInputs.utterance_employeeValue. This variable has the "NLU entity" set to "Employee". 

- I have have a "Bot response" component that is using the "Text Response" to display this value.  Therefore, in the "Response message", I have vaInputs.utterance_employeeValue

I have 8 employee's with the name: "John Smith"
Virtual agent shows me 8 sys_ids but these sys_ids are NOT the USER-record sys_ids.  These are the Entity's sys_ids (I believe). 

How do I get and show all the entity values ?
For instance:
John A. Smith

John B. Smith

John C. Smith

John D. Smith

John E. Smith

John F. Smith

John G. Smith

John H. Smith

[rossida]

Thanks for the reply!

This is what I did:

- I created an Input variable called: vaInputs.utterance_employeeValue. This variable has the "NLU entity" set to "Employee". 

- I have have a "Bot response" component that is using the "Text Response" to display this value.  Therefore, in the "Response message", I have vaInput.utterance_employeeValue

I have 8 employee's with the name: "John Smith"
Virtual agent shows me 8 sys_ids but these sys_ids are NOT the USER-record sys_ids.  These are the Entity's sys_ids (I believe). 

How do I get and show all the entity values ?
For instance:
John A. Smith

John B. Smith

John C. Smith

John D. Smith

John E. Smith

John F. Smith

John G. Smith

John H. Smith