Support for elicitSlot from different intent?

[GomuGomuMan]

Suppose I have 2 intents A and B. Intent A uses Dialog Interface. Intent B is an AMAZON.HelpIntent.

What I want to do is a way to elicitSlot of intent A from intent B (I save intent and slot information on sessionAttributes). When I try to apply
this.emit(':elicitSlot', slot, prompt, reprompt, updatedIntent);
method with an updated Intent (with changed intentName). It gives me this error:

However, this functionality is supported on Amazon Lex as specified here on the elicitSlot section

[tianrenz]

Hi,
Please make sure the updatedIntent matches exactly with the intent that your skill receives.
Please see here for more information on elicitSlot.

Regards

[khanh-nguyen]

It looks like it’s not supported :(

Note that you cannot change intents when returning a Dialog directive, so the intent name and set of slots must match the intent sent to your skill.

[tobias74]

Is there any workaround?

Multi-Turn dialogs often elicit specific slots which are then answered by a single word. In case the user triggered the HelpIntent during a multi-turn dialog I need a way to re-elicit that very specific slot on that very intent. I cannot rely on the user saying a complete sentence to trigger that specific intent again.

The user is more likely to say just that one-word-answer I tried to elicit in the first place. But this one word abviously cannot trigger the correct intent. The wanted intent, for which I try to re-elicit a slot, has to be provided from within the HelpIntent like so:

this.emit(':elicitSlot','slotName','intentName');

[b11n]

+1

[patjackson52]

+1. shame the issue was closed without considering this as a feature request

[tianrenz]

@patjackson52 , please go to alexa voice forum and post the feature request there, as this is not a SDK related issue.