title: Google Assistant - Dynamic entities
body: <p>We've recently had to pause our in-depth development with Alexa Skills,due to their Dynamic entities not being completey ready for the use case it was intended for (had confirmation direct from an AWS architect).</p>
  
  <p>Documentation of same: </p>
  
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  <li><a href="https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/use-dynamic-entities-for-customized-interactions.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/use-dynamic-entities-for-customized-interactions.html</a> </li>
  <li><a href="https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/db4c0ed5-5a05-4037-a3a7-3fe5c29dcb65/use-dynamic-entities-to-create-personalized-voice-experiences" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/db4c0ed5-5a05-4037-a3a7-3fe5c29dcb65/use-dynamic-entities-to-create-personalized-voice-experiences</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Regardless, we've since been making a POC for Google Assistant, as have heard of their equivalent (<code>Dialogflow dynamic enity</code>). </p>
  
  <p>The problem we having is that this too doesn't seem to be loading data dynamically. </p>
  
  <p>Our expected result is to; load data (dynamically), into a new slot that would be used during the action. </p>
  
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  <li>i.e. load a list of specific names at runtime, that can then be used for lookup while using the app. </li>
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  <p>Creating a new static lookup slot (within the console) with ±5 set names (unique and not common) work fine and everytime, however, as soon as you load those names dynamically, they are not recognized when spoken. </p>
  
  <p>We've seen similar issues that all seem to be resolved, using POST calls to DialogFlow, however, we are unable to replicate this in a runtime environment. </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48899846/dialogflow-dynamic-enity-issue">Dialogflow dynamic enity issue</a> </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Has anyone had similar issues with this and managed to get it working as expected? </p>
  
  <p>If so, would you mind please sharing some additional documentation that could help with an example of same? I suspect we are really close but are missing something simple. </p>
  
  <p>PS - I have not pasted example code here deliberately, as I am after documentation and examples of same, I'd rather not confuse the topic - unless required. </p>