Amazon lex - Can the bot initiate a message?

Question

I am new to amazon lex. I wanted to have the bot initiate a conversation instead of the user triggering the start flow by asking a question, is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

At the moment, it has to be handled client-side, i.e, you won't have this behavior in the test interface.

In Facebook Messenger, for example, you can setup a Greeting Text.