When creating a google actions the name not allowed and blocking me from Saving

Question

I am trying to create a Google Action and I am getting this error:

Your sample invocations are structured incorrectly. Make sure they all include either your app name or pronunciation, and trigger your app.

Even if I set the name to

Dr. Detroit

and the pronunciation to

doctor detroit

I'm totally confused with this. any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I also got the same error. It comes because of the fact that your sample invocations does not include the full name of your app/action. Try to make it exactly the same and it might work. I got mine working the same way. 😁

Answer 2

It's because they all have to be of the form "Talk to <APP NAME>" or "Ask <APP NAME> about X", etc.

I agree that this is not made very clear, but this is what they mean by "… and trigger your app".

There's a list of allowed phrases here: https://developers.google.com/actions/localization/languages-locales