# Reusing intents with context

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Context is used to reuse intents across several bot dialogs. To learn more about the concept of context, go to [this page](/understanding-users/using-context.md).
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When the intent 'who are you' is recognised our train traveling assistant introduces himself and asks if the user would like to order a ticket.

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In a totally different part of the conversation, at the end of the `Book train ticket` conversation flow the chatbot asks for a booking confirmation.

![](/files/-MFgECmz2tQm2G6Xs8Kc)

Both bot questions expect a user intent answer of **yes** or **no**. To support reuse of intents we can define a bot dialog intent linked to a certain context. The user will only be redirected to the linked bot dialog if the intent is recognized and the user is in a specific context.

* Add the `yes` and `no` intents and train them with expressions
* In the bot dialog `Confirm booking` go to the NLP tab.
* Add an **output context** `confirm_booking`. Press enter to create the output context.
* When a user reaches this bot dialog the output context is added to the user session context.

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For each user message the lifespan of a context is decreased by one. A user can have multiple contexts with different lifespan values.
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* Add the `Confirmed Booking` **bot dialog** with **required context** `confirm_booking` and **intent** `yes` in the NLP tab. When the `yes` intent is returned by the NLP model and the user has the context `confirm_booking`, he will be redirected to this bot dialog. 

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When multiple intent and input context combinations are found, the user's context with the highest lifespan value is taken.
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* Add the `Cancel booking` **bot dialog** with the **required context** `confirm_booking` and **intent** `no`
* Add **output context** `who_are_you` in the **bot dialog** `Who are you`.

![](/files/-MFgECn1aROrS2whRPKw)

* Add the `Yes book ticket` **bot dialog** with **required context** `who_are_you` and **intent** `yes`.
* Add the `No book ticket` **bot dialog** with **required context** `who_are_you` and **intent** `no`

## Test the flow in the emulator

* Click on the Emulator tab to test your flow. Let us ask our traveling assistent who he is.

![](/files/-MFgECn2qnF_1XRfEeLT)

* Go to the **debug mode** and select the first message in the messages list `who are you` to view the received information after sending this user message.

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* The **context** `who_are_you` has been added to the user session with an initial **lifespan** value of `1` as you can see in the context section.                                                         
* The user is redirected to the bot dialog 
* The NLP result section shows that the who are you intent has been recognised as top scoring intent.
* In the **Message Data** section we see the message being sent by the bot as answer

![](/files/-MFgECn4ljsBeOtm8kKa)

* In the **User Session** section we see the context list of the user with name and lifespan

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The [next tutorial](/tutorials/tutorial-conditional-flow-navigation.md) teaches us how to redirect the user to a specific bot dialog depending on the conditions on the values in session variables.


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