scenariobot-guide

17. Glossary

Aborted — a call someone stopped by hand. Distinct from failed.

Active — a phone whose WhatsApp session is connected and working.

Bot contact — which contact identity the bot presents as, set in scenario settings.

Call — one run of one scenario against one contact. A contact can only have one running at a time.

Canvas — the middle column of the designer, holding the conversation top to bottom.

Code card — a step that runs your own JavaScript. Exists in both EXPECT and SEND forms.

Contact — a verified WhatsApp identity a phone can talk to. Verified through the PING/PONG handshake.

Designer — the full-screen scenario editor.

Disconnected — a phone whose WhatsApp session has dropped. Nothing runs against it.

Draft — a saved but unpublished scenario. Editable, not runnable.

Events tab — the raw timestamped timeline of a call.

EXPECT — what the bot sends and then waits on. The left/right column of the designer.

Expired / Timeout — a call that ran out of time waiting for a reply.

Grossman.bot — the company and brand. Makes ScenarioBot; may carry other products in future.

Flow diagram — the visual record of a finished call, showing which steps ran and which failed.

Linked — a contact that completed the handshake and is usable.

Match mode — how strictly a reply must match: exact, contains, pattern, any.

Override — the wizard’s answer when a partly-finished contact already exists for a number.

Parallel execution — running one scenario against many phones at once.

Phone — a connected WhatsApp number. Owns its own contacts and scenarios.

PING / PONG — the two halves of the contact handshake: a message out, and picking the reply that comes back.

Placeholder — a `` value in a text field, filled at run time. Shown as a yellow chip.

Playback — reading a scenario as a chat window rather than a diagram. Doesn’t send anything.

Published — a scenario cleared to run. Read-only until unpublished.

ScenarioBot — the product itself: designing, testing, automating and monitoring WhatsApp conversational scenarios. Built by Grossman.bot.

Scenario — the conversation script.

Schedule — a rule that fires a scenario at chosen times.

SEND — what the reply side supplies. The other side column of the designer.

Snapshot — the copy of a scenario stored with each call, so old reports never change when you edit.

Template — a WhatsApp-approved message format with numbered slots. Required outside the 24-hour window.

Trigger — a scenario that fires on an incoming event rather than a timer.


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