# Ask Number

### Understanding "Ask Number" <a href="#understanding-ask-number" id="understanding-ask-number"></a>

"Ask Number" is specifically designed to collect numeric input. Asking users for numeric input is a common and valuable tool of WhatsTool Business Bots. This user input can be stored in a designated variable, allowing you to use that data in your BotFlow.

You can ask the customer a question as a **Text** or as a **Voice**.

### **Ask as Text Essentials:** <a href="#ask-as-text-essentials" id="ask-as-text-essentials"></a>

#### **Question Text** <a href="#question-text" id="question-text"></a>

This is the question you want to ask users. Make it clear and short so users know what you're asking.

The **Question text** can be made **Bold**, *Italic*, or ~~strikethrough~~ using the options provided. The text will add the asterisk(\*) for **Bold**, Underscore(\_) for **Italic text**, and Tilde(\~) for **Strikethrough** around the text.

### **Implementation Example:** <a href="#implementation-example" id="implementation-example"></a>

Imagine you are asking your customers to rate your services out of 10. The Ask Number question type with validation settings will make sure users give helpful responses within a specific character limit.

For the **Question Text** you can enter: *On the range of 1 - 10, how would you rate our service? (1 being the worst).*

You have the option to **store the user response** in the variable. You can create a variable - `user_feedback` for example to store the user response.

Now for the **validation settings**, you could provide the **attempt** limit as 1, Validation Error Message is optional. Provide the **Action on Invalid Response**, and turn on the Additional Validation Settings.

In the additional validation settings, provide the **Minimum character, Maximum character, Regex.** The feedback we are looking is on a scale of 1-10, so the minimum character would be 1 and the maximum character would be 2. For regex, we could use - **^\[1-9]\d?$** to make sure that the user enters a rating must between 1 and 9.

#### Publish & Test the Card <a href="#publish-and-test-the-card" id="publish-and-test-the-card"></a>

To publish the flow, connect the card with the starting button and then click on Publish Button. To test the flow, click on Test Bot button to test on a WhatsApp Web Application or on your device.

#### In WhatsApp: <a href="#in-whatsapp" id="in-whatsapp"></a>

This is how "Ask Number" card would be on the WhatsApp Platform.

The above sample flow is for you to understand how "**Ask Number**" Card works and it's usage. It is not a representation of what can be achieved with WhatsTool Business.