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description: >-
  Let's create a search intent for getting the search term our users want to
  start their search.
---

# Default Welcome Intent - search

## Steps

1. Click `Intents` from the left menu.
2. On "Default Welcome Intent" hover your mouse to the right on top of it
3. Click on `Add follow-up intent`
4. Choose Custom
5. This will take you to the new created follow-up intent
6. Rename from `Default Welcome Intent - custom` to `Default Welcome Intent - search`
7. Click `save`.

## **Explanation:**

Since we asked our users how they want to search for a person, we need to follow up their answer. To do so we're going to create a follow up intent for the 'Default Welcome Intent'

To create a follow up intent just go to the intents home page and hover your mouse on the intent you want to add a follow up.

At the options given we are going to select the 'custom intent' and rename our custom intent to 'Default Welcome Intent - search'



<div align="left"><img src="https://3968847866-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LGdg6kPT_tILSqphA89%2F-LGpt38g8Kw-epwUoovk%2F-LGpu7EIoFYTYdBrwxl3%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=b80d1caf-a424-4711-9e67-61e0ba7999ae" alt="The welcome follow up intent"></div>

## Follow-up intent Explanation <a href="#explanation" id="explanation"></a>

What if you need to structure workflows to your conversational apps?

But how do we do `if`, `else`, `switch cases`?

What if in case the answer is yes`do something`

otherwise, `do something else.`

Follow-up intents allow you to to shape dialog without having to manage contexts manually. We can make the intents extend each other, as they are part of the same logical group.

But how do we do `if`, `else`, `switch cases`?

What if in case the answer is yes`do something`

otherwise, `do something else.`

Follow-up intents allow you to to shape dialog without having to manage contexts manually. We can make the intents extend each other, as they are part of the same logical group.
