Fallout4 Does anyone know how to setup simple dialogues?

[AndyTheSaurus]

Fallout3 was easy to add dialogue to; partly by expanding existing topics, partly by scripting to use the AddTopic command. Skyrim was far more difficult (and I cannot remember what I did).

For Fallout4 all I have managed to do is add new dialogue under the MISC Tab HELLO topic. It,s the only thing my new NPC's know. (they were based on copying Stanley). I cannot add addtional topics because I do not know how to link new dialogue topics in, and I find the Object Oriended scripting very very difficult - scripting was easy prior to papyrus.And online tutorials are dufficult to follow. Help please.

[AndyTheSaurus]

Have now found that Scripts will not run because the Quest must be both STARTED and RUNNING - an obscure flag setting on the main quest form