[Feature] Connect bot to data source

[adbutler007]

It seems intuitive that, once a user creates a data source, he should be able to query it somehow. It would be great if there were a field in the 'create bot' window to connect the bot to an existing data source.

It's entirely possible I'm missing something, but I can't see how to make that connection at the moment.

Thank you very much,
Adam

[talvola]

just adding onto this - maybe it's just instructions, but I have built indexes already from my in-house Jira and Confluence pages, and wanted to just hook them up to the chat. That would be ideal as a first step - even better allow the various Llama Hub connectors to be added in.

[marcusschiesser]

@adbutler007 currently there's no UI for changing the data source of a bot, meanwhile you'll have to modify the JSON of the bot to add a datasource as described in https://github.com/run-llama/chat-llamaindex#-data-sources

[adbutler007]

Is the app built to take multiple pdf files in a datasources directory? Or must each directory take just one pdf file?

[marcusschiesser]

@adbutler007 you can use multiple PDFs in the same directory, as it's using the SimpleDirectoryReader in the generate.mjs script, see:

chat-llamaindex/scripts/generate.mjs

Lines 30 to 32 in df548a1

	const documents = await new SimpleDirectoryReader().loadData({
	directoryPath: `${DATASOURCES_DIR}/${datasource}`,
	});

[mourrr]

@adbutler007 currently there's no UI for changing the data source of a bot, meanwhile you'll have to modify the JSON of the bot to add a datasource as described in https://github.com/run-llama/chat-llamaindex#-data-sources

it's not clear to me how bots created in the UI are added to the bot.data.ts file (to then subsequently be linked to the datasource as per above). Does one need to modify the bot.data.ts to create a bot and mirror that in the UI or vice versa. which wouldn't make sense isn't it? I think I think I am missing something 🧐... @marcusschiesser can you pls advise? thanks 🙏
ps. from my experience, adding a bot in the ui is not mirrored in bot.data.ts . maybe it's a bug?

[marcusschiesser]

@mourrr The bots are stored in localStorage. If it is empty, the data in bot.data.ts is copied as a template. So you have to clear localStorage; see https://github.com/run-llama/chat-llamaindex#-data-sources

[54188wxp]

本人不是很懂该如何在 UI 中创建的机器人添加到 bot.data.ts 文件中，可以给一个详细操作步骤吗。