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Database (RAG)

Overview

The Database section, available from the sidebar, centralizes the knowledge made available to your agents. It is organized into two complementary sources: Each source is split into fragments: the text excerpts the agent searches and cites to build its answers.
A single knowledge base is shared across the customer. Agents draw the information they need from it according to their configuration.

Documents

Import a file

Drop your file into the dedicated area, or click it to browse your computer.
Importing documents into the Database
Once processed, the file appears in the Indexed documents list, with its name, size and import date. Indexing may take a moment: a status indicator shows its progress.

Document actions

The menu on the right of each document gives access to the following actions:

Replace a file

Replacing re-indexes the document entirely from the new file.
All existing fragments for this document will be deleted and replaced with the content of the new file. Any manual edits made to the fragments will be lost.
If you import a file with the same name as an existing document, Volubile offers to replace the existing document rather than create a duplicate.

Managing fragments

Click a document to open the side panel and review its fragments.
Managing a document's fragments

Searching fragments

Two search modes are available:

Editing content

Each fragment can be managed individually:
Manually refining fragments is the best way to improve answer quality: rephrase, split or enrich excerpts so they match the real questions your users ask.

Web pages

In addition to files, you can index the content of web pages. Enter a URL, then click Add.
Indexing web pages

Crawl configuration

Adding a URL opens the crawl configuration window.
Web page crawl configuration
1

Source title

Give the web source a recognizable name (required).
2

Root URL

The site’s root URL. Discovery and manual URL additions are restricted to sub-paths under this root URL.
3

URLs to retrieve

Use Discover to automatically detect pages on the domain, or add sub-paths manually. Up to 100 URLs per source.
4

Automatic refresh

Enable a recurrence (daily, weekly or monthly) so the pages are re-indexed regularly.
Automatic refresh re-indexes all pages of the source. If you manually edited some fragments from these pages, those changes will be lost.

Tracking indexed pages

Each web source displays its title, URL, page count and indexing date, along with a status indicator: The menu on each source lets you configure the crawl, refresh it, or delete the source. As with documents, click a source to review its crawled pages and their fragments (Fragments and Markdown views).

Deleting a source

Deleting a document or a web source is irreversible.
If the source is used by one or more agents, deletion is blocked. Volubile shows the list of affected agents: remove the source from their configuration first before you can delete it.