External sources

Ever get a question like "Does your product integrate with Slack?", and you think to yourself, "Our Product Documentation would be a great resource on this!"

Now you can link public or private Confluence pages as a source to Conveyor. Public pages could be your help site, public documentation, or marketing website. You can add your entire private Confluence site or select specific Confluence spaces to add to the knowledge base.

Doing so can increase ConveyorAI's ability to answer questions on your questionnaires and RFPs, without adding maintenance burden to Conveyor itself.

Note: Public external sources refresh every week and private external sources refresh every day!

🎥 Here's a one-minute overview! 🎥

Adding external sources

🎥 Here's a two-minute instructional video about how to set up Public External Sources (yes, it's that easy!) 🎥

External sources are managed in the Knowledge Base section of Conveyor, under the External Sources sub-tab:

Navigate to "Knowledge Base," then "External Sources" to find your External Sources.

Navigate to "Knowledge Base," then "External Sources" to find your External Sources.

Adding Public Sites

Click "Add a Public Site" or "Add new source --> Public Site" to add a new source.

In the next modal, you'll see the following fields:

  • Name (required): Give your external source a memorable name, like "Slack Reference Page."
  • Product Scope (optional, only appears if you have Product Lines set up). If this page only applies to one or a subset of your products, you can select the applicable products here. If it applies to all your products, leave this field blank.
  • URL (required): The page to be included, or the root URL of the site to include.
  • Also source from this URL's sub-pages. (Optional): Check this box if you are providing the root URL of a larger source, such as a marketing site or help documentation. All sub-pages will be crawled and included, up to a max of 1,000 sub-pages. We will recursively crawl to a max depth of 20 for sub-pages. Please note that large sites will increase the time it takes for the source to sync.
Adding a Public Source.

Adding a Public Source.

Once you hit "Save and Sync," the source will sync, and then appear as "Active":

Example of an active, synced External Source.

Example of an active, synced External Source.

Adding Private Confluence Sites

Follow the docs on adding a Confluence integration to add content from your private Confluence site to Conveyor.

Toggling External Sources for ConveyorAI

You can toggle External Source as in or out of scope for ConveyorAi by hitting the gear icon on the Questionnaires page:

Configuring your ConveyorAI Sources on the Questionnaires pag

Configuring your ConveyorAI Sources on the Questionnaires pag

Toggling External Sources as on or off for answer generation.

Toggling External Sources as on or off for answer generation.

External Sources in ConveyorAI

Once you have External Sources active and enabled for answer generation, you'll start seeing them pop up as sources!

Hint: Click the "link" icon to insert a link to the cited page in the answer.