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It is possible to use an internal VisualStudio Wiki website as a source for Copilot?

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Posted on by FrenchTea

As part of our VSTS setup we have an internal knowledgebase Wiki for developers and technical staff.

I've tried pointing Copilot to it as a data source but it doesn't seem to be getting anything judging from the lack of answers to questions I've tried.

In fact looking at this help page I can't see the equivalent options for setting up authentication
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-service/content-sources-websites

This is what I am seeing - no link for "setup authentication" - it looks like the website needs to be public to work?

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HenryJammes on at

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Hi @FrenchTea

Correct. The public data source only works with public websites because it’s actually using the Bing index to perform the search.
For gated content you need to be able to query it to return relevant content. Maybe through an existing search API or index. The Custom Data source can then help summarize returned content snippets for you: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/nlu-generative-answers-custom-data

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FrenchTea 12 on at

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Thanks - where is the "Create generative answers" node?

Is it on here somewhere?

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HenryJammes on at

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You'll find it in your list of System Topics. You should have one called "Conversational Boosting"

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FrenchTea 12 on at

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Thanks - if I have understood the article correctly I need to put the url to my website in some json like this?

Maybe it needs time to read the data but so far I'm not seeing any evidence that it is using the information in the answers....

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FrenchTea 12 on at

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I tried putting it as a table under Formula

I click insert and it appears to be ok but when I then click "save" I get this

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HenryJammes on at

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Sorry, no, you actually need to pass as Content the articles/wiki pages actual text content that will then help Generative Answers summarize an answer for the user query. It will not query your website, you need to do that yourself in a prior step (e.g. through Power Automate cloud flows or through an HTTP request)

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FrenchTea 12 on at

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If I remove the [..] it tries to save as a record and I get an error
Variable is being set to an incorrect type. Assigned: Record, expected: Table

If I keep the [..] so the content is

[ {
Content: "iMIS Developer Wiki",
ContentLocation: "https://advsol.visualstudio.com/iMIS/_wiki/",
Title: "iMIS Wiki"
}]

It identifies it as a table

There are no errors showing now

But I still get this

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FrenchTea 12 on at

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ok - got it - thanks for your help!

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