Knowledgebase - Create

Reference

Service:: Azure AI Services

API Version:: v5.0-preview.2

Asynchronous operation to create a new knowledgebase.

POST {Endpoint}/qnamaker/v5.0-preview.2/knowledgebases/create

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
Endpoint	path	True	string	Supported Cognitive Services endpoint (e.g., https://< qnamaker-resource-name >.api.cognitiveservices.azure.com).

Request Header

Name	Required	Type	Description
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key	True	string

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
name	True	string	Friendly name for the knowledgebase.
defaultAnswer		string	Default answer sent to user if no good match is found in the KB.
defaultAnswerUsedForExtraction		string	Text string to be used as the answer in any Q-A which has no extracted answer from the document but has a hierarchy. Required when EnableHierarchicalExtraction field is set to True.
enableHierarchicalExtraction		boolean	Enable hierarchical extraction of Q-A from files and urls. Value to be considered False if this field is not present.
enableMultipleLanguages		boolean	Set to true to enable creating KBs in different languages for the same resource.
files		FileDTO[]	List of files from which to Extract Q-A.
language		string	Language of the knowledgebase. Please find the list of supported languages here.
qnaList		QnADTO[]	List of Q-A (QnADTO) to be added to the knowledgebase. Q-A Ids are assigned by the service and should be omitted.
urls		string[]	List of URLs to be used for extracting Q-A.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
202 Accepted	Operation	Details of the asynchronous operation.
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Error response.

Security

Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

Type: apiKey
In: header

Examples

Successful query

Sample request

HTTP

POST {Endpoint}/qnamaker/v5.0-preview.2/knowledgebases/create


{
  "name": "QnA Maker FAQ",
  "qnaList": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "answer": "You can change the default message if you use the QnAMakerDialog. See this for details: https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/azure-bot-service/templates/qnamaker/#navtitle",
      "source": "Custom Editorial",
      "questions": [
        "How can I change the default message from QnA Maker?"
      ],
      "metadata": []
    },
    {
      "id": 0,
      "answer": "You can use our REST apis to create a KB. See here for details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cognitiveservices/qnamaker/knowledgebase/create",
      "source": "Custom Editorial",
      "questions": [
        "How do I programmatically create a KB?"
      ],
      "metadata": [
        {
          "name": "category",
          "value": "api"
        }
      ],
      "context": {
        "isContextOnly": false,
        "prompts": [
          {
            "displayOrder": 1,
            "displayText": "Update KB",
            "qna": {
              "answer": "You can use our REST apis to update your KB. See here for details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cognitiveservices/qnamaker/knowledgebase/update",
              "questions": [
                "How do I programmatically update my KB?"
              ],
              "metadata": [
                {
                  "name": "category",
                  "value": "api"
                }
              ],
              "context": {
                "isContextOnly": false,
                "prompts": [
                  {
                    "displayOrder": 1,
                    "displayText": "Refresh Endpoint Keys",
                    "qna": {
                      "answer": "You can use our REST apis to refresh endpoint keys. See here for details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cognitiveservices/qnamaker/endpointkeys/refreshkeys",
                      "questions": [
                        "How do I programmatically refresh endpoint keys?"
                      ]
                    }
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "urls": [
    "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/cognitive-services/qnamaker/faqs",
    "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/resources-bot-framework-faq"
  ],
  "files": [
    {
      "fileName": "SurfaceManual.pdf",
      "fileUri": "https://download.microsoft.com/download/2/9/B/29B20383-302C-4517-A006-B0186F04BE28/surface-pro-4-user-guide-EN.pdf"
    }
  ]
}

Sample response

Status code:: 202

{
  "operationState": "NotStarted",
  "createdTimestamp": "2018-03-19T07:38:46Z",
  "lastActionTimestamp": "2018-03-19T07:39:29Z",
  "userId": "86bb8390-56c0-42c2-9f81-3de161981191",
  "operationId": "03a4f4ce-30a6-4ec6-b436-02bcdf6153e1"
}

Definitions

Name	Description
Context	Context associated with Qna to be updated.
CreateKbDTO	Post body schema for CreateKb operation.
Error	The error object. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.
ErrorCodeType	One of a server-defined set of error codes.
ErrorResponse	Error response. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.
FileDTO	DTO to hold details of uploaded files.
InnerErrorModel	An object containing more specific information about the error. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.
MetadataDTO	Name - value pair of metadata.
Operation	Record to track long running operation.
OperationStateType	Operation state.
PromptDTO	Prompt for an answer.
Qna	QnADTO - Either QnaId or QnADTO needs to be present in a PromptDTO object
QnADTO	Q-A object.

Context

Context associated with Qna to be updated.

Name	Type	Description
isContextOnly	boolean	To mark if a prompt is relevant only with a previous question or not. true - Do not include this QnA as search result for queries without context false - ignores context and includes this QnA in search result
promptsToAdd	PromptDTO[]	List of prompts to be added to the qna.
promptsToDelete	integer[]	List of prompts associated with qna to be deleted

CreateKbDTO

Post body schema for CreateKb operation.

Name	Type	Description
defaultAnswer	string	Default answer sent to user if no good match is found in the KB.
defaultAnswerUsedForExtraction	string	Text string to be used as the answer in any Q-A which has no extracted answer from the document but has a hierarchy. Required when EnableHierarchicalExtraction field is set to True.
enableHierarchicalExtraction	boolean	Enable hierarchical extraction of Q-A from files and urls. Value to be considered False if this field is not present.
enableMultipleLanguages	boolean	Set to true to enable creating KBs in different languages for the same resource.
files	FileDTO[]	List of files from which to Extract Q-A.
language	string	Language of the knowledgebase. Please find the list of supported languages here.
name	string	Friendly name for the knowledgebase.
qnaList	QnADTO[]	List of Q-A (QnADTO) to be added to the knowledgebase. Q-A Ids are assigned by the service and should be omitted.
urls	string[]	List of URLs to be used for extracting Q-A.

Error

The error object. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.

Name	Type	Description
code	ErrorCodeType	One of a server-defined set of error codes.
details	Error[]	An array of details about specific errors that led to this reported error.
innerError	InnerErrorModel	An object containing more specific information than the current object about the error.
message	string	A human-readable representation of the error.
target	string	The target of the error.

ErrorCodeType

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

Name	Type	Description
BadArgument	string
EndpointKeysError	string
ExtractionFailure	string
Forbidden	string
KbNotFound	string
NotFound	string
OperationNotFound	string
QnaRuntimeError	string
QuotaExceeded	string
SKULimitExceeded	string
ServiceError	string
Unauthorized	string
Unspecified	string
ValidationFailure	string

ErrorResponse

Error response. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.

Name	Type	Description
error	Error	The error object.

FileDTO

DTO to hold details of uploaded files.

Name	Type	Description
fileName	string	File name. Supported file types are ".tsv", ".pdf", ".txt", ".docx", ".xlsx".
fileUri	string	Public URI of the file.
isUnstructured	boolean	Optional Flag to specify if the given file is Unstructured.

InnerErrorModel

An object containing more specific information about the error. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	A more specific error code than was provided by the containing error.
innerError	InnerErrorModel	An object containing more specific information than the current object about the error.

MetadataDTO

Name - value pair of metadata.

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Metadata name.
value	string	Metadata value.

Operation

Record to track long running operation.

Name	Type	Description
createdTimestamp	string	Timestamp when the operation was created.
errorResponse	ErrorResponse	Error details in case of failures.
lastActionTimestamp	string	Timestamp when the current state was entered.
operationId	string	Operation Id.
operationState	OperationStateType	Operation state.
resourceLocation	string	Relative URI to the target resource location for completed resources.
userId	string	User Id

OperationStateType

Operation state.

Name	Type	Description
Failed	string
NotStarted	string
Running	string
Succeeded	string

PromptDTO

Prompt for an answer.

Name	Type	Description
displayOrder	integer	Index of the prompt - used in ordering of the prompts
displayText	string	Text displayed to represent a follow up question prompt
qna	Qna	QnADTO - Either QnaId or QnADTO needs to be present in a PromptDTO object
qnaId	integer	Qna id corresponding to the prompt - if QnaId is present, QnADTO object is ignored.

Qna

QnADTO - Either QnaId or QnADTO needs to be present in a PromptDTO object

Name	Type	Description
answer	string	Answer text
context	Context	Context of a QnA
id	integer	Unique id for the Q-A.
lastUpdatedTimestamp	string	Timestamp when the QnA was last updated.
metadata	MetadataDTO[]	List of metadata associated with the answer.
questions	string[]	List of questions associated with the answer.
source	string	Source from which Q-A was indexed. eg. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/QnAMaker/FAQs

QnADTO

Q-A object.

Name	Type	Description
answer	string	Answer text
context	Context	Context of a QnA
id	integer	Unique id for the Q-A.
lastUpdatedTimestamp	string	Timestamp when the QnA was last updated.
metadata	MetadataDTO[]	List of metadata associated with the answer.
questions	string[]	List of questions associated with the answer.
source	string	Source from which Q-A was indexed. eg. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/QnAMaker/FAQs

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