What a source is
A source feeds a knowledge base on its own: an IntELIEKonnect import connector, connected to the knowledge base, that brings in whatever it collects. Anything you add by hand on Documents is a one-off upload instead.
The Sources list
Sources lists every connector feeding this knowledge base, one row each. Info gives the connector's name, its state and its type, and Who can access summarises the access its documents get, with Edit beside it. A knowledge base with no sources reads Nothing here.
Add Import Channel opens a page of its own. It lists the active, connected import connectors not yet connected here, which you can pick, and every disabled one, greyed out as Inactive whether or not it is already connected here. Drafts and connectors not yet switched on are not listed. Creating a knowledge base walks through connecting the first.
What a source carries
Every document a source brings in carries the settings on its right-hand card:
- Access metadata, from the same three tabs as an upload: Only me, Public or Internal users, the last narrowed by Access role, Department or People group. A connector brings no permissions of its own, so this decides who can retrieve its documents. The lists offer only roles, departments and groups already granted access to the knowledge base.
- Ingest options, folded away: a Chunking template, left on Auto-detect (default) unless every document from this source is one kind, such as Contract / clauses, Tables or Scanned / OCR, and Custom tags, key and value pairs stamped on every document.
Edit opens Edit channel access to change them. Only what arrives afterwards picks up the change; documents already indexed keep their access. Documents labels everything from a source IntELIEKonnect and everything added by hand Manual upload.
The states a source shows
| Badge | What it means |
|---|---|
| Active | Connected and ingesting. |
| Paused | You selected Disconnect. It stays connected, with its settings, but brings nothing in. |
| InActive | The connector itself cannot run, for example because it was disabled in IntELIEKonnect or its credentials need reconnecting. The row says why and links to the connector. |
What you can do with one
- Settings, then Fetch now, pulls straight away instead of waiting for the connector's own schedule. It is greyed out while the source is Paused: reconnect it first. Open in IntELIEKonnect opens the connector.
- Disconnect pauses ingestion and Reconnect resumes it.
- Remove (the bin) removes the source and its link in IntELIEKonnect, after a Remove source confirmation. Documents it already brought in stay.
Who can do what
Connecting a source also links the connector to the knowledge base inside IntELIEKonnect, so it needs a permission on each side: Knowledge Base · Setup - Create and IntELIEKonnect · Import - Create. Remove likewise needs Knowledge Base · Setup - Delete and IntELIEKonnect · Import - Delete. Edit, Disconnect and Reconnect need Knowledge Base · Setup - Update, and Fetch now needs IntELIEKonnect · Import - Execute. A control you cannot use stays visible but greyed out, and hovering it gives the reason.
Next
- Creating a knowledge base - connecting the first source.
- Uploading documents to a knowledge base - the manual path alongside your sources.
- Finding and creating import connectors - building the connector first.