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Version: v1.7.5

Chats

Overview​

This section provides different actions you can take around chats in Enterprise h2oGPTe. For example, create a chat session with or without a Collection or an imported document(s).

Types of chats​

Collection-backed chats​

A collection-backed chat connects your conversation to a document collection. The LLM answers questions using your uploaded documents as context (RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Use this when you want answers grounded in specific files, knowledge bases, or data sources.

Chats without a collection​

A chat without a collection lets you converse directly with an LLM without selecting any documents. The model responds without document context. When agents are enabled, the model can also use tools such as web search, code execution, and file generation. Use this for general Q&A, brainstorming, summarization of pasted text, or coding assistance.

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Creating a chat without a collection requires the Create a chat without a collection permission. See Roles and Permissions for details.

Chat retention​

Your administrator can turn on a global policy that archives chat sessions automatically once they sit unused for a set number of days. A chat moves from Active to Expiring during a warning window, then to Archived, and is permanently deleted after a grace period. From the Auto-Archive tab you can preserve a chat you want to keep, or give it a fixed expiry date. To learn more, see Automatically archive a Chat session.

Chat origin​

Each row in the Chats list, in a collection's Chats tab, and in Chat Insights shows an icon indicating how the chat session started:

IconTooltipMeaning
Calendar clockAuto-scheduledA scheduled task created the chat session.
Speech bubbleUser-createdYou created the chat session directly.

The icon and tooltip are informational only. There's no badge, no filter, and no separate list for either origin.

Showcase​

Administrators and users with the Manage Showcase permission can highlight selected shared chats on a curated Showcase page. The Showcase displays featured conversations as a tile grid with custom titles, descriptions, and thumbnails.

AI-powered chatbots​

Enterprise h2oGPTe allows you to build AI-powered chatbots. To learn more, see Tutorial 2: Build an AI-powered chatbot (model) to enhance a website's search capabilities.

Tutorial 2: This tutorial with Enterprise h2oGPTe and the h2oGPTe Python Client Library builds an AI-powered chatbot to replace the function of a website's search bar, which, in turn, builds something better to enable users to obtain better answers to their questions about the website. In this tutorial, we will create an AI-powered chatbot to enhance the search capabilities of the H2O Model Validation documentation website.

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