Knowledgebase - Update

Reference

Service:: Cognitive Services - QnA Maker

API Version:: 4.0

Asynchronous operation to modify a knowledgebase.

PATCH {Endpoint}/qnamaker/v4.0/knowledgebases/{kbId}

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).
kbId	path	True	string	Knowledgebase id.

Request Header

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

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
add	Add	An instance of CreateKbInputDTO for add operation
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.
delete	Delete	An instance of DeleteKbContentsDTO for delete Operation
enableHierarchicalExtraction	boolean	Enable hierarchical extraction of Q-A from files and urls. The value set during KB creation will be used if this field is not present.
update	Update	An instance of UpdateKbContentsDTO for Update Operation

Responses

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

Name

Type

Description

202 Accepted

Operation

Details of the asynchronous operation.

Headers

Location: string

Other Status Codes

ErrorResponse

Error response.

Security

Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

Type: apiKey
In: header

Examples

Successful query

Sample Request

PATCH {Endpoint}/qnamaker/v4.0/knowledgebases/9d091697-fb8c-4ed5-9ac0-35bf8273bfff
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {API key}

Request Body

{
  "add": {
    "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": []
      }
    ],
    "urls": [
      "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/Emotion/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"
      }
    ]
  },
  "delete": {
    "ids": [
      13,
      35
    ]
  },
  "update": {
    "name": "QnA Maker FAQ Prompts Bot",
    "qnaList": [
      {
        "id": 2,
        "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": {
          "add": [],
          "delete": []
        },
        "metadata": {
          "add": [],
          "delete": []
        },
        "context": {
          "isContextOnly": false,
          "promptsToAdd": [
            {
              "displayText": "Add Prompts",
              "displayOrder": 0,
              "qna": {
                "id": 0,
                "answer": "Click here to know more https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/qnamaker/how-to/multiturn-conversation",
                "source": "Editorial",
                "questions": [
                  "How can I add prompts?"
                ],
                "metadata": [],
                "context": {
                  "isContextOnly": false,
                  "prompts": []
                }
              },
              "qnaId": 0
            },
            {
              "displayText": "Delete Prompts",
              "displayOrder": 0,
              "qna": {
                "id": 0,
                "answer": "Click here to know more https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/qnamaker/how-to/multiturn-conversation",
                "source": "Editorial",
                "questions": [
                  "How can I delete delete prompts?"
                ],
                "metadata": [],
                "context": {
                  "isContextOnly": false,
                  "prompts": []
                }
              },
              "qnaId": 0
            },
            {
              "displayText": "Update Knowledgebase",
              "displayOrder": 0,
              "qna": null,
              "qnaId": 3
            }
          ],
          "promptsToDelete": [
            3
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "id": 3,
        "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",
        "source": "Custom Editorial",
        "questions": {
          "add": [],
          "delete": []
        },
        "metadata": {
          "delete": [
            {
              "name": "category",
              "value": "api"
            }
          ],
          "add": [
            {
              "name": "category",
              "value": "programmatic"
            }
          ]
        },
        "context": {
          "isContextOnly": false,
          "promptsToAdd": [
            {
              "displayText": "Regenerate Endpoint keys",
              "displayOrder": 1,
              "qna": null,
              "qnaId": 4
            }
          ],
          "promptsToDelete": [
            4
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

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

Add	An instance of CreateKbInputDTO for add operation
Context	Context of a QnA
Delete	An instance of DeleteKbContentsDTO for delete 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.
Metadata	List of metadata associated with the answer to be updated
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.
Questions	List of questions associated with the answer.
Update	An instance of UpdateKbContentsDTO for Update Operation
UpdateKbOperationDTO	Contains list of QnAs to be updated
UpdateQnaDTO	PATCH Body schema for Update Qna List

Add

An instance of CreateKbInputDTO for add operation

Name	Type	Description
files	FileDTO[]	List of files to be added to knowledgebase.
qnaList	QnADTO[]	List of QNA to be added to the index. Ids are generated by the service and should be omitted.
urls	string[]	List of URLs to be added to knowledgebase.

Context

Context of a QnA

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
prompts	PromptDTO[]	List of prompts associated with the answer.

Delete

An instance of DeleteKbContentsDTO for delete Operation

Name	Type	Description
ids	integer[]	List of Qna Ids to be deleted
sources	string[]	List of sources to be deleted from knowledgebase.

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.

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.

Metadata

List of metadata associated with the answer to be updated

Name	Type	Description
add	MetadataDTO[]	List of metadata associated with answer to be added
delete	MetadataDTO[]	List of Metadata associated with answer to be deleted

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

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.
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

Questions

List of questions associated with the answer.

Name	Type	Description
add	string[]	List of questions to be added
delete	string[]	List of questions to be deleted.

Update

An instance of UpdateKbContentsDTO for Update Operation

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Friendly name for the knowledgebase.
qnaList	UpdateQnaDTO[]	List of Q-A (UpdateQnaDTO) to be added to the knowledgebase.
urls	string[]	List of existing URLs to be refreshed. The content will be extracted again and re-indexed.

UpdateKbOperationDTO

Contains list of QnAs to be updated

Name	Type	Description
add	Add	An instance of CreateKbInputDTO for add operation
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.
delete	Delete	An instance of DeleteKbContentsDTO for delete Operation
enableHierarchicalExtraction	boolean	Enable hierarchical extraction of Q-A from files and urls. The value set during KB creation will be used if this field is not present.
update	Update	An instance of UpdateKbContentsDTO for Update Operation

UpdateQnaDTO

PATCH Body schema for Update Qna List

Name	Type	Description
answer	string	Answer text
context	Context	Context associated with Qna to be updated.
id	integer	Unique id for the Q-A
metadata	Metadata	List of metadata associated with the answer to be updated
questions	Questions	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