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Multi select

Multi select is a task type that gives one assistant every other task type at once. Instead of picking Chat or Search or Report Generator, the assistant carries all of them on the same data sources, and whoever opens it chooses which task to run.

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Use it when the same knowledge base has to answer in several shapes — a chat for support, a search page for the intranet, a report for management — and you do not want to maintain a separate assistant, and a separate copy of the data, for each of them.

Select the Multi select task type

Multi select is an advanced choice, so it is not among the tiles shown by default:

  1. Open AI Assistants in the left navigation bar and open the assistant's editor.
  2. Stay on the General tab and look at the Task Type tiles.
  3. Click the Advanced tile to unfold the remaining task types.
  4. Click the Multi select tile. It is highlighted and carries a check badge, and an information banner appears under the grid.
The collapsed task type picker with the Advanced tile
Tip
The change is saved on its own — watch for the Saved chip in the toolbar. Click Show less to fold the advanced tiles away again; Multi select stays visible while it is the current selection.

Configure each task

A multi select assistant has no single task to preview, so the playground on the right of the editor shows the same task overview your users will see. Click a card to open that task in the panel:

The playground showing every task of a multi select assistant

Picking a task changes the editor around it: the tab bar gains the tabs that task supports, and the General tab now edits that task's own LLM Settings, instructions and initial message.

The editor tab bar with Tools and Advanced back in place
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The Tasks link above the panel takes you back to the overview so you can configure the next task. Until a task is picked, only the General and Add data tabs are shown — Tools and Advanced belong to a specific task.
  • Shared by every task — the assistant's name, description, avatar, data sources and their parsing options, sharing and access rights.
  • Set per task — the LLM settings, the instructions, the initial message, the tools and everything on the Advanced tab. Configuring Chat leaves Search untouched.

Use the assistant

Click Use to leave the editor. The assistant's page opens on the task overview instead of a single task, and every task is one click away:

The assistant page opening on the task overview
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A task still only runs when the assistant holds the data it needs — Search and AI Spreadsheet need indexed content, and Sparql Endpoint, Entity Linker and Linker need an RDF graph. Tasks that cannot run are greyed out, exactly as they are for a single-task assistant.

Expose every channel

Because the assistant runs every task, its Expose tab offers every task's channels at once — the website chatbot, the public search, chat, SPARQL, entity linker, report generator and AI spreadsheet interfaces, and the REST API. A single-task assistant only offers the channels of its own task.

The Expose tab of a multi select assistant
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Each channel is set up the same way as anywhere else — see Expose for the details of every integration.

Good to know

  • Multi select has to be enabled for your scope. If the tile does not appear behind Advanced, an administrator has restricted the available task types for your organization.
  • You can switch back to a single task type at any time. The other tasks stop being offered, but their settings are kept, so switching back to Multi select restores them.
  • All tasks read the same data sources. Adding a data source on the Add data tab makes it available to every task at once.
Note
For what each individual task does, see AI Task and the page of the task itself.
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