https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/problem-selecting-data-in-agents-knowledge-assistant/m-p/132326#M1156 <P>Hi Community, I am trying to add my unlabeled data such as txt, ppt, and pdf but none of them can be selected to usage. Please see a screenshot as I am trying to create a knowledge assistant agent, so I can feed it files and it can answer questions from the documents.</P> Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:50:31 GMT magicianmanan 2025-09-17T19:50:31Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/problem-selecting-data-in-agents-knowledge-assistant/m-p/132326#M1156 <P>Hi Community, I am trying to add my unlabeled data such as txt, ppt, and pdf but none of them can be selected to usage. Please see a screenshot as I am trying to create a knowledge assistant agent, so I can feed it files and it can answer questions from the documents.</P> Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:50:31 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/problem-selecting-data-in-agents-knowledge-assistant/m-p/132326#M1156 magicianmanan 2025-09-17T19:50:31Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/problem-selecting-data-in-agents-knowledge-assistant/m-p/132337#M1157 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/185270">@magicianmanan</a>&nbsp;,</P><P>In source parameter you need to provide path to the folder, not to specific file.</P><P>So, for instance in my volume I have one single pdf:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="szymon_dybczak_1-1758142993291.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/20068iE2C0F2461F0952C0/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="szymon_dybczak_1-1758142993291.png" alt="szymon_dybczak_1-1758142993291.png" /></span></P><P>And in source parameter I'm providing path to directory that contains that PDF file (<STRONG>but not the path to the file itself!</STRONG>).</P><P>And it works without any issue <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="szymon_dybczak_0-1758142923495.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/20067i4A98628F2685A494/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="szymon_dybczak_0-1758142923495.png" alt="szymon_dybczak_0-1758142923495.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Edit: This is also stated in documentation:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="szymon_dybczak_2-1758143136827.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/20069iA326FF7ED03529A4/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="szymon_dybczak_2-1758143136827.png" alt="szymon_dybczak_2-1758143136827.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:05:59 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/problem-selecting-data-in-agents-knowledge-assistant/m-p/132337#M1157 szymon_dybczak 2025-09-17T21:05:59Z