Dear Forum members,
I am building a conversational agent in UiPath studio web. For context grounding i am building an index out of documents stored in a storage bucket in my orchestrator. While trying to generate the Index, I want to select the Ingestion method “Advanced”. But this option is not selectable for me. I am using a community edition license. What can be the reason? Also how can I solve this?
If this is a restriction for the community edition what other options do I have? Also to note, I am not in a position to buy an enterprise license as an individual user?
This one is a licensing block, not something on your side. Advanced ingestion isn’t available on Community or Trial accounts, so the option stays greyed out. It’s mentioned at the bottom of this page: Automation Cloud - Context Grounding licensing
Basic ingestion still works though, it just needs plain digital text (no scans, tables or images). So the way around it is to do the parsing yourself first: Read PDF Text for normal PDFs, Read PDF With OCR for scanned ones, save the output as .txt back into your storage bucket, then build the index on that folder with Basic. For tables, flatten them into rows and repeat the headers on each row so each line still makes sense on its own.
For a conversational agent this holds up fine, you’re only losing the layout handling.
Hi @rudra771 ,
The Advanced Ingestion option is typically not available in the Community Edition because it requires features that are only included with certain paid/Enterprise AI Center or GenAI capabilities. This is why the option is visible but cannot be selected.
As a workaround, use the Standard/Basic ingestion method to create your index and continue building your grounding knowledge base. You can also improve results by organizing documents properly, using smaller document sets, and ensuring supported file formats are used.
If Advanced Ingestion is required, you would need access to an Enterprise-enabled tenant provided by a company, partner, trial, or academic program. For individual Community users, the practical option is to continue with the standard ingestion features available in the free edition.
Thank you so much for the ideas. Indeed, it’s a pity that there isn’t any subscription model from UiPath to use these features instead of buying an enterprise license which is not feasible for academic purpose.
hey @rudra771 Advanced Ingestion is license-dependent. If it isn’t available in Community or Trial, you can use Basic Ingestion after preprocessing documents into clean digital text. Advanced Ingestion is required when richer document structures need to be handled.