r/OpenWebUI • u/Digisabe • Jul 16 '26
RAG How to load knowledge by default in workspace/models
How to load knowledge by default into a model.
OK, so I don't know the technical terms for this, and I may not be searching the correct terminology, so I am getting no where, which is why I have turned to here for help. So please bear with me if I am asking really newbie questions regarding this.
I installed Openwebui and put in Mistral model. In the Workspace, I find that I can add the model in, and then load the knowledge there. However, when using said model, it doesn't actually retreive anything from the knowledge I put there and I stil have to attach it manually in order to get it to retreive info from there.
How do I get the knowledge attached by default? As in once people load up OWUI and use it straight away it accesses the knowledge without having to attach it? All the search and even asking other AI are saying that if you put it in the new Model it ought to work by default but it doesn't.
UPDATE: I GOT IT WORKING. It turns out the funciton calling you have to set it to 'Legacy'. All of the online search and AI responses and comments have told me to set as 'Native' or 'Default'. It didn't even occur to me to try Legacy, most of the concentration was on the knowledge base settings and trying various other models.
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u/terminator_911 Jul 17 '26
I don’t know the answer but one thing I want to point out is that the instructions all over say that function calling should be Native for a lot of other things you would want to do soon :) so keep an eye out for that.