[FEAT]: Default user file upload.

[A3shTnT]

What would you like to see?

I want to give default users only chat and upload file analysis permissions, and only use their own workspace. However, currently only the manager role can do this, but the manager can also modify other workspaces. Generally speaking, most apps support ordinary users uploading documents. Do I need additional settings to enable it, or is this feature not currently available in the project?

[timothycarambat]

If a user uploaded a document into the chat, it would then have to be embedded in the workspace, which if shared would then be accessible to any other user on the same workspace.

[A3shTnT]

If a user uploaded a document into the chat, it would then have to be embedded in the workspace, which if shared would then be accessible to any other user on the same workspace.

So I give each ordinary user a workspace that doesn't interfere with each other, so they can't see the files uploaded by others. Is this reasonable?

[timothycarambat]

@A3shTnT That would be the recommended way to do this if we allowed default users to upload documents to a workspace.

[Yaronbaroz18]

I also think that default users should be given permissions to create their own workspace, upload files there, and select an LLM model only within that workspace

[dimm0]

Any updates on this? We'd like to start using anythingllm for multiple users, but current permissions model is not letting us do this

[brainboutique]

Creative thinking: Wouldn't it be sufficient for most use cases to allow user to only upload documents for the current (!) thread, i.e. not for RAG but just to textualize and embed the full content? Given the huge token window sizes nowadays and most users knowing exactly which specific document they want to "chat with" maybe that is way easier and would fulfill most needs ("summarize", "ask questions", "translate", ...). Comments appreciated @timothycarambat @dimm0 @Yaronbaroz18 @A3shTnT !

[dimm0]

Wouldn't it be sufficient for most use cases to allow user to only upload documents for the current (!) thread

It can be done in any other chat system (librechat, openwebui, etc). The benefit of using anythingllm is letting users build the knowledge base and chat with it.