Possible to upload documents to Watson discovery via Watson Assistant?

Question

I have been trying to find an answer to this question, but can't seem to have any luck.

Is it possible to upload a document to Watson Discovery via Watson Assistant? If so, could anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

There is nothing out of the box that could do as you ask. Discovery does now come with a number of mechanisms to populate collections, ie Box, Web and sharepoint crawlers along with a manual upload. Non of these are integrated with Watson assistant. That's not to say what you are looking for cannot be done, but you would need to build the mechanism yourself. As an example you could create a response payload (json packet ) within Watson Assistant that triggers some client code which performs an upload. This upload could then directly push the document into a discovery collection via discovery's API methods.