Guide 03: knowledge description under 400 characters, with the limit noted

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 11:55:19 +02:00
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 2. Replace the text under **Description**.

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-Two documents from Example College. The school guide: lesson times, reporting illness, absence and leave, homework and tests, phones and laptops, form tutors and contact details. The style guide: how the school writes to parents and for the website, the parent app and social media (reading level B1, formal or informal address, words to avoid, structure of a parent letter, length per channel, names and photos of students). Use this knowledge base for questions about school rules and for writing or checking texts for parents.
+Two documents from Example College. School guide: lesson times, reporting illness, absence and leave, homework and tests, phones and laptops, form tutors, contact. Style guide: how the school writes for parents, website, parent app and social media (level B1, forms of address, words to avoid, letter structure, length per channel, photos). Use for school rules and for parent texts.
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 ![The updated description](screenshots/a06-settings.jpg)

 3. Scroll down and click **Save**.

+> The description may be at most 400 characters (the text above is 383). If it is longer, Dify saves nothing and shows "Modified unsuccessfully" at the top right, or nothing at all; the old text stays. Check after Save that the new text is there.
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 > **Your choice: the description.** Write the description as if you were explaining to a new colleague when to open this folder. Name the topics, not the file names. Then test with **Retrieval Testing** (left-hand menu) whether a question such as "may I address a parent informally?" puts the right piece at the top.

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