The portal is assembled and edited by an agent, and the easiest way to talk to it is in plain words. For that the portal has a chat: you describe what needs doing, and the agent gets to work. The chat opens as a side panel — by the New Chat button in the header. It connects to an external Xedant Agent — the same one you use for other tasks.
Connecting
The chat works when your Xedant Agent’s address and access key are set during the portal’s installation. When these values are not set, the chat panel and the edit buttons simply do not appear — the portal does not show buttons that lead nowhere. More about installation is on the Installation page.
What the agent can do
- Create a page — assemble a new page from blocks, following your description in words.
- Rework a page — change the text, the order of blocks, the look and the access.
- Fix a single block — swap the picture, update the table, add a button.
- Write or repair a script — build the calculation for live numbers and debug it when something did not work.
Edits right from the page
You do not have to start from the chat: an edit can be requested right from the page you are viewing. Next to the page title and on every block — on hover — there is an Edit with agent button. It opens the chat panel and fills the input box with which page or block is meant — nothing is sent until you finish writing what should change. For a page the request concerns the whole page; for a block, only the selected block.
The portal adds the needed context to the request by itself: the page’s address, the block’s mark and a link to the page. Thanks to that the agent understands exactly which page is meant and does not ask again.
Fixing problems
When a page or a block is broken, a Fix with agent button sits next to the problem message. A click sends the agent the problem’s description and the page’s context, and it gets to the repair. You do not need to work out the causes — pressing the button and describing what you wanted to see is enough.
The recommendation
Sometimes the agent leaves one unobtrusive Recommendation card on a page — what would be useful to add or fix, and why. It is not an error but a hint. The card can be hidden with the ✕ button: as long as the page is untouched, it will not come back. As soon as the agent changes the page again, the recommendation may return — the material has been updated, after all.
How the work goes
While the agent is busy, the chat panel shows Agent is working…. When a task needs clarifying, the agent asks questions — answered with cards right in the conversation. The whole conversation history is kept, so past tasks can be revisited and continued. When the edit is ready, the page updates on screen by itself.
A new chat already opens with the portal management skill portal-manager selected — a ready-made guide to running the portal, so the agent knows from the first message how pages, blocks and portal rules are put together and does not spend time on explanations. As soon as you pick another skill or “no skill”, that choice is remembered and applies to the following new chats.
License
Sending messages to the agent requires a valid license — that is the only thing it restricts. Everything else works without one: the page tree, viewing, blocks, calculation scripts, forms and the public site. When a license has expired, trying to send the agent a message opens a dialog offering to upgrade it. Details are on the Licensing page.
Next: what exactly gets checked on a page — in the Page Validation section; how the agent edits content through the service address — in Agent Management; a general introduction — in Getting Started.