Fixed Semantic Search with external data sources (ERI servers) (#1090)

Co-authored-by: Thorsten Sommer <SommerEngineering@users.noreply.github.com>

app/MindWork AI Studio/wwwroot/changelog/v26.10.1.md

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 - Improved attaching files to a chat. You can now attach any file that contains readable text, for example, program code or configuration files of a kind AI Studio did not know before.
 - Improved adding a local data source when you have not configured an embedding provider yet. Until now, you only found out when saving the dialog, after filling in everything else. The data source settings now tell you right away and let you add an embedding provider right there, without losing what you entered.
 - Improved the dialogs for managing your data sources, profiles, and chat templates, which you open, for example, from a chat. The buttons for adding and importing now stay at the bottom of the dialog, so you no longer need to scroll past a long list to reach them. Thanks, Paul Koudelka (`PaulKoudelka`), for this contribution.
+- Improved how often AI Studio signs in to the server of an external data source (ERI server). AI Studio now keeps the server's answer to its security check for a minute, so a server which limits sign-ins no longer refuses the searches of the AI.
+- Improved the search results from external data sources (ERI servers), which now tell the AI what kind of content a result comes from, for example, a dictionary or a book chapter, when the server names it.
 - Changed the banner on the start page to a fresh design that shows what AI Studio can do today.
 - Changed when a chat you add to a workspace in the workspace list appears there. Like any other new chat, it now appears once there is something to keep, for example, your first message, instead of right away.
 - Fixed a warning about the confidence level that stayed in the dialog for adding a local data source, even after you chose an embedding provider that meets it. The dialog now checks again whenever you change either of them, so a warning also appears when you switch to a provider that falls short.
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 - Fixed two confidence levels sharing the same name in the German user interface. Moderate is called "Mäßig" again, and Medium stays "Mittel".
 - Fixed renaming an external data source (ERI server) leaving its secret behind under the old name in the keychain of your operating system.
 - Fixed the ERI server assistant deleting files in a folder you no longer used. When it updates a server, it deletes the files it created before, and after you chose another folder for the server, it also deleted them in the old one. It now only deletes files within the folder you chose.
+- Fixed the AI not searching an external data source (ERI server) which only allows self-hosted providers, although you chatted with a self-hosted provider or one your organization trusts. This happened when the AI searched your data sources itself; it did not even learn about the data source.
+- Fixed the AI being unable to search an external data source (ERI server) that limits the number of results. When the AI searched your data sources itself, AI Studio asked the server for one result more than you configured, and such a server refused the search. AI Studio now asks for exactly the number you configured, and the AI no longer pages through the results of an external data source, which such a server would refuse as well.
+- Fixed the AI answering from its own knowledge without telling you when the server of an external data source (ERI server) could not be reached or refused to sign you in. The AI now learns which of your external data sources are unavailable, so it can tell you that their content is missing.
+- Fixed images from external data sources (ERI servers) crowding out the other search results. AI Studio passed each image to the AI as a long block of text which the AI cannot look at. The AI now learns that an image matched and where to find it, so it can point you to it.
+- Fixed a security issue with external data sources (ERI servers) whose server does not allow any AI provider. AI Studio now follows this rule for self-hosted providers and for providers your organization trusts as well.
 - Fixed the Search Confluence tool missing pages that the search of your Confluence wiki finds. The tool now searches the same way as the search box of your wiki.
 - Fixed a security issue in the Search Confluence and Read Web Page tools. Once the AI has searched your Confluence wiki or read a page in your intranet or behind a VPN, the chat no longer searches the web, and the tool selection tells you why. In the settings of the Read Web Page tool, you decide which web pages such a chat may still read.
 - Fixed AI Studio starting only partly when the configuration of your organization took a while to apply. The plugins late in line never started, so the app stayed in English instead of your language, and the configuration of your organization was missing, together with its models and its welcome text. Now every plugin gets its own time to start, and a slow one no longer holds up the others.