AI Assistant

The AI Assistant is a chat panel available from the top bar of the Medipal web app. It understands which page you are on and can both answer questions and make changes for you, always inside the permissions you already have.

What it can do

Where you are	What the assistant can do
Anywhere	Explain features, describe the current page, navigate to a page, ask you clarifying questions, and create a new questionnaire from a description (it asks which folder to use).
Questionnaire designer	Add, edit, clone, move and delete questions and sections; change question types; set conditions between questions; create and edit variables and scoring functions; translate questions into other languages; configure per-language settings; switch the preview language.
Scheduling	List and explain existing schedules, create or update schedules from a description, preview the resulting access windows, validate section-based schedules.
Questionnaire engine editor	Read the engine's components and shared files, create or modify components, and explain how the engine works. See Engine Editor.

You can attach images, PDFs and text files to a message, for example a paper questionnaire to be converted.

How it works with your data

• The assistant sees the page context you are on and the interface language, and answers in that language.
• Changes are applied to the questionnaire you are editing exactly as if you had made them in the designer. They are grouped into one batch that can be undone in a single click from the banner at the top of the chat.
• When you navigate away while the assistant is still working, it continues on the original questionnaire in the background and the chat tells you where it is working.
• A published questionnaire is read-only for the assistant as well: it can explain the structure but does not modify it.
• The conversation is kept on your device only and can be cleared at any time.

Review responsibility

The assistant proposes; you decide. Review every change, especially conditions, scoring formulas and translations, before publishing a questionnaire. The undo banner is there to revert an entire session if the result is not what you wanted.

Enabling the assistant

The assistant is enabled per instance by your administrator. Users additionally need the AI read right to see the button and the AI execute right to send messages. See Users, Roles & Scopes.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Likely cause	What to do
The AI button is missing	Not enabled on the instance, or missing AI rights	Ask an administrator.
"Read-only mode" banner	The questionnaire is published	Create a new version to edit; see Versions & Publishing.
"AI connection stalled"	The request was cancelled after no response	Send the message again.
Changes appeared in the wrong questionnaire	You navigated during a long operation	Use Go to page in the context banner; undo if needed.
"Storage full" notice	Long conversation history on this device	Older messages were trimmed automatically; clear the conversation to start fresh.