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Configuring the AI assistant (DNN)

The AI Designer needs a model behind it. Configuration is one panel: dashboard → Settings → AI Settings.

The dashboard Settings section on DNN — Database, Payment, Email, Upload, Captcha, AI Settings and Google Sheets panels; opening AI Settings

What you set

Setting Notes
Provider OpenAI-compatible endpoints (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or any compatible base URL).
Base URL / Model e.g. https://api.openai.com/v1 + gpt-4o.
API key Stored server-side as a protected site setting — it never ships to the browser and is not part of any export.
Enabled Master switch for the whole AI surface.

Save, then open the builder — the ✨ AI Designer and the dashboard's Create with AI light up immediately. If the key is missing or the license is trial-locked, the AI buttons explain instead of failing silently.

Scope & safety

  • The key is per-site; multi-portal installs configure each portal separately.
  • The AI surface is admin-only — visitors never trigger model calls.
  • Model calls carry the form-design catalog, not your submission data; database-aware design reads schema metadata over allow-listed connections with SELECT-only proof queries (see AI form designer).
  • The same key powers Translate (AI) in the Languages manager.