Build with Vera

Vera is the AI assistant built into Ovidens. Describe what you want to create, change or understand in your indicator app. Vera uses the tools available to you for that request, without requiring a prepared knowledge base or a fixed setup sequence.

How to start

1. Open your indicator app, click Open editor, and open Vera.
2. Send a request, such as "Track monthly electricity use per site and calculate the percentage change from the same month last year".
3. Answer any focused question about missing metrics, units or rules.

Vera can work with indicators, dimensions, groups and calculations as your request needs. It shows progress while working and finishes with a short reply about the result. If it cannot do something, it explains the limitation and any work already completed.

Continue your conversation

Ask follow-ups such as "Add another site", "Use kWh as the unit" or "Explain that calculation". Your recent requests, answers to Vera's questions and Vera's replies provide context for the next message. Closing the panel or reloading restores the conversation and any question waiting for your answer.

Your conversations belong to you within the workspace. Use Conversation history to reopen an earlier thread, or New conversation to start a separate named thread. You can rename it later. Full history is saved; Load earlier messages opens older turns. Other users have their own conversations.

Vera automatically restores your last conversation only in the same app and within 6 hours of your last interaction. Otherwise it opens a blank chat, saved when you send the first message. Conversation history opens a centered, searchable table with page controls; you can manually reopen older conversations or a thread from another app. Each message shows the app it started from, and the current page provides context for your next request. Vera can work across apps your permissions allow. Stop this request ends the current task; changing conversations alone leaves its work running on the server.

Give Vera useful context

• Name the metrics, units and collection frequency.
• Describe the breakdowns you need, such as region or site.
• Explain calculation rules and what should happen when a value is missing.
• Ask Vera how Ovidens works when you need guidance. It can consult the user documentation and link to the relevant instructions.

You can explain your rules directly in chat. If a key choice is ambiguous, Vera asks before making that decision for you.

Who can use Vera

Chatting with Vera requires AI access on the app. You can ask questions without permission to change the app's configuration. Each editing tool still requires its own permissions, so Vera can change only what you are allowed to change and what your enabled AI tools allow. See roles.

You answer questions in your own conversation. Other people's requests and replies are not part of your chat.

Changes and publication

A requested structure change creates or reuses the app's draft. Asking a question or requesting help does not create a draft. Review the result and click Publish, or explicitly ask Vera to publish if that tool is available to you. Otherwise its edits stay in the draft.

Discard removes everything changed in that draft, including values collected while it was open. See Draft and publish.

See Interact with Vera for outcomes, recovery and AI usage.