dotAI Plugin

The dotAI plugin integrates powerful AI tools into your dotCMS instance, allowing new horizons of automation — content and image generation, semantic searches, workflows capable of handling nitty-gritty procedures like content tagging, and more.

Currently, these integrations leverage the services of OpenAI. In future iterations, the choice of AI service provider will become a configurable option.

This plugin is only for versions prior to dotCMS 24.04.05, at which time dotAI became a core feature. Prior versions must nevertheless still satisfy the following requirements:

1. dotCMS Enterprise Edition, as this plugin has both Workflow and App components, both of which are Enterprise only;
2. An OpenAI API key, obtained separately.
3. Postgres 15 with the pgvector extension installed.
   • An easy way to bootstrap this is to pick the latter up with docker pull pgvector/pgvector; ensure image: pgvector/pgvector appears under db in your docker-compose.yml file.
   • In other cases, see the dotAI documentation section on self-hosted requirements.

Building and Deploying#

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You can find the plugin's source at its GitHub repository; clone it, and then run ./gradlew jar in its root directory to build the JAR file under com.dotcms.ai/build/libs.

Upload the file via DevTools → Plugins. Once it's uploaded and confirmed as active, head to System → Apps to configure it.

As with any App integration, determine whether you're configuring the dotAI plugin for a single site or the System Host — i.e., all sites. Then, add your OpenAI key to the appropriate API Key required field.

Configuration and Use#

For detailed information on the plugin's contents, configuration, and usage, please see the dotAI Feature documentation.