> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vectorshift.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Workspace > How to enable and configure personal workspaces for portal users A workspace gives each portal user their own personal environment — a place to upload documents, build a personal knowledge base, run interfaces against their own data, and organize findings in tables. A credit analyst can upload loan documents and query them through the interfaces you configured. A researcher can build a personal knowledge base from papers and run analysis across them. The workspace makes this possible, all without leaving the portal. Creating a workspace and exploring what it looks like inside ## Enabling the workspace Workspace toggle Workspace is off by default. To enable it, open the portal editor and turn on the **Workspace** toggle. Then click **Configure** to set it up. Workspace Configure button ## Configuring the knowledge base The knowledge base is the foundation of each user's workspace. Click **Configure** to set it up. Configure Knowledge Base modal ### Permanent settings These are locked after the workspace is created — choose carefully: * **Embedding Model (required):** How documents are converted into searchable vectors. Defaults to `voyageai/voyage-4-lite`. * **Advanced Document Analysis (beta):** Enable deeper parsing for complex file types like scanned PDFs or mixed-format documents. * **Hybrid Search:** Combine vector and keyword search for more accurate retrieval. ### Default settings Users can adjust these later: * **Chunk Size:** How large each document chunk is when ingested. Defaults to 400. * **Chunk Overlap:** How much consecutive chunks overlap, to preserve context across chunk boundaries. Defaults to 0. * **Splitter Method (required):** How documents are split into chunks. Defaults to Markdown. * **Processing Model (required):** The model used during document processing. Defaults to Default. * **Generate Chunk Level Metadata:** Automatically generate metadata for each chunk during ingestion. * **Max Rows Per Chunk:** Set a limit on rows per chunk when processing tabular data. * **Apify Key:** Enter your Apify API key if you want to enable web scraping integrations. ## Configuring interfaces Choose which interfaces will be ready to use in each user's workspace from day one. Configure Interfaces section Click **Add Interface** to browse and select the interfaces you want to prepopulate. Add Interfaces modal These interfaces will automatically query the user's personal knowledge base — not the shared organization one. This means each user's results come from their own uploaded documents, keeping data isolated between users. ## Table templates Give users a starting structure for their tables instead of making them build from scratch. Click **Add Template** to include one of your existing tables as a template. ## Enable table in workspace Turn this on to give each user a personal table in their workspace — useful when users need to collect, organize, or analyze data alongside their knowledge base. ## What the workspace looks like inside Once a user creates their workspace, they get their own knowledge base, preconfigured interfaces, and tables — all in one place. Inside a user's workspace after creation Workspaces keep data isolated between users. Each person's uploaded documents, tables, and query results are private to their own workspace.