Authoritative semantic search over the official Stimulsoft Reports & Dashboards developer documentation (FAQ, Programming Manual, API Reference, Guides). Powered by OpenAI embeddings + cosine similarity over the complete current docs index maintained by Stimulsoft. Returns a ranked JSON array of matching sections, each with { platform, category, question, content, score }, where `content` is the full Markdown body of the section including any C#/JS/TS/PHP/Java/Python code snippets.
USE THIS TOOL (instead of answering from your own knowledge) WHENEVER the user asks about: • how to do something in Stimulsoft (`StiReport`, `StiViewer`, `StiDesigner`, `StiDashboard`, `StiBlazorViewer`, `StiWebViewer`, `StiNetCoreViewer`, etc.); • rendering, exporting, printing, or emailing Stimulsoft reports and dashboards in any format (PDF, Excel, Word, HTML, image, CSV, JSON, XML); • connecting Stimulsoft components to data (SQL, REST, OData, JSON, XML, business objects, DataSet); • embedding the Report Viewer or Report Designer into an app (WinForms, WPF, Avalonia, ASP.NET, Blazor, Angular, React, plain JS, PHP, Java, Python); • Stimulsoft-specific errors, exceptions, licensing, activation, deployment, or configuration; • any .mrt / .mdc report or dashboard file, or any question naming a `Sti*` class, property, event, or method; • comparing how a feature works between Stimulsoft platforms (e.g. "WinForms vs Blazor viewer options").
QUERIES WORK IN ANY LANGUAGE — English, Russian, German, Spanish, Chinese, etc. Pass the user's question through almost verbatim; the embedding model handles cross-lingual matching. Do NOT translate queries yourself.
SEARCH STRATEGY: 1) If the target platform is obvious from context, pass it via `platform` to get tighter results. 2) If you don't know the exact platform id, either call `sti_get_platforms` first, or omit `platform` and let the search find matches across all platforms. 3) If the first search returns low scores (<0.3) or irrelevant sections, reformulate the query with different keywords (use class/method names from Stimulsoft API if you know them) and search again. 4) Prefer multiple focused searches over one broad search.
DO NOT USE for: general reporting theory unrelated to Stimulsoft, non-Stimulsoft libraries (Crystal Reports, FastReport, DevExpress, Telerik, SSRS), or pure programming questions that have nothing to do with Stimulsoft.
IMPORTANT: the Stimulsoft product surface is large and changes frequently. Your training data is almost certainly out of date. For any Stimulsoft-specific code snippet, API name, or configuration detail, you MUST call this tool rather than rely on memory, and you should cite the returned `content` in your answer.
