SUSE AI 1.0
- WHAT?
Open WebUI is a Web-based application that allows you to interact with AI models.
- WHY?
To understand what Open WebUI is and learn how to use it to effectively interact with AI models.
- EFFORT
It takes less than an hour to understand the basics of Open WebUI.
- REQUIREMENTS
The descriptions and procedures in this article assume that the following requirements are already fulfilled:
You have successfully deployed the SUSE AI.
You can access the Open WebUI interface in your Web browser.
Your Open WebUI user account has been created, and you have received the login credentials.
You have navigated your Web browser to the URL of your instance of Open WebUI and logged in with your credentials.
Publication Date: 2026-03-26
- 1 What is Open WebUI?
- 2 User interface basics
- 3 The chat window
- 4 The chat input field
- 4.1 The chat input field
- 4.2 Specifying preconfigured documents, collections or external URLs from the chat input field
- 4.3 Adding custom data sources from the chat input field
- 4.4 Selecting a preconfigured system prompt from the chat input field
- 4.5 Selecting mcpo services from the chat input field
- 4.6 Enabling native function calling
- Glossary
- A Copyright
- B GNU Free Documentation License
- B1 0. PREAMBLE
- B2 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
- B3 2. VERBATIM COPYING
- B4 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
- B5 4. MODIFICATIONS
- B6 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
- B7 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
- B8 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
- B9 8. TRANSLATION
- B10 9. TERMINATION
- B11 1. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
- B12 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
List of Figures
- 2.1 Open WebUI user interface [#fig-openwebui-ui]
- 2.2 Admin Panel [#fig-openwebui-admin-panel]
- 4.1 Selecting an AI model
- 4.2 Prompt for a selected model
- 4.3 Selecting documents and collections
- 4.4 Adding a URL source
- 4.5 Prompt with selected documents and collections
- 4.6 Prompt with uploaded documents
- 4.7 Preconfigured system prompt
- 4.8 Selecting MCP services selecting_mcp_services
- 4.9 Response from an MCP service selecting_mcp_answer
- 4.10 Enabling native function calling fig_owui_enabling_nfc