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Knowledge Base - ideas for improvement
Joakim_Normann
Customer Adept IT Monkey ✭✭
KA History
Enable a history view on all Knowledge Articles in the portal just like they have in the Service Manager console. That will make it easier to keep track of what changes has been made and who has done them. If I have created a knowledge article and somebody else make changes to it without notifying me, I want to be able to easily see that.
Wildcard searches
The ability to search for parts of words instead of having to enter the entire word will make it much easier for the users to find the information they are looking for. Right now a misspelled word from the user when searching or the person that created the KA will result in not hit for that KA.
Font, font-size and formatting
Give the administrator the ability under settings to define which font and font-size that should be used in all KA. Right now the default font in the portal is Arial and we want to be able to change this to the font that we use in our other documentation. Also when copying text from Word the format is changed in the portal, for example the spaces between text and line breakers is much higher which causes extra work from the KA creator having to edit this after the text have been copied over.
These are things that I feel would make the Knowledge Base more user friendly and also make administration of knowledge articles easier.
Comments
Knowledge base needs a complete overhaul, there are countless awesome threads for improvements to the KB system like user/ AD scoping for articles , search and formatting options are lacking in the KA as you're stating, stuff like adding a file to an article is nonexistent (e.g. some sort of a template a user can download or whatever else) The knowledge base system should be re-made from scrach with a modern, 2020 user experience. There are just too many feature requests right now and I'm baffled to see the KB system being a bit under-supported. That's why we had to sadly transition to sharepoint regarding our KB, but it's not optimal as you can't really integrate that to the portal for stuff like searching right from the portal etc.
Upvoting this though :)
Just to update this so my previous post doesn't look like a "rant" and actually looks a bit like a constructive one, here are some of the point's I'd like to see in a "Knowledge Base overhaul":
I probably forgot something, but there are just too many posts and feature requests to make the Knowledge Base usable right now and there's no way if we vote by each feature request that it's gonna be "usable" anytime soon. I'd really love NOT to have our knowledge base on Sharepoint, but it's just so much flexible and customizable there.
Are there any plans to "rework" and improve the Knowledge Base as whole? Even no is an answer, just wondering if we can expect someting like this this year 😊
Also allow separate knowledge base for each support group which can only be access by that support group group.
In community, there is lot of ideas to improve. For me the most important are:
Be nice to set the owner who gets notified when there are comments added. If not an individual, the option to set an AD Group so that some sort of notification can be set to highlight possible changes that are required to the content.