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Can I use my Articles Help Center as an internal knowledge base?

  • February 12, 2021
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Is it possible to use articles in Intercom as a private knowledge base for my company? meaning, not meant to be shared with customers, but instead also using them as internal knowledge sharing.

 

Thanks!

Best answer by Sushana

@user893​ : We're using the help center to also host some articles for the eyes of internal users only. I have a segment of such users and I restrict the Article visibility to only that segment.

A whole collection of such articles is present in our help center that is only visible to our Internal users.

 

Just wanted to share this idea with you if you'd like to use it to your benefit.

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Eric Fitz
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  • February 15, 2021

Hey @user893​, our Articles product is designed to be a customer-facing Help Center. It's not really built for us as an internal knowledge base.

 

The one workaround I can think of would be to create unlisted articles (i.e. articles that are not added to a collection) and record the URLs of these articles in another resource for your team. Unlisted articles can't be searched for in your Help Center, but they can be accessed by directly clicking on the URL.


Roy
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  • February 15, 2021

Hello @user893​ , Eric is right, the Intercom help center is not designed to be an internal help center.

 

I'm suggesting taking a look at Guru, It's a knowledgebase software and can be used internally. Offering integrations with Intercom, Slack, Gmail, etc...

 

I hope this will be helpful 🦄


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This could be easily achievable if intercom added an option here "Internal Only"

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Roy
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  • March 18, 2021

@joshua d​ , You can set the "Draft" status to the specific articles and they will be available for only team members. However Internal knowledgebase something different, suggesting to take a look at the Guru's Feature list.


Kevin Bendixen
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If you use a company-specific email for all colleagues (e.g. j.doe@company.com) you could also use this to filter the audience for those articles.


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  • March 25, 2021

@user893​ : We're using the help center to also host some articles for the eyes of internal users only. I have a segment of such users and I restrict the Article visibility to only that segment.

A whole collection of such articles is present in our help center that is only visible to our Internal users.

 

Just wanted to share this idea with you if you'd like to use it to your benefit.


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