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Does anyone use a third-party tool to monitor link health in your help articles and flag broken/404 errors?I tried Docs Fresh but haven’t been able to get in touch with them about pricing. Curious if there are other tools you’ve had success with.Thank you!

Hey friends! Has anyone created a report to track your self service ratio? If so, would you share how?Also, is anyone exporting info via API to calculate things like views per article? Best, Malachi

I understand that I can change article access to only Users. This is great, but users can’t view the articles unless they search for the article via the messenger in-app. I’d like to be able to keep our knowledge base private, but be able to send a link to a user. Am i misunderstanding how this works? If not, is it possible to add a SAML app or something to authenticate users via Google Workspace?Thanks!

I want to embed a video link so that the video starts at a particular time (half way through the video). The video is published on Vimeo, but when I try and add a timestamp to the embed code (e.g. #t=1m53s), Intercom strips it out. Is this not supported?

Any thoughts, advice appreciated!Using Intercom for our Help Center and wondering what is the best format structure in terms of AI and LLM’s. We currently start each article with a “summary” and “why its helpful” in a callout box but am thinking this style, particularly the colourful callout box does not add a lot of value to humans or AI responses and it looks a little messy. Are H1, 2, 3 headers better than callout boxes?  When would you use callout boxes? Thanks ! 

When you sync documentation from Confluence to Intercom, it only grabs pages in the main folder but not pages from the subfolders. To keep documentation organised, it would be great if you can sync also documents stored in subfolders.

Hi! I’m builfing out a 100-article or so help center, and I’d love to add crosslinking as I stage the articles. The only issue is that I don’t know what the URLs will ultimately be -- either the stem URL or what ID number Intercom will add to the end of the URL.Maybe I just answered my own question, but is there a way to know what the URL will be before publishing -- and to pre-empt any potential changes on my end, can I use relative URLs? 

I conducted a site audit of my Help Centre and it returned a lot of redirects and 403s. The 403s I was able to fix. But the redirects and canonicals, I don’t know how to fix.Any help is appreciated. 

I wanna use the intercom widget only for knowledge base, with our articles, but I would like to turn off the option to talk or send a message to my inbox on my widget. According with setup customize doc there is a note that says:  Note: “Messages” is a permanent space in the Messenger and can’t be turned off. So, is there any other way that I can only show my articles without chat option? 

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We have one website “a.com”. Whenever, a user click on specific text on a.com, it redirect to help.a.com where help center article are showing. Now our main domain is changed from a.com  to b.c.d.net . So whenever user click on the same specific text in the new domain, it redirect to help.a.com but help center article are not showing. To my understanding, this issue occured due to session cookie not set because of changed in the domain, ie, b.c.d.netCan someone guide what should be the best and quickest way to resolve this issue? 

Where can I upload a CSV glossary file?Thank you,MM

HiiI know Intercom providing support for React native, Android and IOS. So I want to know in which language SDK is written for all of 3.Can anyone help me?

The last two weeks our help centre articles have increased in views by 500%...this is for our public articles that can be viewed by anyone. I have a feeling this is mostly from bots rather than real people. Does anyone have any solutions for how to block bots from being included in our article views and user metrics?

Hi! I would like to know if it's possible to add some keywords or hashtags within Help Center articles that they can be found more easily. I'd be happy to hear any other trick to increase the visibility and efficiency of articles in the way that they are found. Thanks in advance! J.

I need a way to categorize articles across the sections/categories that they’re in in the help centre. Article tags are only visible and usable in the Intercom back end, not by users accessing articles. To help explain what I mean, imagine that you have a help centre that has articles on cooking and food preparation. You might have help center collections like “Preparing ingredients”,  “Cooking with oil” or “Plate Presentation” and within those, you have some articles that are relevant for only meat-based food, for Kosher or Halal food, for vegetarian food, etc., and some that that are applicable to more than one category/all categories. How might you allow your users to search across the help centre for all articles related to vegetarian food, regardless of where in the help center the article is? I don’t think that there’s a built-in feature that will allow this in Intercom, but if anyone has achieved something similar with a work around, I’d love to hear it!

Hello, My Name is Prakash Hinduja (Hinduja Family Switzerland) Can I configure my system (where articles are hosted) to only allow users who authenticate via specific external identity providers (like Google, Okta, Azure AD, etc.) to view certain articles, while restricting access for others?"This is not just about general user logins; it's specifically about how a user logs in. You're asking for a mechanism to differentiate access rights based on the authentication method or the specific identity provider (IdP) used. Hinduja Family Swiss

Hi there, I'm looking for example workflows pulling help article content via API and then reimporting them back to intercom.I'm a bit stuck at the moment as I try and pull articles using the Articles API, make edits, and push them back, but the formatting gets completely destroyed in the process.Specifically:When I pull an article using GET /articles/{id}, the HTML looks properly formatted with Intercom's wrapper divs and spacingWhen I push the exact same content back using PUT /articles/{id}, Intercom's API automatically modifies the HTML and removes empty <p class="no-margin"></p> elementsThis breaks the visual spacing and layout that was working beforeExample of what happens:Before API call: <p>Content</p><p class="no-margin"></p><p>More content</p> (proper spacing)After API call: <p>Content</p><p>More content</p> (no spacing, content runs together)Has anyone successfully implemented a workflow for editing artic

Currently seems not possible to set brands in the workflows. We need to match a user/lead with a brand within workflows so we can show them the brand-specific help center.  not based un URLs but in other type of data, like people’s data

Is it possible to create an article from a document uploaded to our Knowledge Base? If so, could you please explain how to perform this action?"

Hi I’m getting unsafe-eval CSP error from script-src policy.Can this be fixed somehow without adding unsafe-eval to the policy?Do you have any other script version without eval inside your JS code? Attaching screenshots.  Regards

Hi Intercom community, I am wondering if there are keyboard shortcuts for the Help Center formatting features like the note callout, embed videos, dividers, bulleted lists, and so on. The keyboard shortcuts for standard formatting features (Ctrl + B on Windows for bolding text) seem to work. However, I am not seeing any evidence that these shortcut keys exist for the Intercom-specific features.If it has not been implemented, hotkeys would be a really nifty tool that would improve quality of life and productivity!

Is there a way to implement cookie consent on the Help Center? One way to do it would be to add a Google Tag Manager integration so that users could add their own cookie consent implementation. Rationale for cookie consent: The Help Centre already has an integration with Google Analytics (see https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/1346547-integrate-google-analytics-with-your-help-center. However, for many countries, cookie consent is required to use Google Analytics.The Help Centre can be part of the user journey for a business. As a result, it makes sense to be able to unify tracking/consent across all its domains/subdomains using Google Tag Manager.YouTube videos can be embedded in Help Centre articles, which sets its own cookies that can require consent. There may be other services that do this on the Help Centre.

In our Help Center articles, we use a consistent set of icons to visually guide users, for example, indicating where to click or when a link directs to an external source (see attached screenshots for reference). These icons appear across multiple articles, and from time to time, they may need to be updated.Currently, updating these icons requires manually replacing them in every individual article where they are used. This process is time-consuming and introduces a risk of inconsistencies.It would be incredibly helpful if Intercom offered a centralized image or document library, a place to manage all uploaded assets in one location. Ideally, this library would support dynamic linking, so that updates to an image or icon in the library would automatically reflect across all articles where it is used. This would significantly streamline content maintenance and ensure a consistent user experience. 

When the related articles option is enabled in the Help Center, how does Intercom calculate what’s the most relevant? We have a lot of repeating types of documents for different products, we want to make sure it’s only recommending documents for that same product currently being viewed.