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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. 

Hi, I managed to utilise the API for extracting metadata of all the customer facing articles in the help centre. Is there a way (API or workaround) to export internal facing articles from our knowledge base as well? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I want to move ~ 90 articles on our current helpdesk, which we have on Notion, to Intercom. What is the most pain free way for me to do this? I would of course prefer not to have to copy and paste each and every article…Looking forward to your answers!

We are experiencing an issue with manually booting the Intercom messenger in our React Single Page Application (SPA) using react-use-intercom.Goal: We need to initialize Intercom (using boot) only after a user successfully logs in, providing their userId and userHash (Identity Verification). The launcher should not appear on the login page.Problem: The Intercom messenger launcher fails to appear on the very first login after starting the application. However, if we then refresh the page, or log out and log back in during the same browser session, the launcher appears and works correctly.Implementation & Troubleshooting:We use <IntercomProvider appId="..." autoBoot={false}> wrapping our AuthProvider. Inside our AuthProvider, a useEffect hook triggered by the user state change calls Intercom('boot', { userId, name, userHash }). We've confirmed the boot function is called with the correct user data. We've confirmed window.Intercom exists before calling boot. We tried adding sign

Looking to graph monthly numbers on:• Monthly count of articles used in emails and chats by humans• Same for AI 

Hey there, Anyone have advice on how to track:• Monthly deflection count by AI using an article (ie. user opens chat, gets AI suggestion for article, doesn't open a support ticket).• CSAT for deflected cases (where a human wasn't needed) vs cases that result in a ticket where a human needed to get involved.Any help is appreciated.

Is it possible to embed the Help Centre in a webpage on one's website, or embed single articles, or embed a list of a collection, etc?

Hi, Is there a way to completely disable the “Send us a message” located at the bottom of the help center ? This option is not present on the first visit of the screen (which is what I want).But if a user go to an article, then back, the option shows (which I do not want). (see screenshots without the button on the first visit and with the button on the second visit after seeing an article).Thanks !First visit of the Help Center screen (no “Send us a message” button)​​​Second visit of the Help Center screen, after visiting an article page (there is the “Send us a message” button) 

We are moving our help center from help.tillerhq.com to help.tiller.com. The redirects tool built into Intercom will not allow us to set up redirects if the primary domain is different. See message below that’s disabling the “save changes” button. Is there a way to direct on an article by article basis from the old domain to the new one using our Cloudflare set up or some other tooling?If this isn’t possible it seems like a pretty big flaw on your part,  Intercom. Some of our help center articles bring us a lot of organic search traffic and without being able to redirect those we’re going to lose some of that SEO juice.   

I would like the possibility to add custom fonts to the article library as it currently doesn't feel like it's part of our brand. This can be done via Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts for example. I know that Google Fonts is something that Hubspot offers.

We have successfully configured and launched a News Center and posted publicly our first News Item, which is displayed properly both within Messenger News section and within News Center main URL (a custom domain properly configured following Intercom’s Custom Domains for News Center instructions).The News Center main page loads perfectly and displays our first news Item but when clicking on the News Item title to open the News Item in a new window we land on a blank page (no 404 error, just a blank page).   

If i have a file in an article, is there a way to track downloads?

Hello there,It's great that any user can contact us via chat after reacting negatively to an article in the Help Center. However, are there any updates on further setting this up? I noticed this was posted a year ago.The user eventually reached live chat after 12 minutes. Is there a way to make changes, add a workflow, or implement any improvements? Thank you!

I’m having trouble embedding a JW Player video into an Intercom article. I’ve tried using the JW embed codes, the iframe source, the share URL, and the actual video URLs in JW and keep getting an error message telling me that what I’ve entered isn’t supported, even though in that same message it says that JW Player video URLs are supported. I also checked to make sure my videos aren’t private and I was able to open them in incognito so I don’t think that can be it. Is there any documentation showing what the JW URL should look like?

We have renamed a core part of our application, and now have the arduous task of replacing every mention of the feature manually within our 180+ articles…. How do others manage this?I find native the Intercom article management tools lacking:Can’t duplicate articles Can’t create article templates Can’t insert recommended reading (related articles defined by me) Can’t have global blocks/sections that are the same across the articles they appear in etc…It’s becoming logistically nightmarish as we grow our knowledge base.Is there any third party tool that can improve the management? Or do I need to just consider building a custom knowledge base?Thank you!

We have two Help Centers, one for México and one for Chile:https://ayuda.fintual.mx/es/https://ayuda.fintual.cl/es/The problem is that articles from Chile rank in Google in México and vice versa. How can we make sure the correct article ranks in the corresponding country? From what I´ve read, there is no possibility to implement hreflang tags neither inject code through Google Tag Manager. We still want them indexed in Google so we can also not restrict them to a certain audience. 

Im generating a nonce-value on my CSP Header using netlify, and while Im seeing in my CSP header that the nonce-value is set, when inspecting the HTML, intercoms script tag does not contain the nonce value. Can someone provide some insight into how to get intercom to initialize with the CSP Headers nonce value, or is that not possible? 

We track reports for article views on a weekly basis on a different platform, and as of this morning, all article reports have changed. I have waited an entire day, and 0 response as to why this has happened. We need reporting to be accurate to build on published content. Has anybody experienced this? Is the reporting simply not accurate? Is there any feedback from the intercom team that can help get this sorted? Can we possibly get support please

We have many articles that are not part of any collection. We do that to keep the help center light weight, but we do need these articles to show up in search.The problem is that these articles when accessed using the URL, do not show up with header or footer.How can we fix it?

Hi everyone,Our company offers a mentoring program when customers purchase a specific product package through a third-party provider. We now want to train Fin with this mentoring knowledge and make certain information visible only to these customers. So instead of watching content they can quickly ask something and Fin provides the answer. If I understand correctly, the necessary steps are:Set up a custom domain and enable cookie forwarding. Add the login link and set the Help Center to private. Upload the customer CSV file and add custom attributes. Assign articles to specific user categories, making them accessible only to the intended audience.I have a question regarding step 2:Fin states that the login link should match the custom domain. Is there a way to use the third-party provider’s website for login instead? This would allow us to instantly identify customers who purchased the mentoring program. Or is this only possible via custom attributes?Would anyone have a better approach

Hello!Since our company started cooperation with clients from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and we have to provide support to clients from these countries, we faced the need to create workflows automation and Help centres for our clients. The request to add these languages ​​to Intercom was sent several months ago and was forwarded to your Product Team.First, please at least add the browser language attribute for Tajik and Kyrgyz languages ​​so that we can start creating workflows.Thank you in advance!

Is there a way to send a message to Slack when a new article is published? 

Confirmed this is a problem on ios Safari/Chrome/Firefox and Android. Let me know if anyone as had this problem before. Video attached. I have reached out to Intercom support as well.

We are currently using a different product to house our internal documentation, however, we’d ideally want to keep it all in one place. Our team uses both our internal documentation as well as our client-facing help articles to resolve problems. I’m curious of some best practices on how others are organizing this information within intercom. Any ideas are appreciated! 

Hi! I have a question, along with maybe an idea.We recently signed a new contract and have a ton of new features - yay! When getting things started and identifying what all we have available, I’m running into issues where I want to set up a feature thats visible in the section under Billing > Overview > “Features included in your subscription” to make the most of our available features, but there’s not an easily findable resource in the features section telling me how to set something up. Ideally, I’d LOVE a hyperlink to the article associated with each available feature, detailing how to set each specific feature up.In the meantime though, is there a straightforward way to identify what features we have available and the correlated how-to guides?