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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.

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!

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. 

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!

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?