Knowledge Base

A customer just wrote into our support team indicating that she was looking at an article that said it was last updated "about a week ago" or whatever language Intercom uses. Has anyone else gotten customer complaints about this? After discussing internally with our support team, I know there haven't been substantial updates made to that article in definitely more than a week. I understand this general time frame is a good bandaid and fail safe for me who doesn't have the opportunity to update something that frequently, but it does seem to be a bit over exaggerated to the point that I'm not even sure it's useful. Instead, could this feature be removed? Could it be updated to be more accurate? Could there be a date and timestamp put on it instead?  I'm curious to see how others feel about this too! 😀

Hi folks! 😊We would really love our draft articles to be automatically saved, so we don't lose all our work if we accidentally close the tab (as you may guess, we learned the hard way 😅).Could this be added as a feature request?​Thanks!​

Hi there, I’m trying to solve this issue but getting transferred between agents without a resolution.I have setup my subdomain for the Intercom Help Centre via Cloudflare but getting a “CNAME Cross-User Banned” error.My DNS setup are correct, as per below: Based on Cloudflare, this is an issue that Intercom needs to solve [discussion link] and I don’t have control over fixing it.Can someone please help? 

 We're experiencing an issue with the Help Center search functionality in our embedded Intercom Messenger. The search works correctly when accessing the Help Center directly or Help tab in the messenger, but it's not returning any results when used within the chat. Please check the attached video.Here are the key details:Setup: Next.js application hosted on Google Cloud Run Using Cloudflare as our CDN Intercom Messenger embedded in our app (react-use-intercom) Article search is prompted in chat with automation Custom domain is mapped to help center Issue: Help Center search returns no results when used in the embedded Messenger The same search works fine when accessing the Help Center directly Troubleshooting steps taken: Verified Intercom integration settings Checked Cloudflare configuration for query string and cookie forwarding Reviewed Google Cloud Run settings Inspected network requests in browser dev tools Disabled custom domain for help center Switched help center in

We use dark mode on https://help.taskade.com/ and when editing links for articles like https://help.taskade.com/en/articles/8958455-taskade-ai-usage everything is white by default. Is there any way to fix this? Only solution now is highlighting text to edit it, see screenshots below thanks.  Which features use AI?Taskade AI is used with the following features: AI Agents ​ AI Automations   AI Project Studio   Multi-Agent ​ AI Teams ​ AI Forms   and more!

In Settings > Help Center, I can see the collections I have defined and the articles in them.Where do I find (or convert that URL) into the URL of the published help system clients will see? 

Somewhere along the line, I found the URL for view of the help system our clients will use. That formula is intercom.help/<myProduct>/en. That page appears as it always did. But when I click on any of the collections in it, I see the error "This site can't be reached.Check for an error in help.<myproduct>.com".I just noticed that the top-level descriptor for an article has a maximum number of characters. Is that the error that causes the entire help system to fail?If so:a) Lots of stuff written. I now need to step through them and check them all (had to do that in any case).b) A more “in your face” warning that the help system will fail would have been nice.Or is there some other cause for the error I’m seeing?

Hi everyone,We’re a small startup based on Toronto. We’re interested in adding the multilingual help desk feature to our Intercom help center, but we’ve noticed that the current plan is $499 per month, which is quite over our budget.Since we primarily need the multilingual support feature, I was wondering if anyone here has experience with this or knows if there’s a more affordable option or perhaps a custom plan available? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 I have customers typing Childlock and not finding an article about Child Lock. In my previous tool, I could add acceptable terms and misspelt words to apply to an article to avoid this issue. I'd appreciate any help on this.

Howdy!Does anyone know how to setup cloudflare to forward cookies? Any help with this issue will be much appreciated.

I have a Help Center full of articles in one language and want to programatically translate them into other languages. Can I use Intercom's API to do this?

Hi everyone! I’m a Knowledge Manager at Multiverse and looking for ideas for how to improve the UX of our help-centre and article sentiment.I’d love to see some examples of help-centre landing pages from other companies and if anyone has any tips for improving UX.Separately, does anyone use any sentiment data other than article reactions to gauge the overall experience of the knowledge base? We have an extremely low article reaction rate (approximately 1%) and often when I investigate the conversations of those who reacted with a sad face to ‘Did this answer your question’, I find they have got in touch with a request or issue that could not have been answered by the article (they needed an agent to perform an action or fix something), so I'm not finding this is giving the best insight into how the knowledge base can be improved.Would be grateful to hear from anyone who is navigating similar experiences :)

When I select to ‘Edit Latest’ on a published article, the page opens to a blank page with just the title of the article available. The published article is visible, and unpublishing then attempting to edit still gives a blank page. Anyone run into this and have a solve? TIA

Once a back office ticket is created for a customer, does it then become associated with the users account/details page? Or is the only way to see the back office ticket that was created in intercom, within the original conversation is was created within?  

Our user/agents first & last names are displayed for all customer interactions. Is there a way to change settings so that when customers interact with agents, they don't see "Joe Smith". Rather they just see "Joe" or "Mr. Smith"?

For years now I have tried to segment users with csv uploads. I find that often users wont surface in the upload that are on the list and in intercom. For example, my csv might include just emails of 63 users with finance permissions, then only 23 surface (when only 4 were dups and the rest are legitimate contacts in intercom). Any tips why some wont surface in the upload?

Hi everyone! 👋I'm curious about how you automate customer communication in your companies.What tools or platforms do you use for automating chats, emails, or social media? Which processes have you successfully automated, and how has it impacted your business outcomes? Do you have any tips on best practices for automation while still maintaining a personal touch with customers?I'd love to hear your advice and success stories! Let's share our experiences and ideas! 🌟

I am getting quite a few Errors and Warnings on my Technical SEO site audit in regards to the help center articles I have published to the public and set to index. The biggest issue is that there are some articles coming back with hreflang conflicts within page source. I am wondering how to fix this so my site health can increase and the google bots are able to crawl everything appropriately.  Also, it seems all of my help center articles have outgoing internal links that contain nofollow attribute (to our main domain and subdomains). This issue says there is a rel="nofollow" attribute that is telling the crawlers not to follow the link, which is NOT recommended for SEO purposes, and rather should let the link juice flow freely.  I recently made all my articles visible to the public and a ton of these types of Errors, Warnings, and Notices are now appearing on my Site Audit and hurting my site health. Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you 😀

Hello,I am building up a suite of knowledge articles and have been adding alt-tag information wherever possible.I wanted to know if Intercom automatically adds a null alt tag to any images that do not have alt tag data added or if I need to do this manually myself?Just to note, null tag data is added into any alt tag if you want a screen reader to skip the image altogether. That way for any decorative images, for example, you don’t need to add a detailed description as it will not assist with the overall comprehension for the user and it also means that the user doesn’t get annoying and useless information when using a screen reader.Thanks, Emma

Does anyone know if there’s a character limit for Help Center articles in Intercom? I want to ensure that my content stays within any guidelines for readability and optimal user experience. If there is a limit, what’s the best way to handle longer content—should it be split into multiple articles or sections? Any insights or best practices would be appreciated!

I’d like to know if there’s a way to make inserted images in my article display in full screen when clicked. If that’s not possible, can we resize the graphics to make it happen?

Is it possible to hide the reactions section at the bottom of Intercom articles? We’d like to add our own custom section here for our customer to submit feedback if the article was not helpful. Plus, I haven’t found a great solution for redirecting customers who indicate the article was not helpful to the proper location:  

I’m trying to see what event data is being sent to Intercom from segment (i think there is an issue with it) but I cant find any way to reliably track this. and segment doesnt give me info because Intercom “cant send server side”. 

Hey there, we’re trying to redirect from our old helpdesk URL to the new site on intercom. The slug did contacint an “ü”. We have redirection from:https://help.oursite.com/de/grünhttps://help.oursite.com/de/gr%C3%BCnTo an article on intercom. Redirection (published and everything set correctly) seems not working, it just redirects to oursite.com/deI would have expected a 404 if something is wrong, like when calling help.oursite.com/de/does-not-exist Whats wrong here?BRChristian

Is it possible to publish our knowledge based articles into a subdirectory of our website?I understand it is simple to have a subdomain pointing to our Intercom knowledge base.If we were able to have our articles in a subdirectory, it would help with long tail SEO.Our website uses NextJS.We would need a way for the article title to be the page title, so an iframe might not work.