Knowledge Base

Hi everyone,I'm hoping someone has run into this before.We're currently migrating our internal Knowledge Base into Intercom for Fin/CoPilot, but we're not manually creating each article in Intercom. Instead, we're uploading our existing documentation from Google Docs (exported as .docx) or as PDFs. We don't use Notion, Guru, or Confluence.The problem is that every upload loses a lot of its formatting, making the articles much harder for agents—and Fin/CoPilot—to read.I've already tried pretty much everything I can think of: Using Normal text only (no Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) Using bold text instead of Word heading styles Keeping section labels (Purpose, Process, Before You Begin, etc.) as bold text on their own line Using bold for step titles (e.g. Step 1: Verify the order) with normal text underneath Keeping formatting very simple with basic bullet points Uploading both .docx and PDF versions The formatting still gets stripped or flattened during import.Has anyone success

Is there a way to create a new KB section and set visibility to be hidden to end users/customers)? Use case: I need to create a new section and add articles to it (to work ahead on my timeline) and change the visibility of the section to show for customers when the features related to the kb section is live. 

Hi,It seems there is a limit on the URLs i can use to embed videos with. Looks you can only use Wistia, Brightcove, YouTube and couple of others.How do i go about adding another video urls that is not on your list? Does it require a whitelisting of the company used to run our video platform or is there some custom development that can be done to bypass this limitation to the product? 

We use quite a few pictures and GIFs in our Help Center. A single picture is often used in multiple articles.Since we release new features and adaptions regularly, we always have to go through all articles and replace the pictures used. The update process is becoming a real pain.  Is there any way to have a central registry for pictures/GIFs? We would love to replace pictures/GIFs used in multiple articles centrally!

Have anyone successfully created a custom subpath for the Help Center?I would like to make my Help Center available on our main domain www.oursite.com/help, but despite every setting, it only shows “Not found” error message. Intercom Support team has no clue...   

When saving a draft in the article editor, the live article's "last updated" timestamp updates as if a change was published — even when no published changes were made. The timestamp should only reflect the last time a change was actually published to the live article.

We've been working on screenshot automation for years, but we've just launched in the Intercom App Store. Woohoo. :-)LaunchBrightly automate product screenshot capture and sync screenshot updates directly back to your Intercom Help Center articles.If you've ever maintained documentation, you know the drill. Your product changes. The screenshots in your articles slowly drift out of date. Then one day you realize you're showing an old version of your product to customers.We aim to remove that manual work. Create a repeatable automation recipe once, and continuously generate fresh screenshots of your product.In our case, we connect to Intercom natively, read existing articles, identify which screenshots have drifted from the current product, and then help update those images directly in the articles. Since many customers generate a fresh set of screenshots every Sunday, keeping documentation current becomes largely automatic.It's one of those wonderfully unglamorous problems that almost e

I want to export my articles from Intercom.

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. 

How are y’all translating your articles?We just launched a Korean brand, and need our help center translated. I spent some time looking in the new “Knowledge” area, and was very disappointed in the lack of “Copy content to” options, or just duplicating all of the english content into the KR translation as a starting point. Even copy-and-pasting from the backend knowledge area was not usable and scalable for the help center. Am I missing something, or is it really this difficult to copy existing article content into a translation to be translated?

We setup a regular sync between our IC instance and an external website for industry-specific content/context. Filtered URL's to be specific to the pages we wanted, but it still resulted in nearly 25k+ pages being ingested; many of them were repeats/duplicates.Since then, we've attempted to delete/remove the source from the Knowledge center pages with no success. It appears to still be going through regular syncs of new content and never fully removes it. When asking Fin, they suggested it would require API intervention. Requesting assistance to have it fully removed.  

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It’s the second time I encounter the same pain-point at a company: keeping our help center’s articles accurate as our release cadence accelerates. Our doc is becaming outdated. We create new articles for new features, but we’re always lacking the resources to update existing content impacted by those changes. That’s problematic because our product is available on iOS, Android, and the web, with small but important differences across platforms. To make things even worse, we are based in the EU and support three languages. The discrepancies between these languages became substantial, leading to increased support tickets…

We are looking to setup that certain users are only allowed to edit internal help articles but not general public help articles. Currently you can only set permissions for all article editing, not just certain articles or collections. This would allow our support team to update the internal articles they use for supporting end users via Intercom without disrupting the end user help articles carefully crafted by our Marketing Team

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 am using a translation tool to write this text.I would like a feature that sorts the Help Center articles in ascending order, from top to bottom, by publication date.The chatbot gave the following response:Currently, there are no plans to implement a feature that automatically displays collections in order of publication date within the Help Center.Currently, the only way to sort items within a collection is by manually rearranging them using drag and drop; automatic sorting (e.g., by publication date) is not possible.

Notice that I'm unable to resize this image by entering the new dimensions until I've first selected one of the resize arrows from the toolbar, at which point I'm able to type in the values directly.  

Is it possible to resize images in the knowledge base articles?

It would be very helpful to be able to open a preview view of an article before pushing publish, just to be able to check formatting, spacing, etc.While I know the Intercom editor is set up to be WYSIWYG, it still is slightly different because you don’t have the interactive Table of Contents in the draft editor, the spacing is sometimes slightly different, and you can’t see how the breadcrumbs across the top will populate. Nor do you get a picture of what the final URL will be, which relates to this similar request: Draft View or Preview View of Help Articles.  

We are using the Intercom helpcenter and in the “header” section of the helpcenter, we added a link to a place where customers can login. Aim is that after a succesful login, the visitor creates conversations in the messenger as authenticated (JWT) users.Our problem now is that all the links in the helpcenter have:Target attribute with value “_blank” And rel attributes with value “noopener noreferrer”Is there a way to change this? Reason: I want to use the referer as a callback redirect url after succesful login. By instructing the browser not to add the referer, I cannot do this.  

Running Zapier from google drive to intercom to add information into user notes, however it will keep piling on instead of editing the existing notes, and it becomes a huge eyesore and can be very confusing to new staff. I have played around but can't find any way to remove a User Note. Any way around this?

The article page needs to support full markdown syntax because without it, all articles copied from markdown become very messy, requiring every line to be adjusted, which is very labor-intensive. Therefore, support for full markdown syntax is needed. This should not be a very complex task, and we hope it can be supported. We have hundreds of articles that need to be uploaded, and this is too exhausting.

The author profile pictures are automatically added to every Help Center article, but only the images manually added to the articles allow alt text attributes. This means that every HC article has always at least one image missing alt text. How can this be resolved in order to improve accessibility of articles? Thank you! 

Hello guys! 😁  I'm starting to work with the reports on my articles, and it would be really helpful to be able to export the data.  Is it possible to export my articles reports? Thank you all for the support. 🙋