Images in Knowledge Base Articles

bergos
Kilo Contributor

Hi Team,

I would like to ask you for the best practice regarding inserting images in knowledge base articles. Maybe I have incorrect feelings on this, however let me explain my doubts & feelings.

Case 1: CEO of Acne company (72 years old - NOT a technical person at all, he understands basic things such as "how to write email", "how to turn on computer") wants to insert knowledge article (it's a real situation from my life). So, he opened Create New module from Knowledge Application. He put some text and starts thinking how to add image, he followed "our" best practices (same as - ServiceNow Best Practice). So he spent about 7 minutes on watching both tutorials, another 5 minutes on adjusting image size in external programs (Paint), and another 3 minutes to add that image in the correct place in the article.
After that, he called me and ask "Martin, why we pay xxx thousands $$ for ServiceNow solution, if in our previous tool we were able to insert image and adjust text to get the best user experience within 1 minute and it was so simple as in the standard Word document? I spent 15 minutes on inserting stupid image to the basic article, so how it can improve our company performance? Do I really need to put Horizontal, Vertical, Width, Height, Alignment or Border Thickness options?"

Hmm, answer is not clear for me. So my question to you guys is - Is there any possibility to automate (script) that, so for example each time for all articles when I click "Insert image" the image will be automatically adjusted with the medium size and placed to the right of the text automatically as attached.

So basically, if user wants to insert image to the article, there will be "Insert Image" option, but only with the paperclip Icon, user will upload image and thats all from user side, the rest will be processed by script - it needs to set automatically Width (px), Height (px) and Layout each time when user click "Insert Image" and user shouldn't see mentioned options.
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Easiest solution is to use INSERT TABLE option in Word.

You can deliberately paste content in the table, and hide lines of the table.

Not a perfect solution by any means; but, creating your write-up in Word . . . and then doing a cut-n-paste into Knowledge article is doable.

As for re-sizing the image it remains the same; but the text is responsive in the display.