Ever wanted to do a knowledge article search on a reference field?

[Kenny Wimberly]

I was tasked today with putting a knowledge icon next to a reference field. For most of you who know, this is impossible using the knowledge_search=true attribute. Even though the page says "any field", it really only means "text" fields. Therefore, my dilemma...how do I get this to work?

So, I started looking at the ui macros that support the ref_contributions. I simply created my own to show the kb icon for any reference field where I specified ref_contributions=show_kb_articles in the attributes.

To accomplish this, I took these steps:

Created a UI Macro named "show_kb_articles"
Added the attribute to the reference field I wanted to show the icon on: ref_contributions=show_kb_articles

That's it. The UI Macro code is attached