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How to customize the Knowledge Article preview popup in Service Operations Workspace?

ViniciusLuz
Tera Contributor

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to customize the Knowledge Article preview popup/modal in Service Operations Workspace (SOW).

This is the modal that opens when an agent selects a Knowledge Article from the contextual search/OneSearch panel while working on an Incident.

Currently, the modal displays the article title and content, followed by the Helpful? Yes/No section.

My requirement is to display additional metadata at the top of the preview, such as:

  • Article Number
  • Knowledge Base
  • Author
  • Last Updated

I've been investigating the UX components and found the Attach and share article macroponent in sys_ux_macroponent, which appears to use the Knowledge Content component and a Get Preview Fields data resource. However, this component isn't normally exposed as a page in the SOW UI Builder experience, and opening the macroponent directly doesn't provide the runtime context/test values needed to reproduce the popup.

Has anyone customized this specific Knowledge Article preview experience in SOW?

In particular, does anyone know:

  1. Which UI Builder page/macroponent actually controls the Knowledge Article preview opened from contextual search?
  2. How to access/edit that experience through UI Builder?
  3. Whether there is a supported configuration for controlling the fields displayed in the preview, rather than modifying the OOTB macroponent?
  4. How the Knowledge Article sys_id and other runtime properties are passed into this component?

I'm trying to avoid modifying protected/OOTB components directly if there is a supported extension/configuration point.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

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