Changing the page layout of Knowledge v3 article page? (Modifying footer)

[dhoffman]

We're on Fuji and Knowledge Management v3.   We'd like to remove the "Authored by [author name]" section from being displayed in the article.

I found a UI Macro called kb_view_common_footer that has a section:

       
<div id="articleAuthor" class="snc-article-footer-metadata-published" style="display: block;padding-top: 5px">


     

 ${gs.getMessage('Authored by {0}', authorName)}


     
 </div>

I'm thinking that's where it lies; however, I'd like to preserve the out-of-box UI Macro so that it gets automatically upgraded and create a new UI macro with the author information removed from the footer.

The question is:   Where is the "kb_view_common_footer" referred to begin with?   Is the entire article itself a UI Page that itself calls on a bunch of UI Macros with Jelly code?

[dwolf]

Go to Knowledge > Properties (or System Properties > Knowledge) and uncheck "Show author in knowledge search results"

Alternatively, you can go to sys_properties.list and make false "glide.knowman.search.show_author"

[dhoffman]

I have that property set to false.   That's related to showing or hiding the author in the search results.

I think a screenshot communicates this best.   Our question is how to remove the "Authored by ____" section out of the footer on the actual published article view.

So I found the Jelly tag in the UI macro that refers to this footer, and I can modify the code to remove the "Authored by," but if I modify the out-of-box stuff -- as with upgrades -- I don't want it to be skipped, so I'd like a way to copy the UI Macro and preserve the original one.

[dwolf]

I was playing around this yesterday in the Sandbox and I created a duplicate of the record and turned the OOB to false. It was working and I wanted to do further testing but needed to work on my real work so I was not able to finish. Sorry. Let me know if you were able to remove it. We are still in the Legacy KB and I plan to migrate it around Aug/September.

[Slava Savitsky]

To avoid upgrade issues, consider the following approach:

1. Add 'update_exempt' dictionary attribute to the Dictionary entry that corresponds to the Name column of UI Macro table. This will ensure that renaming a macro will not prevent it from receiving updates. More information about this feature is available here.
2. Rename the out-of-box 'kb_view_common_footer' macro.
3. Create a copy of the macro, call it 'kb_view_common_footer' and customize its code as required.