Knowledge Article Templates Aren't Working

Kim Tillano
Tera Expert

We upgraded to London a few weeks ago (skipped Kingston).  We've been using knowledge extensively, so all the plugins are already active.  In my personal dev instance I had already customized and activated the templates and played around with them, but when I customized and set the templates active in our corporate Dev instance, and go to knowledge > create new, the option isn't there to select a template.  It still defaults straight to the standard template.  Under Interceptors the Article Template Selector exists and if I click "Try It" the templates are working as designed.  But it doesn't launch when we select Create New.  Any idea how to fix this?

Everything is set up correctly:

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After I click the Try It button I get the template options - this is what should appear when I click Create New:

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Kim Tillano
Tera Expert

I've just noticed one difference between my personal dev instance and our "official" corporate instance.  This may have something to do with it:

My DEV instance shows application Global:

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Our official instance doesn't even show a spot for application:

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Kim Tillano
Tera Expert

Follow up - I am not certain how this was fixed, but this issue has been resolved in our instance.  Now we are working on a separate issue.  When a template is used, the article only displays the title when the article is viewed on the service portal.  The body of the article is not visible at all.  We have our developers working on this as we speak.  It would be nice if the experience was exactly the same whether you view knowledge from within the ServiceNow workspace or from the service portal.  I see many inconsistencies between the two.

Hello Kim,

 

I'm facing the same issue. Could you please let me know, If you have resolved it.

 

Thanks,

-Vinay.

For the articles not displaying correctly in the portal - have you tried https://hi.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0692733