Provide feedback on knowledge articles
You can view and contribute to feedback on knowledge articles.
Feedback options
- Flag an article as incorrect or inappropriate.
- Provide a rating value for the article.
- Mark an article as helpful or not helpful.
- View comments, add a new comment, or reply to existing comments.
Administrators and knowledge managers can disable some feedback options using fields on the Knowledge Base form. Administrators can configure feedback options using properties.
Flagging articles
You can flag an article for incorrect or inappropriate content. Click Flag Article in the article header to open a new window, allowing you to enter suggested changes.
- Flagged comments do not appear on the Article View page. Users with the admin, knowledge_admin, and knowledge_manager roles can access flagged articles by navigating to . Users with the knowledge role can access their flagged articles by navigating to .
- If disabled, the author of the article and users with the admin, knowledge_admin, and knowledge_manager roles can see all flagged comments. Other users can see only their own flagged comments.
- You cannot disable flagging for an article until you have disabled the flagging for all feedback comments for that article.
- If Disable Suggesting is checked at the Knowledge Base level, the Flag Article button does not appear for any knowledge article
Flagged comments are stored in the Knowledge Feedback (kb_feedback) table but not the Live Feed Messages (live_message) table.
Rating articles
The five stars below the article title allow you to indicate the article's effectiveness on a scale of 1 to 5.
Marking articles
The question Helpful? at the bottom of the article allows you to indicate the usefulness of the article with a simple Yes or No answer. The Yes and No options are always available on the knowledge article view page even when you had selected an option earlier.
Comments
Knowledge comments at the bottom of the article use Live Feed to enable a conversation around a knowledge article. For example, you can post replies to comments, add attachments, or Like comments. The glide.knowman.use_live_feed property controls the display of knowledge article comments. If enabled, the system uses Live Feed to manage and display feedback on knowledge articles.