Knowledge Management Service Portal widgets

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Knowledge Management Service Portal widgets

    The Knowledge Management Service Portal in ServiceNow provides a suite of widgets designed to enhance knowledge search, display, and interaction. These widgets power the homepage, search results page, and article view page, leveraging Knowledge Management V3 system properties. Widget instance options allow further customization and can override default system properties. Notably, the Knowledge Management Service Portal (com.snc.knowledgeserviceportal) replaces the older Knowledge Management v3 homepage starting from the Madrid release onward, with deprecation plans for the older version.

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    Widget Categories and Functions

    • Homepage Widgets: Enable customization of search features, display of knowledge base tiles, featured articles, most useful articles, and most viewed articles to provide a tailored user experience on the homepage.
    • Search Results Page Widgets: Include navigation aids like breadcrumbs and search box, facet filters by knowledge base, category, author, tags, resources, ratings, views, and modification date, as well as sorting and displaying selected filters and search results.
    • Article View Page Widgets: Support article navigation breadcrumbs, customizable article content viewing and actions, user feedback via helpful marks and comments, display of attachments, related catalog items, related articles (manually mapped and predicted), affected products, and related tasks.

    Configuration and Management

    • Users with knowledgeadmin or admin roles can configure widget instance options through the control + right-click menu after switching to the Knowledge Management - Service Portal scope.
    • Instance options can be configured for various widget types across homepage, search results, and article view pages, including search widgets, knowledge base tiles, popular articles, sort controls, filters, article lists, and interactive components like helpful and comments widgets.
    • Widgets such as Knowledge Attachments must be explicitly added to pages if not automatically included after upgrades to ensure proper display of article attachments.
    • Related catalog items and related articles widgets appear only when relevant data is available for the selected article, enhancing contextual information delivery.

    Activation

    The Knowledge Management - Service Portal plugin (com.snc.knowledgeserviceportal) is enabled by default for customers on Madrid and later releases. Customers on earlier releases may activate this plugin as needed to leverage the enhanced Service Portal features.

    The Knowledge Management Service Portal uses a number of widgets to enable searches, display search results, and display articles, related articles, and related items.

    In the Knowledge Management Service Portal, the Knowledge Management homepage, search results page, and article view page honor the Knowledge Management V3 system properties. If configured, widget instance options can override the system properties.

    Note:

    Starting with the Washington DC release, the Knowledge Management v3 homepage (com.snc.knowledge3) is being prepared for deprecation in the future Y release. It is replaced by the Knowledge Management Service Portal (com.snc.knowledge_serviceportal), which is active by default for customers on Madrid and later releases. For more information about the new experience, see Knowledge Management Service Portal homepage features.

    Users with the knowledge_admin or admin role can configure the widget instance options used on the Knowledge Management Service Portal pages. Use the control + right-click menu to access the widget instance options and configure a widget instance. For more information, see Configure widget instance options.
    Note:
    Before configuring widget instance options, switch to the Knowledge Management - Service Portal scope.
    Homepage widgets:
    Search results page widgets:
    • Knowledge Breadcrumbs

      Displays navigation path to the current page and a search box for users to search the knowledge base.

    • Knowledge Search
    • Knowledge Facet Header

      Displays the title for the filter facets.

    • Knowledge Field Facet

      Display search results filtered by knowledge base, knowledge category, and author.

    • Knowledge Tags Facet

      Display search results filtered by article tags.

    • Knowledge Resource Facet

      Display search results filtered by article resource.

    • Knowledge Query Facet

      Display search results filtered by article rating, number of article views, and last modified.

    • Knowledge Result Sort

      Displays search results filtered by sort options for returned results.

    • Knowledge Selected Filter

      Displays the selected facet filters and allows you to clear the selections.

    • Knowledge Result

      Displays search results filtered by returned results.

    Article view page widgets:
    • Knowledge Breadcrumbs

      Displays navigation path to the current page.

    • Knowledge Article Content

      Customize what information users can view and what actions they can perform in the article view page.

    • Knowledge Article Helpful

      Enables users to mark the article as helpful.

    • Knowledge Article Comments

      Enables users to add comments for the article.

    • Knowledge Attachments
      Displays article attachments if the Display Attachment field for the article is enabled.
      Note:
      You must add the Knowledge Attachments widget to any page in addition to Knowledge Article Content widget. After upgrade, if this widget does not get added automatically, you must add it manually.
    • Related Catalog Item

      Displays a list of catalog items mapped to the article. The widget appears only when the related catalog items are available for the selected article.

    • Knowledge Related Articles

      Displays a list of related articles with information similar to the selected article. The related articles are manually mapped, automatically predicted, or both. The manually mapped articles appear first in the widget. The widget appears only when the related articles are available for the selected article.

    • Affected Products

      Displays the products related to the knowledge articles available in the Affected Products related list for the article. The widget appears only when the affected products are available for the selected article.

    • Most Recent Tasks

      Displays the tasks attached to the articles available in the Attached Tasks related list for that article. The widget appears only when the related tasks are available for the selected article.

    • Most Useful

      Displays a list of knowledge articles that users found most useful.