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    • Categories
      • Create a category
        • Add a category or subcategory
        • Choose a category type
        • Default categories
        • Topic display categories
        • Blog style categories
        • Shared content categories
        • Custom content categories
        • URL redirect categories
        • Category appearance in the table of contents
      • Edit a category
        • Edit a category
        • Internal category note
        • Internal category title
        • Category icons
        • Control subcategory display
        • Customize category behavior in the table of contents
        • Delete a category and its content
      • Visibility and permissions
        • Hide a category from navigation
        • Restrict a category to certain readers
        • Exclude category
      • Reorder and move categories
        • Reorder categories or articles
        • Move categories or articles between levels
      • Why isn't my category showing up in search?
      • Why is a category not displaying to readers?
    • Articles
      • Create a new article
        • Article creation guide
        • Create a blank article
        • Create a new article from template
        • Structure template (sample)
        • Copy from existing article
        • Share articles between categories and knowledge bases
        • Generate article content with AI
        • URL redirect article
      • Edit an article
        • Web accessibility best practices
          • Accessibility starter resources
            • Accessibility auditing tools
              • Screen readers
                • Accessibility conferences and events
                • URL redirect best practices
                  • Add images and files to articles
                  • Edit and update files in articles
                  • Work with links to other websites
                  • Add scripts to articles
                  • Use action links with # or javascript:void(0)
                  • Edit permalinks
                  • Add anchors within articles
                  • Add code samples
                  • Add banners and thumbnails
                  • Change existing article to a URL redirect article
                  • Change existing URL redirect article to a regular article
                  • Editor keyboard shortcuts
                  • Autosave
                  • Sharing "draft" articles
                • Reuse, link, and recommend articles
                  • Share articles between categories and knowledge bases
                  • Topic articles
                  • Related articles section
                  • Link to article or category
                  • Recommend articles in the contextual help widget
                • Article settings
                  • Full and short titles
                  • Use New & Updated article callouts
                  • Publishing status
                  • Display Settings
                  • Redirect old articles to a new permalink
                  • Automatically redirect when you update an article's URL
                  • Internal title
                  • Author note (Internal article note)
                  • Search phrases
                  • Summary
                  • Published date
                  • Schedule an article to be published
                  • Schedule an article to be archived
                  • Edit or remove an article's scheduled publication or archival
                  • Create a template
                  • Add a video callout
                  • Title tagsUpdated
                  • Turn off comments for specific articles
                  • Turn off ratings for specific articles
                • Versioning and history
                  • Versions
                    • Overview
                      • What is a version?
                      • Benefits of using versions
                      • Use cases for versions
                      • Are revisions stored for versions?
                    • How to use versions
                      • Open and edit versions
                      • Create a version
                      • Activate a version
                      • Delete a version
                    • Version notes
                      • What are version notes?
                      • View version notes
                      • Edit version notes
                    • Version sharing/review process
                      • Article in-app version review process
                      • Version review process for readers
                      • In-app version review process, custom content categories
                    • Version PDFs
                      • Generate a version PDF
                      • Change the version PDFs' format or text
                  • Revisions
                    • What is a revision?
                    • Use cases for revisions
                    • View revisions and revision history
                    • Compare revisions
                    • Recover a revision
                    • Delete a revision
                    • Are revisions stored for versions?
                • Reorder and move articles
                  • Reorder articles
                  • Move articles between levels
                • Delete and recover articles
                  • Delete an article
                  • Delete articles in bulk in Manage
                  • Recover a deleted article
                  • Recover multiple deleted articles
                • Change article styles (layout, lists, and other tricks)
                • Files and images
                  • Supported file types
                  • File size limits
                  • Who can access the files and images in my knowledge base?
                  • Find a file's URL
                  • Add images to articles
                    • Add images to articles
                    • Add alternative text to images
                    • Add image captions
                    • Adjust image width for all images
                    • Display images side-by-side
                    • Add files and images directly in your Files page
                    • Edit and update files
                    • Image upload errors
                    • Why are some screenshots blurry?
                    • Image best practices
                      • Intro
                      • File types for screenshots/larger images
                      • File types for icons
                      • Resizing images
                      • Accessible images
                      • Gif and animation usage
                      • Create consistent screenshots
                  • Add videos to articles
                    • Add videos to your articles
                    • Wistia video embeds
                    • Add videos in bulk
                    • Video upload errors
                    • Edit and update videos
                    • Disable video downloads
                  • Add other files to articles
                    • Add files to articles
                    • Display PDF file in articles
                    • Embed Google Drive files in articles
                    • Display Microsoft Office OneDrive files in articles
                    • Display Microsoft Office file in articles
                    • Add files in bulk
                    • Edit and update files
                    • File upload errors
                  • Files page: Manage images and files
                    • Introduction to the Files page
                    • List View
                    • Which Files page view should I use?
                    • Add files and images directly in your Files page
                    • Edit and update files in the Files page
                    • Add a file description for alt text
                    • Find a file's URL
                    • File references
                    • Restoring deleted files
                    • Purge and fully remove files
                    • Manage files with file labels
                    • Use labels as filters
                    • Who can access the files stored in my knowledge base?
                • Tags
                  • Tags feature overview
                    • Set up tags
                      • Create a tag
                      • Edit a tag
                      • Delete tags
                      • Hide tags from Search Results
                      • Merge tags
                      • What does merging tags do?
                    • Use tags in content
                      • Add an existing tag to an article
                      • Remove a tag from an article
                      • Add tags to multiple articles in bulk
                    • Tag searches
                      • Perform a tag audit
                      • File labels
                        • What are file labels?
                        • Create a file label
                        • Edit a file label
                        • Delete a file label
                        • Add an existing label to a file
                        • Remove a label from a file
                        • Merge labels
                        • What does merging labels do?
                        • Use labels as filters
                      • Snippets
                        • What is a snippet?
                        • Snippets page
                        • Create a snippet
                        • Snippet references
                        • Copy existing snippet
                        • Add snippets in content
                        • Undo changes to a snippet
                        • Delete a snippet
                        • Snippet use cases
                        • Snippet best practices
                        • Snippet standardization checklist
                      • Shared & synced content
                        • Synced content overview
                        • Shared content articles
                        • Sync behavior in shared content categories
                        • Why isn't my shared content article showing in search results?
                        • How can I tell multiple shared child articles apart?
                        • Synced content in copied knowledge base
                        • Synced knowledge base
                      • Style guide
                        • Style guide feature overview
                          • Set up Style guide
                            • Create a style guide
                            • Turn on access to AI content style guide reviews
                            • Style guide starters
                              • Style guide starters overview
                              • Use our sample starter guide
                              • Use another style guide template
                              • Use a common style guide and document exceptions and additions
                              • Additional style guide resources
                          • Review content with your style guide
                            • Use AI to review article content with your style guide
                            • Manually review article content against your style guide
                            • Generate articles with style guide
                        • Import content
                          • Import from Word
                          • Import from Confluence
                          • Import from Document360
                          • Import from Freshdesk
                          • Import from Helpjuice
                          • Import from HubSpot
                          • Import from Zendesk
                          • Import from CSV
                          • Import from other file format
                          • Import from other tool
                          • Import with the API
                          • Testing imports
                          • Import best practices
                        • Create REST API documentation
                          • REST API documentation in KnowledgeOwl
                          • Prerequisites
                          • Create your API documentation
                          • Custom styles
                          • Limitation: content security policy header
                          • Understand Redoc's standalone API docs
                          • Next steps
                        • Generate content
                          • Use Alchemer surveys to generate content in KnowledgeOwl
                      • Look and feel
                        • Homepage look and feel
                          • Homepage overview
                          • Change the homepage welcome text
                          • Add a background image to my homepage
                          • Change the background image on my homepage
                          • Remove the homepage welcome text
                          • Change the color of the homepage welcome text
                          • Add category icons to your homepage category panels
                          • Article Lists
                          • New Articles list
                          • Updated Articles list
                          • Popular Articles list
                          • Recent Articles list
                          • Remove article lists from your homepage
                          • Create a custom homepage articles list
                          • Add a custom alert or banner to your homepage
                          • Add a custom icon and header link on your homepage
                        • Overall look and feel
                          • Style your overall theme
                            • Access the theme builder
                            • Choose your colors
                            • Color picker: Which colors control which parts of my theme?
                            • Choose your font
                            • Use a custom font
                            • Choose your logo
                            • Use the new Support theme
                            • Change your favicon
                            • Choose your table of contents behavior
                            • Set your knowledge base time zone, date, and language
                            • Customize style or layout with HTML/CSS
                            • Add a link to the upper right (top navigation)
                            • Undo changes to Customize > Style
                            • Breadcrumbs
                            • Access to the header via Custom Head
                            • Reset your theme
                            • Copy a knowledge base's theme
                          • Configure default behavior
                            • Basic settings
                            • Domain settingsUpdated
                            • Website settings
                            • Article editor settings
                            • Customize your robots.txtNew
                          • How to use your own domain
                            • Private domain overview
                            • Create a CNAME record on your DNS
                            • Add a private domain
                            • Set up your SSL cert
                            • Make all requests use your new private domain
                            • Add reCAPTCHA
                            • SSL cert troubleshooting: CNAME record has not fully synced
                            • SSL cert troubleshooting: CAA policy does not allow
                            • Update your private domain
                          • Other overall look and feel customizations
                            • Add Fancybox to click to zoom/enlarge images
                              • About Fancybox
                              • Installation
                              • Style images
                              • Change toolbar
                              • Specific images only
                              • Skip images
                              • Upgrade
                            • Remove "Made with KnowledgeOwl" statement from footer
                            • Change Alert div icon or colors
                            • Display a back to top icon when scrolling
                            • Only play GIFs while hovering
                            • Use different logos for different reader groups
                            • Set your footer copyright year to automatically update
                            • Fix anchor links hidden by top navigation
                        • Article look and feel
                          • Use your own syntax highlighter for code blocks
                          • Create an article table of contents (TOC) from headers
                          • Create expanding/collapsing sections in an article
                          • Adjust line spacing
                          • Format numbered list spacing and borders
                          • Customize nested numbered list styles
                          • Use thumbnails and banner images
                          • Update your article actions merge code
                          • Remove the PDF, print, or email icon from all articles
                          • Fix for article editor removing a script
                          • Conditional content based on tags
                          • Style image captions
                          • Style your table footer
                        • Category look and feel
                          • Icon panels styles
                          • Topic display: Hide category description
                          • Topic display: Style your tabs
                          • Icon panels: Change panel background color/category title color
                          • Topic display: Change Quick Links style and/or add header
                          • Hide article descriptions on default category landing pages
                        • Table of contents look and feel
                          • Style your table of contents
                            • Set table of contents default display
                            • Display categories open by default
                            • Change the icons used in the table of contents
                          • Add links to your table of contents
                            • Add or remove Home link in table of contents
                            • Add search bar to table of contents
                            • Add glossary link to table of contents
                            • Add a link to the full PDF download to table of contents
                            • Add custom link to table of contents
                        • Search look and feel
                          • Change your search bar placeholder
                          • Customize the search "No Results" message
                          • Hide tags from Search Results
                          • Style the glossary term callouts in search results
                        • PDF look and feel
                          • Add page numbers to PDFs
                          • Display content only in PDFs
                          • Snippet to force page breaks in PDFs
                          • Display full URL of links in PDFs
                        • Glossary look and feel
                          • Customize how highlighted glossary terms and definitions look
                          • Keep glossary header visible when scrolling
                          • Style the letters at the top of the glossary
                          • Add search to the glossary page
                          • Style the glossary snippet search results
                          • Add a print icon to the Glossary page
                        • Default HTML and CSS
                          • Default HTML
                            • Default Homepage HTML
                            • Default Body HTML
                            • Default Top Navigation HTML
                            • Default Article HTML
                            • Default Article Version HTML
                            • Default Login HTML
                            • Default Manage Reader Subscriptions HTML
                            • Default 404 Error Page HTML
                            • Default Restricted Access Page HTML
                            • Default Right Column HTML
                            • Default Homepage Article HTML (deprecated)
                          • Default Custom CSS
                          • Customize default text
                            • Overview
                            • Add or edit your own text string
                            • Reset a customized text string
                            • Section breakdown: Search
                            • Section breakdown: Table of Contents
                            • Section breakdown: Top Navigation
                            • Section breakdown: Reader Login
                            • Section breakdown: Article
                            • Section breakdown: Miscellaneous
                            • Section breakdown: Required Reading
                            • Section breakdown: Article Lists
                            • Section breakdown: Contact Form
                            • Customize AI chatbot text
                            • Update Style settings with Customize Text merge code
                            • Update Homepage with Customize Text merge code
                          • Merge codes
                            • What are merge codes?
                            • KB Merge Codes
                            • Article
                            • Homepage
                            • Reader
                            • Body
                            • PDF Merge Codes
                            • Custom content category merge codes
                            • Other
                        • Features
                          • Related Articles
                            • Feature overview
                              • How it works
                              • Where do Related Articles show up?
                              • Do deleted or archived articles show in Related Articles?
                              • Use automatic Related Articles
                              • Manually suggest Related Articles
                              • Use both manual and automatic Related Articles
                            • Set up Related Articles
                              • Turn on automatic Related Article suggestions
                              • Backward suggest Related Articles
                              • Set the number of Related Articles to automatically display
                              • Turn off automatically suggested Related Articles
                              • Display Related Articles only in specific articles
                              • Readd the Related Articles section to my articles
                              • Hide Related Articles section from a specific article
                              • Hide Related Articles when there are none
                              • Hide Related Articles when there is one or less
                            • Add and remove Related Articles
                              • Add Related ArticlesUpdated
                              • Reorder or remove Related ArticlesUpdated
                          • Contact Form
                            • Contact form overview
                              • What data is collected in the Contact Form?
                            • Set up your contact form
                              • Set up contact form to send emails to one or more addresses
                              • Custom fields
                              • Integrate contact form with Zendesk
                              • Integrate contact form with Freshdesk
                              • Update wording in the Contact Form
                              • Customize Contact Form link
                              • Contact form submission email delivery issues
                            • Advanced setup
                              • Bypass contact form self-serve
                              • Open the contact form with certain details filled in
                              • Add template text to the start or end of the contact form's subject
                              • Fix error for site owner on Contact Form
                          • Manage articles
                            • Manage articles feature overview
                              • Use Manage filters
                                • Use standard Manage filters
                                • Create a custom Manage filter
                                • Edit a custom Manage filter
                                • Included Tags vs. Excluded Tags
                                • Delete a custom Manage filter
                              • Bulk edit articles
                                • Bulk edit articles in Manage
                                • Manage bulk edit options
                                • Bulk activate "ready for review" versions
                                • Bulk edit articles to make them required reading
                                • Archive articles in bulk in Manage
                                • Delete articles in bulk in Manage
                                • How do bulk edits, archives, and deletes work?
                              • Export Manage articles to CSV
                                • When to use the CSV export
                                • Generate your CSV export
                                • Manage CSV export column list
                                • CSV export tips and tricks
                            • Ratings
                              • Ratings feature overview
                                • Set up ratings
                                  • Enable ratings
                                  • Change the location of the Ratings section
                                  • Add ratings to individual articles
                                  • Disable ratings
                                  • Add ratings to all articles
                                • Ratings reports and resets
                                  • Ratings reporting
                                  • Reset article ratings
                              • Article favorites
                                • Feature overview
                                  • Set up favorites
                                    • Turn on favorites
                                    • Rename favorites
                                    • Display favorites in the table of contents
                                    • Display favorites outside the table of contents
                                    • Change the favorites star icon
                                    • Change how many favorites are displayed in the Current reader's favorites article list
                                    • Add a top navigation link to the Favorite Articles page
                                    • Fix missing favorites icon
                                  • Add and access favorite articles
                                    • Add an article to your favorites
                                    • Remove an article from your favorites
                                    • Reorder your favorites
                                    • Access your favorite articles
                                • Comments
                                  • Change your commenter icon or avatar
                                  • Comments feature overview
                                    • Set up comments
                                      • Comments configuration overview
                                      • Change comments placeholder, prompt, or button text
                                      • Auto approve comments
                                      • Set who can submit and view comments
                                      • Get emails when comments are submitted
                                      • Comment spam protection and security
                                      • Limit the max characters allowed in comments
                                      • Turn off comments in your knowledge base
                                    • Moderate and approve comments
                                    • Glossary
                                      • Glossary feature overview
                                        • Add terms to your Glossary
                                          • Glossary formatting
                                          • Add a new glossary term
                                          • When should I use display titles?
                                          • Disable highlighting for a glossary termNew
                                          • Edit existing glossary term
                                          • Delete glossary terms
                                          • Import glossary terms
                                          • Troubleshooting glossary term imports
                                          • Export glossary terms
                                        • Set up Glossary
                                          • Add or remove glossary link in table of contents
                                          • Add glossary terms to your search results
                                          • Add or remove the glossary page from your search results
                                          • Rename the glossary
                                          • Glossary setup FAQs
                                          • View the glossary
                                        • Add Glossary definitions in articles
                                          • Add glossary definitions in articles manually
                                          • Automatically highlight definitions in articles
                                          • When one glossary term contains another glossary term
                                        • Style Glossary terms and definitions
                                        • Style guide
                                          • AI chatbot
                                            • AI chatbot feature overview
                                              • Set up AI chatbot
                                                • External website AI chatbot embed
                                                  • Embed AI chatbot on an external website or appUpdated
                                                  • Add context to chatbot queries
                                                  • AI chatbot JavaScript API Reference
                                                  • Chatbot JWT authentication
                                                  • Chatbot OAuth 2.0 authentication
                                                • AI chatbot troubleshooting
                                                  • How to optimize your content for the AI chatbotNew
                                                  • Fix the temporarily unavailable chatbot error
                                              • Owl Intelligence
                                                • Owl Intelligence feature overview
                                                  • Set up Owl Intelligence
                                                    • Use Owl Intelligence to generate content
                                                      • Generate article content with AI
                                                      • Generate article meta description with Owl Intelligence
                                                      • Article prompts for Owl Intelligence
                                                      • Interruption to Owl Intelligence
                                                      • Use AI to compare article content to your style guide
                                                    • Use Owl Intelligence to evaluate style guide alignment
                                                    • URL checker
                                                      • URL checker overview
                                                        • Overview
                                                        • Which content is checked
                                                        • Which content isn't checked
                                                      • Generate a links report
                                                        • Run the URL checkerUpdated
                                                        • Additional content options
                                                      • Use the URL checker links report
                                                        • How to read the URL checker links reportUpdated
                                                        • Common HTTP status codes
                                                        • Tips & tricks for using the links report
                                                        • Links report best practicesUpdated
                                                    • Find and replace
                                                      • Find and replace feature overview
                                                        • Run a search
                                                          • Run a search
                                                          • Exact matches searches
                                                          • Regex pattern searches
                                                        • Review search results
                                                          • Find and replace results table
                                                          • Find and replace CSV download
                                                        • Replace content
                                                          • How to run a replace
                                                          • What content fields are replaced
                                                          • What's in the find and replace change log?
                                                      • Subscriptions
                                                        • Subscription feature overview
                                                          • Set up subscriptions
                                                            • Requirements to turn on subscriptions
                                                            • Set the subscription notification schedule and email subject
                                                            • Set up SMTP for subscriptions
                                                            • Set up public subscriptions
                                                            • Enable subscriptions
                                                            • Add Subscribe button to topic and custom content categories
                                                            • Style the Subscribe button differently
                                                            • Force readers to subscribe with their reader account email address
                                                          • Use subscriptions
                                                            • Subscribe to a category
                                                            • Unsubscribe from a category
                                                            • Trigger/retrigger subscriptions
                                                        • Contextual Help Widget (2.0)
                                                          • Widget feature overview
                                                            • Set up Widget
                                                              • Widget setup and installation
                                                                • Widget setup and installation overview
                                                                • Widget Settings section
                                                                • Widget Admin Settings section
                                                                • Widget Customize Text section
                                                                • Widget Contact Form section
                                                                • Custom Widget Styles
                                                                • Widget 2.0 installation
                                                              • Advanced Widget setup & methods
                                                                • Add spam protection to Widget 2.0 Contact Tab
                                                                • Open widget to specific tab
                                                                • Hide one of the Widget 2.0 tabs
                                                                • Custom Widget Javascript
                                                                • Open widget to a specific article or category
                                                                • Use Widget 2.0 on Single Page Applications
                                                                • Prepopulate Widget 2.0 Contact Form fields
                                                                • Widget methods and functions dictionary
                                                                • Display the widget in your own div wrapper
                                                            • Use widget for contextual help
                                                              • Widget contextual help overview
                                                              • Contextual help widget configuration
                                                              • How to format your recommended page paths
                                                              • Recommend an article or category in contextual help
                                                              • Update an existing recommended page
                                                              • Remove an existing recommended page path
                                                              • Change the order of the Recommended tab
                                                            • Widget authentication
                                                              • Widget authentication--when and how to use it
                                                              • Widget 2.0 JWT authentication
                                                              • Widget 2.0 OAuth2 authentication
                                                            • Upgrade from older widgets
                                                              • Modern Widget vs. Widget 2.0 Comparison
                                                              • Transition checklist: from Modern Widget to Widget 2.0
                                                          • Required Reading
                                                            • Required Reading feature overview
                                                              • Set up Required Reading
                                                                • Turn on Required Reading
                                                                • Add the required reading flag to your article template
                                                                • Add the required reading flag to your Right Column template
                                                                • Add the acknowledgements section to your article template
                                                                • Change the Required Reading text
                                                                • Add a Required Reading link to Table of Contents
                                                                • Add a Required Reading article list to your homepage
                                                              • Add or remove required articles
                                                                • Make individual articles required
                                                                • Bulk edit articles to make them required reading
                                                                • Retrigger the same article for new acknowledgment
                                                                • Remove requirement or start date
                                                              • Required Reading instructions for readers
                                                                • Required reading overview for readers
                                                                • Access the Required Reading page
                                                              • View Required Reading reports
                                                              • Notifications
                                                                • Email notifications
                                                                  • Overview
                                                                  • Create a new email notification
                                                                  • Edit an email notification
                                                                  • Delete an email notification
                                                                  • Available email notification events
                                                                • Slack notifications
                                                                  • Slack notification overview
                                                                  • Create a new Slack notification with the KnowledgeOwl app for Slack
                                                                  • Create a new Slack notification with a custom Slack app
                                                                  • Edit a Slack notification
                                                                  • Delete a Slack notification
                                                                  • Available Slack notification events
                                                                • Microsoft Teams notifications
                                                                  • Webhook notifications
                                                                  • SMTP
                                                                    • SMTP feature overview
                                                                      • Create an SMTP service
                                                                        • Create a new SMTP service: Basic authentication
                                                                        • Gmail for two-factor authentication
                                                                        • Create a new SMTP service: Microsoft OAuth2
                                                                        • Create a new SMTP service: Unauthenticated
                                                                    • PDFs
                                                                      • PDF overview
                                                                      • Individual article PDFs
                                                                      • Standard PDF export (Full PDF Download)
                                                                      • Custom PDF exports
                                                                      • Styling PDFs
                                                                      • Hyperlinks in PDFs
                                                                      • PDF Watermarks and Passwords
                                                                    • HTML Zip export
                                                                      • Overview
                                                                      • Generate an HTML Zip export
                                                                      • HTML export on Windows missing categories
                                                                    • SEO guide
                                                                      • Get started
                                                                      • Best practices
                                                                      • KnowledgeOwl SEO features
                                                                      • Promote your knowledge base
                                                                      • Make your knowledge base public
                                                                      • Generate your sitemap
                                                                      • Optimize your homepage
                                                                      • Custom title tags and meta descriptions
                                                                      • Public Sitemaps and SEO
                                                                      • Duplicate content
                                                                      • Hide from search engines
                                                                      • Measure SEO performance
                                                                      • Google Search Console
                                                                    • Modern & Legacy Contextual Help Widget (deprecated)
                                                                      • How the widget works
                                                                      • Installation
                                                                      • Use the Modern Widget for Contextual Help: Recommend on Pages
                                                                      • Modern Slideout Widget Authentication with OAuth2
                                                                      • Use the Modern Slideout Widget on Single Page Applications
                                                                      • Modern Widget + Zendesk Contact Form fix email address dropdown
                                                                      • Deprecation of Modern & Legacy widget
                                                                  • Search
                                                                    • Search feature overview
                                                                      • Set up search
                                                                        • General search settings
                                                                          • General settings overview
                                                                          • Enable semantic search
                                                                          • Pagination
                                                                          • Sorting
                                                                          • Filter by category
                                                                          • Article preview text
                                                                          • Exclude category
                                                                          • Shared content articles
                                                                          • Glossary page
                                                                          • Glossary definition search results
                                                                        • Change search text and styles
                                                                          • Keywords
                                                                            • Keywords overview
                                                                            • Language
                                                                            • Fuzziness
                                                                            • Typeahead (autosuggest)
                                                                            • Keyword search fields and weights
                                                                            • Search testing
                                                                          • Synonyms
                                                                            • Intro to synonyms
                                                                            • Create a synonym
                                                                            • Edit a synonym
                                                                            • Delete a synonym
                                                                          • Large PDFs
                                                                        • Search your knowledge base
                                                                          • Keyword search
                                                                            • Keyword search overview
                                                                            • Typeahead (autosuggest) search
                                                                            • Full search results
                                                                            • Exact match searches
                                                                            • Typeahead (autosuggest) versus full text search
                                                                            • Sort search results
                                                                            • Unsupported search characters
                                                                          • Tag search
                                                                            • Tag search overview
                                                                            • Tag search case sensitivity
                                                                            • Save a tag search
                                                                            • Tags versus search phrases
                                                                            • Sort tag search results
                                                                        • Optimize search
                                                                          • Optimize search intro
                                                                          • Use search settings
                                                                          • Use indexed fields well
                                                                          • Use search field weights
                                                                          • Use search phrases
                                                                          • Use synonyms
                                                                          • Use Searches with no results
                                                                        • Run a search reindex
                                                                          • Run a required search reindex
                                                                          • Run an optional search reindex
                                                                          • Delayed reindex
                                                                        • Search FAQs
                                                                          • Why isn't my category showing up in search results?
                                                                          • How do I add keywords to my article?
                                                                          • Why doesn't search work for unhyphenated versions of hyphenated words?
                                                                          • Can I exclude an entire category--and all its articles--from search?
                                                                          • Why doesn't my shared content article show in search results?
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                                                                                • Create a CSV export of your Comments report
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                                                                                • Create a public knowledge base
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                                                                                • Convert a private knowledge base to mixed public and private
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                                                                                      • Remove author team restrictions
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                                                                                    • Create a custom author role
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                                                                                    • What's the difference between an author and a reader?
                                                                                    • Enable reader logins
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                                                                                    • Search for readers
                                                                                    • Create a custom reader filter
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                                                                                        • Delete a reader group
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                                                                                        • Restrict content to logged in readers
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                                                                                        • Check if an article or category is restricted to reader groups
                                                                                        • How inherited reader groups work
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                                                                                      • Reader emails
                                                                                        • Customize your reader welcome emails
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                                                                                        • Configure SMTP for reader emails
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                                                                                        • Reader email delivery issues
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                                                                                        • Reader password security
                                                                                        • What's the difference between admin managed and self-administered reader passwords?
                                                                                        • Set up self-administered reader options
                                                                                        • Allow Google log in for readers
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                                                                                        • Help readers reset their passwords
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                                                                                        • Enable remote authentication
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                                                                                                                                                  • New theme updates
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                                                                                                                                                          • Icon panel subcategory display option
                                                                                                                                                            • Get the most out of topic display categories
                                                                                                                                                              • Three use cases for snippets
                                                                                                                                                                • Driving reader engagement: A scavenger hunt (aka the Knowledge Games)
                                                                                                                                                                  • Article favorites
                                                                                                                                                                    • Tabs display
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                                                                                                                                                                              • September 27th: SMTP changes and Microsoft OAuth2 SMTP
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                                                                                                                                                                              •  How to update images & files (Nov. 30th)
                                                                                                                                                                              •  Use tags + Manage filters for fast docs updates/audits (Nov. 16th)
                                                                                                                                                                              •  How to get the most from glossary (Oct.26th)
                                                                                                                                                                              •  In-line and side-by-side images (Oct. 19th)
                                                                                                                                                                              •  Get the most out of search (Oct. 12th)
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