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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 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 a category and all its content from search results
      • Reorder and move categories
        • Reorder categories or articles
        • Move categories or articles between levels
      • Why is a category not coming up in search?
      • Why is a category not displaying to readers?
    • Articles
      • Create a new article
        • Article creation guide
        • Create a new article from scratch
        • Article templates
        • Structure template (sample)
        • Copy an existing article
        • Share articles between categories and knowledge bases
        • URL redirect article
      • Edit an article
        • Adding images and files to articles
        • Editing and updating files in articles
        • Working with links to other websites
        • Editing permalinks
        • Working with anchors
        • Adding code
        • Adding banners and thumbnails
        • URL redirect article
        • Editor keyboard shortcuts
        • Autosave
        • Modern WYSIWYG editor vs legacy editor
        • SCAYT Spell Check
        • Sharing "draft" articles
      • Reuse, link, and recommend articles
        • Share articles between categories and knowledge bases
        • Topic articles
        • Related articles section
        • Using Widget 2.0 for Contextual Help: Pages to Recommend On
        • Link to article
      • Article settings
        • Full and short titles
        • Internal note
        • Internal title
        • Publishing status
        • Schedule an article to be published
        • Schedule an article to be archived
        • Edit or remove an article's scheduled publication or archival
        • New, updated, and video callouts
        • Restrictions
        • Automatically redirect when you update an article's URL
        • Redirect old articles to a new permalink
        • Search phrases
      • Versioning and history
        • Versions
          • What is a version?
          • Use cases for versions
          • Opening and editing versions
          • Create a version
          • Version notes
          • Activating a version
          • Deleting a version
          • In-app version review process
          • Version review process for readers
          • Are revisions stored for versions?
          • Generate a version PDFUpdated
          • 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
        • Deleting articles in bulk in Manage
        • Recover a deleted article
        • Recover multiple deleted articles
      • Change article styles (layout, lists, and other tricks)
      • Files and images
        • Who can access the files and images in my knowledge base?
        • File size limits
        • Find a file's URL
        • Adding images to articles
          • Adding images to articles: Modern Editor
          • Adding images to articles: Legacy Editor
          • Custom image captions
          • Adjust image width for all images
          • Display images side-by-side
          • Adding images in bulk
          • Editing and updating files
          • Image upload errors
        • Adding videos to articles
          • Adding videos to your articles
          • Wistia video embeds
          • Adding videos in bulk
          • Video upload errors
          • Editing and updating videos
        • Adding other files to articles
          • Adding files to articles: Modern Editor
          • Adding files to articles: Legacy Editor
          • Display PDF file in articles
          • Embed Google Drive files in articles
          • Display Microsoft Office OneDrive files in articles
          • Display Microsoft Office file in articles
          • Adding files in bulk
          • Editing and updating files
          • File upload errors
        • File Library: Managing images and files
          • Introduction to the File Library
          • List View
          • Which File Library view should I use?
          • Adding files and images directly in File Library
          • Editing and updating files in the File Library
          • Find a file's URL
          • File references
          • Restoring deleted files
          • Purge and fully remove files
          • Managing files using file labels
          • Using labels as filters
          • Who can access the files stored in my knowledge base?
      • 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?
        • Using file labels as File Library filters
      • Tags
        • What are tags?
        • Create a tag
        • Edit a tag
        • Delete a tag
        • Add an existing tag to an article
        • Remove a tag from an article
        • Tags in searches
        • Hide tags from Search Results
        • Merge tags
        • What does merging tags do?
        • Tags usage report
      • Snippets
        • What is a snippet?
        • Create a snippet
        • Copy existing snippet
        • Using snippets
        • Snippet Library
        • Snippet use cases
        • Snippet best practices
        • Snippet references
      • Synonyms
        • Intro to synonyms
        • Create a synonym
        • Edit a synonym
        • Delete a synonym
      • Shared & synced content in Write the docs
        • Synced content overview
        • Shared content articles
        • Why aren't some of my shared content articles showing up in search?
        • Sync behavior in shared content categories
        • How can I tell multiple shared child articles apart?
        • Synced content in copied knowledge base
        • Synced knowledge base
      • Import content
        • Import best practices
        • Import from Zendesk
        • Import from Freshdesk
        • Import using the API
        • Testing imports
      • Generate content
        • Using SurveyGizmo Surveys to Generate Content in KnowledgeOwl
      • 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
    • Look and feel
      • Homepage look and feel
        • Homepage Overview
        • Change the welcome text on my home page
        • 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
        • Create a custom home page articles list
        • Add a custom banner using built-in div styles
        • Add a custom icon and header link on your homepage
      • Overall look and feel
        • Setting your overall theme
          • Access the theme builder
          • Choose your colors
          • Color picker: Which colors control which parts of my theme?
          • Choose your font
          • Custom fonts
          • Choose your logo
          • Choose your theme
          • Use the new Support theme
          • Choose your layout
          • Change your favicon
          • Set your knowledge base time zone, date, and language
          • Customize style or layout using HTML/CSS
          • Add a link to the upper right (top navigation)
          • Undo changes to Settings > Style
          • Breadcrumbs
          • Access to the header via Custom Head
        • Basic Settings
          • Basic Settings
          • Domain Settings
          • Website Settings
          • Article List Settings
          • Editor Settings
        • Using 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
          • Changing your private domain
        • Other overall look and feel customizations
          • Click to zoom / enlarge images
          • Display a back to top icon when scrolling
          • Only play GIFs while hovering
          • Use different logos for different reader groups
          • Set your footer copyright 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
        • Using H5 and H6 for custom formatting
        • 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
        • Fix email article for articles with apostrophes
        • Make the PDF icon prettier
        • Conditional content based on tags
      • 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
      • Table of contents & organization
        • Display categories open by default
        • Add Home button to 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 contact us link to table of contents
        • Change the icons used in the table of contents
        • Change the slideout Table of Contents' width (Minimalist Theme)
        • Hide the 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 snippet search results
      • PDF look and feel
        • Add page numbers to PDFs
        • Display content only in PDFs
        • Snippet to force page breaks in PDFs
        • Prevent Page Breaks in PDF Table Rows
        • 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
        • Default Home Page Article HTML
        • Default Home Page 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
      • Merge codes
        • What are merge codes?
        • KB Merge Codes
        • Article
        • Homepage
        • Reader
        • Body
        • Custom content category merge codes
        • Other
    • Features
      • Related Articles
        • How it works
        • Where do Related Articles show up?
        • Enable automatically suggested Related Articles
        • Adding related articles
        • Reordering or removing Related Articles
        • Disable automatic suggestions for Related Articles
        • Set the number of Related Articles to automatically display
        • Backward suggest Related Articles
        • Hide Related Articles section from a specific article
        • Hide Related Articles when there are none
        • Hide Related Articles when there is only one or less
      • Contact Form
        • Contact form overview
        • What data is collected in the Contact Form?
        • Create Tickets from Customers in your Help Desk or CRM
        • Create Zendesk Tickets
        • Create Freshdesk Tickets
        • Customize Contact Form Link
        • 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 overview
        • Using standard Manage filters
        • Creating a custom Manage filter
        • Editing a custom Manage filter
        • Included Tags vs. Excluded Tags
        • Deleting a custom Manage filter
        • Export the Manage Articles list to CSV
        • Bulk editing articles in Manage
        • Bulk activating "ready for review" versions
        • Bulk edit articles to make them required reading
        • Archiving articles in bulk in Manage
        • Deleting articles in bulk in Manage
        • How do bulk edits, archives, and deletes work?
      • Ratings
        • Ratings overview
        • Enable ratings
        • Add ratings to all articles
        • Add ratings to individual articles
        • Ratings reporting
        • Reset article ratings
        • Disable ratings
      • Article Favorites
        • Overview
        • How favorites work
        • Enable 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
      • Comments
        • Add Comments section to articles
        • Comment restrictions and permissions
        • Comment security
        • View comments pending approval
        • Commenter icons / images / avatars
        • Limit the max characters allowed in comments
        • Disable comments in your knowledge base
      • Glossary
        • Overview
        • Glossary formatting
        • Populate the glossary
        • Add glossary terms to your search results
        • Add the glossary page to your search results
        • When should I use display titles?
        • View the glossary
        • Automatically highlight definitions in articles
        • Add glossary definitions in articles manually
        • When one glossary term contains another glossary term
        • Change the style of glossary terms, the glossary page, or glossary search results
        • Troubleshooting glossary term imports
        • Glossary FAQs
        • Rename the glossary
      • Broken link checker & report
        • Overview
        • Generating a Broken Links Report
        • Additional content options
        • Exclude codes
        • Which codes should I worry about?
        • How to read the Broken Links Report
        • What content is checked
        • What is not checked
        • Tips & tricks for broken links
        • Who can run the Broken Links Report?
      • Customize Text tool
        • 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
        • Update Style Settings with Customize Text merge code
        • Update Knowledge Base Home Page with Customize Text merge code
      • Advanced Search
        • Overview
        • Run an Advanced Search
        • Exact match
        • Advanced Search regex pattern
        • Reading the Advanced Search CSV
        •  Advanced Search video walkthrough
      • Subscriptions
        • Using subscriptions
          • How subscriptions work
          • Subscribing to a category
          • Unsubscribing from a category
          • Triggering/retriggering subscriptions
        • Configuring subscriptions
          • Requirements for enabling subscriptions
          • Configure subscription notification schedule and email subject
          • Configure SMTP for subscriptions
          • Configure public subscriptions
          • Enable subscriptions
          • Add Subscribe button to topic and custom content categories
          • Style the Subscribe button differently
          • Force readers to subscribe using their reader account email address
      • Contextual Help Widget (2.0)
        • Widget 2.0 overview
        • Modern Widget vs. Widget 2.0 Comparison
        • Transition checklist: from Modern Widget to Widget 2.0
        • Widget configuration & installation
          • Widget Settings section
          • Widget Admin Settings
          • Widget Customize Text section
          • Widget Contact Form section
          • Custom Widget Styles
          • Custom Widget Javascript
          • Protect Widget 2.0 Contact Form with reCAPTCHA
          • Open widget to a specific article or category
          • Using Widget 2.0 for Contextual Help: Pages to Recommend On
          • Hide one of the Widget 2.0 tabs
          • Widget 2.0 installation
        • Widget authentication
          • Widget authentication--when and how to use it
          • Widget 2.0 JWT authentication
          • Widget 2.0 Oauth2 authentication
        • Advanced widget configuration & methods
          • Open widget to specific tab
          • Using Widget 2.0 on Single Page Applications
          • Prepopulate Widget 2.0 Contact Form fields
          • Advanced option: add the widget in your own div wrapper
          • Widget methods and functions dictionary
      • Required Reading
        • Overview
        • Enable and configure Required Reading
          • Enable 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
        • Make individual articles required
        • Access the Required Reading page
        • Make multiple articles required
        • Retrigger the same article for new acknowledgement
        • Remove requirement or start date
      • SMTP
        • What is SMTP?
        • 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
        • Creating an HTML Zip export
        • HTML export of categories with question marks in the title
      • 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 enginesUpdated
        • Measure SEO performance
        • Google Search Console
      • Modern & Legacy Contextual Help Widget (deprecated)
        • How the widget works
        • Installation
        • Using the Widget for Contextual Help: Pages to Recommend On
        • Modern Slideout Widget Authentication with Oauth2
        • Using the Modern Slideout Widget on Single Page Applications
        • Modern Widget + Zendesk Contact Form
        • Deprecation of Modern & Legacy widget
    • Search
      • How search works: the basics
      • Configure search
        • Pagination
        • Sorting
        • Glossary snippets
        • Add the glossary page to your search results
        • Article blurbs
        • Filter search by categories
        • Autosuggest
        • Shared content articles
        • Exclude category
        • Index large PDFs
        • Search weights
        • Search testing
        • Primary search language
      • Optimize search
        • Optimize search intro
        • Use search settings
        • Use indexed fields well
        • Use search 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
      • Change the display or text for the search bar and results
        • Tips on using search
          • Searching the knowledge base
          • Autosuggest search
          • Full text search
          • Exact match searches
          • Tag Searches
          • Tags versus search phrases
        • Search FAQs
          • Why is my category not showing up in search?
          • How do I add keywords to my article?
          • Search doesn't work for unhyphenated versions of hyphenated words.
          • Use Google Custom Search Engine in KnowledgeOwl
          • Can I exclude an entire category--and all its articles--from search?
          • Why is my article that's linked to another article not showing up in search?
        • How search works: advanced
          • Search basics
          • Indexing
          • Stemming
          • Search relevance scoring
      • Reporting
        • Reporting Dashboard
          • Overview
          • Your Knowledge Base at a Glance
          • Article Ratings Report
          • Popular Articles Report
          • Published Articles with 0 Views
          • Searches with no Results
          • Reset article views in the Popular Articles report
        • Contact form reporting
          • Overview
          • Contact Form Activity
          • Search Activity
          • Export searches to CSV
          • Page Breakdown
        • Widget reporting
          • Widget reporting overview
          • Articles Viewed from Remote Pages
          • Recommended Article Weights
        • Comments reporting
          • Overview
          • Approving or deleting comments
          • How do I know when there are comments pending approval?
          • Who can view, approve, and delete comments?
          • What happens when I delete a comment?
        • Required Reading reporting
          • Required Reading reporting overview
          • Reading the Required Reading report
        • Analytics
          • Set up third-party analytics
          • Search term analytics
          • Reader-specific analytics
      • Security and permissions
        • General security options
          • Create a public knowledge base
          • Create a public knowledge base with some private content
          • Create a private knowledge base
          • Create a private knowledge base with different content for different readers
          • Restrict by IP address, shared passwords, reader logins, or a combination
          • Restrict Content to Logged In Readers
          • Basic authentication
          • HTTP response headers
          • Requiring login to view files/images
        • Author management
          • Authors
            • What is an author?
            • Author permissions
            • Add an author
            • Edit authors and permissions
            • Reset an author password
            • Author login type
            • Default author roles
            • Export a list of authors
            • Delete an author
            • What happens when I delete an author?
            • Can authors share logins?
          • Author Teams
            • What are author teams?
            • Create author teams
            • Change the order of author teams
            • Restrict content to author teams
            • Inherited author team restrictions
            • Removing author team restrictions
          • Author roles & custom roles
            • Default author roles
            • Custom author roles
            • Available custom role permissions
        • Reader management
          • Readers and reader filters
            • Readers overview
            • What's the difference between an author and a reader?
            • Enable reader logins
            • Create a reader
            • Create readers in bulk
            • Search for readers
            • Create a custom reader filter
            • Edit a custom reader filter
            • Delete a custom reader filter
            • Edit readers in bulk
            • How do reader groups work?
          • Reader Groups
            • Where can you set reader groups?
            • How do reader groups work?
            • Create a reader group
            • Display conditional content based on reader logins
            • Test reader group access
            • Auto-assign groups by email rules
            • Checking if an article or category is restricted to reader groups
            • Display different logos for different reader groups
            • Delete a reader group
          • Reader emails
            • Customize your reader welcome emails
            • Customize your reader password reset emails
            • Configure SMTP for reader emails
            • How custom SMTP from/reply impacts the email template from/reply to fields
          • Reader security, passwords, and login options
            • 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
            • Allow readers to log in using SSO
            • Help readers reset their passwords
          • Reader signups
            • Overview
            • Using reader signups
            • Change the default text of the reader signup form
            • Add custom fields to the reader signup form
            • Approve or deny single new reader
            • Approve or deny multiple readers
            • Auto-assign new readers to groups upon signup
        • Single Sign-On (SSO)
          • Single sign-on (SSO) overview
          • SSO options for different knowledge base setups
          • SSO FAQs
          • Update your x509 certificate
          • Opening links to SSO knowledge bases from Microsoft Office
          • SAML SSO instructions
            • SAML SSO setup overview
            • Configure SAML SSO (generic instructions)
            • Configure SSO using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
            • Configure SSO using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
            • Configure SSO using Google Workspace
            • SSO Advanced Options
            • Direct Reader Attribute Map
            • Custom Attribute Map rules
            • Missing SSO ID mapping warning
            • Auto-Assign Groups By Email Rules (SSO Edition)
          • Remote Authentication Instructions
            • Overview
            • Prerequisites
            • Enable remote authentication
            • Create your remote auth token request and script
          • Salesforce SSO Instructions
            • Salesforce configuration intro
            • Step 1: Enable Salesforce SSO in KnowledgeOwl
            • Step 2: Create LoginController apex class in Salesforce
            • Step 3: Add the Remote Site in Salesforce
            • Step 4: Create a Visualforce page in Salesforce
            • Step 5: Create final apex classes in Salesforce
        • Security, privacy, and compliance
          • Cookie declaration
          • Privacy policy
          • Data processing addendum (DPA)
          • HIPAA compliance
          • Security and reliability
          • Payment card industry (PCI) compliance
          • Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ)
          • GDPR
          • Uptime SLAs
          • List of Sub-processors
          • Supported cipher suites
          • Required IP addresses
      • Account and billing
        • Adding and editing knowledge bases
          • Creating an additional knowledge base
          • Copy a knowledge base
          • Delete a knowledge base
        • Adding and removing author seats
          • Adding an author seat: in-app credit card
          • Removing an author seat: in-app credit card
          • Adding an author seat: invoice
          • Removing an author seat: invoice
        • Billing
          • Payment options
          • Discounts
          • Update credit card
          • How do I add or remove author seats?
          • View past receipts and invoices
          • Change billing email
          • Switch from monthly to annual billing
          • Pause or suspend subscription
          • Cancel my account
          • Resolve payment
        • Company and Product Info
          • Company Website
          • Contact support
          • How do I stay up-to-date on KnowledgeOwl?
          • System requirements and supported browsers
          • Troubleshooting software issues
          • KnowledgeOwl status page
          • KnowledgeOwl W-9
          • How can I send product feedback?
          • Terms and conditions
        • Plans and trials FAQ
          • 30-day free trial
          • Extend my trial
          • Pricing
          • Plans
          • Priority Support
          • Subscription add-ons
          • Enterprise
      • Integrations, API, and webhooks
        • Integrations
          • Slack
            • Use the KnowledgeOwl Webhooks Slack appNew
            • Using Webhooks with Slack (build your own app)
          • Zapier
            • Send Contact Form submissions to Google Sheet via Zapier + webhooks
              • Prerequisites
              • Quickstart
              • Tutorial
              • More use cases
            • Zapier and the KnowledgeOwl API
              • Prerequisites
              • Quickstart
              • Tutorial
              • More use cases
          • Zendesk
            • Install Zendesk App
            • Create Zendesk Tickets
            • Import from Zendesk
        • API
          • Using the KnowledgeOwl API
            • Introducing the KnowledgeOwl API
            • Authentication
            • API keys
            • Find your knowledge base ID or project ID
            • Pagination and limiting results
            • Usage limits
            • Input and output formats
            • API date formats
            • Query operators
            • API calls in snippets
          • Endpoint reference
            • Working with APIs
              • Introduction
              • What is an API?
              • What is a REST API?
              • Calling an API: terminology and tools
              • Calling an API: curl
              • Calling an API: Postman
              • Learn more
            • Cookbook: examples with curl and Postman
              • Using the cookbook
              • Create a category
              • Upload and edit files
              • Update version metadata
            • Cookbook: code samples
              • Create a list of articles from a specific category
          • Webhooks
            • Webhooks overview and creation
            • Available webhook events
            • Webhook API calls
            • Reactivating a webhook
        • Release notes
          • Getting Started Guide
            • Intro to KnowledgeOwl
              • Before you start
              • Set up your account
              • What is a knowledge base?
              • How are KnowledgeOwl knowledge bases structured?
              • The KnowledgeOwl app vs. a knowledge base
              • Get oriented in the app
            • Get started with a new knowledge base
              • Purpose & audience
              • Create a Knowledge Base Brief
              • Look & feel
              • Set up your domain
              • Configure your KB access
              • Decide which features to use
              • Determine your content hierarchy
              • Author roles and permissions
              • Version guidelines
              • Reporting and analytics
              • Content audit cycle
              • Create a style or author's guide
              • Document your knowledge base's setup
            • Explore features
              • Intro
              • Navigation-related features
              • Content-related features
              • Integration-related features
              • Metadata-related features
              • Permissions-related features
            • Trial FAQs
              • How do I add more authors to my trial?
              • How do I add more knowledge bases to my trial?
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