Knowledge Base
The Knowledge Base (KB) is your team's internal, shared library of articles — how-tos, troubleshooting steps, and reference material. Shared articles help deflect tickets (they are suggested to agents when filing a ticket) and power the built-in Ask the Knowledge Base assistant.
Articles and visibility
Each article has a title, a URL-safe slug, an optional category, and a rich-text body. An article is in one of three states, shown by a visibility pill:
- Private — visible only to its owner (the author) and workspace admins.
- Pending review — submitted to be shared, awaiting an approver's decision.
- Shared — published and visible to everyone in your workspace; eligible for ticket deflection and the KB assistant.
Only the owner or an admin can edit, share, or delete an article.
Writing an article
- Open the Knowledge Base and click + New article.
- Enter a title — the slug is suggested automatically (you can edit it).
- Pick a category (optional).
- Choose the sharing setting (see below).
- Write the body with the rich-text editor.
- Save.
Publishing goes through review
Sharing an article with the workspace is a reviewed action, so published content gets a second pair of eyes.
If you are an approver (an admin, or a user with the kb.approve permission): set sharing to Shared with workspace and save. The article publishes immediately.
If you are not an approver: the share option reads Submit for review. Choose an approver from the list and save. The article moves to Pending review and is sent to that approver; it publishes only once they approve it. While pending, the article is read-only for you.
Approvers act on pending articles from the Approvals area and the notifications bell:
- Approve — the article publishes (becomes Shared).
- Reject — the article returns to Draft (Private) for more work.
Knowledge Base and tickets (two-way)
The Knowledge Base and the ticket queue are linked in both directions.
From a ticket, the Knowledge Base panel lets you:
- see suggested articles relevant to the ticket (deflection suggestions),
- link any article to the ticket, and
- Create a KB article from this ticket — this drafts a new article seeded from the ticket's content, ready for you to edit and (eventually) share.
From an article, the Referenced by tickets section lists every ticket that links to it — so you can see which support cases an article is helping resolve.
Ask the Knowledge Base
Each Knowledge Base page includes an Ask the Knowledge Base assistant — an AI chat that answers questions only from the articles you can see (shared articles plus your own drafts). Every answer lists the articles it drew from; click one to open it. Chats are saved so you can revisit them from History.
Categories
KB categories are managed by admins in Settings → Knowledge Base. Authors pick a category from the dropdown in the article editor.
Tips
- Share the articles that answer common questions — they cut repeat tickets through deflection and the assistant.
- Use Create a KB article from this ticket right after you solve a tricky case, while the steps are fresh.
- Check Referenced by tickets before editing a popular article so you know how widely it is relied on.