KB User's Guide - Understanding Access to Documents
Last updated on 2025-09-08
The purpose of this document is to outline the many ways in which a document can be made available to certain (or all) audiences within the Knowledgebase (KB) system. There are several options that require specific setup and settings to make ...- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Documents Tab - Using the Campus Access Setting to Protect Content
Last updated on 2025-09-08
The Campus Access field allows individual documents to be put behind a general campus login (e.g. user is required to have valid campus login credentials) and therefore not accessible to the general public.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Users Tab - User Lacks Permissions or Cannot Log Into KB Admin Tools
Last updated on 2022-03-08
This document describes what to do if a user reports that they are not getting the correct level of access when they are logged into the KB Admin Tools, or if they report that they are being redirected to the external KB after logging in.- Group: KB Process
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KB User's Guide - Stats Tab - Docs by Helpfulness Link and Scores
Last updated on 2023-08-21
This document describes how to view helpfulness score logs in the KB Admin Tools, as well as how to reset/purge these scores for documents on your KB site- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Document Edit Screen (Beta) Overview
Last updated on 2025-06-26
This document provides users of the KnowledgeBase with a general introduction to the new document edit screen. This new interface is currently available to early adopters and will eventually replace the original edit screen.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - API - Connecting to the Internal API [Campus login required]
Last updated on 2024-07-10
This document describes the process to authenticate and connect to a site's internal API, which allows you to make GET requests to access internal KB content available to your site.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Documents Tab - Manually Enterable KB Custom classes
Last updated on 2023-07-24
There are nine custom classes in the KB that do not have a dedicated button in the editor. Users may enter these custom classes anywhere in their document via the source code tool and style them as needed.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - API - News
Last updated on 2025-02-25
This document provides information in the News API for the KnowledgeBase.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Documents Tab - Demo - Up, Previous, Next - Page One
Last updated on 2025-06-02
This document demonstrates the use of the Up, Previous, and Next functionality. This document is the first page in a series of four documents. This could serve as the Table of Contents or top most document in the document tree.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Training - Tour of a KnowledgeBase (KB) Site
Last updated on 2024-07-02
Users who access your published KB content will do so by visiting your "live site". This document describes both the standard and optional elements that appear on your live site, particularly your homepage.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB Author Training - Title, Keywords, and Summary Fields
Last updated on 2023-10-16
This training document provides detailed information about the Title, Keywords, and Summary fields in the editor. It includes training exercises demonstrating the functionality of fields. For detailed information about other aspects of the editor, ...- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Documents Tab - Blogging
Last updated on 2024-07-09
Blogging functionality allows document users and readers to post comments to individual KnowledgeBase (KB) documents. Please note that blogging works *only on* internal sites/documents.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Home Tab - Dashboard
Last updated on 2023-08-09
The Dashboard allows you take a quick temp of the activity on your KB Site at a glance. From the Home Tab, you may also update your user profile by clicking on the My Profile link. You may access KB Monthly Advisory Meeting Minutes from this, ...- Group: KB User's Guide
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2021 KnowledgeBase (KB) User Group Meeting
Last updated on 2024-05-30
Every year the KnowledgeBase team and the user community come together with industry experts to share experiences, lessons learned, and best practices. This year our collaborative events took place the week of July 26th-30th, 2021.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - API - Articles
Last updated on 2025-07-30
This document provides information in the Articles API for the KnowledgeBase.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - General Info - Known Issues [Campus login required]
Last updated on 2021-06-01
The KB Team maintains a list of active known issues within the KB application. These are captured in a Trello board, which you can access below.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Documents Tab - Editing an Existing Doc
Last updated on 2023-08-21
This document explains how to edit published (i.e., Active) or draft (i.e., In Progress, In Review, or Inactive) documents.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Users Tab - Overview of User Permissions
Last updated on 2024-10-01
This document explains each of the user permissions found under the Users tab.- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - Documents Tab - Import & Export
Last updated on 2024-02-14
The Import & Export function allows you Export active content available to your group as HTML and XML. You may also import XML content into your KB. This document will show you how to do this. To access this tool, log into the KB Admin Tools, then ...- Group: KB User's Guide
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KB User's Guide - KB Admin Tools - Login to the KB Admin Tools (UW Madison Only)
Last updated on 2024-02-14
Admins and users with access to the KB Admin Tools can use the info on this page to create and modify documents in their KB space.- Group: KB User's Guide
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