Instructions and best practices for writing knowledge base articles.

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TeamDynamix: About the Knowledge Base

Introduction and overview of the knowledge base on the UARK Help Portal.

TeamDynamix: How to get Knowledge Base management (create / edit / archive) access

Directions for employees to get knowledge base editing and managing access or knowledge base articles.

Knowledge Base New Article Checklist

Checklists to use when creating a new KB article or editing a KB article.

Knowledge Base: How to create a category

Directions on how to create a new knowledge base category.

Knowledge Base: How to create a shortcut

How to make an article or category appear in more than one location.

Acronyms, abbreviations, and unusual words in TDX knowledge base articles

How to use acronyms, abbreviations, and unusual words in TDX knowledge base articles

Attaching PDFs and other files to a knowledge base article

Attach associated files such as PDFs to articles.

Creating and editing knowledge articles

The guidance in these documents concerns using correct grammar and punctuation, ensuring ADA compliance, and keeping a consistent style in TeamDynamix (TDX) knowledge base articles and service descriptions to ensure university brand integrity. Follow the guidance on headings, images, links, videos, and PDFs to maintain compliance in knowledge articles and service descriptions that you create or edit.

Adding Related Articles and Related Services to a Knowledge Base Article

Use Related Articles and Related Services to display links to related articles and services on the right side of the article or service, and select to display a service request button in the article.

Naming Conventions for Internal and Archived Articles

To help ensure that archived and internal articles are not used in tickets, their titles should have the appropriate prefix at the beginning.

Create a table of contents in an article

If an article has multiple sections, it will benefit from a table of contents.

Using Bootstrap in KB articles: Buttons

Buttons can be used for logging into systems and for downloading files.

TDX Editor: Pasting content from Word and other sources

Using Microsoft Word to create new knowledge base articles

Headings in TDX knowledge base articles

How to create accessible headings in TDX knowledge base articles

Knowledge Base Article Review

Reviewing your knowledge base articles

Archiving knowledge base articles

Outdated articles that will not be updated should be archived.

Links in TDX knowledge base articles

How to create accessible links in TDX knowledge base articles

Bulleted and numbered lists in TDX knowledge base articles

How to create accessible lists in TDX knowledge base articles

Search optimization for knowledge base articles

Optimizing your knowledge base article for the Help Portal search

Tagging Knowledge Base Articles

How to add good tags to articles

Accessible images in TDX knowledge base articles

How to insert accessible images into TDX knowledge base articles

Tables in TDX knowledge base articles

How to create accessible tables in TDX knowledge base articles

Videos in knowledge base articles

Make sure your videos are accessible and ADA compliant.

Knowledge Base Training by TeamDynamix

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