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helena
Community Manager
September 22, 2023
AMA

Front Knowledge Base AMA

  • September 22, 2023
  • 24 replies
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Hello, community! You might already know that we recently launched Front Knowledge Base, a tool for you to centralize all your internal info for your team and/or external info for customers, which you can manage and access right within Front — reducing both your content and software sprawl. We use it ourselves to host our Help Center.

If there’s anything you want to know about this new feature, you’ve come to the right place! We’re excited to answer your questions and get you started, with the help of Front’s two knowledge base experts:

  1. Anisha: Our internal PM for Knowledge Base who can answer anything related to its features, roadmap, workflows, and tips.
  2. Karen: Front’s own Help Center queen who runs our help center and can answer questions about migrating to Front Knowledge Base, how Front uses Knowledge Base, and general help center processes. 

You don’t need to direct your question to any specific person, as they’ll naturally answer the ones in their domain. Please submit as many questions as you’d like by replying to this thread — Anisha and Karen will start answering them on Monday, October 2. That’s not a deadline, though, so feel free to post your questions if you arrive here after that date and we’ll continue to answer them. 

💡 Pro tip: We have a Front Academy course all about the Knowledge Base if you want to get a head start in learning.

Ask away!

24 replies

Front User
Fronteer
September 23, 2023

Can I create multiple knowledge bases? If so, what are some use cases for multiple internal ones or multiple external ones? 

Front User
Fronteer
September 23, 2023

What are some pro tips to keep in mind for the migration process? I’ve never migrated a knowledge base before and it seems like a daunting task.

Front User
Fronteer
September 23, 2023

Is there a way to use the knowledge base admin panel in conjunction with using regular Front at the same time? It seems like I have to pick one or the other but I’d like to have quick visibility into both.

Benji
Conversationalist
September 25, 2023

Any plans to allow it to be synced with GitHub? 

JohnLine1
Conversationalist
September 25, 2023

What rate plans is it included in and/or what is the upcharge if on a plan that doesn’t include it?

taylor
Conversationalist
September 25, 2023

What is the timeline for greater customization options? Would love to see callouts and better image formatting. 

Are social link previews on the horizon as well?

danielle_hieronimi
Conversationalist
September 25, 2023

Our existing knowledge base is primarily in BookStack and Clickup. What are some things to think about when considering a migration to Front’s knowledge base vs. using Front’s dynamic objects to link to our existing knowledge base?

googol
Conversationalist
September 26, 2023

Can multiple users edit the content at the same time and mention other editors in comments? Can we connect with Notion to retrieve the content?

JohnW
Smart Cookie
September 26, 2023

Re: Site Visibility
 

According to article 25116 (Site Visibility Tab), sites can be set to either Internal (Front users directly inside Front) or External (public-facing w/ website searchable by via search engine)

The ‘Internal’ option controls access via Front login.  The ‘External’ option seems to open the door wide to whatever content is in the knowledge base.

Questions:

  1. Are there plans for an ‘Intranet/Xtranet’ knowledge base option, that does NOT require a Front login to access, but provides access controls, that enable limiting content access to Employees who are non-Front users and/or Customers and/or Vendors?

    Why?  We are commited to advancing a ‘Knowledge Ops Maturity Model,’ (Fig A) for which a knowledge base is a key component.  Although we have made a commitment to Front, not every team member will use it.  We potentially want to provide Customers and Vendors with access to a knowledge base / knowledge bases, that act as a Frequently Asked Questions on steroids.  (See Q2 below)
     
    Fig A
  2. Will plugins/Add-ins be provided that allow knowledge base websites to be easily integrated with either public websites (WordPress Plugin, etc.) or SharePoint
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jetstreamrobyn
Conversationalist
September 29, 2023

Will Knowledge Base articles have a page view counter, and will this be trackable in Analytics?