Bonus Content Flashcards
What does Knowledge Management?
Knowledge Management allows users to create, categorize, review, approve, and browse important information in a centralized location that is shared by the entire organization.
Where does Knowledge content exist?
Knowledge content exists within a knowledge base managed by one or more Knowledge Managers.
What does a Knowledge Management Guided setup provide?
Knowledge Management guided setup provides a sequence of tasks that help Administrators configure Knowledge Management for your instance. To open Knowledge Management guided setup, navigate to All > Knowledge > Administration > Guided Setup.
How to create a Knowledge Base without Guided Setup?
- Navigate to All > Knowledge > Administration > Knowledge Bases
- Click New
- Populate the form as
appropriate - Right-click the form
header and select Save - View or configure items in
the related list section - Click Update
How is a Knowledge Base structured?
The Knowledge homepage displays knowledge articles organized by Knowledge Base and Category.
User criteria in a KB:
User Criteria defines conditions that are evaluated against users to determine which users can create, read, write, and retire knowledge articles.
How does Localization work in a KB?
Knowledge articles may be published in multiple languages and set to show only articles in the user’s selected language.
User Criteria outcomes include:
- canRead: users who can read all Knowledge Base articles
- cantRead: users who cannot read, create, or modify articles in the Knowledge Base
- canContribute: users who can read, create, and modify articles in the Knowledge
Base - cantContribute: users who cannot create or modify articles in the Knowledge Base
KB Wrokflows:
The publishing and retirement processes for a knowledge article are controlled by workflows defined for the Knowledge Base that the article belongs to.
The Knowledge Base workflows available in the ServiceNow baseline instance include:
- Knowledge – Approval Publish
- Knowledge – Approval Retire
- Knowledge – Instant Publish
- Knowledge – Instant Retire
- Knowledge – Publish Knowledge
6, Knowledge – Retire Knowledge
The Import a Word Document feature allows you to:
upload more than one document at a time. When uploading multiple documents, one article is created for each uploaded item.
How to import a Word document into a KB?
- Navigate to All > Knowledge > Articles > Import Articles
- Select the Knowledge Base
- Select the Category* (not mandatory)
- Add the Word file (drag and drop or browse for the file)
- Click Import
- Click Continue
One article can be linked with:
ONLY one Knowledge Base
What is the module used to import Word docs as articles?
All > Knowledge > Articles > Import Articles
What access does a user need to import articles into a KB?
Can contribute
What module can be used by all users to view Knowledge content by category?
All > Self-service > Knowledge
Which role can manage multiple KBases?
knowledge_admin
What tool controls the publishing and retiring process for knowledge articles?
Workflows
What is used to determine user access to Knowledge bases or a article?
User criteria
What do templetes?
Templates allow form fields to be populated automatically, simplifying the process of generating new records.
How to view templates?
Click the More options icon ( ) from the form header, then Toggle Template Bar to work with templates.
How to access templates in a Workspace?
In the workspace, select and open a record.
1. When the record opens, click the Template icon in the contextual side panel.
2. Two list types display in the contextual side panel.
All displays all available templates, and My Templates displays personal custom form templates.
3. Use the (+) plus icon to create a new template.
How to manually send emails directly from any record in the ServiceNow platform?
- CLASSIC
* Open a record
* Navigate to More options > Email - WORKSPACE:
* Open a record
* Navigate to More options > Compose Email
How to activate the email client?
The email client is activated with the Email Client plugin (com.glide.email_client), which is active by default on the Now Platform. If not, add email_client attribute to a table
What are Quick Messages?
You can create predefined content to add in the email client so that users can write emails consistently and efficiently.