RE: Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base

Subject: RE: Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base
From: "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>
To: 'Bridget Gordan' <bridget -dot- gordan -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:07:47 +0000

I didnât set up ours, either. It did land in my lap, however.

From: Bridget Gordan [mailto:bridget -dot- gordan -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 3:02 PM
To: Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>
Cc: Rick Quatro <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com>; TechWhirl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: Re: Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base

We use Freshdesk for one product. I didn't set ours up, but there are three levels. So main category, sub category, articles. Where it matters what order the articles are in, they are numbered.



On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com<mailto:ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com>> wrote:
I don't believe so. It's Freshdesk, if anyone is curious.

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From: Rick Quatro [mailto:rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com<mailto:rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com>]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 2:48 PM
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Subject: RE: Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base

Is there a custom field or metadata field where you could put in some sort keys that would allow you develop a more logical sort order?

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
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Subject: Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base

Our knowledge base orders entries chronologically.

I was thinking about reordering the entries alphabetically, for a more sensible layout.

If I do this, however, entries containing words such as "Introduction" or "Overview" would not come first. They would end up following entries containing words such as "Development" or "Interface."

I want introductory or overview articles to be listed first. Other articles would then follow in alphabetical order. This knowledge base does not offer the ability to "pin" an article.

How would you folks handle this?


Cordially,
Craig Cardimon
Senior Technical Writer




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Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base: From: Cardimon, Craig
RE: Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base: From: Rick Quatro
RE: Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base: From: Cardimon, Craig
Re: Question about Ordering Entries in a Knowledge Base: From: Bridget Gordan

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