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New "What kind of topic are you creating?"

  • February 6, 2023
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When engaging in the community you’re asked “What kind of topic are you creating?” and you have to chose from Question, Conversation, and Idea. Could we have “How-To Guide” as part of this menu of options? It would be very useful to be able to filter these out as we’d like to have focus on the How-To Guides, and for them not to blend in with all sorts of questions. @Julian thoughts?

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  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • February 8, 2023

I like this idea! I think that such a content type could help with a better user experience, but I also know that others like @bjoern_schulze pointed out that such a content type would be valuable for SEO. Google can interpret the steps of a how-to guide and surface this information in a rich result on search pages, just like we are doing it with questions and answers. 

While I naturally would feel that this content would rather be produced by the company and not the user, I am all in for opening this option in the frontend as well, so you can have user-generated how-to guides. Currently, you could only create a discussion / conversation, which does not feel like the best category possible for such content.


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  • February 8, 2023

Thanks @Julian we see that some how-to guides are written by externals, others are written by our employees


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  • February 8, 2023

Thanks for the idea, @Anitahg and thanks to @Julian for mentioning me, as I have posted a similar idea recently:

In our community, both users (externals) and the team (employees) would benefit from such a content type. If inSided provides us with a content type “How to” (or “Step-by-step tutorial”), but it will be located in Control, then one possible workaround could be to be able to transform discussions into a “How to”. We are doing a similar thing already with articles.

In the long run, I want to provide all users (based on permissions we’re setting) with the ability to publish articles, how-to’s and FAQs.


Cristina
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  • February 9, 2023
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