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July 22, 2021
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'Last updated' timestamp

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  • July 22, 2021
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When posting topics in a KB and surfacing them in the Featured Topics widget (as part of the new KB landing page), the presentation seems odd to me.

Here’s an example:

As you can see in this example, the content displays the title of the article (or of the question/conversation), some of the initial text, the user icon, the date the content was published, the number of views, and the number of comments.

In my view, KB content works best when it communicates when it was last updated, not when it was published. And it makes little sense to display the number of comments when the article is not open to comments. So here’s some specific changes I’d like to suggest unique to content published in the knowledgebase

  • Where the content says 2 months ago this is the publish date, replace this with the date last updated. So if I made a change to this article today (which I did) it should display the date last updated. For example, it could read as “Updated today” (if today) or “Updated X days ago” if past that date

I’ve also suggested that we remove the comments bubble and count if the article is closed to comments I have added this as a separate idea here so vote on that too!

30 replies

Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
July 29, 2021
Updated idea status New → Open
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
July 29, 2021

Thanks @Scott Baldwin for this idea!

Cristina
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 25, 2021

Hi @Scott Baldwin! I was reviewing this new idea from @mads (here below) and I realised that replacing the timestamp of article creation with the timestamp of “last updated” is feasible, but it cannot be restricted to only articles published in the Knowledge Base. It would be applied to all articles, regardless of the module they’re published in. For this reason, I’m thinking of merging the 2 ideas and keeping the more generic one. Any thoughts/concerns on this? Thank you both in advance! 

 

Contributor ⭐️
August 25, 2021

That sounds good to me @Cristina! Thank you!

Cristina
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 25, 2021
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.
August 25, 2021

No concerns.

kieran.clarke
Contributor ⭐️
September 8, 2021

This would be a very useful feature and add benefit to knowledge base articles. Hopefully it’s something that can be implemented in the near future!

jimmytango78
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 9, 2021

Hey @Cristina :wave:  Is there any update on the ability to add “last updated” functionality (or even to allow us to manually change the publish date)? 

We have a case where an article about a new feature was written by an outgoing employee a month ago and published in a non-public hidden category while we waited for the feature to be released. Now we’re releasing the feature this week and would like to change the date to the current date so it doesn’t look out of date. I can’t see a way to do this (although @xiaoyu-shen’s “publish on someone’s behalf” feature suggestion would solve for this, as we could simply create a new article, copying and pasting the original and posting in the person’s name.

Admittedly this particular use case is not a common one for us, but I can see the value in this functionality being made possible.

 

Thanks!

Cristina
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 9, 2021

Hi @jimmytango78! I don’t have an update on this idea yet, but thank you for sharing your use case, it’s valuable insight.

I have enabled for your community the feature that is now in beta that allows you to create a product update or article on behalf of another user. I hope this helps! 

jimmytango78
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 9, 2021

Thanks a lot @Cristina This feature will definitely help us solve this use case :blush:  On the surface it looks very useful and easy to use but if I encounter anything kooky with it I’ll let you know!