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Establish a knowledge base with organized articles

Outcome
Your team will understand how to deflect requests with knowledge base articles they can draft and organize.
Processes
  • Review built-in knowledge base
  • Review enabling a Confluence knowledge base
  • Review template types and modification of templates in Confluence
  • Review label usage
  • Review knowledge categories
  • Review Jira configuration with labels
  • Create a guide that covers each type of article (including knowledge base articles)
  • Practice area(s)
    Knowledge management, request management, change enablement, problem management, incident management, and service configuration management
    Product(s) in scope
    Jira Service Management (Premium or Enterprise) and Confluence
    Role(s)
    Technical SME, Incident Manager, Problem Manager, Change Manager, Technical Lead, and Team Member
    Step
    Process
    Notes/References
    1
    Create and link space for a project.
    Project Settings > Knowledge
    2
    Add permission to allow agents to create knowledge articles.
    (In Confluence) Space Settings > Permissions
    3
    Create a knowledge article.
  • Project > Knowledge > Knowledge Base
  • Create knowledge base articles
  • 4
    Categorize the knowledge article.
  • Categorize knowledge base articles
  • Add a knowledge base article to multiple categories
  • 5
    Enrich the knowledge article with relevant keywords to create a proper context search.
    6
    Set up article suggestions to map with request types.
    Project Settings > Knowledge
    7
    Search for knowledge articles "on demand" from within the context of a ticket using keywords.
    8
    Share the knowledge article with customers from the knowledge base.
    9
    Share the knowledge article with customers from within the ticket.

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