Suggested Knowledge in the Self Service Portal

Suggested Knowledge promotes knowledge articles to users during call logging to achieve faster solutions for users and reduced workload for the Service Desk.

Suggested Knowledge Articles

The twenty (20) most relevant articles are returned in Suggested Knowledge.

Knowledge articles are displayed in the Suggested Knowledge widget if they contain text matching the text entered into the call submission form's Description field. If the Description field is unpopulated, then the matching is performed on the Type, Service, and Config Item fields. If there is no data populating any of the four standard fields, no knowledge articles are returned in Suggested Knowledge.

When matching on Description field, knowledge articles are returned which contain any words specified in the submission form's Description field, not necessarily in the same order. This does not include an exact phrase search. Nor will it retrieve text that has another form of the word or a synonym. For example, if entering “Join”, it will not retrieve “Joined” as a match.

Click on the title of the article to see an expanded view

Acknowledging a knowledge article is helpful

Knowledge articles in the Self Service Portal contain a 'help factor' button which enables users to acknowledge the article solved their issue or answered their question. The label of the 'help factor' can be changed in ASM Designer and allows for a different label when the knowledge article is viewed from Suggested Knowledge (where users are logging incidents) and from Knowledge Search (where users are searching for answers to questions).

The default labels for the 'help factor' buttons are:

Solved! Close my call	in knowledge articles accessed from Suggested Knowledge widget in the Self Service Portal.
This was useful	in knowledge articles accessed from Knowledge Search in the Self Service Portal.

When these buttons are used, the Help Factor rating of the knowledge article increases.

The Help Factor rating of a knowledge article is visible in the Info Panel of each knowledge article. This value represents the number of times that knowledge article deflected a call in the Self Service Portal or was used to resolve a call by the service desk.

Calls Closed from Suggested Knowledge

When users select Solved! Close my call, the following happens:

• The call is submitted and automatically closed.

• Mandatory fields are ignored.

• The user is presented with a screen notifying them the call was submitted and closed, and the details of the call.

• SLA Agreements, Outages, and Reminders are not applied.

• User Surveys are not generated.