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Manage Service Manager knowledge articles

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 11/01/2024
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In this article
1. Create a knowledge article
2. Search for a knowledge article
3. Next steps
Knowledge articles in Service Manager can help service desk analysts and end-
users understand and solve problems. Any employee can search for, view, and
create knowledge articles so that end-users can help themselves and resolve IT
problems before new work items are opened. Service desk analysts also have to
link work items to knowledge articles.
Use the procedures in this article to create and search for knowledge articles.
Create a knowledge article
You can use the following procedure to create a knowledge article in Service
Manager. This procedure describes how to create a new example knowledge
article to help users obtain the latest service pack for Windows 10. However, you
can complete these steps to create any type of knowledge article.
Note
To view external content in knowledge articles, the computer on which the
Service Manager console is installed must be connected to the Internet, either
directly or through a proxy server.
To create a knowledge article, follow these steps:
1. In the Service Manager console, select Library.
2. In the Library pane, expand Knowledge, and select All Knowledge
Articles.
3. In the Tasks pane, under Knowledge, select Create Knowledge
Article.
4. In the form that appears, on the General tab, in the Knowledge article
information area, follow these steps:
a. In the Title box, enter a title for the knowledge article. For example,
enter How to obtain Windows 10 service packs.
b. In the description box, enter a description for the article. For
example, enter You can use this article to help understand
this problem and to correct the problem yourself.
5. In the Knowledge form, expand the Classification area, and then
complete these steps:
a. In the Keywords box, enter classification keywords that you can
later search, separated by semicolons. For example,
enter Windows; Service; Pack.
b. In the Knowledge Article Owner box, browse for and select an
owner for the knowledge article. For example, select Phil Gibbons.
c. In the Category list, select an applicable category. For example,
select Software.
6. Expand the External Content area. In the URL box, enter the web
address if the information source of the article is known. For example,
enter https://support.microsoft.com/kb/935791.
7. Expand Internal Content. In the box, enter or paste information about
how the user can apply information from the External Content box to fix
a problem that is specific to your organization. For example, enter Visit
the URL to read about how to download the latest service pack for
Windows 10.
8. Select OK to save the new knowledge article.
Validate that the knowledge article was created
 Verify that the new knowledge article appears in the All Knowledge
Articles pane.
Search for a knowledge article
You can use the following procedures to search for a knowledge article by using
the Service Manager console in Service Manager. If you want to link a knowledge
article to an incident or to a change request, save the incident or change request
first. You can perform full-text searches when you search for knowledge articles.
When you search, Service Manager queries the following fields in the knowledge
search form:
 Title
 Description
 Comments
 Keywords
 External URL
 Internal Content
 Analyst Content
When the search is complete, Service Manager displays matches for content in
the Title, End-User content, and Analyst Content fields. If you want to view
the whole article, select Open article to see external content. If you
enter Windows 10 in the search box, that exact string must exist in one of the
knowledge article fields.
Note
Partial matches aren't returned by a search. Therefore, when you search for a
knowledge article based on a keyword, you must enter the exact word. However,
you can use the asterisk (*) as a wildcard character when you perform a search.
Search for a knowledge article using the Service Manager console
1. In the Service Manager console, in the search box, enter a keyword or
term. For example, enter Windows 10.
2. Select the arrow to the right of the search box to view a list of the objects
for which you want to search, and select Knowledge.
The Knowledge Search form displays the knowledge articles that match the
search term.
Search for a knowledge article when an incident or change request form
is open
1. With an incident or change request form open, in the Tasks pane,
select Search for Knowledge Articles.
2. In the Knowledge Search form, enter a search term in the Search
for box, and select Go. For example, enter Windows 10.
Link a knowledge article to an incident or change request

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