Support agents have Guide agent privileges by default. Support admins have Guide admin privileges. You can give agents Guide admin privileges as needed.
This article covers the following topics:
Guide user roles overview
Guide supports the following user roles with different help center access privileges:
- Anonymous user is anybody who visits the help center without signing in.
- End user is somebody who has created an account and signed in to the help center.
- Guide Viewer is an internal staff member who has the same permissions as an end user. This person can view articles but cannot be granted edit and publish permissions.
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Guide Agent is any Support agent who can be granted edit and publish permission.
If you have light agents, they can also create and edit articles where they have been given permission.Note: Permission for agents to view and edit knowledge base articles or community posts is not part of the role permissions, but is set at the article level for the knowledge base and at the topic level for community (see Setting content viewing and editing access).
- Guide admin has full privileges in Guide. All Support admins have Guide admin privileges.
For a list of specific permissions by role, see the next section Guide user privileges by role.
Guide user privileges by role
The following table shows Guide user privileges by role.
Article creation, management, and publishing privileges are not determined by the user's role, but are determined by user permissions. For a complete list of agent privileges granted by user permissions, see Understanding agent privileges for user management permissions.
Permission X indicates which actions are available for each user type. |
Anonymous user
(Anyone) |
End-user
(Signed-in users) |
Guide viewer | Guide agent | Guide admin |
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END USER ACTIONS | |||||
Manage subscriptions and requests (if available) | X | ||||
Comment on articles and posts
(if enabled) |
X | X | X | X | |
Add posts to the community (if available) | X | X | X | X | |
Vote on articles and posts | X (if anonymous voting is enabled) | X | X | X | X |
Subscribe to articles and sections in the KB | X | X | X | X | |
Follow posts and topics in the community (if available) | X | X | X | X | |
HELP CENTER SET UP | |||||
Customize the help center | X | ||||
Manage help center settings | X | ||||
KB MANAGEMENT | |||||
Edit and publish permissions | X (Where enabled. See Setting content viewing and editing access for agents) | X | |||
View restricted content | X (Where enabled. See Setting content viewing and editing access for agents) | X | |||
Enable languages for the help center | X | ||||
Add, edit, or delete categories and sections | X | ||||
Reorder articles, sections, and categories | X | ||||
Edit or delete comments on articles | X | ||||
Create a ticket from a comment on a knowledge base article | X | X | |||
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT (if available) | X | ||||
Set access restrictions on any community topic | X | ||||
Add, edit, or delete community topics | X | ||||
Reorder community topics | X | ||||
Pin or feature a community post | X | ||||
Close a community post for comments | X | ||||
Edit or delete comments on a community post | X | ||||
Change status of a community post | X | ||||
Create a ticket from a community post or comment | X | X | |||
Manage spam | X | ||||
Moderate user content | X |
Setting content viewing and editing access for agents
Guide admins have full access to the help center, including the ability to view all articles and the ability to add, edit, and publish all content. These privileges are not part of the Guide agent role by default, but are set at the article level for the knowledge base and at the topic level for community.
9 comments
ainsley ash
Thanks! I was wondering if there was some way to work around this behavior to allow some specified set of light-agents to submit a HC form and bar them from the Zendesk.
I'll look into other options for my needs.
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Jake Edwards
The gap between Guide Agent and Guide Admin is too big. I.e. sections can categories should have permissions that can be managed by the segments just like articles.
Sensitive controls like theme and help centre settings etc, should be under their own role, or more granular.
Other controls like creating and managing sections and categories are under the Guide Agent purview in our organization.
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A.J. Bouchard
I just created this Guide Product Feedback Post:
Separate out the privileges for Help Center Set Up and Customization from the Manage Guide permissions
Please go up-vote the post if this applies to you!
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Dave Dyson
Thanks A.J.!
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Drew Milbrath
I have Guide locked down to users who are signed in via SSO.
However, agents / light agents with "Viewer" permission do not have access to the Guide. How can I resolve this?
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Cheeny Aban
If you have light agents, they can still access your Guide Help Center as a viewer. Are you having a problem setting up SSO for your light agents? if you can further share what would you like to achieve, that will be great.
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Nazariy Pankiv
Nice job
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Dana B
I would like to use Guide for internal processes. Is there a way that we can restrict access from anonymous users? My fear is our clients/competitors will easily figure out our URL for Guide and be able to see internal documentation. We need to have a Guide that would only be accessed via user credentials.
Dana
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Raphael.peguet
Hello !
It's look like that in Enteprise working with roles you just have the choice for agents between giving them Admin access to Guide or nothing as the only parameter available is the one below.
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