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Jennifer Rowe

Zendesk Documentation Team

Edited Jun 21, 2024


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Is there any workflow in Guide that would support reviewers adding comments or suggested edits (along the lines of a 'track changes' type feature)? We have the use case of an article needing a technical review, we want to capture feedback in the article but without the reviewer actually editing the text.

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Hi Eric,

There isn't anything in Guide that allows you to comment or suggest edits without updating text. I've created some other processes depending on the person I'm working with and how familiar they are with Zendesk.

For people who work in Zendesk regularly, I have them edit the article and use bolded and italicized text for their comments and feedback. Although this is editing the text which isn't what you are looking for, thought I'd throw it out there as an idea. It does work well with those folks who work a lot in Zendesk. I also can roll back to the published version really easily with the Revisions option if nothing needs to be changed.

For people who aren't as engaged with Zendesk, I usually just copy and paste the article and drop it in a Word document and turn on Track Changes. It's an extra step but it does preserve my content and makes it easy for the person doing the review/changes. When it comes back, I just make the necessary changes in my Zendesk article. It's a few extra steps but don't find it to be time consuming or difficult. 

The one piece that is missing for me in both of these workarounds/methods is managing what is out for review. That is something I haven't been able to figure out a good way to handle. 

Thanks,
Maggie

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Using team publishing, we're trying to streamline our process a bit. Here's what we'd like to have happen.

  1. Article author (in their own segment and only able to create/edit articles, but not publish) creates article and submits for review.
  2. Guide admin (or some other designated segment) is notified that an article has been created and needs verification/publication.
  3. Guide admin/editor verifies, publishes, or assigns back to author for further changes.
  4. If assigned back to the author for further changes, the author is notified of the assignment.
  5. Process repeats until article is published.

Are these kinds of notifications possible? I've looked several places and am either searching the wrong terms or I'm looking in the wrong places.

Any help would be great!

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Are there any plans to make the Review Status available within the API endpoint?

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Why after I save an article that hasn't been published, I'm unable to save any further changes before submitting it for review? I've worked on too many platforms where it freezes, and I don't want to lose my progress.

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Madison Hoffman

Zendesk Digital Resources Team

Hey Lesley, I can't replicate this. Sorry if this sounds like a silly question, but just to confirm did you make additional changes after hitting Save? In my account, I can see that the Save button is only greyed out until I make additional changes to the article that need to be saved. 

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Madison Hoffman what does it take for your company to actually allow customers to directly talk to an agent rather than dealing with your silly bot?

I have been contacting your company since August to downgrade and I keep on being fobbed off my supposed account managers.

This is disgraceful.

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Madison Hoffman Thank you for following up! I think I figured it out, and it was likely a user error. Not sure what happened here, and I'll repost it if it happens again :) 

Hope you're having a great week so far!

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Madison Hoffman

Zendesk Digital Resources Team

Hi Bulent Yazici, I'm sorry to hear you haven't heard back! I'll find your ticket with your account manager along. Our Bot is in place in part to make sure your issue gets routed to the right team but I promise we're not trying to prevent you from reaching a person. Once your ticket is with a person the bot no longer has control of the conversation. 

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Is there a way to turn off the Publishing workflows?

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