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How is the Related articles list in help center populated?



Edited Aug 09, 2024


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Does the "learning" process happen in the background even if "related articles" is not switched on (displayed)?

For example, if we switch the feature off because results are not currently useful and then switch it back on in six months time, will the articles displayed reflect the six months of site usage?

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Dane

Zendesk Engineering

Hi Paul,
 
Yes, the relevancy metrics are recorded regardless of the helper for related articles. 
 
Hope this helps!

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Is this still relevant with the introduction of tags? I just started testing out tags and I do see tagged articles appearing under "Related articles" but I also see untagged articles that I've recently visited in that list.

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Arianne Batiles

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Casey Birkholz

I would say it would depend on the experience you want for your users. Related articles return a list based on a user's recently viewed articles and the number of times the article is marked as related while content tags work like a hashtag. You have control over these tags and you can add the same tags to articles you think are related. With this feature, users by clicking the tag can view a search page displaying all other content in your help center with the same tag. 

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Vlad

The Wise One - 2022Community Moderator

Is there any way to pull related articles via ZD API? 
I need related article IDs in the help center DOM to take their section names. 💁🏻

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Darenne

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Vlad, welcome to Zendesk! I tried to check the Help Center API documentation but it appears there's no available API endpoint to pull up Related articles. However, on the same page in the documentation, related articles are part of the Help Center Templates, which consists of a collection of editable page templates that define the layout of different types of pages in the Help Center under Advance Helpers
 
I hope this clarifies it! 
 

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i'm aware of the advanced helper {{related_articles}} but i would like to loop through related articles and customise the returned html that the helper provides. The reason for this. is because the helper adds a rel="nofollow" which isn't ideal for SEO purposes and is been flagged as an issue on our site audit software.

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