Content blocks let you create and maintain content in one place and reuse it in multiple articles. Guide admins can create and insert content blocks in any article that is enabled for content blocks. Agents can only create and insert content blocks in articles that they have permission to edit.
Guide admins and agents with permission to update content blocks can edit and update the content blocks in the articles in which they appear. When you update a content block, the changes are automatically applied to all articles that contain that block without affecting the article publication and review status.
To allow agents to update content blocks
- In Guide, click the User permissions icon (
) in the sidebar, then select Content blocks.
- If you want agents to be able to edit content blocks and update affected articles with the changes, select Allow agents to update content blocks.
When this option is selected, agents will be able to edit content blocks and automatically publish the revised content block in all articles in which it appears.
If you leave this option deselected, only Guide admins will be able to edit and update content.
- Click Save.
5 comments
Liana Bachman
Is there any plan to allow Light Agents to have this access in the future? Or be able to provide access on a per-user basis? There are certain people in my organization who should not have full Guide Editor or Agent access, but help with editing articles, so they have Light Agent permissions assigned now. I'd love for them to be able to edit content blocks as well.
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Jay Lee
So giving permission to agents to edit/create content block is not granular to specific agents, but all agents can or all agents cannot be allowed to edit content blocks. Is that correct?
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Ronie Ranoy
Yes, that is correct. It is all Agents or none. Would you mind posting your use case to our Feedback on Help Center (Guide) topic? We have a template you can copy and use in your post. This is to help get more visibility and votes on the idea. Then, others can share their use cases to further drive demand for that feature. Thanks!
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Nikki Davison
If permission to edit Content Blocks is revoked, can agents still unlink a Content Block they've added to an article?
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Francis Casino
If permission to edit Content Blocks is revoked in Zendesk, agents will generally lose the ability to manage content blocks, which includes editing, adding, and unlinking them. Specifically, revoking permission to edit content blocks means agents cannot make changes to the content within the blocks or add new content blocks. Additionally, unlinking a content block is considered a form of editing. Therefore, without permission to edit content blocks, agents will likely be unable to unlink a content block they have previously added to an article. Overall, the control over content blocks, including linking and unlinking, typically requires edit permissions.
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