Suggesting restricted help center articles in an AI agent answer is available on all plans that can use messaging.
This article includes the following topics:
Restricted help center article overview
- The AI agent handles anonymous user queries and shares public help center articles
- The AI agent handles authenticated user queries and shares restricted help center articles
- The AI agent handles anonymous and authenticated user queries, builds conditions based on whether the user is authenticated, and shows all articles to authenticated users and only public articles to unauthenticated users
Authentication is based on messaging authentication with JWT.
If the end user is authenticated with messaging JSON Web Token (JWT), we will check if they can access the article based on the article permission rules and the user segment they’re part of. If the end user has access, the article preview is shown. Only the placeholder preview is shown if the end user is not part of the user segment.
If the end user is anonymous or authenticated through SSO or Zendesk authentication, the link to the restricted article is displayed in the AI agent message, but the title and preview are not displayed.
Showing the title of restricted help center articles
By default, restricted help center article titles and previews are not shown to users not authenticated with messaging JWT. Only the link is shown.
You can, however, configure your AI agent to show the title and preview of restricted help center articles to all users, regardless of which authentication method is used or whether they are anonymous.
- In Admin Center, click
Channels in the sidebar, then select AI agents and automation > AI agents.
- Click Manage AI agents for messaging.
- Click the AI agent you want to work with.
- Expand Channels settings and select Always show the title and preview for restricted articles. This option is visible only if you have an active help center. Only agents with guide admin permissionscan set this option.
Searching for restricted help center articles
The Show help center articlesstep recommends specific articles to your customers that may help them self-solve their questions. It presents up to six help center articles to the customer during a conversation.
You must have an active help center to use this step.
If you have view access to a restricted article, you can add that article in bot builder and see the article preview. The article does not appear in the bot builder search results if you do not have view access. If, for example, a guide admin adds a restricted article and you do not have view access for that article, it appears as a restricted article in bot builder for you.
2 comments
Jasson Andrade
Hi James,
Is there a more specific timeline for this feature? Our org uses restricted articles only and currently I am unable to build an effective bot in the flow builder.
Thanks
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Raphael.peguet
Hi James,
It's not 100% transparent if this concerns articles in pre-defined answers or in every answers (bot recommandation), it should be available in both
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