Additional Bulk Article - "Publish in section"
Not plannedI see the topic posted,
Bulk Changes to Guide Sections and Articles
However, it still falls short I think what needs to be added for Bulk updates, mainly moving bulk articles from one Section to another.
There should be an additional section/tab/menu/etc. for moving from one section to another if possible.
Right now, you have to go into each individual Article and move it to the desired location. With nearly 150 articles in total (and counting), this can be very cumbersome if a reorganization of the Sections or Categories needs to be made, but not the actual content of the Article.
Thank you for your consideration.
-
Official comment
Thank you all for your feedback, I can clearly see how important this functionality is for all of you, and how it could improve your workflows. Unfortunately, up until now, it was very difficult from the technical perspective to make changes to everything related to the placement of articles, including a seemingly small enhancement of adding a bulk action for it.
The good news however is that we are diving deep into this area right now as we are starting to work on Article Multiplacement. I expect a good few improvements to be released throughout this and the next year.
You can always check our roadmap in this post. It's always up to date with our current plans.
-
Even though I managed to manually move 250 articles one by one, I realized doing it manually can create mistakes: for example, I missed some of them in the Articles list, and had to check the list again from the beginning. Having a bulk action can reduce human errors.
-
+++ on the bulk move topic. This sould be a basic feature of the guide Admin.
having to move each article manually is a waste of time. I hope we get an update or EAP on this soon.
-
We are doing a reorganization of content since the number of products is growing. To make these changes, all movement of articles between sections is manual one-at-a-time. In addition, We have to take Product categories and make them Sections under an All Products (NEW) category. it is not possible at this time to convert a CATEGORY to a SECTION.
These are much needed.
-
In addition, I want to add that a category was deleted by mistake. With it went all subsections and KB articles. Luckily, the articles ended up in the Archive. But, the sections needed to be rebulit in order for the articles to be restored to their previous location.
It would be great if there is an archive for any deletion in the Admin UI (where we create categories and sections) such as a trashcan where you can restore by a subsequent click to do so.
This mistake took time to undo by 1) recreating the category/sections, 2) restoring articles from the archive, 3) reclassifying each article to the correct category/section, 4) setting the correct permissions, and republishing the content.
It would be so much more helpful if a deletion was actually an archive (maybe just a visual delete) and there was an undo that can restore back to previous setting. Eg: like a Mac trashcan where data can easily be restored. This would be a valuable feature for any ZD customer.
Mistakes happen and anything ZD can do to make this easier for a customer would be very much appreciated. This would be a high-on-the-list improvement in the product to ensure customer confidence!
-
I agree with all comments said--- a bulk move feature for articles would be insanely helpful as we build out our guide.
I think it is more common for users to build out articles and then figure out the organizational structure of the categories and sections--without a bulk move feature to assist, this process is painstakingly slow. Thank you!
-
I'm passing through the same situation, I have a hard mission to open more than 1.000 records to move.
I believe an enhancement will be great. -
Absolutely! I'm looking at relocating 150+ articles right now and already dread it.
-
we are doing a major reorganisation of categories, sections and articles. Unable to move in bulk articles between sections is very painful, has to be done one by one. Zendesk hello?
-
I honestly cannot believe that zendesk doesn't realize that bulk-changing the categories and sections articles live in is maybe the #1 reason to even have bulk-change functionality. If it takes them "7 years and 13 pages of comments" to finally listen to their customers as stated in the previous comment, my organization will be long gone and using a diff Help Desk provider.....
-
Massively needed. As we scale and evolve our community, we need to be able to edit, move, delete etc in bulk
-
We're starting an overhaul of our Help Centre structure, and have over 1500 articles. It's going to take an extremely long time to manually move each one to the correct section and category.
It'd be great if this was something that could be done in bulk.
You can already filter by placement, so why not add it to the actions at the bottom of the page?
-
Really need this! Manually moving so many at the moment and may have to again in future if we decide to split a section into 2. Please add this!
-
Agree. I'm in the same situation as @... and @...
-
I have been working to get my team to start using Guide for article management and just caught that bulk movements didn't account for choosing a new place in the hierarchy. This seems off considering we can bulk update article permissions like who can manage or see the article.
I also want to add to a comment that @... said above: "it is not possible at this time to convert a CATEGORY to a SECTION"
With flexible hierarchies and the ability to nest sections within sections on Guide Enterprise, the concept of Categories and Sections seems like it might be better to reconsider as just sections with nested sections in general. It would be nice to have the option to just create sections and go from there without having to worry about categories at all since they don't seem to add any different value at this point other than one being a top level hierarchy item. For non-Enterprise users, Zendesk could limit how many layers deep the hierarchy could go for parity purposes as well.
-
It took them 7 years and 13 pages of comments to put multi-category/multi-section articles on their list of to-dos, so I wouldn't hold your breath on this one. Another super annoying thing that should've been implemented when they were coding stuff out.
-
As we get further into the knowledge base and realize we need to adjust the folder structure, it does get annoying to not be able to move bulk articles from one folder the next. I have a couple hundred articles and to do each on separate is super annoying and a huge time waster.
-
Chiming in with the same issue. We are reorganizing our content and have to review 700+ articles to place in new sections. Doing this one by one will take a LONG time. I'm disappointed I can't do this by selecting titles from a list. It's way too many clicks. Carpal tunnel, anyone?
-
This is a much needed feature. Adding my support.
-
This has been an open request for some time. Let's hope something will be released soon! We have over 7500 articles. Too much work to move one-by-one!
-
I agree with you, Dan. It would make sense that everything is a section. In addtion, it would be helpful to not be limited to 20 sections within any section.
-
Any update on this?
-
I'd like to see this as well. Was very surprised this is not supported, but other bulk updates are.
-
It's beyond bad this feature doesn't exist. I imported and cleaned up 60 articles that are going thru "review" (don't get me started on the poor review process). After they're approved, we need to pay someone to manually move these from the temporary staging area to where these will live, one by one.
Later this year, we plan on a user study to find out how our customers want things organized. I expect a massive reorg out of that. And we'll pay someone to move the articles, one by one. Instead of creating new content that meets my customers' and my teams' needs.
How is this not even on the roadmap?
-
Bulk actions for admins are necessary. We have taxonomy changes (adding sections or moving articles between sections) often and cannot be moving them one at a time. When will a bulk action be available to classify a group of articles.
-
Adding comment for support. This would be very useful
-
Trying to completely reorganise our article database and the progress is very slow, because there is no way of moving articles in bulk... Hoping this feature is added.
-
This feature is a requirement for so many. Would be silly not to prioritize it. Imagine being able to simply drag and drop content from one section to another category....
-
Manually moving 500+ articles from a single folder into different categories...
-
I'm not sure why this feature is not the norm. We have multi-branded accounts and this is very time consuming to change article sections one by one.
Please sign in to leave a comment.
44 Comments