Subscribe to knowledge bases and knowledge articles and receive email notifications
about new articles and article revisions or comments.
- Subscribed to a knowledge base:
- Knowledge base owners are auto-subscribed to all articles in the knowledge bases they
own. They receive email notifications when new articles are created or revised
(published) in the knowledge base.
- Users who subscribe to a knowledge base receive email notifications when new articles
are created in the knowledge base or if the existing articles are revised
(published).
- Subscribed to a knowledge article:
- Knowledge authors are auto-subscribed to the articles they create. They receive email
notifications when the articles they created are checked out or revised (published) by
other authors, and if the articles receive user comments.
- Users who subscribe to an article receive email notifications when the article is
revised (published).
Users can set their Knowledge notification preferences using System
Settings. For more information, see Knowledge Management email notifications
and Set knowledge notification preferences.
The knowledge subscription feature is available for both the Knowledge Management v3 user
interface and the Knowledge Management Service Portal.
If the article versioning feature is enabled, the following notifications are also sent:
- An article is checked out
- An article is revised
- A new version of an article is published
Activation information
The knowledge subscriptions feature requires the Knowledge Management Advanced plugin
(com.snc.knowledge_advanced). For more information, see Configure knowledge subscriptions.
