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Knowledge base Articles

Get started now: How to Add or manage Article user guide.

A knowledge base article or an operator instruction? It doesn't matter—Nodinite provides a rich text editor for your unlimited number of Articles, and it's incredibly easy to use.

✅ Create Articles using WYSIWYG (HTML)
✅ Create Articles using Markdown
✅Embed HTML
✅Embed Mermaid diagrams

✅ Associate with Applications – Apply to all Resources belonging to the selected Application
✅ Associate with Category – Apply to all Resources belonging to the selected Category
✅ Associate with Resource – Apply to all Resources belonging to the selected Resources
✅ Associate with Tags – Helps you group numerous Articles

Use Case

Use Articles to provide human-readable content for end-users exactly where it matters most. The use cases for Articles are virtually endless. Other products may call them by different names, but the value is the same:

  • Operator instructions
  • Knowledgebase
  • Design documents
  • Technical documents

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Tip

Articles help you capture and leverage your team's know-how!

Other Custom Metadata about your Integrations can also be shared using the Nodinite Repository Model.

Rich text editor helps you create and manage Articles

The following features are available when working with Articles:

  • WYSIWYG Editor – No learning curve empowers anyone to write awesome Articles
    Toolbox
    • Embed images and videos – Make your articles more attractive and user-friendly
      • Clipboard – Simply paste the image into the article
      • From file – Select a file from the filesystem
      • Drag and drop – Can't be much simpler than that
    • Style your text
      * Provide hyperlinks to other pages/articles
  • Tag your articles
  • Code view for fine-grained control
  • Easily create tables (with code view, you can style these as you like, for example, add table-striped)
  • Full-screen support
  • Adjust editable area – Simply drag and drop vertically
  • Type faster with shortcuts – Get the list of shortcuts in the editor help page
    Shortcut

Structured content

Organize your Articles on multiple levels, including Categories and Applications provided by the Monitoring Agents. An Article can also be associated with a single Resource if it's dedicated to a specific purpose.

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For any given Resource, the total number of associated Articles is visible within the Monitor Views.
Number Of Articles

Share articles with Applications
You can make a single article shared between all Resources belonging to one or more Applications.

Share articles with Categories
You can make a single article shared between all Resources belonging to one or more Categories.

Associate article with selected Resources
You can make a single article shared between selected Resources.

Organize Articles with Tags
Nodinite Tags are unique string values that can be used to organize your Articles. Tags help users find a specific article as well as related articles. Please note that Nodinite comes with no predefined tags—this is your story to tell.

Tip

Tagging Articles makes it easier for your users to manage numerous Knowledge Base Articles.


How do I create and work with Knowledge Base Articles?

You can manage Articles using the Nodinite Web Client. Use any of the following user guides when working with Articles:

Where can I use the Knowledge Base Articles?

You can access Knowledge Base Articles directly and also from within Monitor Views where they are tied to either Applications, Categories, or Resources. You can also access bound Articles using the Integration Landscape.


Next Step

Add or manage Article

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