Configuring the Help Center

Everything on how to set up & customize your help center to suit your specific needs.

Written By Markus from Featurebase

Last updated 17 days ago

Changing the help center’s text

You can fully customize the heading section texts of your Knowledge Base:

  1. Go to Settings → Help center

  2. Under the General Settings, change the title, description, and search placeholder

  3. Click ‘Save all changes’ on the bottom right!

Customizing the help center's texts from settings.

Linking to other sites from your Help Center

Custom external links on the bottom of the help center (e.g. API docs, Homepage, System status, etc.)

You may also want to link to some other sites, such as your API documentation, landing page, or feedback portal:

  1. Go to Settings → Help center

  2. Under the Navigation Items, click on the + button on the top right to add a new link

  3. Add the Name, URL, and icon

  4. Click ‘Save all changes’ on the bottom right!

Setting up help center custom external links from settings.

Styling your Help Center

The help center uses the same styling as your organization, including the logo, primary color, and theme. Learn to customize it here: Add your branding


Supporting multiple languages

Multilingual help center in Featurebase.

You can publish the Help Center in your customers' native languages with multilingual articles and collections. Learn to set it up from here: Help Center in multiple languages


Hiding author and date information from articles

Hiding the author and date information from articles from settings.

To hide author or date info from your help articles:

  1. Go to Settings → Help center → Advanced

  2. Under the Privacy settings, check ‘Hide author information’ or ‘Hide date information


Configuring default link behaviour

Configuring the workspace-level link behaviour for the Help Center.

To configure the default workspace-level link behaviour for the Help Center:

  1. Go to Settings → Help center → Advanced

  2. Under the Link behaviour, choose whether you want only external links to open in a new tab or also internal links.


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