Your Dynamics 365 Library: Knowledge Articles

What if your most depended upon customer service rep leaves the company and no one else on the team has the level of knowledge he had on various topics? Or at the most granular level, wouldn’t it be incredibly useful if canned suggestions surfaced when opening a service case for a customer?

There is no reason to spend excess time and money researching and troubleshooting the same (or similar) issues repeatedly. Plan ahead and build a knowledge base which withstands the test of time (and turnover) and is shareable both internally and externally.

Knowledge Articles in Microsoft Dynamics 365 provide the ability to create articles with versioning and translation functions. Building a base of Knowledge Articles allows Customer Service Reps to reference and utilize the information to deliver accurate and consistent information to customers, while following the organization’s processes.

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By providing access to the article directly from a Case record, the rep can link the article to the case, thereby documenting its inclusion as a step for resolution. Not only can the rep use the information as an assist to themselves, they can opt to share the article with their customer, who may prefer to “do it themselves.”

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Knowledge Articles not only benefit reps, who now have answers at their fingertips, those that administer the articles also have something to gain. Analytics are measured which provide article insights for content managers. A couple key stats are how many views each knowledge article has, and the Cases which have been associated to the article. These statistics allow administrators to not only evaluate which articles provide the most value, but ultimately it may provide intel into where there may be a bigger issue which needs attention.

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It is worth mentioning that the topic discussed herein is an updated feature which has gone through a handful of iterations throughout the years with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This most current version introduces some major improvements and enhancements over previous iterations. Do note, that while you can continue to use the legacy Knowledge Base Articles, it is good practice, and a Microsoft recommendation, to transition to the Dynamics 365 Knowledge Articles, as they provide improved capabilities and translation support. Microsoft has confirmed that the legacy Knowledge Base Articles will be deprecated sometime in the near future.

If you need assistance or have any questions about either writing a knowledge article or linking articles to cases, please reach out to our support team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We are always happy to help you increase the productivity of your Dynamics 365 environment!

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