A customer support administrator at a solar energy installation company has enabled Salesforce Knowledge and assigned the Knowledge User feature license to Tier 1 support agents. The agents have Read and Create object permissions on Knowledge articles. However, when agents search for published troubleshooting articles assigned to the 'Solar Inverters' Data Category, no articles appear in the search results, even though Support Managers can view them without issue. Which configuration change should the administrator make to allow Tier 1 agents to view these articles?
- Configure the Data Category Visibility settings for the Tier 1 agents' roles or profiles to grant access to the Solar Inverters category.Cevap
- BAssign a permission set containing the 'Manage Knowledge' administrative permission to all Tier 1 support agents.
- CUpdate the Knowledge record type picklist settings to include the Solar Inverters value for the Tier 1 agents' profile.
- DChange the Organization-Wide Default (OWD) sharing setting for the Knowledge object from Private to Public Read-Only.
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The administrator should update the Data Category Visibility settings on the Tier 1 support agents' profiles or roles to grant access to the Solar Inverters category group.
In Salesforce Knowledge, visibility of published articles is directly linked to Data Category Groups. Even if users have the Knowledge User feature license and object-level Read access, they cannot search for or view published articles tagged with specific categories unless their Role, Profile, or Permission Set grants them access to those Data Categories. Adjusting the Data Category Visibility settings resolves the visibility blockage.
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Data Category Visibility in Salesforce Knowledge