May 22, 2019
Improved Stats for Multilingual Help Centers
We've recently made some visual improvements to the Stats screen that will be a welcome change for everyone, but the biggest improvements will be seen by people running multilingual help centers. In the past, it used to be hard to know what languages were driving most page views or even to know ...
July 09, 2018
Tables 😍
We're really excited to announce the support for tables in Timelapse's text editor! Starting today, you will see a table icon within the text editor's toolbar allowing you to add and edit tables. To allow the text editor to remain clean and uncluttered, while still providing advanced editing cap...
May 25, 2018
Give your visitors control over cookies & tracking
Our platform use cookies and so does your Help Center. You might want to notify your visitors of the use of such cookies as well as ask for their consent, and we want to make sure you have a way to easily do that.
Meet the new Cookies & Tracking Control PanelWe released this week the Cooki...
May 02, 2018
Improve search coverage with custom search phrases
It can sometimes be challenging to include in an article all possible keywords someone might search for to get to the article. Take for instance the situation where an article contains mostly attachments like PDF documents or links to external resources. There's very little actual content for ou...
March 08, 2018
Be smart about your links
While building and maintaining your knowledge base, it's a common practice to link together different pieces of content. For instance, you may be writing a Getting Started guide from which you'll be linking to other articles that go more in-depth about certain concepts. That process is called int...
January 29, 2018
Now with reactions and feedback
Asking for feedback and knowing if your Help Center visitors found your content helpful or not is a great way to improve your knowledge base. That's why we're adding reactions and feedback support to all Help Centers.
Reaction Vs. FeedbackIt's easy to confuse reaction with feedback. Someone ...
December 08, 2017
Introducing Docs — A new section type for your Knowledge Base
Writing documentation sometimes come with the need to create a user guide, a how-to guide or a manual and the more traditional help topic/article navigation flow isn't always the best fit. So we created a new section type called Docs to make it easier and more natural to write guides and manu...
November 09, 2017
Add people to your account more easily with Organization Invite Links
Traditionally, adding people to a Timelapse account meant sending email invites one by one to the people you wanted to add. It's an easy process when you need to add just a few people, but it's not so efficient for larger organizations. To make this process easier, we're introducing today Orga...
October 03, 2017
Making search better with Search Assist
Search is an important part of every Help Center, whether it's a customer support site or an internal knowledge base, and it got better today with the introduction of Search Assist. Search Assist performs live searches as you type and return suggestions based on your query. It's good with typo...
September 28, 2017
Introducing Stories
Where to publish announcements about your products or services is not always obvious. Maybe you have a blog, but then not every announcement actually fits the editorial direction of the blog. Or, maybe you would like to publish something once in a while, but don't want to get into the trouble o...
September 14, 2017
It's now easier to embed media content, insert images and attach files
It’s always been possible to attach files, insert images or embed media content like YouTube videos, but a quick look at our most common Help Center queries showed maybe it wasn’t as obvious as we thought.
Our Help Center runs on Timelapse, of course, and with the “Top Queries” report we’re abl...
August 28, 2017
Introducing XML Sitemap Support for Public Help Centers
As of today, all public Help Centers will get an XML sitemap that can be submitted submit to Google and other search engines.
The sitemap for your site is available by appending /sitemap.xml to your site’s URL (eg. help.timelapsehc.com/sitemap.xml) and will contain links to:
Homepage
Sections
T...