Deprecated and discontinued features

Check for announcements that might affect future releases of the product or service. These changes can affect the way in which you configure or run your version of BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround.

Important

While every effort is made to provide accurate, forward-looking guidance on product direction to assist you with your buying and planning decisions, BMC cannot guarantee that intentions stated as follows are final and binding.

Discontinued features

Discontinued features are no longer available in the product or service.

FeaturesAnnouncements and recommendations 

Visits report

Starting with version 23.3, BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround no longer supports generating the Visits report for analyzing new data. Due to the changes in Azure Application Insights data streaming, BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround stops tracking page views in the application. As a result, the Visits report is no longer populated with new data and will be removed from the application in the near future. Currently, you can continue using it for analyzing historical data that was collected prior to the release of version 23.3. However, if you select a time period for displaying data after the release of version 23.3, you see a blank report. 

Multi-import of a single Microsoft Word document (.docx)

Starting with version 22.1.05, BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround no longer supports creating multiple articles and folders from a single Microsoft Word (.docx) document imported to BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround.

Drag-and-drop sorting for lists
  • Starting with version 22.1.05, BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround no longer supports drag-and-drop sorting of articles and folders in menu lists and the content tree. 
    Important: This feature is discontinued for all knowledge portals. 
  • Starting with version 22.1.05, article and folder lists are sorted alphabetically, and you can no longer manually control the order of items. If a list contains both articles and folders, the folders have a higher priority and are displayed first. However, you can still manually arrange the order of items for the following UI sections and widgets:
    • Folders on the top menu bar
    • Recommended widget
    • News widget
eLearning

Starting with version 22.1.05, BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround no longer supports the use of the eLearning feature. 

Note how BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround has handled the existing eLearning content created before the 22.1.05 release: 

  • All eLearning folders have been converted to standard folders.
  • The eLearning overview page has been converted to the standard search results page.
  • All eLearning links are redirected to the search results page.
Period of validity

Starting with version 22.1.05, BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround no longer supports setting a validity period for knowledge articles.

BMC has replaced this feature with the Knowledge state scheduler functionality. We recommend that you start using the Knowledge state scheduler to plan and schedule the automatic change of your article's knowledge state on a specific date. 

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