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BMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Management is a framework for creating, publishing, reviewing, and searching IT knowledge articles. It provides service desk analysts with a knowledge base of easy-to-find solutions and give users self-service search options to help them resolve issues on their own.

Release notes and notices

updated 26 Apr

Learn what’s new or changed forBMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Managementversion 21.02, including new features, urgent issues, documentation updates, and fixes or patches.

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This section only includes information about changes since the most recent release ofBMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Management. If you are upgrading from a previous release, review the release notes for all applicable versions of the product. For example, if you are upgrading from version 9.0, review the release notes for versions 9.1, 18.05, 18.08, 19.02, 19.08, 19.11, 20.02 and 20.08.

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BMC Helix ITSM release notes

Date	Title	Summary
March 17, 2021	21.02 enhancements	For the BMC Helix ITSM enhancements, see BMC Helix ITSM enhancements .

Getting started

Creating and publishing knowledge articles

As an end user, use the BMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Management Console to create and publish knowledge articles.

Improving the findability of knowledge articles

As an end user, use the BMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Management Console to improve findability of knowledge articles.

Planning

As an administrator, plan to give required access and permissions to your end users.

Administering

As an administrator, perform a standard configuration, manage knowledge sources, and configure approvals.

Onboarding and implementing

As an administrator, set upBMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Management for your end users.

Integrating

As an administrator, set upBMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Managementto communicate and share data with other applications.

Developing

As a developer, understand the development options forBMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Management.

Troubleshooting

Resolve common issues or errors, review logs, or contact Support.

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Frequently asked questions

Here are some answers to the most frequently asked questions about BMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Management:

Why am I not able to find some of the older topics of this product?

We have completely restructured the BMC Helix ITSM documentation spaces. Some of the older topics have been renamed or merged into other topics. Here is a list of 10 most popular topics in the earlier versions of Knowledge Management and where you can find them in the restructured documentation space.

Older topic title	Where you can find the information now
KCS support in BMC Knowledge Management	Overview of the Knowledge-Centered Service
Adding and deleting attachments	Formatting knowledge article text
Creating a decision tree	Creating a decision tree
Working with the KCS template	Knowledge article templates
Knowledge article functional areas	Knowledge Management overview
Managing knowledge article visibility	How knowledge articles are found
Creating a knowledge article	Creating and publishing knowledge articles
What is BMC Knowledge Management	Knowledge Management overview
Reviewing a knowledge article	Reviewing a knowledge article
Approval workflow	Managing approval requests
Using	Creating and publishing knowledge articles Improving the findability of knowledge articles Reviewing and improving knowledge articles
Configuring approvals	Configuring approvals
Status transition workflows	Changing the status of a knowledge article

I’d like a PDF of just selected information. How can I do that?

The BMC Documentation portal gives you the ability to generate PDF and Microsoft Word documents of single pages, and to create PDF exports of multiple pages in a space.

Creating PDF and Word exports

You can create a PDF of a page or a set of pages. (Non-English page exports are not supported.) You can also create a Word document of the current page.

To export to PDF or Word

From the Tools menu in the upper-right, select a format:
- Export to Word to export the current page to Word format
- Export to PDF to export the current page or a set of pages to PDF
If exporting to PDF, select what you want to export:
- Only this page to export the current page
- This page and its children to export a set of pages
For example, selecting This page and its children from the home page exports the entire space to PDF.

Depending on the number of topics included in the export, it might take several minutes to create the PDF. Once the export is complete, you can download the PDF.

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Creating PDF and Word exports

To export to PDF or Word

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