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Pavel BuchartKnewbie

Unsaved card lost after hitting escape button?

I just wrote a big portion of a card... opened menu for adding a link. Hit Escape to close the whole card. An I lost it… again! Is there a way to recover drafted card?

Amy CrossKnewbie

Hi - is it possible to lock down permissions for who users can assign to answer incorrect or unanswered questions?We had an issue where (despite training) a user assigned it to everyone in the company...

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7 months ago

Jacob T.Knewbie

asked in Q&A

Best path to creating a visualization of content hierarchy?

Hi all - I’m interested in seeing the complete hierarchy in Guru in a sitemap-style (or similar) showing the Collections, the folders included in those Collections, and the way in which those folders are nested within each other. My current understanding is that an export wouldn’t be helpful here because the folders column doesn’t show how they are nested within each other. Unfortunately that means I’m left manually re-creating the hierarchy of each collection in another tool like Miro or Figma so I can see them all in a single view. Has anyone worked out other ways to accomplish viewing the complete hierarchy of collections and folders?

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7 months ago

David MacVicarBrainiac

posted in Q&A

Multiple cards-different teams, same topic

Looking to understand how other teams are doing this……Our company just released a new feature, this resulted in the following: Product Team created a “product overview” Card in the product collection Sales Engineering team created a ‘sales faq’ card in the Sales Collection Customer care team created a card for their collection…Now we have 3 assets that exist, which serve various teams & use cases. Problem - there are multiple cards to update if the core card has a significant change. We are weighing whether we want to continue creating separate cards for separate teams, or end up with a single, large scale card which serves all audiences. This could be mitigated by having a very specific Table of Contents built out, however….the world where a sales rep could just use the chrome extension to get to their sales specific card is very enticing….Curious to get some feedback from the community!

Luke OtwellKnewbie

Images go to full size, I even screen shot and it still get’s blown up. Max width should have same boundaries as text, but don’t. Inconsistent behavior too, following previous 2021 bug feedback does not work, no way to resize.

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8 months ago

Ashley GordonSmart Cookie

asked in Q&A

Bulk export a list of broken links and the cards they live in.

We need a way to export a list of broken links and the cards they live in. Otherwise, this is a very manual process across thousands of Guru cards.Another person asked about this as a question, but it should be a feature request.

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8 months ago

Sylvia BarnekowKnewbie

posted in Q&A

Guru is not able to find content related to terms that are composed of two (or more) words.

Although I have updated our content and made it very clear how service dogs need to be treated, Guru is not able to find an answer, because it looks for “service” and for “dogs” and doesn’t recognize “service dog” as one term. The same happens with other examples. This is very limiting to our teams.

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8 months ago

Elliot ShawSmart Cookie

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Creating Hundreds of Links between Cards in 5 Minutes

Just wanted to share something I learned this week (which is very useful for a noob like myself).I’d always been curious if I would be able to bulk-link hundreds of cards to each other based on keywords, and the answer is yes. A use case for this could be that every time the phrase "sales playbook" appears in your knowledge base, Guru will create a card link to the specific card of your choosing with more information about the "sales playbook".Doing this manually is tedious, but the short method is below.Using the find and replace Guru sheet and a quick card export, I was able to create hundreds of Guru links to other existing cards from targeted keywords in about 5 minutes using the following steps:1. Read the instructions on the find and replace sheet and run an export of the relevant collection or boards from the card manager2. Make a copy of this google sheet, and using the information from your export, copy any keywords you want to target, and their corresponding card ID’s and Car

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9 months ago

Kjetil KartevoldKnewbie

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Best practices for handling Office file content in Guru

We are getting ready to move existing content into Guru. We have previously used a combination of Sharepoint and a Wiki. In Sharepoint most of the content is office files, Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Much of this content is not appropriate to change to card content. Like Excel files with multiple sheets containing many rows or Word files that use our company branded template. The disadvantage of adding the files as attachments in Guru is that it is a quite cumbersome process to download the file, make changes, upload a new file, and remove the old attachment. The iFrame option is also not a good option for us because we have different user authentication providers for Guru and Sharepoint. The third option we have as far as I can see is to create url links in Guru to Sharepoint location of the files, but one of our goals is to reduce the number of systems used for storing knowledge content. We would then be forced to keep Sharepoint. I guess this is a quite common problem case with Offi

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9 months ago

Amy LockerKnewbie

asked in Q&A

Searching through Archived Cards un Guru

Is it possible to search Guru Cards in the Archived section?

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9 months ago

Sarah WSmart Cookie

asked in Q&A

Can you exclude Cards with a specific tag in search?

Is there a way to exclude cards with a specific tag in your search? For example if we mark cards with #experiment because they're part of a test, can we then search and exclude that tag?

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9 months ago

Laarni DKnewbie

asked in Q&A

Transferring of Cards to other Collection

Is there a way for me to move cards to another collection without using APIs?Tahank you

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9 months ago

Lucia DelicovaScholar

asked in Q&A

Unable to reopen and respond to resolved comments

Hi team!Has something change on the option to reopen and respond in a thread to a resolved comment?We’ve had a few users report to our team this week that after we respond to them, if they want to reopen and respond in a thread, they get an error message, see screenshot below:

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10 months ago

Lucia DelicovaScholar

asked in Q&A

Unable to respond to resolved comment

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10 months ago

Sarah DantinoKnewbie

asked in Q&A

Will there be a recording available for Using AI-Powered Enterprise Search in Guru

Hello - I will not be able to attend the webinar, “Using AI-Powered Enterprise Search in Guru”. Will there be a recording shared or posted here?

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10 months ago

Shikha VermaKnewbie

asked in Q&A

Initiate Guru answers using a custom Slack emoji

During our trial period, we are currently exploring the various features of Guru. I have come to understand that in order to search for knowledge base articles within Slack, we can either type "@guru" or "/guru" followed by the desired content. By doing so, Guru will retrieve all relevant information from its knowledge base and display it within Slack.However, I am curious if there is an alternative method where we can use a custom emoji instead of "@guru" or "/guru" to initiate this process. If such an option exists, could you kindly explain how it works? This would be a significant feature for us moving forward with Guru. Thank you for your assistance.

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10 months ago

natasha aceKnewbie

asked in Q&A

Creating my own shareable templates?

I’m a business consultant for health practices and I use and recommend Guru to everyone. As such, I want to actually create (and maybe sell externally) Guru set ups for my clients and my ideal audience. Is this possible?

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10 months ago

Jodi PetersKnewbie

asked in Q&A

Cannot move between collections

I’m getting an error message when using the card manager to move a few cards between collections. A colleague is experiencing the same problem and we are both Guru Admins. Is this a known issue or is there another method?Following steps from: https://help.getguru.com/s/article/moving-folders-and-cards-between-collections

11 months ago

Lynn MillerSmart Cookie

asked in Q&A

Browser extension questions

Hey all - few questions if somebody can assist?I asked this question awhile ago on a separate thread. Am I missing a one click option from the browser extension that opens a window to the webapp. Particularly if I need some functionality I can’t do in the extension? Is there a way to remove the Guru icon when the extension has been open but collapsed that I am missing? I know you can toggle it from side to side and click and drag it vertically, but anything to remove it altogether? Also, when you move the location of the Guru icon vertically, it doesn’t seem to persist across new browser windows (so new window, open extension, when collapsing the extension the tab doesn’t seem to collapse at the same place.)Thanks!

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11 months ago

James TroutKnewbie

asked in Q&A

Ordered list numbering issue

Is there a way to prevent ordered lists from restarting at 1 when they are separated by an image? I put screenshots between ordered list items and I don't want the list to restart. Thank you!

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11 months ago

Lisanne van BrouwershavenKnewbie

asked in Q&A

Dutch companies using Guru

Hello everybody,I’ve reached out to Guru support regarding our wish to get in touch with Dutch companies using Guru. We’re interested in using Guru as a solution for knowledgemanagement, but love to hear some experiences of others first. Are there any Dutch companies out here, and willing to get in touch to share experiences with Guru?Thanks!

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11 months ago

Leah ColatostiKnewbie

asked in Q&A

When do Guru card links open in new tabs?

I’m struggling to figure out how this works. We have a lot of Guru card links in our cards, and sometimes when we click the links it opens as a little window on top of the card we’re currently on. But sometimes it opens as a completely new tab. Does anyone understand the rhyme or reason there? And if so, is there a way to set a preference?

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11 months ago

Linda MooreSmart Cookie

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Auto Archived cards linked to other cards

I have not fully embraced auto archive yet but want to give it a try. In order to build out my expectations and SOP accurately when reviewing “soon to be” auto archived cards, do I need to ensure the card is unlinked to all/any other cards to prevent a negative user experience. For example:1. If the auto archived card is linked to another published card, will the link remain present on the other card or will it be automatically removed for any/all cards when auto archived?2. If an archived Guru card link remains on another linked card, typically the title of the card is present if using Guru link to another Guru card feature. I assume this could potentially allow the archived card link (title) to appear in search results or generative AI source card, Is this correct?

Are there any API endpoints to upload attachments to a card?

1 more question I need to ask. Is there any API to upload attachments to a card. https://developer.getguru.com/reference

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11 months ago

MengKnewbie

asked in Q&A

How do you embed an image in markdown?

Hi, Was recently trying to embed an image in a collapsible section - where the image part of the markdown looked something like this: `<img src="...image.png" width="200" height="200" />`The problem is whatever image I put in markdown expands to the width of the guru page → meaning I’m unable to make the image smaller than the width of the guru page (even if I tweak the width and height values in the markdown)…. I noticed in a past Q+A → it was stated that Guru uses the `CommonMark` / github flavor of markdown - however, I tried my markdown in both CommonMark and github and minimizing the image size works there --- but not in Guru for some reason. It’s important for me to have the image embedded via markdown due to the need to embed the image within a collapsible section. Please let me know if there is anything I can do or if I’m doing something wrong.

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11 months ago

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