Provide feedback on knowledge articles

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Provide Feedback on Knowledge Articles

    This guide outlines how users can provide feedback on knowledge articles within the ServiceNow platform. It highlights the different feedback mechanisms available and the roles that manage these interactions, ensuring users can effectively communicate their experiences and suggestions regarding knowledge content.

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    Key Features

    • Feedback Options: Users can flag articles for incorrect or inappropriate content, rate articles on a scale of 1 to 5, and indicate if an article was helpful or not. Comments can also be viewed and added.
    • Flagging Articles: Users can flag articles by clicking the "Flag Article" button, which opens a window for suggested changes. Only flagged comments are accessible by users with specific roles.
    • Rating Articles: The rating feature allows users to indicate article effectiveness with a five-star system, contingent on configuration settings.
    • Marking Articles: Users can mark articles as helpful or not through a simple Yes/No option, providing quick feedback on content usefulness.
    • Comments Section: The comments section utilizes Live Feed, enabling discussions around articles, where users can reply, attach files, or like comments, subject to role permissions.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the feedback mechanisms, ServiceNow customers can enhance the quality of knowledge articles, fostering a collaborative environment for content improvement. Knowledge managers and administrators can monitor feedback effectively to make informed decisions about content modifications and enhancements. This process ultimately leads to improved user satisfaction and more reliable knowledge resources.

    You can view and contribute to feedback on knowledge articles.

    Feedback options

    You can submit feedback for knowledge articles in these ways:
    • Flag an article as incorrect or inappropriate.
    • Provide a rating value for the article.
    • Mark an article as helpful or not helpful.
    • View comments, add a new comment, or reply to existing comments.
    Users can view comments directly on the article. Knowledge managers can view the other types of feedback by navigating to Knowledge > Feedback.
    Note:
    To know more about Knowledge article view properties and rating options that appear with articles, see Knowledge article view properties.

    Administrators and knowledge managers can disable some feedback options using fields on the Knowledge Base form. Administrators can configure feedback options using properties.

    Flagging articles

    You can flag an article for incorrect or inappropriate content. Click Flag Article in the article header to open a new window, allowing you to enter suggested changes.

    • Flagged comments do not appear on the Article View page. Users with the admin, knowledge_admin, and knowledge_manager roles can access flagged articles by navigating to All > Knowledge > Articles > All Flagged. Users with the knowledge role can access their flagged articles by navigating to All > Knowledge > Feedback Management > My Flagged.
    • If disabled, the author of the article and users with the admin, knowledge_admin, and knowledge_manager roles can see all flagged comments. Other users can see only their own flagged comments.
    Note:
    • You cannot disable flagging for an article until you have disabled the flagging for all feedback comments for that article.
    • If Disable Suggesting is checked at the Knowledge Base level, the Flag Article button does not appear for any knowledge article

    Flagged comments are stored in the Knowledge Feedback (kb_feedback) table but not the Live Feed Messages (live_message) table.

    Rating articles

    The five stars below the article title allow you to indicate the article's effectiveness on a scale of 1 to 5.

    Note:
    If the Disable rating is checked at the Knowledge Base level, the Rating Article button does not appear for any knowledge article.

    Marking articles

    The question Helpful? at the bottom of the article allows you to indicate the usefulness of the article with a simple Yes or No answer. The Yes and No options are always available on the knowledge article view page even when you had selected an option earlier.

    Note:
    If the Disable Mark as helpful is checked at the Knowledge Base level, the Marking Article button does not appear for any knowledge article.

    Comments

    Knowledge comments at the bottom of the article use Live Feed to enable a conversation around a knowledge article. For example, you can post replies to comments, add attachments, or Like comments. The glide.knowman.use_live_feed property controls the display of knowledge article comments. If enabled, the system uses Live Feed to manage and display feedback on knowledge articles.

    Note:
    Unauthenticated users and users with only the snc_external role can’t add or view attachments for comments.