MindTouch Features
The MindTouch platform includes everything you need to capture and publish knowledge for successful content experiences. Each MindTouch site includes capabilities to administer, author, publish, and optimize knowledge content. Different types of users can access different aspects of capabilities and content hosted in your MindTouch site.
MindTouch capabilities include:
- Content Management: Create with WYSIWYG authoring, manage, and publish content
- System Administration: Control site settings, permissions, and integrations
- Branding and Design: Customize the look globally and for particular sections or user types
- Analytics: Optimize content with contributor and user behavior reports
Create content in MindTouch
Use MindTouch authoring features to create the valuable content that customers need.
Information Architecture
The MindTouch proprietary content framework, called Guided Content Framework, enables you to structure and optimize content for findability and scalability. This architecture makes sure agents and customers can find content in their channels of choice (Google, chatbots, IoT devices) and via search or navigation.
New Pages
- Author live to publish instantly or use draft authoring to iterate before publishing.
- Use default or custom new page templates to create new pages efficiently and consistently.
Leverage MindTouch permissions for extra control to show or hide new page templates for particular users or groups.
Editor
The MindTouch Editor is a familiar WYSIWYG interface that is intuitive for contributors across your organization.
Out-of-the-box settings include:
- Editor button and drop-down menu options
- Default options to add media or attachments
- Conditional Content for personalization - control who sees what content within a page (Anonymous, Community Member, Pro Member, specific groups).
Remove link functionality from autogenerated hyperlinks on email addresses or typed out URLs
Editor configuration options include:
- Modify the Editor Configuration
- Add Custom Styles
- Create Content Templates to access custom snippets directly from the Editor
- Dynamic content setup
- Table of contents - change appearance and display or hide
- Set up Global Variables - a dynamic variable that you can use in MindTouch content
- Create Custom Templates to standardize or dynamically update content that appears on other pages
- Leverage DekiScript, a MindTouch proprietary programming language, to create custom objects
- Reuse content - use existing content, either an entire article or sections of an article, in another location of your site
Revision Features
- Edit Summary
- Editor Comments
- See last modified date and author in Page Metadata
- View article revision history
- Subscribe to pages
Page Settings and Titles
- Manage page thumbnail and summary - high level overview of content pages and sections that displays on navigation pages and in MindTouch search results
- Add Tags
- Manage page titles and URLs
- Alter the page URL to be different from page title to control page order or shorten URL for long page titles
- Avoid special characters in URLs
Manage content in MindTouch
Use Content Management features to organize and maintain your content.
Page Management
- Move content - copy a page, move a page, delete a page, restore deleted pages
- Link Manager - identify all links used in your MindTouch content and find broken links that need attention
- Create Content IDs - manage external links without changing the source URL
- Create and manage Page Classifications
- Manage article permissions and privacy - control content visibility and editorial rights by section or page
- Guided Paths - organize a group of pages into a custom order with sequential navigation to embed as a hyperlink, collapsed or expanded widget, or display in Guide tabs
Findability
- MindTouch Search
- Create Search Recommendations for specific keywords
- Optimize for Organic Search (Google)
- Navigation
- Recommended Articles
- Make your site public to be indexable by search engines
- Dynamic XML sitemap lists all indexable (Public or Semi-Public) page URLs of your site
Improve content
Gain insight into your site engagement with Contribution Reports. Keep your content and site health as good as can be with Site Reports. Configure your MindTouch site to sync with Google Analytics.
Site Configuration and Branding
Site Administration
The MindTouch Control Panel and Dashboard contain everything you need for site administration.
- Authentication: Use built-in authentication or configure for your preferred identity provider.
- Universal controls
- System Settings: Configuration settings are universal controls for your MindTouch site, accessed through the Control Panel.
- Users and Groups
- Security
- Branding - follow our Branding Guidelines to modify your MindTouch site design to match your brand or other web properties.
- For developers
Extend MindTouch capabilities with integrations
Reduce customer effort by being where they are in a moment of need. Identify other entry points of your customer journey and make content accessible there.