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Quick start: Curate Documentation and FAQs
Quick start: Curate Documentation and FAQs

Build knowledge using our in-line documentation and FAQs.

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Written by Nicholas Freund
Updated over a week ago

Introduction

One of the benefits of Workstream is that you can curate documentation directly in line and in context of your team's live data assets. Documentation that might exist in one-off Google Docs or intranet pages is instead easily consumable and maintainable. This creates greater clarity for end users as they use assets, and prevents them from having to ask questions of your analytics team.

We strongly recommend that you curate documentation (and if applicable, FAQs) for all of your certified assets.

How do I curate documentation?

Workspace owners can curate documentation anywhere you interact with an asset — either when viewing it in our knowledge repository, or natively using the Workstream Concierge. Simply click into the Content Overview and input your content.

When viewing the asset in the knowledge repository, the content overview appears below the embedded asset.

The Concierge contains a menu item for the content overview, once you expand it.

Content overviews will update everywhere, regardless of where they were entered or edited.

How do I collaborate with other members of my analytics team?

When building out documentation for your workspace, we highly recommend adding other members of your team to help you. This reduces the burden on any one individual, and brings more perspectives to your assets. Anyone with an owner role in Workstream is able to edit content overviews for any asset they have access to. Members may edit content overviews for assets they have added to their own workspace. Learn about sharing assets here.

To make collaboration easier, content overviews support real-time collaboration between different members of the team. So don't worry about accidentally working on a set of documentation at the same time as someone else—the system is actually designed to work well in exactly that situation.

How do I add an FAQ?

One of the challenges in maintaining analytical assets is handling the volume of repetitive questions that come up. This is both a waste of time for the analytics team, and a lost opportunity for the organization to capture tribal knowledge.

Owners can make conversations public at any time:

  • Open the conversation in the right rail

  • Click on "Sharing"

  • Update the general access level to "Public"

Public conversations are available to anyone within your workspace, no matter what role they have been assigned. You can learn more about how conversations are shared here.

Advanced Options

In addition to text, you have some additional options to enrich the experience of consuming documentation and provide a greater depth of detail.

Both conversations and content overviews support embedded Loom, YouTube, and Vimeo videos. Just click here in the styling bar to insert your link:

Image showing the styling toolbar for content overviews, with an arrow pointing to the "add video" option

Conversations (and therefore FAQs) also support annotating assets. Annotations are a great way to show others on the team exactly where to look in order to see the most important information.

Advice and next steps

Curating documentation is one of the more time consuming parts of getting your workspace set-up. We recommend that for your first pass you focus on not making perfect the enemy of the good, and focus your efforts on the most important assets for your pilot users. (No more than 10).

Once your assets are documented, you can either move on to optional steps or move right ahead with inviting your pilot stakeholders!

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