1. Knowledge Base Builder
  2. Data model
Reference

The tables behind Knowledge Base Builder

Knowledge Base Builder ships with 12 tables, grouped here by the feature that uses them. Every record your team works with lives in one of them, and you can add fields and tables in Proto.

Tables
12
Features
6, plus shared settings
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How the model is organised

Guidance

Knowledge articles stores the article body, category, owner, status and publication date. Article feedback references the article and stores reader response.

Service context

Services and Assets identify the operating service and affected equipment.

Case work

Incidents and incident updates keep an issue and its dated history. Problems capture root cause; service requests capture requested service work.

Change and events

Changes stores the planned service window and outcome. Integration receipts records provider event receipts and results.

Identity

People identifies record owners, requesters, assignees and update authors. Users carries account details.

Every table, by feature

Article workspace

3 tablesAbout this feature
  • Knowledge articles

    Knowledge Articles for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People
  • Article feedback

    Article Feedback for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Knowledge articles
  • People

    People for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Users

Publication review

4 tablesAbout this feature
  • Knowledge articles

    Knowledge Articles for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People
  • People

    People for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Users
  • Incidents

    Incidents for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Services, Assets, People
  • Incident updates

    Incident Updates for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Incidents, People

Reader feedback

3 tablesAbout this feature
  • Article feedback

    Article Feedback for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Knowledge articles
  • Knowledge articles

    Knowledge Articles for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People
  • Incident updates

    Incident Updates for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Incidents, People

Service context

5 tablesAbout this feature
  • Services

    Services for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People
  • Assets

    Assets for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Services
  • Incidents

    Incidents for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Services, Assets, People
  • Changes

    Changes for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Services
  • People

    People for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Users

Incident guidance

5 tablesAbout this feature
  • Incidents

    Incidents for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Services, Assets, People
  • Incident updates

    Incident Updates for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Incidents, People
  • Services

    Services for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People
  • Assets

    Assets for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Services
  • Knowledge articles

    Knowledge Articles for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People

Problem and request work

5 tablesAbout this feature
  • Problems

    Problems for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Services, People
  • Service requests

    Service Requests for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People, Services
  • Services

    Services for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People
  • Knowledge articles

    Knowledge Articles for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to People
  • People

    People for Knowledge Base Builder

    Linked to Users

Shared and settings

2 tables
  • Integration receipts

    Integration Receipts for Knowledge Base Builder

  • Users

    Users

    Linked to Users

Keys and references

Article feedback.Article points to knowledge articles; knowledge articles.Owner points to People. Incidents links to Services, Assets and People, while incident updates points to Incidents and its author. Problems, service requests and Changes point to Services. People.User points to Users. Keep these references intact when moving data so a comment, update or finding stays with its intended record.

Migration order

  1. Bring in Users and People, then verify active people and owner assignments.
  2. Bring in Services and their owners, followed by Assets linked to the appropriate service.
  3. Bring in Incidents, Problems, service requests and Changes with their service and person references.
  4. Bring in incident updates against the intended incidents and authors.
  5. Bring in knowledge articles with owners, then article feedback against the intended article.
  6. Bring in integration receipts if provider event history is part of the starting scope.

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