Question 1

Can I turn the spell checker in MyMalcolm off?

Accepted Answer

As you type content in the MyMalcolm FAQ markdown editor your text is automatically spell checked - words that are not recognised by the spell check are highlighted in red. To turn this feature off click the "x" symbol in the "Full answer" area of "Compose your question and answer"

Question 2

Is there a way a user can browse all my FAQs/Articles bypassing Categories?

Accepted Answer

On your hosted hub your users can search for FAQs/Article content by keyword, browse various filtered views (eg most recent, most helpful etc) and also browse the FAQs/Articles within each category.

It can sometimes be useful to offer your users a browsable view of all your FAQ/Articles (regardless of the category/categories they are in) and this is possible via the directory view.

You can enable this Settings --> FAQs --> General where you you can also decide how you want the content on the directory page to be sorted.

When switched on the directory page can be accessed on your hosted hub URL at /faqs/directory and you can create a link to it from a feature box or promo or from text areas like your homepage preamble (all managed from within your theme).

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The directory will also show all the categories towards the top of the page (clicking any of these will take you into the category view) and then FAQs/Articles beneath sorted in the order determined in MyMalcolm.

See the below video for a walk through

Question 3

Can you give me an overview of the FAQ section of MyMalcolm?

Accepted Answer

The FAQ section is of MyMalcolm is where you create and manage your FAQ content.

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Within the FAQ section there are several different areas:

Overview: here you can see statistics on the number of views, searches and feedbacks on your collection of FAQs. You can also see your highest rated FAQs and the top searches. You can vary the time period these statistics refer to by adjusting the drop down towards the top left of the graphs.
Library: this is where you can access and manage all the individual FAQ's that you have created or are in the process of creating. There are a variety of display, search, sort and filter options on this screen. You can also mark FAQs as favourites, apply labels and select multiple FAQs to do bulk editing.
Feedback: on this screen you can sell all the feedback that has been submitted by your customers on your FAQs
Activity: here you can see an audit trail of all FAQ activity by you and other members of your Team
Authors: create and manage the public authors of your FAQs here - these are shown as part of the FAQ details (or "meta") that your customers can see.
Categories: Create and manage categories here. Your FAQ's can live in one or more Category. Categories enable you to organise your FAQs into logical groups around topics that make sense to your business, for example you could group FAQs around products or services or locations. Customers can browse FAQ's by category.
Labels: Labels are free form text descriptions that you can attach to particular FAQs in your Library. They can help you organise your FAQs. Labels are seen by you and your instance team members only - they aren't seen by your customers.
Tags: Tags are a way of describing your content and allow an alternate way for your customers to browse FAQ's aside from search and categories.

Question 4

What is the Media Section in MyMalcolm?

Accepted Answer

The Media Section in MyMalcolm is a central place to manage images and other resources (eg PDF's) that you may wish to reference in your FAQs or use as part of the Brand customisation of your Malcolm! Hosted Hub.

You can upload resources directly into the Media section and any resources you upload via the FAQ or Brand sections will also automatically be put into the Media Section.

Question 5

Can I turn off the Workflow title?

Accepted Answer

If you don't want your Workflow title to display you can set this from the configure screen of the Workflow in question.

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This setting affects both the web and embed versions of your Workflow. If you want the title to display on one type but not the other you could clone your Workflow and use different settings for each.

Question 6

Can I change the colours used in my rating elements?

Accepted Answer

You can change the colours used for the positive, negative, neutral and unrated rating elements within your theme via the Brand section of MyMalcolm.

This dialogue will change the colours used on the web page (hosted hub) versions of Malcolm! content

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You can change the colours of rating elements used within your embeds via embed theme management, also in the Brand section of MyMalcolm

Question 7

What is Malcolm?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm! is a super flexible set of tools that quickly helps you with your user interactions.

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Tell me more!

If you are a business that has customers or other stakeholders (eg suppliers) you will almost certainly have to support and service these people. This often involves answering their questions and/or taking them through routine tasks or procedures.

For example

Customers may have questions about a product or service you sell
To process an order/booking/request or set up/modify your customer records you might need to collect certain information from a customer.

You could deal with these customer interactions face to face, over the phone or by email.

But the more customers you have the more time that takes up - and it can be never ending as more and more questions keep coming in every day.

With Malcolm! you can quickly digitise your Frequently Asked Questions and turn repetitive tasks or procedures into Workflows. Then direct customers to your website 24/7/365 where they can self serve.

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Neat right?

There are also lots of cool features like customers being able to give feedback on answers, analytics so you know the most popular questions your customers are asking plus integrations with other software like Dropbox or Mailchimp (and over 1,500 other apps via Zapier) so you can automatically send the information you collect via Malcolm! into other systems. And that is just for starters - there are lots and lots of further powerful features.

Did we mention you can also easily style and brand everything to match your business branding? And use your own domain name?

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Find out more

Explore this Support Section which is itself running on Malcolm! to find out all the things you can do and how to do them. Or browse our main website for an overview of all the features and pricing.

Sign up for your free trial here.

And if you’ve any questions which aren’t answered in our Support section reach out to us anytime and we will be glad to help!

Question 8

Can you help me create content for Malcolm?

Accepted Answer

Yes, we can help you create content for Malcolm! and general customer support and customer service content via "Malcolm Agency Services".

See here for further details and to get a quote.

Question 9

Can I clear sort options in the Library area of MyMalcolm?

Accepted Answer

Within the Library of FAQs and Workflows in MyMalcolm you can click certain column headings to sort by that column. The first two clicks will vary the sort direction (ascending or descending) and the last click will clear your sort!

Question 10

What are Categories in FAQs?

Accepted Answer

Categories offer a way of organising your FAQs around similar areas. For example you may wish to group some of FAQs into a "pre sales" category and others into a "post sales" category. Or if you sell many different types of product you might want to create categories for each product and categorise your FAQs in this way.

Customers may choose to browse FAQs by category as well as searching.

An FAQ can exist in more than 1 category and you can also create sub categories within categories.