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Adding Custom Widgets

1. Click the Setup icon (  ) in the top bar.
   
2. Click Help Center under the Channels menu.
   
3. Select the Help Center for which you want to customize the HTML.
   
4. Click Help Center Customization under the Help Center sub-menu.
   The Themes list page is displayed.
5. Click Customize corresponding to the published theme.
   
6. Click Widgets from the top of the page.
   
7. Click Custom Widgets from the left panel.
   
8. Click the Plus icon (  ) from the top pane to add a new custom widget.
   
   
   
   
   
9. On the Add Widget window, do the following:
   
1. Specify Widget Name.
   
2. Toggle Display Widget Name. 
   
3. Toggle Display Widget Translation.
   The custom widget to be displayed when the user selects the respective language in the help center. For eg., ABC custom widget will be displayed for French, Spanish, and English languages only if this option is turned on for each of these language preferences. 
   
4. Select the Departments in which the widget will be displayed.
   By default, All Departments will be selected.
5. Enter the Content to be displayed in the widget.
   
6. Click Save.
   
10. The custom widget gets successfully added.
    

You can click the Edit icon (  ) to make any changes to the widget. When the widget is no longer needed, you can click the Delete icon (  ) to move it to the Trashed widgets section.

Pages

Pages are the primary way to display and organize data on your Help Center. Also, it is the pages where your end users access the default and the custom widgets you created. You can customize the pages by simply dragging contents within it or by dropping new widgets into it.

Zoho Desk supports 7 types of Pages that allow you to create a rich selection of content. Those pages are:

1. Help Center/Department home page
   This is the first page that end users see when they visit your help center. Typically, it is your help center's root URL.
2. Knowledge Base home page
   This is the first page that opens when end users click the Knowledge Base tab on the help center.
3. Article list page
   This is a page that would display a summary list of your knowledge base articles.
4. Article details page
   This is a page that has reference to the details of a knowledge base article.
5. Community home page
   This is the first page that opens when end users click the Community tab on the help center.
6. Topic list page
   This is a page that would display a summary list of your community posts.
7. Topic details page
   This is a page that has reference to the details of a community topic.

Note that these pages come installed with some of the default widgets. You can control which widgets are available to end users by adding new widgets and deleting widgets from those available. Read on to know how.

Note:

1. Not all pages are available on all themes. For example, the Help Center Home page is not available on the Materialize team.
   
2. The community pages are displayed, only when you've chosen to show the Community tab on your Help Center. See, Customizing Tabs section.
   

Customizing Pages

When you customize a page, you should start by looking at the activities and requirements of your help center. These activities and requirements should be reflected in the pages that you customize. For example, when you decide to run a customer service event, you can create an event registration form that will allow you to accept registrations from the Help Center. All you need is to create a custom widget with the event details and add it to your Help Center Home page.

Customizing a page involves drag/dropping widgets wherever you want them. It’s that simple! Let's see how you can go about it.

To customize a page:

1. Click the Setup icon (  ) in the top bar.
   
2. Click Help Center under the Channels menu.
   
3. Select the Help Center for which you want to customize the HTML.
   
4. Click Help Center Customization under the Help Center sub-menu.
   The Themes list page is displayed.
5. Click Customize corresponding to the published theme.
   
6. Click Widgets from the top of the page and then, click Pages from the left panel.
   
   
   
   
   
7. Select a page that you want to customize from the left panel and do all or either of the following:
   
1. Drag and drop default widgets into the page from the Default Widgets section on the right pane.
   
2. Drag and drop custom widgets into the page from the Custom Widgets section on the right pane.
   
3. Change the order of your widgets with a simple drag and drop.
   
4. Click the Delete icon (  ) corresponding to the widget to delete them from the page.
   Note: Some of the widgets, like Header and Footer, cannot be deleted.
8. Click Preview to review the changes you'd done.
   
9. Click Publish.

Customizing Tabs

The home page comprises of tabs that are displayed at the top of the page. You can customize the tabs that appear and the order that they appear in. Here are the standard tabs that are available in your Help Center:

1. Home
   
2. My Area
   
3. Knowledge base
   
4. Community
   

You can display only the relevant tabs and hide the unwanted ones. For instance, a small business that is yet to win customers might not require the Community in Zoho Desk. Hence, the tab can be hidden.

To customize the tabs:

1. Click the Setup icon (  ) in the top bar.
   
2. Click Help Center under the Channels menu.
   
3. Select the Help Center for which you want to customize the HTML.
   
4. Click Help Center Customization under the Help Center sub-menu.
   The Themes list page is displayed.
5. Click Customize corresponding to the published theme.
   
6. Click Tabs from the top of the page.
   
   
   
   
   
7. On the Tabs page, do the following:
   
1. Hover your mouse pointer over a tab and click the Edit icon (  ) corresponding to it
   
2. Enter the Display Name for the tab.
   The display name will take precedence over the default name.
3. Enable the Set as default option if you want this tab to be the default tab in your Help Center.
   You can set any one of the tabs as default.
4. Enable the Visibility option, to display the tab in the Help Center.
   
5. Click Save within the window.
   
8. Click Publish for your changes to take effect.
   

You can also drag-and-drop the tabs to move them up or down on the list. Remember to click Publish when you complete re-ordering the tabs.

Note:

1. You must have at least one tab visible in the Help Center.
   
2. Tab customization is not available when you have customized the HTML.

Customizing Appearance

Zoho Desk offers a wide range of options to customize the look and feel of your Help Center, with custom fonts, color accents and backgrounds images. This way, you can ensure that your Help Center is in sync with your company's branding. You can customize the appearance of the following elements:

1. Fonts - Lato (default), Ariel, Georgia, or Helvetica
   
2. Colors
   
1. Body
   
2. Header
   
3. Tabs
   
4. Navigation
   
5. Breadcrumb
   
6. Links
   
7. Buttons
   
8. Footer
   

1. Click the Setup icon (  ) in the top bar.
   
2. Click Help Center under the Channels menu.
   
3. Select the Help Center for which you want to customize the HTML.
   
4. Click Help Center Customization under the Help Center sub-menu.
   The Themes list page is displayed.
5. Click Customize corresponding to the published theme.
   
6. In the Appearance page, select the required font; colors for the body, header, tabs etc.
   Note: If the color you want isn't available on the palette, you can directly enter the HEX code.
7. Click Preview to review the changes you'd done.
   
8. Click Publish.