Disabling the Help Center should also stop article suggestions and public access

Today, "disabling" the Help Center only removes the module from the portal menu (Settings → Branding → Portal menu → Delete). The content itself stays live, so after disabling it customers still see:

  • Articles suggested during ticket and conversation creation.

  • Articles reachable and indexable on the public Help Center URL.

The expectation is that deactivating a module makes its content and all linked functionality inactive, in one action.

Requested behaviour

  • A single workspace-level switch that takes the Help Center fully offline: no article suggestions in the Messenger or ticket forms, no public article URLs, no search-engine indexing.

  • Apply the same principle to the other modules, so turning one off never leaves a surface still serving its content.

  • Make the current behaviour explicit in the interface, since the existing control is a navigation change rather than a content switch.

Current workarounds are partial: the Messenger Help module and article search card can be turned off individually in Settings → Support → Messenger → Customization, and articles can be restricted to Team members one at a time, which removes them from suggestions and search indexing but cannot be applied in bulk.

Raised by a customer evaluating Featurebase who deactivated the Help Center and found the articles still active.

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Status

In Review

Board

Help Center

Date

About 1 hour ago

Author

Stefan Pasel

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