Articles Details | Force.com REST API Developer Guide

Syntax

Available since release

38.0

Method

GET

Formats

JSON, XML

Authentication

OAuth accesstoken

Endpoint

[prefix]/support/knowledgeArticles/{articleId}

HTTP headers

Accept: Optional. Can be either application/json or application/xml.

Accept-language: Required. The article must be an active language in the user’s organization

If the language code isn’t valid, an error message is returned: “The language code is not valid or not supported by Knowledge.”
If the language code is valid, but not supported by Knowledge, then an error message is returned: “Invalid language code. Check that the language is included in your Knowledge language settings."

Input:

string channel: Optional, defaults to user’s context. For information on channel values, see Valid channel Values.

App: Visible in the internal Salesforce Knowledge application
Pkb: Visible in the public knowledge base
Csp: Visible in the Customer Portal
Prm: Visible in the Partner Portal

boolean updateViewStat: Optional, defaults to true. If true, API updates the view count in the given channel as well as the total view count.

Output:

The detailed fields of the article, if the article is online and visible to the current user.

Article Detail
Full detail of an article, with complete metadata and layout-driven fields used for display of an article. It includes all the same properties as an Article Summary representation.
User Summary
Article Field
An individual field of article information, which is listed in an Article Detail in the order required by the administrator’s layout.

Example

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Usage

Salesforce Knowledge must be enabled in your organization. This resource can be used in API version 38.0 and later. The Custom File Field is not supported because it returns a link to a binary stream. Use the language code format used in Which Languages Does Salesforce Support?.

A lookup custom field is visible to guest users depending on the lookup entity type. For example, User is visible, but Case and Account are not visible. Following standard fields are not visible to a guest user, even if they are in the layout:

archivedBy
isLatestVersion
translationCompletedDate
translationImportedDate
translationExportedDate
versionNumber
visibleInInternalApp
visibleInPKB
visibleToCustomer
visbileToPartner

Valid channel Values

When using the options string channel, where the matching articles are visible, the following values are valid.
- App–Visible in the internal Salesforce Knowledge application
- Pkb–Visible in the public knowledge base
- Csp–Visible in the Customer Portal
- Prm–Visible in the Partner Portal
If channel isn’t specified, the default value is determined by the type of user.
- Pkb for a guest user
- Csp for a Customer Portal user
- Prm for a Partner Portal user
- App for any other type of user
If channel is specified, the specified value may be used to retrieve articles.
- For guest, Customer Portal, and Partner Portal users, if the specified channel is other than the channel accessible to the user, an error is returned.
- For all users other than guest, Customer Portal, and Partner Portal users, the specified channel value is used.