Articles

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Note

We aim to sunset articles in September 2025. Document Hubs are Alation’s new documentation feature set that replaces articles. Document Hubs are in General Availability from release 2024.3.2.

Articles are Alation objects intended for long-form written content. Articles are ideal for internal help content, project documentation, technical and analytic content, and corporate best practices.

When writing an article, you can @-mention any piece of data, a user, or a saved query and directly embed that information. When you @-mention a piece of data in an article, that article will automatically appear on the Catalog page of the mentioned Alation object under Relevant Articles. You can also embed images and videos into articles.

Article groups bind together articles that provide information on one subject or are in some way related. For example, topics generated by your organization’s help desk could be provided with a unified template and stored as a single article group. Similarly, you could maintain a list of Best Practices, again using a unified template.

For more information about articles, see Work with Articles.

For more information about article groups, see Work with Article Groups.