On 12th February 2025, we completed the process of merging 'articles' into topics. This means that we no longer have the concept of topics versus articles for creating your training content. Instead, all training content is now a topic.
In summary, no articles or data or enrolments have changed.
Instead of having a separation of topics and articles, articles are now just called topics. So a table of topics in the admin area now includes all the previous articles as well. This should make training administration easier.
For creators, they can now switch between a standard topic (the old topic) and a short topic (the old article).
There are no changes for assessors or learners.
What has happened to 'articles'?
A common point of confusion with admins was the separation of topics and articles.
Articles were simply topics with just 1 part and no system modules.
Yet in the admin area, articles were separated from topics in various menus and filtering.
This separation for admins often made it harder to find training content when the admin was unsure if the content was a topic or article.
As such, we have 'merged' articles into topics to present all training content as a single type (topics).
Have articles been deleted or removed?
No. This process is largely about labels. The 'label' of 'article' has been removed.
For admins, all training content presents as a topic.
For creators, all training content is a topic, but there is now a new choice for a standard topic (the old concept of topics) and a short topic (the old concept of articles). In this way, articles are now just short topics.
For assessors, nothing has changed.
For learners, nothing has changed.
This is just a simplification in the admin area, allowing us to remove the separate filters for articles.
Has any data been lost?
No. No data has been lost. All your articles and their enrolments remain. Those articles are now just called topics.
All training history remains.
All enrolments remains.
All settings and notifications remain.
All learner contributions remain.
Do we need to do anything?
No.
For Admins, you can now find all your old 'articles' in the admin area under Knowledge → Topics. The old Knowledge → Articles menu has been removed as it is no longer needed.
When filtering for knowledge in the admin area, you can now just filter by 'active' or 'draft' topics (with 'active' or 'draft' articles removed, and all articles shown with topics).
For Creators, you can continue to edit your topics as you did. The only change is that you can now switch between standard topics and short topics.
Many of Tribal Habits support pages still refer to articles!
That is true! We have a lot of support pages and it will take us a little while to remove the concept of articles from all these pages entirely. We are also updating the Admin and Creator Handbooks and Learner, Manager and Assessor guides in our training library to remove mention of articles (and include mention of standard and short topics instead).
Its possible we have also missed a couple of uses of the word 'article' in the platform itself - we'll track them down and replace them with topic as soon as we find them.