This article summarizes important changes to the Pendo Guides product documentation.
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| April 15, 2025 | Added clarification that the URL you enter to open the Visual Design Studio isn't that you configure for your guide location. | |
| April 11, 2025 | Restructured, streamlined, and rewrote content. Added procedural instructions and screenshots. Added new sections and provided more examples. | |
| April 10, 2025 | Added detail about how snoozed guides work in conjunction with the Repeat Guide Display setting for automatic guides. | |
| April 9, 2025 | Added a row to the Supported video providers table to include an entry for Kaltura. | |
| April 9, 2025 | Renamed article for parallel phrasing with the overlay guide equivalent. Added steps for each part of the process. Created new sections describing each step. Linked out to information about best practices for embedded guides. Added screenshots. | |
| April 9, 2025 | Renamed article to reflect that the instructions are specific to an overlay guide. Restructured, updated the content, and added screenshots. Added sections for more information about how different activation options work. | |
| April 8, 2025 | Article describing and providing instructions for new functionality that allows you to merge guides in the same subscription to create a cross-app guide. | |
| April 4, 2025 | Updated content and screenshots. Added clarification. | |
| April 3, 2025 | Updated and restructured article. Added missing content and descriptions of primary and compound button actions. | |
| April 2, 2025 | Updated and restructured article. Added clarification. | |
| April 2, 2025 | Renamed article to reflect the content of the article. Restructured and updated content. Added screenshots. | |
| April 2, 2025 | Renamed article to reflect that the instructions are specific to an overlay guide. Restructured, updated the content, and added screenshots. For findability, moved nested content or content relevant to both overlay and embedded guides to their own articles. | |
| April 1, 2025 | Article with instructions for testing your guide, delivering your guide to different segments of visitors, scheduling your guide, and publishing your guide. | |
| April 1, 2025 | Article referencing the settings available in the Edit Container of the Visual Design Studio. | |
| April 1, 2025 | Expanded content beyond best practices to include a comparison of guide types, use cases for overlay and embedded guides, a summary of guide themes and layouts, and an overview of the Visual Design Studio UI. | |
| March 17, 2025 | Updated article name, structure, instructions, links, terminology, formatting, and notes. | |
| February 8, 2025 | Updated structure, screenshots, and content to match the current flow of NPS survey creation. Moved informational content to its own article. | |
| February 8, 2025 | Informational article describing NPS functionality in Pendo. | |
| February 8, 2025 | Article with instructions for editing an existing NPS survey from the survey's Settings page and through the Visual Design Studio. | |
| February 8, 2025 | Article with instructions for creating a guide segmented to visitors based on their NPS response group. | |
| February 7, 2025 | Created sections, updated instructions, and added screenshots for deleting a Resource Center and turning off a Resource Center. | |
| February 5, 2025 | Updated terminology from "embedded content" to "embedded guides", including article name. | |
| January 20, 2025 | Updated the content and added a link to a new video in the Pendo Academy. | |
| January 15, 2025 | Article detailing how to add guide automations to streamline repetitive tasks for end-users. | |
| December 26, 2024 | Added a section titled Understand segment groups. | |
| December 22, 2024 | Added information about container height options, using margins for embedded content, and additional differences between embedded content and overlay guides. | |
| December 3, 2024 | Article focusing on all the available building blocks. | |
| December 3, 2024 | Removed the Building Blocks types section into its own new article. | |
| November 20, 2024 | Create responsive guides for web and mobile apps | Updated article title and content to include responsive guides for mobile apps |
| November 20, 2024 | The section relating to mobile guides has been updated. | |
| November 6, 2024 | Added a new section Update the Resource Center localization. Removed the Frequently asked questions section and incorporated the content into the relevant sections of the article. | |
| October 30, 2024 | Added the Confirmation activation method in the Activate your guide section. | |
| October 30, 2024 | Added the Confirmation activation method. | |
| October 30, 2024 | Added the Confirmation activation method to the Activation section. | |
| October 30, 2024 | Added the Confirmation activation method to the Guides list filters table. | |
| October 6, 2024 | Added a section about using markdown for localization. | |
| October 6, 2024 | Overview of in-app messaging | New article explaining the two options for creating in-app messaging, overlay guides or embedded content. |
| October 6, 2024 | Added a section about leveraging your Zendesk knowledge base using the LLM to generate guides based on the knowledge base's content. | |
| October 6, 2024 | New article detailing how to create embedded content. | |
| October 1, 2024 | Added information about guide persistence in the Location section. | |
| October 1, 2024 | Added information about how to turn on guide persistence in the Location tab. | |
| September 22, 2024 | Added a section about the localization of guide markdown text. | |
| September 16, 2024 |
Added a section about support for mobile guides. |
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| September 16, 2024 |
Added information about the CSS selector performance for guide targeting under Location in the Design your guide with the Edit Container menu section. |
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| September 12, 2024 |
Added section about the Visual Design Studio for mobile apps. |
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| September 4, 2024 |
Added the Localize markdown text section explaining that some characters require being escaped with a backslash character during localization. |
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| September 3, 2024 |
Added an update in the Preview your guide section that when previewing a guide you only see that one guide and additional guides aren't available for preview. |
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| July 9, 2024 |
New article detailing the different guide designers in Pendo. |
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| July 9, 2024 |
Article details the best practices for creating guides. |
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| June 5, 2024 |
Change of article name from Guide Logic. |
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| June 5, 2024 |
Updated screenshots for Visual Design Studio. |
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| June 3, 2024 |
The article name has been updated from Guide Logic to Customize guides with markdown text. |
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| May 23, 2024 |
Added details on how to disable editing the global CSS. |
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| May 13, 2024 |
Added information about the new ability to create a funnel from a guide. |
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| May 8, 2024 |
Added a note in the Edit the Global CSS section about the difference between CSS classes, and a new section listing the building blocks and Resource Center classes. |
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| May 1, 2024 |
Added a section on how to display a guide when hovering over a target element using a code block |
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| April 21, 2024 |
Added information about using Guides Logic with extension apps. In addition, added a note that you should contact your Pendo account representative for help in enabling Guides Logic. |
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| April 21, 2024 |
New article detailing how to leverage AI to simplify the localization of your guides into any of the languages that are supported in your app. |
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| March 21, 2024 |
New article detailing how to leverage AI to generate and build guide components in Visual Design Studio. |
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| February 15, 2024 |
New article detailing how to edit the global CSS in Visual Design Studio. |
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| January 29, 2024 |
New article detailing how to create responsive guides. |
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| January 29, 2024 |
Added information in the Launch Guide section on how you can specify which step to launch when using the Launch Guide button action. |
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| January 19, 2024 |
Added information on how to use throttling and guide order with repeat guide display and Snooze guide. Added the Best practices section. |
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| January 10, 2024 |
Added information in the Theme summaries section about the requirement of a minimum of 5 responses per theme for generating summaries. |
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| January 3, 2024 |
Added information about Guide views related to an NPS survey. Removed information about the Responses table to avoid duplication. For information about the Responses table, see Manage NPS themes and insights. |
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| November 29, 2023 |
Removed reference to configuring the Visual Design Studio for tagging, which now has its own article. See Configure the Visual Design Studio for tagging. This article summarizes the main app-level configuration options for configuring the Visual Design Studio for guides in Subscription Settings. |
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| November 19, 2023 | The articles NPS themes and NPS insights are combined into this one article. | |
| October 20, 2023 | Added information in the Text section about how to improve guide content with the Guides writing assistant. | |
| Sept 20, 2023 | Added information about options to select multiple apps in the Apps filter. | |
| August 30, 2023 | Added information in the ARIA Label, Alt Text, and Title section explaining additional options for ARIA labels in the Resource Center. | |
| August 28, 2023 | Added information in the Supported Video formats and URL section about Microsoft Stream on Sharepoint | |
| August 8, 2023 | Added links to Pendo Academy videos for creating a multi-page walkthrough guide. | |
| August 1, 2023 | Updated instructions to reflect the new app view experience in Subscription Settings. | |
| August 1, 2023 | Customize your Guides with code | Added new code blocks for customizing guides. |
| July 11, 2023 | Use right-to-left languages in the Resource Center | New article explaining how to use right-to-left languages in the Resource Center. |
| June 27, 2023 | Added quick access to responses of NPS Themes from NPS Themes Promoter and Detractor widgets. | |
| June 21, 2023 | Design Guides for right-to-left languages | New article explaining how to design Guides for use with right-to-left languages. |