Guides document history

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This article summarizes important changes to the Pendo Guides product documentation.

Date Articles Description
October 6, 2024

Overview of in-app guidance

New article explaining the two options for creating in-app guidance, overlay guides or embedded content.
October 6, 2024

Create guides using AI

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

Create embedded content

New article detailing how to create embedded content.
October 1, 2024

Create your guide

Added information about guide persistence in the Location section.
October 1, 2024

Activate your guide

Added information about how to turn on guide persistence in the Location tab.
September 22, 2024

Customize guides with markdown text

Added a section about the localization of guide markdown text.
September 16, 2024

Use markdown syntax for guide text styling

Added a section about support for mobile guides

September 16, 2024

Create a guide

Added information about the CSS selector performance for guide targeting under Location in the Design your guide with the Edit Container menu section.

September 4, 2024

Localize your guides using AI

Added the Localize markdown text section explaining that some characters require being escaped with a backslash character during localization.

September 3, 2024

Create a guide

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.

June 5, 2024

Customize guides with markdown text

Change of article name from Guide Logic

June 5, 2024

Guide permalinks

Updated screenshots for Visual Design Studio

June 3, 2024

Customize guides with markdown text

The article name has been updated from Guide Logic to Customize guides with markdown text.

May 23, 2024

Edit the global CSS in Visual Design Studio

Added details on how to disable editing the global CSS.

May 13, 2024

Set guide goals

Added information about the new ability to create a funnel from a guide.

May 8, 2024

Edit the global CSS in Visual Design Studio

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.

May 1, 2024

Customize your guides with code

Added a section on how to display a guide when hovering over a target element using a code block

April 21, 2024

Guides Logic

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.

April 21, 2024

Localize your guides using AI

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.

March 21, 2024

Create guides using AI

New article detailing how to leverage AI to generate and build guide components in Visual Design Studio.

February 15, 2024

Edit the global CSS in Visual Design Studio

New article detailing how to edit the global CSS in Visual Design Studio.

January 29, 2024

Create a responsive guide

New article detailing how to create responsive guides.

January 29, 2024

Guide button actions

Added information in the Launch Guide section on how you can specify which step to launch when using the Launch Guide button action. 

January 19, 2024

Order and throttle your guides

Added information on how to use throttling and guide order with repeat guide display and Snooze guide.

Added the Best practices section.

January 10, 2024

Manage NPS themes and insights

Added information in the Theme summaries section about the requirement of a minimum of 5 responses per theme for generating summaries.

January 3, 2024

Understand NPS Metrics

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

November 29, 2023

Configure Visual Design Studio for guides

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.

November 19, 2023

Manage NPS themes and insights

The articles NPS themes and NPS insights are combined into this one article.
October 20, 2023

Add guide content using building blocks

Added information in the Text section about how to improve guide content with the Guides writing assistant
Sept 20, 2023

View the Guides list

Added information about options to select multiple apps in the Apps filter.
August 30, 2023

Guide accessibility

Added information in the ARIA Label, Alt Text, and Title section explaining additional options for ARIA labels in the Resource Center.
August 28, 2023

Add guide content using building blocks

Added information in the Supported Video formats and URL section about Microsoft Stream on Sharepoint
August 8, 2023

Create a guide

Added links to Pendo Academy videos for creating a multi-page walkthrough guide.
August 1, 2023

Debugger tool

Help launching the Visual Design Studio

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

NPS Themes

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.
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