If you'd like to hide the "last updated" date displayed on an FAQ you can do this on a per FAQ basis via the Configure / General area of the FAQ in MyMalcolm: If you want to turn off this feature for all FAQ's in the instance you can do this globally via Settings / FAQs / General Settings:

If you'd like to hide the "last updated" date displayed on an FAQ you can do this on a per FAQ basis via the Configure / General area of the FAQ in MyMalcolm: If you want to turn off this feature for all FAQ's in the instance you can do this globally via Settings / FAQs / General Settings:

Malcolm! will automatically send you email alerts when certain activity happens on your instance, such as a user leaving feedback or a Workflow being completed. Wherever possible we aggregate these alerts so you receive fewer emails but if you'd rather not receive them you can easily turn them off. To do this, from the MyMalcolm control panel area, click your name at the top of the screen where it says "Logged in as" You'll then be taken to your personal preferences. If you select the "Notifications" tab on the left you'll be able to edit the notifications you receive. Remember to hit "Save" once you are done! Note that your notificatons are based on an instance. If you are a user on more than one instance you should first switch to the instance you wish to adjust notifications for. You can do this using the drop down selector at the top right of the screen. You can therefore have different notification preferences for different instances. The notificiation preferences you choose are personal to you and will not affect the notifications of other team members on an instance.

Malcolm! will automatically send you email alerts when certain activity happens on your instance, such as a user leaving feedback or a Workflow being completed. Wherever possible we aggregate these alerts so you receive fewer emails but if you'd rather not receive them you can easily turn them off. To do this, from the MyMalcolm control panel area, click your name at the top of the screen where it says "Logged in as" You'll then be taken to your personal preferences. If you select the "Notifications" tab on the left you'll be able to edit the notifications you receive. Remember to hit "Save" once you are done! Note that your notificatons are based on an instance. If you are a user on more than one instance you should first switch to the instance you wish to adjust notifications for. You can do this using the drop down selector at the top right of the screen. You can therefore have different notification preferences for different instances. The notificiation preferences you choose are personal to you and will not affect the notifications of other team members on an instance.

Malcolm! now plugs into [Zapier](https://zapier.com). Zapier is an integration platform - [it connects thousands of apps to other apps.](https://zapier.com/apps) In the context of Malcolm! this means that when a Workflow is completed you can use our Zapier integration to route some or all of the data that has been collected from that Workflow through into Zapier and then in turn onto thousands of other apps or services. Here is how to set things up: 1. Firstly set up and publish a workflow in Malcolm! that collects the data you wish to move into other applications 2. In MyMalcolm go to the Settings Section, then Workflows, then Integrations, then click on Zapier 3. Sign up for an account at [Zapier](https://zapier.com) if you don't already have one - it is free - or login if you do have an account. 4. Accept the invite to Malcolm! 5. Still in Zapier, click "Make a Zap" 6. Your trigger app should be Malcolm! and you want it to trigger on a new Workflow completion so hit "Save + Continue" once you have selected this option 7. You now need to connect your Malcolm! instance to your Zapier account - click "Connect an Account" and follow the instructions. Once connected click "Save and Continue" 8. Choose a workflow then "Continue" 9. Wait for a sample to load and then click "Continue" 10. Choose an action App of your choice and configure as required - the exact process will vary from action App to action App but you are likely to need to agree some permissions and choose some options. Once done click "Save + Continue" or "Finish" 11. You will then be able to name your Zap and choose whether it is on or not 12. Back in MyMalcolm, if you find the Workflow you used in your Zap in the Library, select it, then go to Configure then Integrations you should be able to see Zapier has been added. You can turn the integation off here if you want and/or configure it to be conditional (for example to only run when certain choices have been made on a Workflow). Remember that Malcolm! always stores your data (which you can download anytime) - so if Zapier goes down or your integration doesn't seem to work properly no data will be lost. We are hugely excited about the possibilities opened up via Zapier - we hope you are too! If you have questions or need a hand setting things up just [contact us](https://support.malcolm.support/workflows/submit-support-ticket) and we'll be happy to help.

Malcolm! now plugs into [Zapier](https://zapier.com). Zapier is an integration platform - [it connects thousands of apps to other apps.](https://zapier.com/apps) In the context of Malcolm! this means that when a Workflow is completed you can use our Zapier integration to route some or all of the data that has been collected from that Workflow through into Zapier and then in turn onto thousands of other apps or services. Here is how to set things up: 1. Firstly set up and publish a workflow in Malcolm! that collects the data you wish to move into other applications 2. In MyMalcolm go to the Settings Section, then Workflows, then Integrations, then click on Zapier 3. Sign up for an account at [Zapier](https://zapier.com) if you don't already have one - it is free - or login if you do have an account. 4. Accept the invite to Malcolm! 5. Still in Zapier, click "Make a Zap" 6. Your trigger app should be Malcolm! and you want it to trigger on a new Workflow completion so hit "Save + Continue" once you have selected this option 7. You now need to connect your Malcolm! instance to your Zapier account - click "Connect an Account" and follow the instructions. Once connected click "Save and Continue" 8. Choose a workflow then "Continue" 9. Wait for a sample to load and then click "Continue" 10. Choose an action App of your choice and configure as required - the exact process will vary from action App to action App but you are likely to need to agree some permissions and choose some options. Once done click "Save + Continue" or "Finish" 11. You will then be able to name your Zap and choose whether it is on or not 12. Back in MyMalcolm, if you find the Workflow you used in your Zap in the Library, select it, then go to Configure then Integrations you should be able to see Zapier has been added. You can turn the integation off here if you want and/or configure it to be conditional (for example to only run when certain choices have been made on a Workflow). Remember that Malcolm! always stores your data (which you can download anytime) - so if Zapier goes down or your integration doesn't seem to work properly no data will be lost. We are hugely excited about the possibilities opened up via Zapier - we hope you are too! If you have questions or need a hand setting things up just [contact us](https://support.malcolm.support/workflows/submit-support-ticket) and we'll be happy to help.

Malcolm! let's you password protect individual items of content (e.g. a particular FAQ or Workflow) and/or your Hosted Hub. The best option for you will depend on how exactly you use and implement Malcolm! **Password Protection on Hosted Hub** You can add a "start of session" password to your Hosted Hub via the Visibility tab in the Settings section in MyMalcolm. In this area you can add one or more passwords. For example you could add one password that all your users share, or you could give each user an individual password. You can supply a label/description next to the password in MyMalcolm to remind yourself who that password was created for. From the same area you can suspend or delete previously created passwords, as well as see when passwords were last used. When a user visits any page on your Hosted Hub they create a web session. The first time they do this they will be asked for their password. You can configure the exact wording that is used on the password request screen in MyMalcolm! The user will then remain logged in for the remainder of their session. Sessions typically end when the user closes their web browser or after a long period of inactivity. **Password Protection on Individual Content Items** You can also add configure password protection on individual items of content like an FAQ or a Workflow. You do this via the Visibility tab in the Configure section of the individual FAQ or Workflow (which you access via the library in the respective FAQ or Workflow section of MyMalcolm). The default setting for items of content is that they inherit the settings from the Hub. So if no password is set at a Hub level no password is required to view the content. If a password is set at a Hub level then a password will be required at the start of the user session. If you want to ensure that a password is always required before a particular FAQ or Workflow is accessed you should set it at this content level. Bear in mind however that if you also have a Hub password set and a user starts their session with a direct link to individual content that is password protected they will need to enter two passwords: one to get them into the Hub session and a further password to view the content. You can also set an individual item of content to never require a password, even if the Hub has a password set. This can be useful if, for example, you want to put all your content behind a Hub password but want to create a Workflow that lets people request access. In this scenario you would create a Workflow for the purpose of requesting access, set it to never require a password then link to it from the text you can configure on the Hub password request screen. When requests come in you can review them and if you approve you can manually set up the user's password. **Also worth noting** If a user makes three failed password attempts they will not be able to attempt a further password within that session for 30 minutes.

Malcolm! let's you password protect individual items of content (e.g. a particular FAQ or Workflow) and/or your Hosted Hub. The best option for you will depend on how exactly you use and implement Malcolm! **Password Protection on Hosted Hub** You can add a "start of session" password to your Hosted Hub via the Visibility tab in the Settings section in MyMalcolm. In this area you can add one or more passwords. For example you could add one password that all your users share, or you could give each user an individual password. You can supply a label/description next to the password in MyMalcolm to remind yourself who that password was created for. From the same area you can suspend or delete previously created passwords, as well as see when passwords were last used. When a user visits any page on your Hosted Hub they create a web session. The first time they do this they will be asked for their password. You can configure the exact wording that is used on the password request screen in MyMalcolm! The user will then remain logged in for the remainder of their session. Sessions typically end when the user closes their web browser or after a long period of inactivity. **Password Protection on Individual Content Items** You can also add configure password protection on individual items of content like an FAQ or a Workflow. You do this via the Visibility tab in the Configure section of the individual FAQ or Workflow (which you access via the library in the respective FAQ or Workflow section of MyMalcolm). The default setting for items of content is that they inherit the settings from the Hub. So if no password is set at a Hub level no password is required to view the content. If a password is set at a Hub level then a password will be required at the start of the user session. If you want to ensure that a password is always required before a particular FAQ or Workflow is accessed you should set it at this content level. Bear in mind however that if you also have a Hub password set and a user starts their session with a direct link to individual content that is password protected they will need to enter two passwords: one to get them into the Hub session and a further password to view the content. You can also set an individual item of content to never require a password, even if the Hub has a password set. This can be useful if, for example, you want to put all your content behind a Hub password but want to create a Workflow that lets people request access. In this scenario you would create a Workflow for the purpose of requesting access, set it to never require a password then link to it from the text you can configure on the Hub password request screen. When requests come in you can review them and if you approve you can manually set up the user's password. **Also worth noting** If a user makes three failed password attempts they will not be able to attempt a further password within that session for 30 minutes.

The FAQ section is of MyMalcolm is where you create and manage your FAQ content. Within the FAQ section there are several different areas: * **Overview:** here you can see statistics on the number of views, searches and feedbacks on your collection of FAQs. You can also see your highest rated FAQs and the top searches. You can vary the time period these statistics refer to by adjusting the drop down towards the top left of the graphs. * **Library:** this is where you can access and manage all the individual FAQ's that you have created or are in the process of creating. There are a variety of display, search, sort and filter options on this screen. You can also mark FAQs as favourites, apply labels and select multiple FAQs to do bulk editing. * **Feedback:** on this screen you can sell all the feedback that has been submitted by your customers on your FAQs * **Activity:** here you can see an audit trail of all FAQ activity by you and other members of your Team * **Authors:** create and manage the public authors of your FAQs here - these are shown as part of the FAQ details (or "meta") that your customers can see. * **Categories:** Create and manage categories here. Your FAQ's can live in one or more Category. Categories enable you to organise your FAQs into logical groups around topics that make sense to your business, for example you could group FAQs around products or services or locations. Customers can browse FAQ's by category. * **Labels:** Labels are free form text descriptions that you can attach to particular FAQs in your Library. They can help you organise your FAQs. Labels are seen by you and your instance team members only - they aren't seen by your customers. * **Tags:** Tags are a way of describing your content and allow an alternate way for your customers to browse FAQ's aside from search and categories.

The FAQ section is of MyMalcolm is where you create and manage your FAQ content. Within the FAQ section there are several different areas: * **Overview:** here you can see statistics on the number of views, searches and feedbacks on your collection of FAQs. You can also see your highest rated FAQs and the top searches. You can vary the time period these statistics refer to by adjusting the drop down towards the top left of the graphs. * **Library:** this is where you can access and manage all the individual FAQ's that you have created or are in the process of creating. There are a variety of display, search, sort and filter options on this screen. You can also mark FAQs as favourites, apply labels and select multiple FAQs to do bulk editing. * **Feedback:** on this screen you can sell all the feedback that has been submitted by your customers on your FAQs * **Activity:** here you can see an audit trail of all FAQ activity by you and other members of your Team * **Authors:** create and manage the public authors of your FAQs here - these are shown as part of the FAQ details (or "meta") that your customers can see. * **Categories:** Create and manage categories here. Your FAQ's can live in one or more Category. Categories enable you to organise your FAQs into logical groups around topics that make sense to your business, for example you could group FAQs around products or services or locations. Customers can browse FAQ's by category. * **Labels:** Labels are free form text descriptions that you can attach to particular FAQs in your Library. They can help you organise your FAQs. Labels are seen by you and your instance team members only - they aren't seen by your customers. * **Tags:** Tags are a way of describing your content and allow an alternate way for your customers to browse FAQ's aside from search and categories.

You can use your own domain or sub-domain with Malcolm! There is no extra cost for doing this. To set this up go to the Settings Section in MyMalcolm then Custom Domains. Enter your custom domain and you will be given instructions on how to verify domain control/ownership and set up your DNS. We can host on SSL too and we'll automatically generate a secure certifcate for you. Once again, there is no extra cost for doing this! Once you have set up your custom domain or sub-domain both that and your malcolm.support / malcolm.app URL will work and serve content. If you don't want the .malcolm domains to work just select the redirect option and any traffic will be redirected.

You can use your own domain or sub-domain with Malcolm! There is no extra cost for doing this. To set this up go to the Settings Section in MyMalcolm then Custom Domains. Enter your custom domain and you will be given instructions on how to verify domain control/ownership and set up your DNS. We can host on SSL too and we'll automatically generate a secure certifcate for you. Once again, there is no extra cost for doing this! Once you have set up your custom domain or sub-domain both that and your malcolm.support / malcolm.app URL will work and serve content. If you don't want the .malcolm domains to work just select the redirect option and any traffic will be redirected.

The Share section of MyMalcolm gives you tools to embed and share content from Malcolm! into your existing websites, applications and social spaces. You can bring content from Malcolm! directly into your current website via embeds. Choose the content you want to embed and how you want it displayed and we'll give you some code. Inserting that code into your current website will load in your content from Malcolm! You can embed individual FAQs or Workflows, create custom widgets that can pull in things like search results, category listings, all content by a particular author, recent content, tagged content, most popular content and much more. If you don't have a website or you want to group all your Malcolm! content together you can use our Hosted Hub. We also have a plugin for Wordpress. In addition to the above customers on our Enterprise plans have full access to our API which means they can pull from and push content to Malcolm! in a variety of ways - please speak to your account manager for more details.

The Share section of MyMalcolm gives you tools to embed and share content from Malcolm! into your existing websites, applications and social spaces. You can bring content from Malcolm! directly into your current website via embeds. Choose the content you want to embed and how you want it displayed and we'll give you some code. Inserting that code into your current website will load in your content from Malcolm! You can embed individual FAQs or Workflows, create custom widgets that can pull in things like search results, category listings, all content by a particular author, recent content, tagged content, most popular content and much more. If you don't have a website or you want to group all your Malcolm! content together you can use our Hosted Hub. We also have a plugin for Wordpress. In addition to the above customers on our Enterprise plans have full access to our API which means they can pull from and push content to Malcolm! in a variety of ways - please speak to your account manager for more details.

You can download an invoice / receipt for each payment you've made to us in the Billing Section of MyMalcolm. Select "invoices / receipts" in the left hand vertical navigation and then click the icon on the right of each row to download the invoice / receipt associated with each payment. If you have paid VAT as part of the payment we've taken from your card your invoice / receipt will show a breakdown of this. [For more information about Malcolm! and VAT see this question. ](https://support.malcolm.support/faqs/do-i-need-to-pay-vat)

You can download an invoice / receipt for each payment you've made to us in the Billing Section of MyMalcolm. Select "invoices / receipts" in the left hand vertical navigation and then click the icon on the right of each row to download the invoice / receipt associated with each payment. If you have paid VAT as part of the payment we've taken from your card your invoice / receipt will show a breakdown of this. [For more information about Malcolm! and VAT see this question. ](https://support.malcolm.support/faqs/do-i-need-to-pay-vat)

A very powerful feature of Malcolm! is the ability to populate one or more values within a Workflow via the URL to the Workflow itself. Malcolm! also offers associated options around whether a user completing a Workflow can see or edit that value. This is extremely powerful if - for example - you want to pass into a Workflow information that lets you identify who has completed it - such as a customer ID or perhaps some other form of unique reference that lets you know what the information relates to (eg an order or transaction id) For example, let's say a customer has created an order with order ID 12345 and you need some further information to fulfil the order. Rather than send them a Workflow which asks them for their order ID as one of the questions (or relies on you manually linking the submitted Workflow with a completed order your side) you could send them a link in the format https://url.com/workflows/order-info-needed?orderid=12345 You can put values for multiple fields in the URL too eg https://url.com/workflows/order-info-needed?orderid=12345&anotherfield=abcde You can choose whether the user filling in the Workflow will see the Order ID repeated on their Workflow or not. If they can see it you can choose whether they can edit it or not. You can also choose what the descriptors in the URL (in the example above the "orderid" part) actually are. All these configurations are made by clicking on the individual element in the Workflow builder in MyMalcolm and scrolling to the "Settings" area. When the Workflow is submitted you will receive the Order ID (and any other fields you have completed via the URL) as part of the submitted information. When you combine the ability to populate fields by variables in the URL with the integration functionality of Malcolm! it becomes even more powerful as you could programmatically send out Workflows for completion (with some identifying information inserted via an auto generated URL) and then combine them with your other systems on submission via an integration or a webhook using the identifying information to link things together. This becomes a great way to send out surveys, create follow ups to marketing campaigns, extend the functionality you offer to "logged in" users etc etc - the possibilities are endless!

A very powerful feature of Malcolm! is the ability to populate one or more values within a Workflow via the URL to the Workflow itself. Malcolm! also offers associated options around whether a user completing a Workflow can see or edit that value. This is extremely powerful if - for example - you want to pass into a Workflow information that lets you identify who has completed it - such as a customer ID or perhaps some other form of unique reference that lets you know what the information relates to (eg an order or transaction id) For example, let's say a customer has created an order with order ID 12345 and you need some further information to fulfil the order. Rather than send them a Workflow which asks them for their order ID as one of the questions (or relies on you manually linking the submitted Workflow with a completed order your side) you could send them a link in the format https://url.com/workflows/order-info-needed?orderid=12345 You can put values for multiple fields in the URL too eg https://url.com/workflows/order-info-needed?orderid=12345&anotherfield=abcde You can choose whether the user filling in the Workflow will see the Order ID repeated on their Workflow or not. If they can see it you can choose whether they can edit it or not. You can also choose what the descriptors in the URL (in the example above the "orderid" part) actually are. All these configurations are made by clicking on the individual element in the Workflow builder in MyMalcolm and scrolling to the "Settings" area. When the Workflow is submitted you will receive the Order ID (and any other fields you have completed via the URL) as part of the submitted information. When you combine the ability to populate fields by variables in the URL with the integration functionality of Malcolm! it becomes even more powerful as you could programmatically send out Workflows for completion (with some identifying information inserted via an auto generated URL) and then combine them with your other systems on submission via an integration or a webhook using the identifying information to link things together. This becomes a great way to send out surveys, create follow ups to marketing campaigns, extend the functionality you offer to "logged in" users etc etc - the possibilities are endless!

In the Library screen of the Workflow section of MyMalcolm click the three dots on the right hand side of the screen and select "Embed" This will take you into the Share section of MyMalcolm! Here you can choose the type of embed you want to create. Choose "Overlay" and work through the screens - the Workflow you came from will be preselected as the content you want to surface in your Overlay. You will be offered various styling and display options and at the end of the process you will be supplied with the code that you should add to your webpage HTML and the inline code used to launch the overlay.

In the Library screen of the Workflow section of MyMalcolm click the three dots on the right hand side of the screen and select "Embed" This will take you into the Share section of MyMalcolm! Here you can choose the type of embed you want to create. Choose "Overlay" and work through the screens - the Workflow you came from will be preselected as the content you want to surface in your Overlay. You will be offered various styling and display options and at the end of the process you will be supplied with the code that you should add to your webpage HTML and the inline code used to launch the overlay.

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