# Can you use Discourse for Building a Help Section?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-discourse-for-building-a-help-section/113173>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [1 april 2019 om 21:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-discourse-for-building-a-help-section/113173 "2019-04-01T21:15:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![curiousme](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/curiousme/32/135859_2.png) [@curiousme](https://meta.discourse.org/u/curiousme)\
**Post date:** [1 april 2019 om 21:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-discourse-for-building-a-help-section/113173/1 "2019-04-01T21:15:43Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am planning to build a Support HELP or FAQ for my app. I was considering using NodeBB or Discourse and was wondering if I can just use it to build a help section. At the start, I dont want any user discussion and just use it as help support. I dont have time to moderate the content for liability. Later I wish to build a discussion and topic for community building. Would appreciate any feedback.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [1 april 2019 om 21:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-discourse-for-building-a-help-section/113173/2 "2019-04-01T21:59:26Z")

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Yes this is possible. @hawk can community team elaborate on this, point to a blog post, or howto topic?

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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [2 april 2019 om 02:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-discourse-for-building-a-help-section/113173/4 "2019-04-02T02:01:25Z")

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Hey there,  
We use Discourse as knowledge base. Check out our #howto category at [https://meta.discourse.org/c/howto](https://meta.discourse.org/c/howto). We allow discussion, but you could easily use category security to restrict it to read-only for general users. Then when you’re ready, you could remove that restriction very easily.

I elaborate on this a bit more in the last section of this blog post. [How Does Team Discourse Use Discourse?](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/)

Do you think that would suit your purpose?

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**Author:** ![curiousme](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/curiousme/32/135859_2.png) [@curiousme](https://meta.discourse.org/u/curiousme)\
**Post date:** [4 april 2019 om 15:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-discourse-for-building-a-help-section/113173/5 "2019-04-04T15:25:31Z")

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Thank you @Hawk and @codinghorror. I think this can fit our use case pretty nicely.