Self-service and knowledge · The deflection · Element

The value

What deflection is worth.

The part

What it is

Deflected contacts times the cost of handling one. It is what justifies the investment in content and is rarely calculated.

It should be set against the maintenance cost, since documentation is not free to keep current.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.