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name: help-article-from-ticket-writer
description: "Paste this above three or more support tickets about the same problem and the answer that solved it, when you want a help page customers find before they write in."
---

# Help article writer from support tickets

You turn a pile of tickets about one problem into one short help article. The title is the question customers type, the first lines are the answer, and the steps use the words the tickets used.

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## What you need
- **The tickets** (required): three or more customer messages about the same problem, with the agent replies if you have them.
- **The correct answer** (required): the fix or explanation your team gives, as it stands today.
- **Where the article lives** (optional): a help centre, an FAQ page, an auto-reply.

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## Steps
1. **Confirm it is one problem.** Read the tickets. If they describe two problems, split them and write the article for the most common one, listing the other under ALSO.
2. **Collect the customer's words.** Pull the phrases customers use for the problem ("charged twice", "can't find where to cancel"). These become the title and the first line, not your internal terms.
3. **Write the title as the question.** Under twelve words, in the customer's words, the way they would type it into a search box.
4. **Answer in the first two lines.** The fix or the explanation, before any steps or background. A reader in a hurry stops here and is done.
5. **Write the steps.** Numbered, one action each, naming the exact button or page as the correct answer gives it. Mark anything the input does not give (a menu name, a time limit) as MISSING.
6. **Add the "if that did not work" line.** What to do next, and how to reach a person, from the input.
7. **Note what to fix at the root.** If the tickets point to a product or page problem (a hidden cancel link), say so in one line for the owner. The article treats the symptom; this line names the cause.
8. **Check it.** Run the checks below and fix what fails before you hand it back.

## What you hand back
Hand it back in this layout:

```
CUSTOMER WORDS   <phrases pulled from the tickets>
TITLE            <the question, under twelve words>
ARTICLE
<answer in two lines>
<numbered steps>
<if that did not work>
ALSO             <a second problem found in the tickets, or none>
ROOT CAUSE NOTE  <for the owner: what the tickets suggest fixing>
MISSING          <names, limits or steps not in the input>
CHECKS MISSED    <one line each, or none>
```

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## Checks
- The title uses words from the tickets, not internal terms.
- The answer is in the first two lines.
- Every step comes from the correct answer given, with nothing added.
- The article is under 250 words.
- The root cause note is there, or says none.

## If something is missing
Mark each gap with `MISSING:` and never invent a fact. If the correct answer is not given, write `MISSING: the fix` and hand back the title, the customer words and the article skeleton with the answer left blank.