Merge pull request #2168 from Soumyadeep10/Hacktober-2025-8th_bRanch

Publish Retired Knowledge articles again

Author: bird-03

Client-Side Components/UI Actions/Publish a Retired Knowledge Article again/README.md

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+**UI Action**: 
+Publish a Retired Knowledge Article again after it is already retired.
+
+**How it works:**
+1. The code finds existing articles in the Knowledge base that share the same Article ID but are not the current article and are 'retired'.
+2. It updates the workflow state of these found articles to 'outdated'.
+3. For the current article, it sets the workflow_state to 'pubblished', records the current date and updates the 'published' field with the date.
+4. It also removes the pre-existing 'retired' date from the 'retired' field.
+5. It redirects the user to the updated current record.

Client-Side Components/UI Actions/Publish a Retired Knowledge Article again/publishretiredkb.js

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+var kbArticle = new GlideRecord('kb_knowledge');
+kbArticle.setWorkflow(false);
+kbArticle.addQuery('article_id', current.article_id);
+kbArticle.addQuery('sys_id', "!=", current.sys_id); //articles that are not the current one
+kbArticle.addQuery('workflow_state', 'retired');
+kbArticle.query();
+while (kbArticle.next()) {
+    kbArticle.workflow_state = 'outdated';  //setting the articles as outdated
+    kbArticle.update();
+}
+current.workflow_state = 'published';  //publishing retired kb article again
+current.published = new GlideDate();
+current.retired = "";  //clearing retired field value
+current.update();
+action.setRedirectURL(current);