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title: Use the Employee Center topic pages
description: The Employee Center topic pages contain the breadcrumbs widget, topic header widget, sub-topic widget, and the topic content widget.
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product: Employee Experience Foundation
classification: employee-experience-foundation
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Using Employee Center, Employee Center, Unified Employee Experience, Employee Service Management]
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# Use the Employee Center topic pages

The Employee Center topic pages contain the breadcrumbs widget, topic header widget, sub-topic widget, and the topic content widget.

## Breadcrumbs widget

The breadcrumbs widget displays information about the pages you navigated to open the current page. For example, from the home page if you click **HR**, and then click **Benefits**, and then click **Health and Wellness**, the breadcrumbs widget shows **Home > HR > Benefits > Health and Wellness**.

\[Omitted image "breadcrumbs-widget.png"\] Alt text: The breadcrumbs widget shows the navigation path from the Home page to the Health and Wellness page.

Click a page name on the breadcrumbs widget to navigate to that page. For example, to return to the home page, click **Home**.

## Topic header widget

The topic header widget displays the parent topics. Select a topic from the mega menu to view its details. The topic widget displays the description of the topic and the banner and icon images for the topic, if available.

**Note:** If you schedule Styled or Banner content to the Content Experiences widget on the emp\_taxonomy\_topic page, the original topic banner image does not display for the topics on the schedule.

For more information on creating and scheduling content, see [Creating employee communications](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/ec-publish-content.md).

\[Omitted image "topic-widget.png"\] Alt text: Topic header widget showing the HR topic.

You can modify the widget display by configuring the instance options. For more information, see [Modify the topic header widget display](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/config-topic-widget.md).

## Sub-topics widget

The sub-topics widget displays all the child topics of the parent topic. The sub-topic widget displays only those child topics that have connected content.

\[Omitted image "subtopics-widget.png"\] Alt text: Sub-topics widget showing the child topics of the HR parent topic.

The sub-topics widget shows only six child topics by default. If the parent topic has more child topics, click **View all** to view all the child topics and click the one you want to open.

You can modify the widget display by configuring the instance options. For more information, see [Modify the sub-topics widget display](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/config-child-topic-widget.md).

## Topic content widget

The topic content widget displays the knowledge articles and requests associated with the topic.

\[Omitted image "browse-topic-widget.png"\] Alt text: Topic content widget showing connected content of the Browse HR topic, including the available options.

The topic content widget has the following options.

<table id="table_smr_tkv_brb"><thead><tr><th>

Option

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Filter by

</td><td>

How you want to filter the information. The options are:-   **All:** Displays both the knowledge articles and requests.
-   **Article:** Displays only knowledge articles.
-   **Request:** Displays only requests.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Sort by

</td><td>

How you want to sort the information. The options are:-   **Popular:** Displays the most popular knowledge articles and requests.
-   **A-Z:** Displays the knowledge articles and requests in alphabetical order.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Card View

</td><td>

Displays the knowledge articles and requests in cards.

</td></tr><tr><td>

List view

</td><td>

Displays the knowledge articles and requests in lists.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Show more

</td><td>

Displays the next set of 12 content items \(knowledge articles and requests\), based on the settings of the **Sort by** and **Filter by** options. By default, 12 content items are displayed for a topic. This option appears only when more than 12 content items are associated to a topic.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>**Note:** The A-Z sorting is not supported for non-English.

## Search on the topic pages

Use search on the topic pages that allows you to browse content with its spell check, synonym detection, and other auto-suggestive functionalities.

## Search by the topic facets

Narrow your search with hierarchical filters for topics and sub-topics on the global search. Choose single or multiple topic levels or facet levels to get specific search results. For more information, see [Improved search functionality](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/topic-facets.md).

## Learning content on the topic pages

Use learning content as one of the connected content types, available on the topic pages, for the licensed employees. Employees can browse, filter, sort, and add to favourite the course content available on the topic pages relevant to them.

The Unified Browse widget has **Courses** as an addition to the **Filter by** listed options.

\[Omitted image "topic-page-courses.jpg"\] Alt text: The Filter by field listed options has All, Articles, Requests, and Courses.

You can modify the widget display by configuring the widget instance options. For more information, see [Modify the topic content widget display](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/config-topic-content-widget.md).

**Parent Topic:**[Using Employee Center](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/using-emp-center.md)

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