How is visibility to Articles Types controlled for Community Members?

Visibility to Salesforce Knowledge Article Types is fundamentally controlled by a user's profile. The profile settings determine which Article Types (or Record Types in Lightning Knowledge) a user has "Read" access to. For Experience Cloud (Community) members, their assigned community profile must be granted explicit read access to the specific Article Types intended for them. While Data Categories further refine which individual articles are visible, the initial access to the entire type of article is managed at the profile level.

A. Community Settings: These settings enable or disable Knowledge for the entire site but do not provide granular control over which specific Article Types are visible.
B. User Record: The User Record assigns a user to a profile but is not the direct mechanism for controlling object-level permissions like Article Type visibility.
C. Community Manager: This is a user role responsible for administering the community; it is not a configuration setting that controls visibility for members.
E. All Articles Types within the shared data categories and visible to Community Members: This is incorrect. Data Categories filter articles, not Article Types. A user must first have profile-level access to the Article Type before Data Category visibility is applied.

1. Salesforce Help - Give Users Access to Article Types: "You can grant 'Read

' 'Create

' 'Edit

' or 'Delete' permissions to users for a specific article type through their profiles or permission sets." This document explicitly states that profiles are the mechanism for granting access to article types.

2. Salesforce Help - Set Up and Manage Salesforce Knowledge: Under the "Set Up Knowledge Users" section

the documentation guides administrators to "Give your Salesforce Knowledge users access to the articles and the Knowledge base. [...] Assign article actions to users in their user profile." This reinforces the role of the user profile in managing Knowledge access.

3. Salesforce Help - Control Access to Articles: "You control access to articles on the article type. [...] For each user profile

you can provide Create

Read

Edit

or Delete permission on a specific article type." This directly links profile permissions to Article Type access control.