Work with Multiple Products and Different Experience Sites with Ideas Categorisation

Dear friends,

We’ve prepared another episode in our series of videos about our product AC Ideas Ultimate.

Today we want to talk about Ideas categorisation. We often hear the question “how can we collect ideas if we have several different products and communities and different business logic?”. We will now answer this question.

This is possible with AC Ideas Ultimate where you can set up a very flexible structure.

Ideas categorisation with AC Ideas Ultimate app

For example, your company has two different portals: one for customers and one for partners. Each portal has its own structure. 

The customers portal can contain two zones to display the different products for which you want to collect ideas.

For the partners portal, you can use separate zones for different business logic and collect bugs on one page and feature requests on the other.

Each zone can have its own categories hierarchy to separate ideas by different themes. There can be one-level or multi-level categorisation with parent and child categories.

On the Partner portal, you can collect bug reports on one page and feature requests that partners receive from their customers when selling the products on the other.

The bug report page has its own categorisation so partners can understand where to post ideas. It is possible to attach the screenshots with bugs to better understand the issue.

On the feature request page partners post ideas they get from the customers when selling your products and this page has another categorisation.

Inside Salesforce Ideation Manager can create zones, categories and set up categories hierarchy. When creating a zone he can choose in what portal this zone will be used. Each zone has its own logic regarding statuses, categories and notifications.

When creating a category he can define which zone this category belongs to. He can also define if this category will have a multi-level or one-level hierarchy. If you have multiple products it is a common practice to define top level categories as products and their subcategories as different areas of each product.

Ideation manager can easily switch between different zones in the LEX environment to manage categories, statuses and other items. AC Ideas Ultimate setup doesn’t take days, just a few hours typically is enough.

So if we come back to the question, is it possible to set up separate categorisation logic for different communities, zones or products? Then the answer is definitely yes.

It is quite easy, intuitive and clear for your partners, customers and employees.

We hope this video was useful for you. If you want to learn more about other functionalities – write your suggestions in the comments.

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Most Exciting Features of Winter ’22 Salesforce Experience Cloud Release

Salesforce Winter 22 release is on its way and brings us brand new functionalities.

For us, one of the most distinct features is the emergence of the Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) platform which was created to speed up the Experience Cloud sites and which will finally replace the Aura platform.

Most of the new features are available on LWR sites only. However, we do NOT advise switching to LWR just yet as most of the standard components and powerful components that we know of such as record list or view are not yet available and the number of LWR components is low. We hope that these gaps will be closed sooner rather than later! 

Below we’ve prepared a quick overview of the six most interesting features of this release. Let’s dive in!

Enhanced Domain for Salesforce CDN

Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a powerful tool that allows companies that have sites with big traffic to support strong connection without interruptions. To automatically use CDN you just need to activate Enhanced Domain.

  • Go to Setup -> My Domain -> click Edit next to the  My Domain Details section;
  • Select the Standard Suffix (*.my.salesforce.com) and enable the “Use enhanced domains” checkbox -> click Save;
  • Wait until your new domain is provisioned and deploy it.
Enhanced Domain for Salesforce CDN

Archive inactive Experience Cloud sites

Now you can archive your Experience Cloud site if it’s no longer relevant. When users or admins try to access the site they will see the page that says the Site is unavailable.

However, you can unarchive your site whenever you want. The maximum number of sites you can archive is 100 in addition to the general limit of the sites you can create (which is 100).

New Components in Experience Builder

View the new great components in LWR Sites! Now you have more opportunities to make your site look exactly like you’ve imagined. Use customisable Buttons, Tiles, Text Blocks, and Banners to creatively deliver information to your customers, and add quality content from Salesforce CMS to your site using the Image and Video components.

New Components in Experience Builder

Protect your Personal Information

This new feature replaces the “Hide personal information” tool which is more restricted and which will be deleted in future releases. Using the new feature you can select up to 20 fields that will be considered as your personal information. To activate this setting go to Setup -> User Management Settings -> enable the “Enhanced Personal Information Management” tumbler.

Protect your Personal Information

You can consider any field as personal information by adding or removing the PersonalInfo item in the Compliance Categorisation section

Compliance Categorisation section

New properties for buttons and input fields in Experience Builder

There are two new items in the Experience Builder Theme menu: Buttons and Forms.

You can now customise a shape, text, size, and other Buttons’ parameters using this new property.

It is also possible to specify the edge shape of form elements such as input fields and checkboxes, and the thickness of the border around these elements.

Experience Builder Theme menu: Buttons and Forms.

The Colour palette has also been extended with the Advanced tab where you can change buttons, forms, texts, and links color.

Colour palette

Set the Default Language in LWR Sites

Now you are able to set the default language on your LWR Site. You can select any language supported by Experience Cloud.

To do this go to the Settings tab in Experience Builder -> Languages -> select the language.

Set the Default Language in LWR Sites

Watch the video below to see how everything works:

We hope this post was useful for you and helps you to prepare for the oncoming updates.

Keep following us to learn more about Salesforce and Experience Cloud.

Increase Customer Engagement in The Innovation Process Around Themes and Releases

Dear friends,

We continue the series of videos about the AC Ideas Ultimate features. 

Today we want to show you a very interesting and useful feature – Idea Campaign.

In this video, we will be talking about what Campaigns in Ideas are, what they are used for and how to manage them. You will see how to create Campaigns and what their main functions are.

Also, we’ll show you examples of the Campaigns and when they can be used.

Campaigns are a great tool to engage your customers and focus their attention on a specific topic or product.

You can encourage more people to participate as campaigns can use extra points and rewards for active users who post, comment, or vote on ideas.

AC Ideas Ultimate has many more interesting features for your best experience of interaction with the customers.

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