Q1 2025 Release Notes for Customer Communities (CC)
Release Date: March 19, 2025
Announcements
Analyze Community Data with Business Intelligence Tools
The Data Connectors feature provides the credentials and information for admins to seamlessly connect Business Intelligence (BI) tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker, to Gainsight’s Customer Communities (CC) data lake. With this enhancement, you can easily query and analyze the data, enabling you to generate valuable insights and make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Additionally, the S3 Connector integration allows you to copy data from the data lake to Snowflake or other data warehouses. This capability empowers you to combine your community data with information from other sources, further enhancing your analytical capabilities.
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For more information on how to connect your BI tools to your community data, refer to the following articles:
Release Date: February 27, 2025
New Feature
Enhance Community Pages with List Views
Customer Communities is excited to introduce the List View configuration, allowing admins to modify how feeds or tabs are displayed on the community page. This feature enhances the visual appeal of community tabs while ensuring they align with your organization’s branding.
With List Views, admins can:
- Adjust Card themes for a structured, engaging layout by switching between list and card views.
- Customize border widths, border radius, border color, background color, title color, and text color.
- Define separate color settings for Default, Hover, and Click actions.
For more information on how to configure the List View, refer to the Configure List View article.
Enhancements
Improve Accessibility with Localized Homepages
The Localized Homepage feature enables community admins to tailor homepages based on users’ language preferences. This enhances user engagement, accessibility, and inclusivity by dynamically displaying relevant widgets and content per region-specific languages.
Business Use Case: A global company with a multilingual community can provide a personalized user experience. For example:
- A French-speaking user sees trending discussions and resources relevant to their region.
- A Chinese-speaking user gets a homepage featuring local news and community updates.
- An English-speaking user views a default homepage with search and engagement widgets
This feature helps drive higher participation, better discoverability, and a seamless experience for diverse community groups.
For more information on how to create a localized homepage, refer to the Create a Localized Homepage article.
Enhance Community Engagement with Topic Filters
This enhancement allows community managers and admins to filter and display specific category topics within the Tabs Widget. Users can refine their community experience by selecting relevant product-related discussions, ensuring that only relevant topics appear under the Recent Activity, Categories, and Help Others tabs.
Business Use Case: A company with multiple products wants to improve user engagement in its community forum. Users discussing Customer Success topics should not see unrelated Product Experience discussions. By using this filtering feature, community managers can ensure that product discussions remain organized, improving user experience and engagement.
This feature enhances community navigation by delivering more relevant content to users.
For more information on how to filter topics, refer to the Filter Topics on Category article.