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What's New in the Community - August 2021

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Since the migration to the Telligent Platform at the end of April, the Community Team at Micro Focus has been busy with migration-related fixes and projects. We are happy to share with you some updates in the last few months. Our team strives to continually improve the Community to better serve you, our users. Please feel free to contact us at community@microfocus.com or to provide feedback and suggestions in our Feedback & Suggestions User Discussion Forum.

Top Contributors Widget – We now have a widget on every discussion forum showing top contributors for that specific forum.

Design Changes – We made some modifications to the Explore Products page, including font and spacing of the columns. Products are listed alphabetically or by product family. You can switch this view from the drop down menu towards the top of the page. We thought it was important to make this page more user-friendly, with a clean design, because this page is often used to jump to the products’ main Community page.

The Explore Products page is available from the header of any Community page and is a great way to jump to the product of interest to you. Once you are on the Explore Products page, simply click on the product in which you are interested and it will take you to that product’s Community landing page. Once on that page, you can jump to user discussions, idea exchange, the product’s blog, Tips & Info wiki and/or a News & Events wiki.

As an example, clicking on ALM Octane in the Explore Products page will take you to the ALM Octane Community page:

From this page you can jump to Discussions, Idea Exchange, Tips & Info (wiki), the blog, and News & Events (wiki), as seen in the blue menu bar near the top.

Stay tuned for more design updates in the future. We are going to be tackling the user profile pages as well as the overall community pages and activity streams.

Idea Exchange Updates –We have created some overview slides about how Idea Exchange works and we hope you find them useful.  

On the activity stream of Idea Exchanges, we added labels:

Also in Idea Exchange, we made the comments that are directly related to a status change more visible. In the past, the status update comments looked like any other comment so it was difficult to decipher if the comment was related to a status change. Now, when an Idea Moderator changes the status of an idea, and posts a comment explaining why the status was changed, it is clearly visible, as seen in the image below.

Views – We added views to all blog articles, user discussion forums, and wikis. Adding views had to be done post-migration due to the massive size of our Community. We are now happy to report that we migrated all views. In Discussions, you can see views in the activity stream and on the right side of each individual post.

On an individual discussion forum post, you can see views on the right side, in a widget.

In the Tips & Info and News & Events wikis, you will see views in the activity stream, just like in Discussion Forums. Finally, in blogs, you will see the views for each article once you click on that article and scroll down on the right side.

Be on the lookout for more updates from us next month. We will also be starting a Tip of the Week/Did You Know series to help you get the most out of the Community.

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