This document provides an overview of new features in Release 6.0 (October 2014) of the Web Content Management Extension for IBM Connections (XCC). Key new features include personalizing the home page based on user attributes, new forum and birthday widgets, improved people selector, standalone blogs and wikis, picture sliders, navigation layout options, embedded videos, backup/export functionality, and various enhancements and bug fixes. The extension provides additional content management capabilities for IBM Connections users.

1. Web Content Management Extension
for IBM Connections (XCC)
New Feature Overview
Release 6.0
(Oct. 2014)
TIMETOACT GROUP, Cologne, Germany
http://timetoact.de/xcc

2. XCC 6.0 New Feature Overview
Personalized Home Page
Forum Widget
People Birthday Widget
People Selector Widget
Access to Widgets and
Page Settings Pane
Stand-Alone
Blogs and Wikis
Picture Slider in
Embedded Experience
Item Count Editor / Paging
Navigation Layout
External Links in Navigation
Embedded Videos
Custom JavaScript
Grid Templates
Internet Explorer 11 Support
XCC Backup & Export
Widget Controls
Enhancements, Bug Fixes,
Performance Improvements

3. Personalize Home Page
Personalize Home Page
based on any profile
attribute
Language
Country
Division
Region
Individual Preference
Ideal for multi-national /
multi-lingual organizations

4. Forum Widget
Show number of
likes and answers
Icons inform about
type of forum
Show latest or
selected ideas
Personalize content

5. Forum Widget – Embedded Experience
Show details
Show replies
Highlight correct reply
Able to answer
Able to like entry and replies

6. People Birthday Widget
Displays today’s birthdays
Birthday is entered optionally by employees
Requires profile extension

7. People Selector
Select profiles
Group and
annotate people
Reorder people
and groups
Directly displays
all relevant data

8. Access to Widgets and Page Settings Pane
Content Masters with limited access to individual pages
can now access the widgets pane and the page settings
pane

9. Stand-Alone Blogs and Wikis
Stand-Alone blogs and
wikis (not part of a
community) can now be
a content source too

10. Picture Slider in Embedded Experience
Slide pictures in the Embedded
Experience
Display pictures in an user friendly way
without having to leave context

11. Item Count Editor
Create full page
overviews with e.g. 50
or 100 items
Limit number of items
Set paging / number of
items per page

12. Navigation Layout
Select top, left, or right navigation positioning
Top
Left Right

13. External Links in Navigation
Links can be opened in new tab
Setting is made in Connections
Easy to use
Perfect for authors

14. Embedded Videos
News can run embedded
videos from XCC page
(without opening embedded
experience)
Responsive Videos

15. Custom JavaScript
Extend the XCC page with your own code (JS and CSS).
Design the layout according to your wishes.
Access to jQuery, jQuery-UI, Bootstrap and Font
Awesome libraries.

16. Grid Templates
More widget placeholder on each grid
More layout options

17. Support for Internet Explorer 11
on IBM Connections 5
Supported browsers:
Internet Explorer: 8, 9,
10, 11
Mozilla Firefox: 14 – 32
Google Chrome: 23 - 37

18. XCC Backup & Export
Schedule Backup / Export
of all XCC pages (optional)

19. Widget Controls
Toggle between widget edit and display with configuration icon
Simplified buttons to save, cancel edit and remove
widget
Keyboard Shortcuts
Click into an input field and press “Control+S” to save
the widget configuration.

20. Widget Controls – Remove all Widgets
To remove all widgets from the page and move them back to the widget admin
panel:
Press “Shift+Control“ while clicking “Remove Widget“.

21. Enhancements, Bug fixes, Performance
Improvements
HTTP traffic reduced by optimized Feed-Size
(News Feeds)
Improved search for selected posts
Improved Widget Edit Action
Improved User Selection (with Avatar image)
Custom JavaScript
Fixed IE Upload Issues
Double Right Mouse Button to Close EE

22. Product Overviews
http://connections-apps.com/
Infos & Downloads
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/XCC
Support
xcc-support@timetoact.de
More Infos

23. Thank you for your interest
http://timetoact.de/xcc
xcc@timetoact.de
+49 221 97343 0