What's New in XCC 11

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What‘s New in XCC 11
April 6th, 2016
http://connections-apps.com/xcc

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1. Enhanced Personalization / Personalization 2.0
2. Forms Widget Release 1.0
3. Media Gallery Widget with Video Support
4. Atom / RSS Widget with Rich Content and Personalization
5. XCC Admin Dashboard
6. Events Widget 2.0
What’s New in XCC 11

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7. Performance & Compability
8. Widget Title with Images
9. HTML Widget as Banner
10.Embedded Experience with
Printing StyleSheet
11.Config Object for Custom Widgets
12.Page Settings
13.Page Management
14.Media Gallery Widget Caption
15.Fontawesome Update
16.Widget Editor CTRL + CLICK Shortcut
17.CSS, HTML, JS Editor with Find &
Replace
18.License Key Model
19.Internal Improvements
20.Full IBM CNX 5.5 Compatibility
21.Added Three Example Layouts
22.Personalization Attributes
Improvements in XCC 11

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23.Open content in Widget (Dynamic Content Widget)
24.Saved Search Widget
25.Terms of Use Acceptance with Enhanced Personalization
26.Project Market Place with FEB
27.Event Organization with FEB
28.Topic Subscription with Information Push
Best Practices in XCC 11

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 Layout bugs in CNX 5.5
 CNX 4.5 bugs with shared community files
 CNX 4.5 Suggestions Widget
 View count on blogs if entries are selected
 Links Widget: different bugs with URLs
 Tabbed Widget: CSS mistake fixed
 XCC call increased blog item count in all selected entries
 XCC Mobile “More Discussion” Link in Forum Widget
 RSS Widget: CSS mistake fixed
Bugfixes in XCC 11

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New Features
What’s New in XCC 11

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1. Enhanced Personalization / Personalization 2.0
New Personalization is available for
Widgets and Homepage
Combine multiple attributes with Boolean
operators (AND, OR, AND NOT) to define
personalization. E.g.
User Mode (internal, external)
Employee Status (full time, part time)
Management Level
(1st liner, 2nd liner etc.)
Country
Office Location
Business Unit
etc.

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1. Enhanced Personalization / Personalization 2.0
Test Personalization
Directly evaluate your settings
Copy Personalization from widget
to widget
Available for Homepage
Personalization, Navigation and
many Widgets

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1. Enhanced Personalization / Personalization 2.0
Use case example: Homepage Personalization
Internal User
New User -> Onboarding Wizard
Onboarding Status 1 = Guidelines
Onboarding Status …
Company A -> Homepage A
Company B -> Homepage B
External User
English Language -> English Welcome Page
German Language -> German Welcome Page

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2. Forms Widget 1.0
Select Layout
(Grid, List, Table)
Map Data Fields to
Layout Fields
Define Actions
(Create, Edit,
Delete)
Format Layout and
Fields with Custom
CSS

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2. Forms Widget 1.0
Embed FEB Forms
Select Form (from all Forms the
user has access to)
Select Height
Select Privacy
Anonymous
(e.g. for Complaints / Whistleblower
Forms)
Authenticated
(will pass users profile data to forms)
View & Use Forms
View & Submit Form
View Result Page
("Thank You" Page, Forms Responses, New
Form)

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2. Forms Widget 1.0
Form examples
Job Postings Form
Marketplace Form
Employee Survey Form

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2. Forms Widget 1.0
See Video Demo
https://youtu.be/cKqUksrF6UY

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3. Media Gallery with Video Support
Supported Video Formats:
*.flv
*.mp4

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4. RSS Widget Rich Content and Personalization
Show images in your feeds
RSS feed personalization
Let users personalize feeds
Target users with relevant
feeds

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5. XCC Admin Dashboard
Configure XCC easier
Improved Navigation
Content Caching for
admins option
Custom properties:
Save strings by creating
key-value pairs and
evaluate them later by
using JavaScript
Style your Widgets by
using the evaluated
Custom Properties

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6. XCC Admin Dashboard

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6. Events Widget with new UI
Updated to latest release of
http://fullcalendar.io/ calendar
framework
Better overview
Modernized design
Slide between different views
Select specific dates
Manage your meetings easier

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Improvements
What’s New in XCC 11

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7. Performance & Compability
JQuery updated from 1.9 to JQuery 2.1.4
native HTML5 functionality
Images loading only if they are in browser viewport
Fewer Requests
Page Management loads and renders faster
Improved Cache Buster
(CSS, JavaScript & JSON are only reloaded when they have changed)
IE 8 support dropped (as in IBM Connections 5.5)
for improvements and better performance

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7. Performance & Compability
Optimized internal Database Access
Fewer, more efficient queries
Improved result caching
Improved connection pooling
Better Error-State-Handling
Overall better database access performance
CNX Database Access now using Apache Commons DbUtils
Avoids Resource Leaks

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8. Widget Title with Image
Upload an Image to
XCC Customization
Files
Reference the image
in the widget header

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9. HTML Widget as Banner
Use HTML Widgets to create Banners
Upload an Image to XCC Customization
Files
Create a link to target URL with image
Add, remove, store Banners from Widgets
Tab as needed

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Printing
Stylesheet
prints content
without clutter
10. Printing Stylesheet for Embedded Experience

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11. Config. Object for Custom Widgets
Create your own configuration object
for your Widgets
Individually add or replace user controls
and options such as maxChannel,
personalization, sortBy, input, grids,
orientation, itemCount, pageSize,
titlePlaceholder and more.

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12. Page Settings
Faster Loading
Navigation upgraded to
new Personalization

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13. Page Management
Sort up and down
(reverse search)
See number of
results
Improved load and
rendering time
Show modified and
modifier
Show Modifier
Business Cards

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14. Media Gallery with Caption
Display images description as captions in media
gallery slider and light room presentation

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15. Fontawesome Update
20 new icons
Font Awewsome uses
a Font to render
symbols/icons in
highest quality
without loading single
images

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16. Widget Editor CTRL + Click shortcut
Use CTRL + Click to remove channel
without request
Submitting a modal dialog is not
needed

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17. CSS, HTML, JS Editor with Find & Replace
Search and replace text
within your HTML or
Clipping Widget
Use powerful Regex
patterns to find or
replace specific text
See occurrence indicators
in the scrollbar

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18. License Key Model
Popup for Users if:
License invalid
XCC Continues to work

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18. License Key Model
Popup for Admins if:
License invalid
Users exceeded
Version unlicensed
XCC Continues to work
Editing pages deactivated

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19. Internal Improvements
Unified Date Parsing with Moment.js
Dates are parsed equally
Unnecessary code removed
The leading date Formatting, calculation
and parsing framework

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20. Full IBM Connections 5.5 compatibility
Run XCC with IBM
Connections 5.5

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21. Three Example Layouts for XCC
XCC 11 includes three example Layouts
for XCC
Selectable by default through Page
Settings-Tab

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Create a short list of profil
attributes available for
personalization
Edit the
Personalization Attributes as a
XCC Admin, no Websphere
access rights required
22. Personalization Attributes

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Best Practices
What’s New in XCC 11

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23. Dynamic Content Widget
Dynamic Content Widget loads
content from wiki based on a
URL Hashtag
Usable for “Deep Links”
Initializes with specified
Content

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Use ’Saved Search Widget‘ to display updates
on any given issue or topic
Limit search results by author, date, doctype,
tags etc.
24. Saved Search Widget

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Enforce that only users who accepted the
‘Terms of Use’ can access the Corporate
Intranet with Enhanced Personalization
25. Terms of Use Acceptance

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Create Forms with FEB
(Forms Experience Builder) for
Project Requirement
Budget Requirement
Staffing Application
Define Stages & Approval Workflows
Create Overviews
Integrate everything into the Intranet
with FEB Form and FEB Data Widgets
26. Project Market Place with FEB

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Create Event Registration Form with FEB
(Forms Experience Builder)
Integrate Registration Form in Intranet Homepage
Maintain list of all registrations in FEB
Programmatically add all participants to an event
community
Keep all participants updated on event
…
27. Event Organization with FEB

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Users can subscribe to topics
Users view topics updates from
the last day, week, month etc.
Authors can push content updates to
users
28. Topic Subscription with Information Push

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Appendix
What‘s New in XCC 11

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1. ATOM / RSS Feed
2. Clipping / HTML
3. Community Description
4. Community Overview
5. Event
6. Files
7. Forum
8. HTML
9. Ideation-Blog
10. iFrame
11. Important Links
12. Links
13. Media Gallery
14. My Links
15. Navigation
16. News
17. News Channel
18. News List
19. News Overview
20. News Slider
21. People Birthday
22. People Finder
23. People Selector
24. Pinned Files
25. Popular Content
26. Preferences
27. Profile Completion
28. Profile Picture
29. Profile Tagging
30. Saved Search
31. Suggestions
(People & Communities)
32. Tag Cloud
33. Top News
34. FEB Data Widget
35. FEB Form Widget
36. Website Navigation
& Breadcrumb Path
37. 22 x IBM Connections
MyPage Widgets
60. IBM Connections
Activity Stream
& Right Column
61. Custom Widgets API
XCC Widgets & Page Elements

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08.2012 Release 1.0
for Connections 3.0
05.2013 Release 2.0 Beta
(Limited Availability)
Connections 4.0
Activity Stream on Homepage
10.-12.2013 Release 2.0 - 2.03
(General Availability)
Connections 4.0 & 4.5
Personalization
Improvements & Bug fixes
Performance Increases
Personalization
01.-02.2014 Release 3.0 - 3.02
Improvements & Bug fixes
New Widgets
Mobile
Grid Layout
03.2014 Release 4.0
Extended Page Management
Capabilities
UI & Performance Improvements
04.2014 Release 4.1
Atom & RSS Feed Widgets
List and Overview News Widgets
People Finder Widget
Breadcrumb Path & Navigation
Multilingualism
08.2014 Release 5.0
IBM Connections 5 Support
Ideation-Blog Widget
Picture Widget
Import and Export of XCC page
XCC uses database to store your
settings
10.2014 Release 6.0
Forum Widget
People Birthday Widget
People Selector Widget
Personalized Home Page
Custom JavaScript
Picture Slider in Embedded
Experience
Item Count Editor / Paging
12.2014 Release 7.0
Suggestions Widget
Profile Completion Widget
Intranet Preferences Widget
Popular Content Widget
Many more…
03.2015 Release 8.0
XCC for IBM Connections Cloud
XCC for Communities
XCC for Anonymous Users
News Aggregation
Saved Search
XCC 1.0 – 8.0 Release History (2012 – 2015)

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07.2015 Release 9.0
XCC FlyOut Page
XCC for IBM Connections Cloud
Gallery Widget
Community Overview Widget
Custom Widget API
Client-Side-Caching
12.2015 Release 10
Custom Grids
Access Restrictions for XCC Pages
Business Cards in XCC Pages
Integrated Code Editor
Clipping Widget
Community Description Widget
Pinned Files Widget
My Links Widget
Tag Cloud Widget
IBM Connections 5.5 Compability
03.2016 Release 11
Advanced Personalization with
Boolean Operators
Forms Widget Release 1.0
Media Gallery Widget with Video
Support
Atom / RSS Widget with Rich
Content and Personalization
XCC Admin Dashboard
Events Widget 2.0
15 Improvements…
XCC 9.0 - 11. Release History (2015 – 2016)
8 – 12 Weeks Release Cycle
Independent from IBM
Connections Release Cycle
Full IBM Connections 5.5
Compability declared 4 days
after Connections release –
New Connections release works
just fine with no Issues

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1. Download XCC
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/XCC
2. Install XCC
Less then 60 minutes
3. Test & Customize XCC
XCC now runs in Stealth Mode, i.e. is not visible to users.
XCC can therefore be installed, tested and customized in the
production environment without any interference with users.
Create and customize your first XCC pages
Customize Layout
Make XCC visible to all users, add new home button to CNX,
set XCC as CNX homepage
Get Started – XCC for Connections On-Prem

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Intranet
as a
Service
XCC is available as a true Multi Tenant
SaaS Offering.
Easy setup with a guided Self Service
Available on a per user / per month basis
Single Sign On with IBM Connections Cloud
Extends IBM Connections Cloud to a
complete and deeply integrated Intranet
XCC Cloud is hosted on IBM Bluemix US and
UK
Get Started – XCC for Connections Cloud

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Get The Most out of IBM Connections with XCC
Employee
Magazine
Top
Managers
Chairman’s
Office
Internal
Communications
Engage
Employees
Business
Units
Branding
& Design
Personalization
& Targeting
Employee
Relations
Single Point
of Truth
Integrate Communications
Usage &
Adoption
Community
Managers
New User
Onboarding
Curate
Content
Enhance Collaboration
Application
Integration
Customers
& Partners
Forms, Lists and
Workflows
Tools
Menu
Custom
Apps
Integrate Applications
IT ManagersIntranet as
a Service
Anonymous
Users
Mobile
Users
CFOs
Simplify IT

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Get The Most out of IBM Connections with XCC
Knowledge
Worker
Senior
Manager
Internal
Communications
Community
& Department
Manager
Common Staff
& Traditional
Manager
Blue Collar
Worker
Customers
& Partners
Benefits from
increased
adoption and
collaboration. Use
Intranet Mobile
Experience. Get
attention thru
curation.
Get attention,
ccommunicate
directly with high
authenticity.
Increase
awareness for
internal
communications.
Effectively
delegate content
creation and
maintenance to
LOB. Curate
Content from
LOB. Listen to and
engage
employees.
Easily maintain
landing pages for
business, service
units and
communities.
Benefit from
integrated
Intranet with
collaboration,
content and
integrated apps.
Retrieve Intranet
content without
authentication.
Easy interface for
applications,
content and
collaboration.

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Content Management and User Management
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Self Services and User Management, Password and
Security Management for External (Guest) Users
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Integrate Internal Communications and Custom
Applications into IBM Connections
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