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Your custom pages examples please

  • 8 March 2024
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Hey people,
I’m looking at creating some custom pages in my community. I think it will be the answer to a lot of navigational challenges.
Can you please share with me your custom pages, would love to get some inspiration before I get started!
Thanks 🙏

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Best answer by FMEEvangelist 13 March 2024, 22:33

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You mentioned navigational challenges, I made a customer resource center collecting all our silos on one page. I used a custom html module and built it using a html table and mouseovers. I added dynamic content modules for product updates, event module and knowledgebase.

 


 

I also made a birthday celebration page using lots of dynamic content widgets highlighting the best content of the year :)

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@sarahmasterton-brown As you’re here, you’ve almost certainly already looked at these - but we’ve recently used custom pages as part of our newly merged multi-product community to serve as landing pages for our individual products, like the CC page here (you’re currently also featured on it @sarahmasterton-brown :) ).

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Thanks @juan.delrio  A great use case! Thanks for sharing
@Kenneth R  Yes, you’re right, this is also a great example of custom pages. And indeed, I am featured on the Community landing page (and have been for a while!). Anyone else want to take that spot...please feel free! 
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It’s not for navigation as such, but I just created a new custom page today. It’s a way for users to vote on an issue. They click on one of the Quick Links and we register their vote and award reputation and a badge.

It was quite fun to do. I might consider creating a weekly poll/quiz like this.

 

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@FMEEvangelist That’s really creative - love it!

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@FMEE That’s very cool. Thanks for sharing

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Ooo @FMEEvangelist How do you register the votes?  What are you using?

Links to two google forms?

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Ooo @FMEEvangelist How do you register the votes?  What are you using?

Links to two google forms?

Hi @juan.delrio  - I’m actually lucky in that our company produces software for Data Integration (in fact, that’s what our community is all about). It’s pretty powerful. If I said it’s like a supercharged Zapier, I’d be underselling it. So I get to use that. The two links just run different processes on a server.

The nice thing is that the process can keep count and also automatically award badges and reputation. But I suspect zaps could do the same thing, and the idea of Google Forms is certainly a good one, too.

 

Actually, to be really clear, the two links go to two different custom pages, which forward the request onto our server. Why? Because that way I can use the inSidedData object to pass the user ID. I can’t include the user ID in a URL from a Quick Links form. At least, I don’t think I can. So it’s a bit of a hacky workaround, but the user doesn’t really see that part!

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