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February 10, 2026

Gainsight CC: Organize Ideas and Product Updates by Category for Better Discovery (Open Beta)

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  • February 10, 2026
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Ideas and Product Updates in Categories

Make it easier for your community to find, explore, and contribute ideas with category-based organization for Ideas and Product Updates.

With this enhancement, Ideas and Product Updates can be created directly within Community Categories, helping keep feedback aligned to the right product areas and improving navigation across the Community experience.

This means cleaner organization, better filtering, and a more intuitive way for members to engage with the content that matters most to them.

 

What’s New

Mandatory category selection for new Ideas and Product Updates
Every new Idea or Product Update must be assigned to a Community Category before it’s published, ensuring consistent organization across your Community.

Category-based filtering in Destination view
Members can now filter Ideas and Product Updates by category, making it easier to discover content related to specific products or topics.

Role-based access control
Leverage existing category permissions to securely scope Ideas or Product Updates to specific user roles or groups.

Tabs widget support for Ideas and Product Updates
The Ideas and Product Updates tab includes category-based filtering, allowing users to view content by product area alongside other supported content types.

 

Learn More

🙌 Shoutout to the Limited Beta Crew

Big thanks to the teams at Cognite, Alliant, KPN, and Adobe for putting Ideas and Product Updates in Categories to the test! Your feedback helped ​@Larry and the rest of Gainsight’s Product and Development team polish the experience for communities everywhere.

 

Also in this Release: Experience Faster, Smarter Community Data Exports with Exports Enhancement (GA)

Gainsight has enhanced Community’s data export functionality, delivering better data accuracy, broader insights, and a smoother user experience with the new Exports v2.

 

👉 Check out the Exports Enhancements Release Notes and Ideas and Product Updates in Categories Release Notes for more details.

💬 Have questions or feedback? We’d love for you to join our Open Beta Group for Ideas and Product Updates in Categories, drop a comment below, or better yet, ask our new AI!

 

    13 replies

    Larry
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    July 15, 2026

    @erin.brisson Hope you are doing well! Two things here. First, we recently introduced the ability to remove an existing category from Ideas or Product Updates, so you can switch a post back after the fact. As a temporary workaround, you can post to a category and then remove it.

    Second, I've added work for us to give you an option to make category selection required or optional during posting, in both Control and Destination, for Ideas and Product Updates. We're taking this feature out of beta soon, so I expect this as part of that process this month.

    Thanks as always for the feedback!

    Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd
    erin.brisson
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    July 15, 2026

    Thanks ​@Larry! Really happy to hear that posting an Idea and/or PU will soon be optional and not required. 

    Erin
    erin.brisson
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    July 17, 2026

    @Larry I just noticed with the Beta feature turned on, when I post a Product Update (I've done two in the last 2 days), the email notification that triggers is the one for a New Post that showcases the category that I am required to choose when posting a Product Update when it should be the Product Update email notification. 

    Is it possible to escalate the fix for this asap?

    Erin