Hi everyone,

Welcome to the new OutSystems Community Forum, created from your feedback!

We combed through all your ideas, held both in-person (pre-pandemic!) and virtual workshops, and met one on one with many of you to find out how to improve the forum for the community. A HUGE thank you to everyone who participated from submitting an idea to testing it out!

We’re excited the big day has arrived and you can now check out the new forum experience focused on helping you get the answers you need quicker and easier.

Get a preview of what’s new:

What's new:

• Improved search and quick filters to help you find what you’re searching for right away. Our search is integrated with Google search API which enables us to create our own search engine. We customized our own look and feel and filter the results by tag. Also we benefit from the advanced algorithms which guarantees that the best search results are shown.

• The post preview has more detail - a brief description of the post, the number of views and replies, if it has a solution and the type of post (question or discussion).

• Posts will have now more context, so a quick scan of the results shows you the activity and marked solutions

• Finding the solution quicker and easier, because now solutions are right at the top, and with a click you’ll find more information. Ah, and there can now be more than one solution!

• To get a wider view of similar posts, click on a tag to see related posts and follow the tag to get notified of any activity.

• Interactions will be smoother with threaded conversations.

• Through the new post creation page you can ask a question or start a discussion, and add more details, like the application type, service studio and platform versions, to make it easier for the community to help. There’s also a new upload component that uploads via Javascript that allows us to post an answer without reloading the entire page.  Ah, and don’t forget to add tags related to your post, so it can be easily found by the community.

• This experience is available in multiple devices, so grab your favorite one and check out the new forums.

• Performance was improved, as we reviewed and fine tuned all the queries that were impacting the performance of the page, we reduced drastically the size of our CSS files and we included lazy load on the pages.

• Last but definitely not least, have you noticed the new look & feel? Yes, we are going through a visual revamp in the entire Community and the Forum is just the beginning!

We hope you like this new experience and please share your feedback with us through a survey that will soon be available in the forums.

Oh, and if you are thinking we are done, there’s more! In the next few weeks more features will be released, like the ability to tag someone while replying to a post, alerts to remind the post’s owner to mark an answer as a solution, and more….so, stay tuned!

Tânia