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Show Update categories in in-app widgets

Outbound

Update categories should be visible across all in-app Update surfaces, including the Messenger Updates tab, Update popup, Update card, and standalone Update widget.

Showing categories such as New feature, Improvement, Beta, or Maintenance helps users immediately understand what an Update is about.

On compact cards, additional categories can be collapsed into a +N categories label. The full Update view should show every assigned category using its configured name and color.

Post type
💡 New feature
What part of Outbound?
Posted by Markus Palm ·
Status: Planned3 comments

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  • Ezra Weinstein

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    Jul 21

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    Merged request

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    11 votes

    Changelog Widget - Allow Categories

    It would be very beneficial to add a catgories parameter to the Changelog widget. Your AI assistant told me I could do this when I asked for help but Bruno clarified that this was an AI Hallucination (see below). But that is a good way to implement it.

    Hey! To show only certain categories in the changelog widget, you'll need to use the categories parameter during the widget initialization.

    Here's how to do it:

    1. Add Initialization Script:

    Include the categories parameter with the specific category IDs you want to show. 

javascript Featurebase('initialize_changelog_widget', { organization: "name", // Replace with your organization name categories: ["category1_id", "category2_id"], // Replace with the actual category IDs theme: 'light', // other options });

    • Rory Colsell

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      Feb 3

      The context is that I have two product versions and one changelog, so I want to be able to control which product version each changelog shows up on, so users of each product version don’t see irrelevant updates that don’t apply to that version.

    • Rory Colsell

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      Feb 3

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      Merged request

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      4 votes

      Ability to only show changelog entries in the widget with a certain category

      I would like to be able to use the changelog widget with certain changelog posts filtered out. The ideal solution to this would be to be able to choose categories to include in the initialize script such as:

      ```Featurebase("initialize_changelog_widget", {
      organization: "vero",
      placement: "right",
      theme: "light",
      fullscreenPopup: true,
      categories: "category_1, category_2"
      })```