Case Studies Beta Feedback

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Case Studies are still in Beta, which I assume means HubSpot are still taking feedback on features and reliability. I just can’t find anywhere to do so. So here I am, hoping someone from that team will see this.
First of all, the concept of using an AI generation tool, based on content already existing in HubSpot for this is magical. I do wish the main input for that was a bit more guided, but I got around that with some ChatGPT magic.
With that said, I understand the structure of the Case Study templates need to be somewhat rigid, so you have control over where the AI puts content.
However! I don’t understand why we can’t add more additional content. We do have the Rich Text modules which are helpful… but Podcasts appear to be completely missed out, both in the initial seeding for the AI generation and on the page itself. We should be able to add a HubSpot hosted podcast episode to these pages.
Next up, I don’t get why we don’t have the ability to add a custom style sheet or header and footer html sections in the page settings. Changing the styling beyond what the GUI supports should be allowed via CSS and I don’t see how that would affect the AI population of copy into the modules. A few examples:

  1. the size of the text on the statistics modules is too big, I should able to reduce it with custom CSS…
  2. then my nav menu is super close to the nav menu elsewhere on the site, but it’s not the same, so it looks weird as you nav to and from case studies.
  3. There’s too much padding on the buttons compared to the buttons elsewhere on the site.

Images… there isn’t nearly enough control over image position and size in the available modules. I don’t want to have to create custom images every time if I can avoid it.

Finally, why aren’t the SEO / Metadata fields fully editable like they are for all other content pages types in HubSpot?
I really hope this continues to get development, because it’s top notch.

Side note: the light / dark section styling options in the theme are appreciated, but it’s a total guess when configuring them, because there’s no visual representation of what you are changing.

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Hey @ScottMoyse - thanks so much for posting in the Community!
We love to receive this level of feedback, especially on products and services still in beta. While you’re always welcome to post in the Community, our Ideas Forum would be the best place for this type of feedback. It allows other Community members and HubSpot customers to upvote your ideas, expand on them, and reach our Products team! I definitely recommend you posting this there for more extensive reach!
Shane, Community Manger

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Thanks. But this is here for a product manager to look at it, if they care.

It does seem strange that an active Beta project doesn’t have anywhere to provide feedback on.

There’s no clear category for it on the ideas forum and it will be effort that will just get lost in the noise of other requests in unrelated categories.

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**if they care to read it** is what I meant to write.