Managing an Ideation Blog

Before you begin

An Ideation Blog must be created within a community. Membership is restricted to the community membership. You must be an owner of an Ideation Blog to manage it.

Procedure

  • To freeze the creation of new ideas for the Ideation Blog, click Ideation Blog Actions > Stop Idea Creation.
    Users are no longer allowed to contribute ideas but they can still vote for and comment on existing ideas in the blog.
  • To completely freeze the Ideation Blog, click Ideation Blog Actions > Freeze Ideation Blog.
    Users cannot contribute new ideas or vote for or comment on existing ideas.
  • To manage settings for the Ideation Blog, click Ideation Blog Actions > Manage Ideation Blog.
    In addition to managing the settings that are common for all blogs, you can also control voting:
    • Choose Unlimited voting to allow members to vote as many times as they like.
    • Choose Set a voting limit to restrict the number of votes each member can cast to the number you specify.
  • To export the ideas from an Ideation Blog to a file, click Ideation Blog Actions > Export Ideas. The following fields from each idea are saved t a CSV file: Title, Creator, Create time, Last updater, Last updated time, Content, Tags, Vote Count, Comment Count, Status (graduated or not), and Activity link.
  • To mark an idea as a duplicate, select More Actions > Mark as Duplicate. You must search for the duplicate idea so the votes can be merged. The duplicate idea is marked as a duplicate and no further votes are allowed.
  • To remove an idea from an Ideation blog, select More Actions > Delete Idea for the idea and confirm that you want to remove it.