Create an Ideation Blog so your community can contribute
and vote on ideas.
Procedure
- From your community's overview page, choose .
- Select Ideation Blog.
- Click Create Your First Idea to
add an idea to the blog.
- Click Vote to vote for an idea you
support.
If you change your mind about an idea you voted
for, click
Voted to cancel your vote.
Note: The
number of votes each participant can cast is configurable from the Settings page
for the blog. Participants can cast unlimited votes or be limited
to a specified number. Status messages track the number of votes that
are used and the number of votes available.
- Click Add a Comment to comment on
an idea.
- Click to send a
link to the idea to people you specify.
- When you decide that an idea has enough support from the
community, click Graduate.
When
an idea is graduated, the default behavior is to freeze all voting
and commenting on the idea. You can create an activity to further
develop the idea. If you change your mind about a graduated idea,
open the idea and select Cancel Graduation.
A blog owner can change the default setting to allow voting and commenting
on a graduated idea.
- To review activity in the Ideation Blog, choose one of
the following views from the navigation pane:
- All Ideas shows all ideas that were contributed
to the Ideation Blog, including graduated ideas.
- Open Ideas shows just the ideas still
available for an action, such as voting, commenting, or graduating.
- Graduated Ideas shows ideas that you graduated.
- My Votes shows the ideas that you voted
for.
What to do next
To search for an idea or a comment in an Ideation Blog, choose
one of the following search scopes in the search bar:
- This Ideation Blog to search for a string
in the Ideation Blog that is open.
- Public Ideation blogs to search for a string
in an Ideation Blog in public communities.
- Public Ideas to search for a string in
an idea in public communities.
- My Ideas to search for a string in ideas
you contributed.
- This Ideation Blog's Comments to search
for a string in the comments in the Ideation Blog that is open.