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 . Users
will no longer be 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 . Users will not be able
to contribute new ideas or vote for or comment on existing ideas.
- To manage settings for the Ideation Blog, click . 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 . 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 . You will be asked to search for the duplicate idea
so the votes can be merged. The duplicate idea will be marked as a
duplicate and no further votes will be allowed.
- To remove an idea from an Ideation blog, select for the idea and confirm that you want to remove it.