RELATED IDEAS
Restrict which workspaces allow idea submission
As a Product Manager, I would like to control which products can have ideas. There are a couple of way to provide this capability: disable ideas on a product-by-product basis, restrict ability to create ideas within the portal by user or role, remove ideas from the ADD menu. We can suppress Ideas from navigation but a user can create an idea by clicking the "+" (ADD) menu in the upper, right-hand corner. This is particularly problematic because it seems to default to whichever product a user is viewing and if they don't choose another product when submitting the idea, it may definitely end up in the wrong place and they won't see any of the custom fields intended for all ideas.
Users don't always understand which products an idea fits into. When an idea is created, the reference ID contains the code for the product and if the idea is created in the wrong product, the reference ID forever indicates something that's not true. I created a product specifically for ideas (having a prefix of IDEA) and the ideas remain there until they are promoted to features.
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Customize which workspaces allow Aha! idea submission
We are using one ideas portal and have it set up to have all entries land in one Ideas Workspace. Our teams then use categories to organize the idea intake and promote the ideas into Portfolio workspaces when they are ready to proceed with the ide...
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Future consideration
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We have a workspace where we centralize our ideas intake for several other workspaces. We have limited the navigation to “ideas” since that's all we manage at the intake worskpace. Once the idea is reviewed and prioritized a feature or epic is created on a more granular workspace. On such granular workspaces, the ideas tab is hidden from navigation since we want user to open the ideas at the intake workspace.
Here is the problem: When users go to the intake workspace, they are allowed to select any workspace including the ones where the “ideas” navigation is hidden. We end up with ideas on those granular workspaces that can only be retrieved via reports.
From the portal side we don't have this issue since we can control which workspaces are available for users to select when they open a new idea. The same level of control is not available at the Aha roadmap and it would be great if we could have that implemented.
Would love to be able to restrict portals so that customers can only vote or comment, and not add ideas. This may be temporary (for example if there is a large backlog of ideas to triage) or if we choose to be more in control of the ideas that are in the portal.
It would be great to be able to restrict the creation of ideas for a workspace. I can see scenarios where we want customers to vote and comment, but not create ideas.
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Plus, users can choose any Product from the drop-down "For Product" field on add ideas form. Enabling "For Product" to be invisible (or read-only state) in a custom layout would be good