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Detailed report on a particular idea. Give an idea number, get a list of who voted, how they voted, etc.
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The life cycle of an idea includes the concept that one will be phased out eventually if there is no activity and no action is taken (idea cleanup). For example, we plan to manually phase out ideas after 6 months to a year if they are not implemented and no activity (no additional votes/comments, etc.) have taken place during that time frame.
It would be very helpful to either...
a.) Add a time of last activity to an idea for quick reference (i.e. - Last Activity: 6 months and 2 days ago). - OR -
b.) Build some sort of automatic phase out rules. In our use case, we plan on moving ideas that haven't been commented on in the last 6 months or so to an Idle category and then after that they will go to a "Last Chance" category. At the end of this cycle if there is no activity to make them active again they will be closed. All of this is manual and will probably require a fair amount of effort. If this process of phasing out ideas could be automated it could be a big time saver.
Notes: Moderator comments should not impact the time of last activity since you wouldn't want it to reset every time a moderator changed a category or added a moderator comment, etc.
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Give users the ability to 'abstain' from voting on a particular idea but still show the idea as voted on.
With the vast number of ideas I try to not re-read them, but if there are some that I don't feel strongly about either way I won't vote. Then they still show the vote up or vote down buttons. If there was an option to abstain (think mark as read) that would help me manage Ideascale as a user.
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Need a multi-dimensional reputation system (pluggable) for IdeaScale users.
Here are some patterns:
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/parent.php?pattern=reputation
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Thanks for adding the XML data dump (http://ideas.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/21074-3339).
Unfortunately, the dump includes only very basic information about ideas. Some additional data would be very helpful:
-- ideas:
* the "Why Is This Idea Important?" field
* account name of submitter
* anonymized IP address of submitter
* timestamp of submission
* category
* tags
-- idea comments
* account name
* anonymized IP address
* timestamp
* text
-- idea votes
* account name
* anonymized IP address
* up or down
* timestamp
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A tag cloud is a great tool for encouraging serendipitous browsing of ideas, and giving users a sense of scope for the concepts covered in whatever tool they are using - it should be a prominent when users come to the system rather than buried under "subscribe".
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The Related Topics/Ideas section of one of our IdeaScale sites sre showing multiple duplicates of individual Ideas.
Could this be because this is a new site and there are not a large number of ideas in the system yet?
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I would like to add votes for a new idea in case that I start with ideascale and would like to import ideas and votes from an other plattform.
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Users should be able to post anonymously without their name showing on an idea. This option should also be able to be disabled in the admin.
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The system is great as is, but custom fields would take it to the next level as far as customizing information to suit the organization. Adding custom fields of different types (list, text, number, date, etc.) to the idea would help increase the flexibility.
Properties of the custom fields might include:
* Whether the custom field is required
* Who can see the custom field (moderators or everyone)
* Type of custom field
* Default value of custom field
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I had a great conversation with a client (actually potential) about extending IdeaScale to provide for a costing model for ideas. As is typical with most businesses - feedback and enhancements are not FREE - everything has a cost associated with it. Currently with IdeaScale we are not focusing on capturing either the cost (or value) of any particular idea.
On internal sites, this can be referenced as "Cost Savings" or "Revenue Generation" - Users (both who are posting ideas) as well as voting on them should be able to quantify the cost savings a particular idea will produce.
In some cases, only the idea author may be able to define the cost/value, and in other cases both idea authors as well as voters can define the cost/value for an idea.
One solution to this issue, is to come up with a Numeric (Enter $ Value) Custom Field on IdeaScale and use this as a model for reporting median values etc.
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Would like to have an additional review tab titled "Oldest First" to display in the oposite order from "Recent."
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There have been a lot of changes made to the site lately (most of them positive); which have been initially confusing for users. It would be nice to receive notification of these changes as they occur. Here are just two changes that would have been nice to know about in advance:
Tell us that you made a site admin tab.
Tell us that the login link will no longer be in the upper right hand corner.
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It would be nice to be able to have some control over what content goes into the RSS feed. For example, I would rather just have the title/link of the new idea without the "Vote" and "Comment" links as well.
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Have a point system, so a user gets point on submitting an idea, gets a point commenting, etc. This will motivate users and then based on the point system corporates could have a reward based system.
I saw an image in the help section where it had a point system, dont know why it has been disabled now, have attached the image below
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I just noticed this new link (IdeaReport) in the footer section when I was logged in as Moderator. Outstanding! I am more and more impressed over time about the quality and innovation that keeps getting added to IdeaScale.
The default reports are great. Being able to further customize them will be outstanding to fit workflow. A couple thoughts on customization that would be handy...all of which you may already have thought of:
1.) Being able to set parameters for the date ranges (to something other than 30 days, etc.)
2.) Adding Custom field filters into the Custom Reports, etc.
I'm sure there are many more cool possibilities. This really helps with the administration. Keep up the great work!
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On your input forms you should say that tags are comma delimited.
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Add another link under the "Ideas" nav that links to all the ideas you are tracking. I may prefer to view the ones I am tracking there vs. having them emailed.
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Currently a user's profile page doesn't display custom fields. It would be nice if they were viewable.
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When I choose to graduate an Idea to another IdeaScale panel it would be nice if I could set it as "Under Review" or "In Progress" at that time instead of it automatically being closed. Closed Ideas are not visible to customers. So when I graduate an Idea it gives the impression to customers that their idea disappeared and is not being listened to, when in fact the reason it was graduated is most likely that it is being more closely considered.
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As a moderator it appears I have no way to filter ideas based on their internal priority or owner. There are many use cases where I may just want to look at High priority items assigned to a specific owner, etc.
See screenshot below for how this leaves a gap in the filtering capability.
Also, I hope that if you add Custom Fields (or integrate IdeaScale with QuestionPro) someday that you will keep in mind that filtering is the key to narrowing down lists of ideas. For example, I may only want to see ideas that have a specific answer for a custom field (QuestionPro question).
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With the revise idea functionality the Idea History should capture the number of votes a idea had at the time the idea was revised. This way, if an idea substantially changes you can no how many votes the "first" version of the idea had before it was changed, etc.
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Add a setting in Profile Detail to select a default view. For instance, I could choose to always have my view defaulted to "Recent" but still have the tabs to change the view if I so choose. Also, after I finish my moderator tasks on an idea, return me to where I left off.
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I note that ideas graduated from questionpro.ideascale.com to this community are coming in with no votes, and administrative user accounts associated with the historical idea and comments.
It's better than hand-entering text, but that history is too significant to discard, in my opinion. I would like to see such graduations carry their entire history, as well as pre-authorizing user profiles for all users of the prior community to which that history refers (the authors, commentors, etc.)
If an account for the same email address already exists, that's great. If not, seed it with the values from the prior community and include this fact in the email notice of the graduation.
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The usage of tables in the HTML markup in the current main custom template and other templates all contain tables for the layouts. It is not semantic at all.
The usage of tables increases the complexity of the markup. Using DIV's would be more than fine for all of IdeaScale needs.
Tables also reduce the flexibility of what we can do with design elements making it much more harder for anyone creating their custom CSS thus limiting functionality.
Quick Reasons (from http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/03overview.html):
* make your pages load faster
* lower your hosting costs
* make your redesigns more efficient and less expensive
* help you maintain visual consistency throughout your sites
* get you better search engine results
* make your sites more accessible to all viewers and user agents
* and give you a competitive edge (that is, job security) as more of the world moves to using Web standards.
As a quick example(NB: I removed the brackets on certain lines to be able to post), the current structure of the IdeaScale page leading to the IdeaScale_Logo goes like this:
/html/body/table#IdeaScale_Layout/tbody/tr/td/div/div/img
Where as you could have
/html/body/div#IdeaScale_Layout/div#IdeaScale_Logo_Container/div#IdeaScale_Logo/img
So now it uses less markup - /html/body/div/div/div/img compared to /html/body/table/tbody/tr/td/div/div/img
Also take for example this:
td id="IdeaScale_Navigation_Container" width="20%" valign="top"
Instead of using a table to define the width, why not use div id="IdeaScale_Navigation_Container" and then in the CSS stylesheet define that it has a width of 20%?
This makes sure there are no browser conflicts but also makes it alot cleaner and easier for everyone to style IdeaScale.
On that note, there should be a reduction with inline CSS as we don't have access to all the HTML so we won't be able to style everything, unless we use !important in our CSS but IE6 doesn't like that.
So all these little problems with the current HTML markup reduces the flexibility/possibilitys that we have when designing for IdeaScale.
What would a good solution be without effecting existing sites?
Build a a new bare bones/framework template from scratch avoiding any other problems and deploying that as a new additional custom theme to allow those confident in CSS to edit it. This way it prevents any issues of end users having to re-write their site to match the new improved markup.
Making sure it validates would be very good to!
There is tons of content on the matter at http://www.w3.org/
But for a quick overview of best practices:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/bestwebdev.html
Another good link is:
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/
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