Managing an Ideation Blog

An Ideation Blog owner can manage their blog in a variety of ways.

To freeze the creation of new ideas for the Ideation Blog, click Ideation Blog Actions > Stop Idea Creation. Users can no longer 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 to 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.

More information

Check out Using an Ideation Blog for additional information on Ideation Blogs.