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'Ideas' topic types and limited platform

  • September 27, 2018
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Samuel Meek
Hi @Julian /@ErikD,

I have noticed on the InSided Community that there is an option to post an Idea topic and this is limited to the 'Got an idea?' community board platform.

This is great, and I'm wondering how you can do this as we would be interesting in doing the same for Idea and Question topics?

Thanks,

Sam

Best answer by Shane1

Hey Sam,

You just need to go to 'forum structure' in control, go to the specific subforum you want to make an ideation subforum and select the below option:

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Jurgen
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  • September 28, 2018
Are you on a branded template?

Julian
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  • October 1, 2018
Hi guys! :)

@Jurgen yes, their community is not even live yet, so they are automatically on branded template. :)

@Samuel Meek the "Create topic" page knows exactly if a specific subforum is meant for ideas (or not), and will automatically limit the category selection to that ideation subforum. This means that, should you start such a subforum, it would automatically work like you experienced here on our community.

This unfortunately does not work the same way for questions - I assume you want to restrict users on asking questions and not be able to start new discussion topics?

I have a bit of doubt that such a feature would stop users from starting discussions - they probably would start debating within (other users') questions regardless.

Cheers,

Julian

Samuel Meek
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  • October 1, 2018
Thanks, guys.

So, how do I get this to work? 😃

Sam

Shane1
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  • October 1, 2018
Hey Sam,

You just need to go to 'forum structure' in control, go to the specific subforum you want to make an ideation subforum and select the below option:


Samuel Meek
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  • October 2, 2018
Hey Sam,

You just need to go to 'forum structure' in control, go to the specific subforum you want to make an ideation subforum and select the below option:



Great! Thanks, Shane 🙂

Sam