How To Configure The Visibility of Ideas

You’re welcome! 

1. Unfortunately I’m not a coder myself, so I won’t be able to provide you the right code. 😕 I recommend you to reach out to someone who has the right coding experience (either within your team or from technical support). 
2. it’s not possible to set a redirect URL for the /ideas landing page if you deactivate the ideas module

Hey @ryanne.perry, I’m not a coder as well but maybe I can help you with this one. Are you looking to hide the idea option when creating a topic? Something like this?
 

Thanks much @leo-inspired! That does look like the right path.

Hi @Yoeri 

is it possible to set it so a certain custom role can see the ideas page but not be able to submit an idea?
We have this ability on other category pages but I can only see “access to ideation” which blocks the entire ideation page from them.

Hey @elyhienrich 

is it possible to set it so a certain custom role can see the ideas page but not be able to submit an idea?

Unfortunately this is not possible, for ideation you control the visibility, ability to submit and reply all in a single permission switch. What is your usecase for allowing users to see ideas but not allowing them to submit them, I assume that users who can see ideas can also vote for them. 

Hi @Yoeri 

Our use case is that we don’t want employees posting ideas, however we do want employees to be aware of ideas that are coming in especially if they are a CSM and have a customer that they have encouraged to post & of course our product team. So we need the functionality to turn off the allowance of a certain custom role from being able to post in this space.

Another option could be the ability for community moderators to audit ideas before they are posted(?) 

Thanks! 

@elyhienrich My two cents here is that I’d probably go for a non-technical solution in the scenario you describe.  I’d simply make it a policy / guideline for employees to not post ideas.  If that occasionally were to go wrong, a very quick and painless moderation action, followed by a polite note to the employee that apparently missed the memo, would fix it.  Do you think that could work in your situation?  I’m guessing that this would likely be a very rare occurrence.

Thanks Kenneth, this is what I would have recommended as well :)

Safe to assume from this that there’s no current way to allow users to vote for an idea but to hide the vote count, correct?

Hi @erin.brisson - yes that’s right, there’s no out-of-the-box way to hide the vote count.  I am curious - why would you not want your members to see the vote count?