Aurora: Submit an idea
From an Ideas board, members with the Post new ideas permission can submit an idea. Anonymous users must register to the community to suggest ideas.
To submit an idea:
Here's an interactive tutorial
After you submit your idea, other members can vote or comment on it. By default, members who started or replied to the idea are auto-subscribed to the idea. Learn more about following content.
Note: You can use markdown syntaxes while writing the content instead of formatting the text using toolbar options. Also, you can use other keyboard shortcuts to work quickly and efficiently. Learn more about keyboard shortcuts.
Note: While submitting an idea, the content added is auto-saved in edit mode. Upon reloading the page, the content is auto-recovered.
Admins and members who submit the idea can add or remove tags. Learn more about tags.
Edit idea
Members who submitted ideas and others with the Manage ideas and comments permission can edit ideas whenever they find that the content needs to be updated.
To edit an idea:
- Go to the idea page you want to edit and click Settings > Edit.
The idea opens in an editor. - Update the content and click Publish.
Manage published ideas
Members with elevated permissions (admins and moderators) can perform a variety of content management tasks on the published content. These tasks include:
- Move the idea to another location on the community
- Update idea’s status
- Delete the idea
- Reject the idea as spam
Authors and members with elevated permissions can block new replies to the idea.
Most of these tasks are available from the Settings menu.
Note: If you don’t see any of these menu options, you do not have the required permissions to perform these tasks.
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