The Suggest an Idea widget enables members to search the community for previously submitted ideas that are similar to their own idea. This prevents duplicate suggestions from being submitted to your Ideas board. This widget is available only on the Ideas Dashboard template.

Text labels

For this widget, you can customize the verbiage for these text labels.:

• Search field placeholder: The text placeholder in the search field prior to the member entering any of their own text (the default text is “Search for an idea”).
• Action button: The text on the button displayed below the search results that enables a member to suggest their idea after they’ve searched for similar ones (the default text is “Suggest an idea”).
• Intro: The text that is displayed after an idea has been entered in the search field (the default text is “Similar ideas found:”).
• Action intro: The text that is displayed below the results list after a search (the default text is “Still don't see your idea? Share it with us:”).

Results list style

The widget supports these list styles:

• Space: Uses whitespace to create space between search results.
• Divide: Adds a horizontal line to divide search results.
• Border: Creates a border that separates search results into individual boxes.

Number of results to show

The Number of results to show slider sets the maximum number of results to display after a member conducts a search. If Show results pagination is enabled, members can click a Show More link to see more results.

Show sample results

You can enable the Show sample results toggle to preview what the search results may look like in your community. This content is chosen randomly from available ideas.

Note: If no ideas have been posted to your Ideas board, there is no sample content to preview.

Search result item elements

You can choose to show or hide the following elements on the Search Before Post widget:

• Author: The author's name.
• Author Rank: The rank of the author.
• Comment/reply count: The number of comments or replies on the idea.
• Idea status: The status of the idea (see About idea statuses).
• Tags: Any tag(s) associated with the idea.
• Preview text: Preview text for the idea (length defined with the Lines of preview text to display slider).
• Timestamp: The time and date the idea was published.
• Unread count: The total number of unread posts or comments on the idea (for example, "1 unread").
• View Count: The total number of views the idea has received.

Vote display

From the Vote display drop-down menu, select one of the following widget display options:

• Vote on Ideas: With this option enabled, members can vote on ideas directly in the Ideas widget.
• Show Count Only: With this option enabled, members see only the count of votes on an idea.
• None

Lead with

From the Lead with drop-down menu, select an option that designates what to show along with the idea in the widget:

• the idea author's Avatar
• the content type Icon
• None

Lines of preview text to display

The Lines of preview text to display slider gives you control over how many lines of text from each idea are displayed in the widget. After the set number of lines, an ellipsis (...) is used.

More options

 

Additional configuration options for the widget appear in the More options section:

• Include "Show More" link: Creates a Show More link if more ideas are available than the number designated on the Number of results to show slider.
• Optimize page-load time: Optimize the page's load time using a lazy load method. Widgets only appear as the member scrolls down the page, shortening the time to render the page.