After adding an Ideation Blog to a community, you can edit
basic information about the Ideation Blog, change the access level
of community members, and specify whether comments to the Ideation
Blog are moderated. In addition, you can control Ideation Blog membership,
hide the Ideation Blog, or remove it from the community.
Before you begin
You must be a community owner to perform management tasks for an Ideation Blog.
You must also be logged in to Connections version 5.5.
About this task
If your community has an Ideation Blog,
you can manage it from the community in a number of ways. For example,
you can hide or remove the Ideation Blog, or update the membership
of the Ideation Blog. You can also take steps to control idea creation
and voting. For more information, see Managing an Ideation Blog.
Procedure
- To edit basic information about the Ideation Blog, such as its name, description, tags, or time
zone, select on the Overview page and click the Ideation
Blog tab.
- To change the access level of community members to the
Ideation blog, select on the Overview page
and choose one of the following access options:
- Author. Allows members to post ideas to
the Ideation Blog.
- Draft. Allows members to save draft ideas
only.
- Viewer. Allows members to view ideas but
not to contribute to the Ideation Blog.
When you first create an Ideation Blog, all members of the community
are granted author access by default.
- To specify whether comments added to the Ideation Blog
are moderated, select on the Overview page,
and then select an option from the Comments list.
Moderated comments are saved into a draft state until a community
owner approves them for posting to the Ideation Blog.
- To add or remove an Ideation Blog member, you need to add
or remove that person from the community membership. You
can do this on the community's Members page.
For more information about changing community membership, see Managing
community membership.
- You can perform the following Ideation Blog management tasks from the community
Overview page by clicking the Actions icon
in the Ideation Blog app title bar and selecting from the menu that displays: - To move the Ideation Blog app up or down the Overview page, choose
Move Up or Move Down as appropriate.
- To hide the Ideation Blog, choose Hide and confirm that you want to
temporarily remove the Ideation Blog from the community.
When you are ready to resume Ideation
Blog activity, select and select Ideation Blog from the
Hidden section of the app palette. All the Ideation Blog content is restored
to the community.
- To remove the Ideation Blog and all its content, choose Remove and
complete the form that displays to confirm that you want to remove the Ideation Blog permanently.
Important: When you perform this action, the Ideation Blog content is permanently
removed and it cannot be retrieved later.