How do I keep track of the community's ideas?

If you want to keep up with an overview of how ideas are progressing in the community, you can get an overview of them by using community tools such as idea lists, widgets and feeds.

Browsing Ideas

You can browse the list of ideas in the community from the Ideas tab displayed on overview pages (such as the overview of a community, space, group or project). You can also see a list of ideas you've created by clicking Your Stuff > Ideas.

On the ideas tab, you'll see a list of ideas that you can sort and filter. For each idea, you'll see its current score (you can vote if you haven't already), values for its fields (if ideas have them), and the number of comments on the idea.

You can sort ideas according to the following:

Score -- The number of points an idea has accrued through voting.
Popularity -- The number of votes an idea has received, whether up or down.
Recently added -- How recently an idea was added.
Most discussed -- The amount of comment activity an idea has had.

You can filter according to stages defined for ideas in your community, as well as by when it was added (such as by ideas added in the preceding week).

Using Ideas Widgets

With widgets, you can view lists of ideas and vote on them.

The widgets you can use include:

The Top Ideas widget, which displays a list of the ideas that are getting the highest scores in the community.
The Recent Ideas widget, which shows the ideas that were created most recently.

For more information, see documentation on how to customize your view of the community with widgets.

Using Feeds to Get Ideas Information

As with other content in the community, you can get feeds (such as RSS feeds) for ideas. By subscribing to a feed of ideas in a particular project, for example, you'll get updated information whenever an idea in that project is updated.

You subscribe to feeds using an RSS reader. For more information see other documentation on feeds.

To subscribe to feeds for ideas, go to an Ideas tab in the community (such as from a space, group, or project overview). At the bottom of the ideas lists on the page, click RSS feed of this list.