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Importing and exporting ideas

Jive Ideas can be imported or exported between a place in the community and a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel.

You might want to export ideas to create charts from Excel, such as a pie chart that shows how ideas are distributed among stages. And importing ideas is a great way to add a batch of ideas from data you have in another form.

  • Exporting ideas Exporting ideas generates an Excel spreadsheet (.xls file) which is downloaded by your browser. Exported data can't be imported again in order to update the idea data it was exported from. Any data that's imported creates a new idea for each item imported.

Note: This option is available for community administrators.

Exporting ideas overview​

The exported spreadsheet includes the following information for each idea:

  • ID: The idea's unique ID in the application.

  • Title: The title of the idea as seen on the interface.

  • Description: The description of the idea as seen on the interface.

  • Score: The idea score from voting. For more information, see Configuring point scoring.

  • Votes: The number of votes (in both directions).

  • Comments: Comments added to the idea by community users.

  • Watching: The number of people who are watching the idea via notifications.

  • Stage: The stage of the idea. For more information, see Managing idea stages.

  • Author Name: The author of the idea.

  • Author Email: The author's email.

  • Created Date: The idea creation date.

  • Other fields: If custom fields are available for ideas, they are included in the report. For more information, see Managing custom fields.

  • Importing ideas Importing ideas into the community is possible from CSV files.

Exporting community ideas​

To export all community ideas:

  1. In the user interface, select Your avatar > Export All Ideas.
  2. Select which ideas you want to export by specifying the stage, score, and creation date range.
  3. Click Export to export the ideas.

This exports the selected ideas from the community to an XSL file you can download to your computer.

Exporting place ideas​

To export ideas from a place:

  1. In the place, select Manage > Gear icon > Export Ideas > Export ideas.
  2. Select which ideas you want to export by specifying the stage, score, and creation date range.
  3. Click Export to export the ideas.

This exports the selected place ideas to an XSL file you can download to your computer.

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Administering Jive Ideation