Idea Wall Documentation

Add your ideas or answers to the wall’s question by clicking on the top left button. It opens an idea submission form. Add a short title and describe your idea with a few words. Choose the category of the idea. Save the idea to the wall or continue adding more ideas. The submitted ideas become visible at once on the wall.

NOTE: You can not upload images or add links to your idea for security reasons. Also, note that some walls may not have the description field enabled.

Like ideas and add short comments. On some walls, liking and commenting may be disabled.

You can use the dropdown menus of the wall to filter ideas based on their status (the Wall Manager has to set the statuses) and sort them using one of the three criteria.

To exit the wall, close the corresponding browser window. There’s no need to log out.

Both the Site Administrator and Wall Manager can configure a wall. It is advisable to do this before making the wall public. If the wall already has ideas, a new configuration may erase some or all of them.

Read the configuration instructions.

Use the pencil icon in an idea box to open it for editing. You can edit the text contents and change the category (column) of the idea. Save the idea when you’re done.

Use the trashcan icon to remove the idea from the wall. This cannot be undone.

Each idea box has an up and down arrow. Use them to reposition an idea in the column.

To move ideas between columns, open the idea for editing and change its category, i.e. column.

NOTE: Save the wall idea order by clicking on the rightmost icon in the menu. The saved order becomes the default.

An idea can have one of the three statuses that you can choose from the dropdown menu of the idea card. They are helpful in filtering the ideas, e.g. based on their priority.

If you have changed the order of the ideas and want the new order to become the default, save the wall with the righ-most icon in the menu.

Use the download icon in the menu to download the contents of the wall as an Excel file.

Use the Add Wall button to add a new wall. You can also duplicate an existing wall using the duplicate icon of the existing walls. Duplication does not copy the submitted ideas of the wall.

NOTE: New walls are in On Hold state by default. Change the status to Active (=visible) on the configuration form.

With the respective icons, you can configure a wall, delete it, duplicate it, or view it (in edit mode). Deleletion can’t be undone.

• Wall Title – The question/theme of the wall
• Wall Sub Title – The subtitle of the wall
• Wall Info – Text, including hyperlinks, that appears when a user clicks on the info icon in the wall’s top-right menu
• Add Idea Button Label – The label of the top-left button of the wall
• Disable Add Idea Button – If checked, participants can only view the wall and not add new ideas
• Wall Logo – A jpeg/png/gif file that shows on the wall entry page

You can add as many columns (=categories) as you like. Each column has a title, a background color, and a description that will be visible on the idea entry form.

NOTE: You can change the title of an existing column even if there are ideas in that column. However, if you delete a column, the respective ideas will be lost permanently.

Each idea has a status. You can use statuses to filter ideas on the wall.

An idea can have up to three statuses that you can label freely. The first one is obligatory.

The wall can be Active (=visible) or On Hold (=invisible). All new walls are On Hold by default.

Advanced Configuration fields allow you to change the labels of forms and buttons. If you don’t do any modifications, the labels are in their default (English) form.

Advanced Configuration lets you create user interfaces in different languages.

• Sort Order Title – The title of the sort order dropdown
  • Default Order – The default sort order label
  • Date – The Order by Date label
  • Alphabetical – The Order Alphabetically label
  • Likes – The Order by Likes label
• Label for “Load More Ideas” – The label that appears at the bottom of the wall if the number of ideas is high and more ideas need to be shown
• “Show” Title Label – The status dropdown menu title
• “Show All” Text – The “Show All” text in the status dropdown menu

• Idea Form Title – The title that appears on top of the idea submission form
• Idea Form Subtitle/Question – The subtitle 
• Idea Form Label for Title – The label of the title field
• Idea Form Label for Description – The label of the description field
• Column Selection Title – The label for the “Select category” radio button list
• Submit Button Label – The button label
• Back To Wall Button Label – The button label
• “Add Another?” Button Label – The button label
• Help File URL – You can provide the participants with a custom help/instructions page
• Disable Description Field – Check this if you want to hide the Description field of the idea submission form

• Comment Form Title – The title of the comment form

• Comment Link Label – The label of the comment link on an idea card

• Idea statuses (all but first optional). Use these statuses to filter out ideas on the wall. Only the Wall Manager can change the status of an idea.
• Wall status: Active = visible, On Hold = invisible. NOTE! If you change the value to On Hold as a Wall Manager, you will no longer be able to log on to the wall unless the Site Administrator changes the wall status back to Active.