1. ADMINISTRATION A guide to setup and manage your innovation platform…
Setup & Branding

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS USER REGISTRATION TOP TAB LABELS LOGIN TEXT
DASHBOARD TEXT
COMMUNITIES INTRO TEXT
CHALLENGES HOMEPAGE TEXT
AUTO RESPONDERS
CUSTOMIZING STATUSES
DISPLAYING IDEAS
SITE PARAMETERS
LAYOUT & BANNER

3. Registration
There are 3 different methods of registration to give users access to the platform. a) Single Sign on b) Import an employee list; the system generates a username and password or you can define. Users can also login using their address as their username. c) Allowing users to register on their own via the registration form (which can be tailored to suit). Our team are always on hand to help you with data import – It’s the first and most important interaction with your audience.

4. Tab Labels
You control the top tab label names and display order.

5. Here’s how
Click on “Setup & Settings” from the left navigation > “General Parameters” > “Edit parameters, help pages and content”

6. Login text
Edit the welcome texts on the login screen…

7. Here’s how
Click on “Setup & Settings” from the left navigation > “Sign-In page” edit the text and click on “SAVE”

8. Dashboard Intro
The Dashboard acts as the landing page for participants and highlights recent activity and private invitations. It shows the vibrancy of your feedback community! You can customize this welcome text.

9. Here’s how “Setup & Settings” > “Dashboard”
Control whether to display “Top contributors” and site statistics on the dashboard

10. Communities
Customize each community intro text…

11. Here’s how Click on “Edit & Manage”…
1st - Click on “Setup & Settings” > “Manage Communities”

12. Here’s how Enter the community name and description…
The “Topic Name” is the question or heading

13. Challenges
Customize the challenge homepage intro text…

14. Here’s how Customize the content and click save.
Click on “Challenges” > “Intro Text”

15. Alerts
Customize each auto responder and alert…

16. Here’s how Select an email template to edit.
“Setup & Settings” > “Auto Responders”

17. Statuses
The default statuses are: Implemented, Planned, Already Offered, Duplicated, Not Planned, Started and Under Review. However you may wish to reduce these or add your own.

18. Here’s how
You can edit the existing statuses or create news one. You can also select a unique color for each status. If you wish ideas to be automatically assigned a default status you can select which status that should be.
You can tick the check-box "Close idea. Voting stops" to disable voting on ideas which have been assigned that specific status.
“Setup & Settings” > “Manage Statuses”

19. Attribution
You can control if Ideas and Comments are attributed to real names or usernames (or anonymous)

20. Here’s how “Setup & Settings” > “Idea Parameters”
You can select to display users by “Username”, “Real name” or “anonymous”

21. Site Parameters
Choose an address which the system will use to send invitations – rather than being sent – they can come from your domain – so that users can trust the alerts and notification s.
If required, you can restrict access by IP range – ensuring that only participants from your company/organisation have access.
Single Sign-On can be setup to allow access to the ideas community with the credentials of your existing company Intranet. Your choice of SAML or cookie based SSO can be used with popular authentication systems such as Active directory.

22. Branding
Upload a large image to be displayed on the login page…

23. Here’s how
You can choose between two login page layouts. If you select the “large left image” layout – can you then upload your image.
“Setup & Settings” > “Look & Feel”