My stakeholders want to create a Sharepoint-based suggestion box where employees submit a idea and once it is considered as having merit, a discussion board is set up to allow others to contribute their own ideas etc.
I understand how to set up the form on Sharepoint and route it through the approvals. It’s this second part that I’m not clear on how to do. I’ve never seen a Suggestion box or Idea box set up this way (and not sure it’s an ideal solution!) Any thoughts on the implementation or if there is a better way?
Do you think you can tell me a little more details on how you did this? I am trying to figure out what webparts you used to accomplish this in the Blog and how you were able to get the thums up and thumbs down on the screen. Thanks!
Ben,
Thanks for the response, I look forward to trying this approach.
Best Regards
Richard,
You would make use of two site templates in 2013, the Community Site Template and the Blog Site Template. All original ideas would be created in the Community Site, where you add a category column to organize the discussions (ideas). I simply modified the left hand navigation to show each category and when you click on the category link – it took you to that specific discussion area.
When an idea is viewed as something to investigate, you would utilize the Blog site template. You would create an Idea Status column in the blog list so you can categorize what stage an idea is in. People can comment on the ideas that are in action using the comments capability of the blog site template. To make it easy for people to see the idea in action from the original discussion – you would create a reply in that specific discussion thread with a hyperlink to the blog post, and mark it as the Best Reply – that way it is always at the top of the thread.
To provide context to the blog post, simply paste the url of the individual discussion or discussions that led to the idea being investigated further in the blog post.
Anyone can submit a discussion (idea), but only a select group of people can create a blog post to update how ideas are being progressed. Anyone could comment on the blog posts.
It pretty much just uses out of the box capabilities of these two site templates, with some minor configurations involving columns and altering the navigation elements.
Would love to do something like this at my customer site. Can you provide any guidance on how you created your solution?
Anna,
I know its been over a year, but were you able to create a SharePoint Suggestion Box and how did you implement it. Looking for something similar to do in SharePoint 2013
