Features & Updates
Comment on Y/N/M Evaluations
In a Yes, No, Maybe evaluation, evaluators can make quick decisions on long lists of ideas. As opposed to a Criteria-Based evaluation, the Y/N/M evaluation type gives facilitators a quick pulse on which ideas are worth considering more extensively, and which ideas should be deferred. However, there isn’t a way for users to comment on their decision like they could in a Criteria-Based evaluation, explaining the reasoning for their decision.
In this release, we’ve added the ability to comment on a Yes, No, Maybe evaluation. Evaluators can comment on each decision in the evaluation, and can come back at a later time to add to or edit their comments. These comments can be viewed in the Yes, No, Maybe evaluation reporting screen.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users
“Completed” Idea Status
Prior to this release, there were only three Idea Status options: Progressing, Waiting, and Deferred. Many users requested a fourth status to represent that an idea is finished and no longer needs work or review by their team.
We’ve now added a new Idea Status of “Completed.” Users can select this status to indicate their idea has reached full maturity and no longer needs to be worked on in Forest.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users
Early Idea Feedback
Many users have requested ways to collaborate on ideas as they are being worked on in Forest. Up until now, there wasn’t a simple way to get feedback or solicit a review on an idea while working on it. As a result, users built their ideas with little to no feedback from subject matter experts or colleagues within their organization, and had to chase that down later.
We’ve now added the ability for team members to solicit feedback from other users while they’re developing an idea. Users can select the new “Request Feedback” option within the Idea Builder, which will take them through a simple step-by-step process to solicit feedback from any users they select.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users
Clearer Y/N/M Answers in Evaluation Reports
Previously, Yes, No, Maybe evaluation reports displayed answers in columns as “No, Maybe, Yes.” This confused users trying to determine how each idea was scored in the report, particularly when they viewed these reports on smaller screens where the screen break cut off some replies.
We’ve corrected this by stacking answers, displaying them in a single line instead of separate columns, and reordering them as “Yes, Maybe, No,” to make it clearer to read.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users
Display User Groups
Within an idea profile, only administrators could see which team members were associated with a piece of content (idea, campaign, portfolio). Non-admin users could not view which user groups were assigned to content, stifling collaboration.
To create greater visibility, user group names will now be displayed in the team section of a content profile. Users can now see which groups are part of an idea, portfolio, or campaign team. Content and workspace admins will still have the ability to toggle an option to “hide” user groups from specific content profiles.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users
View Ideas as Lists or Cards
When users viewed the “Ideas” section within a campaign, the list of ideas displayed as cards only. When viewing the “Ideas” section within a portfolio, it displayed only as a list. In other areas of Forest, users are able to toggle between list view or card view. To avoid confusion and make idea views consistent throughout the application, we’ve added a feature enhancement that enables users to toggle between a list view or card view of ideas within a campaign or portfolio. This will be especially useful for administrators, allowing for faster and easier reporting.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users
Bulk Add Users to Groups
Previously, adding many users to a user group was time-consuming and cumbersome. If an administrator wanted to create a user group with 25+ individuals, they had to individually search for and add each user.
To streamline this process, we’ve added a CSV upload feature that enables administrators to add a large number of users to a user group at once. They can then associate that group to specific ideas, campaigns, portfolios, or custom pages.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins and Workspace Admins
Custom Default Campaign Visibility
Prior to this release, any new ideas submitted to a campaign automatically defaulted to “public visibility.” This was problematic for ideas submitted to private campaigns, which were publicly visible until the administrator went in and changed the visibility.
With this release, administrators can now set custom default visibility settings when a new idea is submitted to their campaign. This allows campaign team members and admins to control who sees new ideas from the point they are submitted to a campaign.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins and Workspace Admins
Redirect Idea URLs
Users often share links to idea profiles in instant messages, emails, or internal documents. In some cases, this way of sharing URLs creates invalid links that should lead to an idea, but because the associated campaign or portfolio has been deleted, it returns a 404 error. The idea might still exist, but because it’s linked to a deleted campaign or portfolio, the link is rendered invalid.
Moving forward, any shared idea links that are associated with deleted campaigns or portfolios will no longer return 404 errors, but redirect users to the standalone idea profile.
Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users
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