Portal Options outline all of the items you can choose to display on your Portal.
1 Portal Title
Give your Portal a unique title that makes it clear where the participants have landed. This might be the name of your program, name of a specific department or other group if using multiple Portals.
2 Language
In conjunction with Terminology the field names, headers, etc. can be changed to reflect your unique program. If you're not using English and need a full language set, please contact Imaginatik Support.
3 Show Current Buzz
Enabling the Current Buzz shows the link to the Current Buzz -- a word cloud made up of what is coming into the Innovation Central environment across all challenges currently shown on the Portal page. Press the Play button to animate the word cloud so the progression of content can be seen over time.
4 Show My Connections
My Connections allows everyone with access to see how they and others are connected through collaboration. This view has similar properties to the view shown in Measuring Participation in Innovation Analytics.
5 Default Page
Setting the Default Page simply means when people land on your Portal page what is the first thing seen front and center? This gives you the ability to refresh and change the look of your Portal over time. For example, when starting your program, you may want to make a Resource that describes the program, the outcomes and why innovation is important the default. You'd then want to change the default to be the Idea Feed after the first 30-45 days. Then, when the first results are ready to share, perhaps you share a resource highlighting employees and their Ideas, projects, etc. as they progress. Because the default page is a selection of what is currently available, you do have to at least save a draft of a resource for it to be made available as a Default Page.
6 Ideas Included
This setting simply chooses the number of Ideas to be displayed in the Idea feed. Most people would not scroll beyond the default (50), so leaving the default is recommended.
7 Allow Event Filtering
This simply gives the end users the option to filter events for the various feeds as shown when it's enabled. Users will only see information associated with challenges to which they have access.
8 Show Item Info
When this is enabled, the information and statistics associated with each challenge will appear when an individual clicks the
information icon. In the example below, the
has been clicked on the first two challenges. Users will only see information associated with challenges to which they have access.
9 Show Profile Images
When this is enabled, the profile images appear in the Idea Feed. This is generally enabled, as it provides a more personal experience for each individual.
10 Show Other Portals/Edit Home Portal
When using multiple portals in your overall approach, it can be useful to allow people to look at other collaborative activities going on across the organization. In this case, enable Show Other Portals. When people visit other Portals, as always, they'll only see challenges that are open to everyone, or to which they've been invited.
In some cases, it may even be beneficial for users to set their own home Portal. In this case, enable Edit Home Portal. When someone does select a new default Portal, the next time they enter Innovation Central, they'll be presented with the newly selected Portal as the home page.
11 Imaginatik Footer/Customer Footer
Allows you to display a footer on the Portal page that is most appropriate to your own environment. For example, it may be helpful to note that all content is confidential.