Have a type of grouping or ability to have Idea #5 with 4 votes reference Idea #22 which has 25 votes and add a subcategory inside the detail view for #22 stating #5 is related, similar, or overlapping. This way you can lock #5 and cause some sort of implicit redirection to #22 now? This could be a type of administration option [or add the ability perhaps for users to request they be linked and referenced together and merge the unique votes]. I'm not sure about the exact write up here - decentralized voting where a percentage of votes acknowledging them as similar is required before they are linked (this way it takes some of the stress off a smaller group of people to maintain, and lets the people do that). The exact route to do this idea is up in the air, have fun with it.
by: David S. | over a year ago | Ideas Application
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agreed... people are entering similar ideas and it would help to consolidate them.
this is a must have - otherwise ideas will be hard to manage. We currently use Ideascope (similar product to manage ideas) and this is one of the biggest shortcomings once you start having a large set of ideas to manage
Any functionality to consolidate duplicate ideas would be a huge time saver for us.
We are planning on rolling this out company wide to capture product/feature enhancement requests and will need a method to group or reference the root idea. In our current system we can flag ideas as "duplicates"
Our organization has our own custom built idea portal. Only way we would switch to using the VersionOne portal at this point is if it had a way to merge ideas together. Duplicate ideas are a big problem.