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Knowledge Base

Platform Updates & Information

Product Release Notes

  • Release Notes - July 9th, 2025
  • Summer Release 2025
  • Product Release Notes - Weds May 14th 2025
  • Product Release Notes - Weds, May 7th 2025
  • Product Release Notes - Weds April 23rd, 2025
  • Product Release Notes - Weds, April 16th 2025
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General Information

  • Brightidea Incorporated Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
  • Brightidea 24-Hour Emergency Hotline
  • Brightidea + AI Policies
  • Brightidea Cookie Notice
  • Brightidea CSA STAR Self-Assessment
  • Brightidea Sub-processors
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Compliance

  • Export Compliance
  • Brightidea Product Accessibility Guide
  • Brightidea GDPR Compliance

Integrations

  • Azure Active Directory integration with Brightidea
  • Brightidea app for Slack
  • Brightidea for Microsoft Teams
  • Brightidea Slack Integration Through Webhook
  • Configure Okta as an Identity Provider for Brightidea
  • Connecting Brightidea to Airtable
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Getting Started with Brightidea

Getting Started & Brightidea Guides

  • ★ Top 10 Checklist for Launching your Brightidea
  • Brightidea Thesaurus
  • Brightidea's 'System Email Messages' Guide
  • File Library
  • Subscriptions in Brightidea
  • Outgoing Webhooks (HTTP Requests with Rules Engine)

API

  • ★ Brightidea's API

Brightidea Mobile

  • ★ Getting Started with Brightidea Mobile
  • Brightidea Mobile Single-Sign-On (SSO)
  • Changing the Colors and Login Logo for Brightidea Mobile
  • Custom Brightidea Mobile App
  • Metrics for Brightidea Mobile
  • Using the Brightidea Mobile Application

Customization & Design

  • Brightidea Translation Options
  • Changing a Page Title Tag
  • Creating Extra Pages in Brightidea
  • Embedding External Videos on an Initiative Site
  • Embedding External Videos on a View Idea Page
  • System / Initiative Design Overview (Applying HTML and CSS)
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End-User "How-To's"

  • End User Introduction to Brightidea
  • Creating a Submission
  • Edit Your Profile
  • Login / Register
  • Promote/Demote a Submission
  • Reset Your Password
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Legacy Features

  • Idea Boards 2.0
  • Pairwise Voting
  • Restrict End Users from Additional Questions
  • Team Workspace
  • View Idea 2.0

Single Sign On (SAML 2.0 SSO)

  • ★ Single-Sign-On (SSO) Setup Guide
  • ★ Things You Should Know Before Making Changes to Your SSO Configuration
  • Preventing or Resolving Issues Caused by Duplicate Accounts
  • SSO - How to Deactivate User Accounts
  • SSO Link Issue in Microsoft Office Products
  • Updating Your SSO Certificate

User Roles in Brightidea

  • ★ Role Descriptions
  • Understanding 'Analyst' Permissions
  • Understanding 'Community Administrator' Permissions
  • Understanding 'Evaluator' Permissions
  • Understanding 'Moderator' Permissions
  • Understanding 'Pipeline Administrator' Permissions
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Apps

Ecosystem: Integrate External Innovation

  • Accelerate (Run an Accelerator)
  • External Hack (BETA)
  • Scout (Track New Technologies)
  • Venture (Invest in Startups)

Idea Box: Collect Any Idea

  • Departmental Idea Box
  • Idea Box
  • Innovation Process
  • Memo

Labs: Incubate the Next Big Thing

  • Apply (Apply Tech)
  • Incubate (Develop Opportunities)
  • Monitor (Track Evolving Trends)
  • Understand (Collect Insights)

Programs: Jumpstart Employee Innovation

  • Discuss (Initiate Engagement)
  • Explore (Explore A New Market Opportunity)
  • Hackathon (Build Prototypes)
  • Name (Generate a Name)
  • Optimize (Improve a Business Area)
  • Pitch (Fund Business Plans)
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Transformation: Command Company-Wide Change

  • Consult (Manage a Consulting Team)
  • Gig (Connect Gigs to Volunteers)
  • Suggest (Consider any Idea)
  • Transform (Implement Digital Transformation)

Command Center / Pipeline Management

Action Items

  • Action Item Alerts
  • Brightidea's Action Items Manager
  • Resend Action Items (BETA)
  • Re-trigger an Action Item
  • Updating Action Item Assignment

Command Center

  • Brightidea's Command Center
  • Command Center: Analytics - Business Impact Dashboard
  • Command Center: Analytics - Engagement Dashboard
  • Command Center: Analytics - Innovations Dashboard
  • Command Center: 'Innovations' Pillar
  • Command Center: 'People' Pillar
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Pipeline Basics

  • ★ Getting Started with Brightidea Pipeline Management
  • Brightidea's 'Rules Engine'
  • Comparing Scorecards in Pipeline Management Scorecard Tool
  • Group Assignment for Step Configuration
  • Managing Steps in Pipeline
  • "Move/Copy Idea" feature in Pipeline
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Pipeline Step Tool Types

  • Development Tool
  • Find Owner (Idea Box, Suggest Apps)
  • Implementation (Suggest App)
  • Judging
  • Pairwise
  • Review
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Initiative Administration

Blogs

  • Blog Posts within Brightidea
  • Blog Subscriptions
  • Differences Between System and Initiative Blogs
  • Editing and Deleting an Initiative blog entry

Emails

  • Initiative Email Alerts
  • Category Alerts
  • 'Daily / Weekly Email Digest' Feature
  • Disabling Brightidea Emails / Communications
  • Dynamic Fields in System Email Messages
  • Editing System Email Message Templates
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Initiative Configuration

  • Creating an Initiative
  • Deleting an Initiative
  • Duplicating an Initiative
  • Embedded Video Player for Video Attachments
  • Event Site for Hackathon (BETA)
  • Hackathon 5 Scheduler
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Idea Comments & Votes

  • 'Chips Voting' in Brightidea
  • 'Comments' Notifications
  • Comment 'Report Abuse'
  • Enabling Promote/Demote Reasons
  • Hiding Vote History on View Idea page
  • Mass-delete Submission Votes
See all 10 articles

Idea Management

  • ★ View Idea 3.0
  • Additional Info Fields
  • Apply to Join Functionality
  • Changing an Idea 'Status'
  • Cleaning up Ideas in Initiatives
  • Deleting a Submission
See all 19 articles

Idea Submission

  • Administrator Only Submission Form Questions
  • Anonymous Idea Submission
  • Dependent Submission Form Questions
  • Disabling Idea Submission for Initiatives
  • Duplicate Checker on Post Submission
  • Evaluations Tab on View Submission Page
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Login & Registration

  • Applying 'Domain Restrictions' in Brightidea
  • Initiative User Registration Options
  • Editing the Brightidea Login Page
  • Enabling 'Self Registration'
  • Hackathon Participant Onboarding
  • Hackathon Participants Page
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Reporting & Metrics

  • ★ Business Impact
  • Exporting Additional Submission Form Q & A
  • Exports/Reports in Brightidea
  • Hackathon Dashboard
  • Idea View Count
  • Initiative Dashboard
See all 8 articles

User Management

  • Inactive User Accounts
  • Password Reset
  • Reputation Points in Brightidea
  • Share Button
  • Updating Brightidea User Profile Data
  • User Action History

Widgets

  • Configuring Widgets within Brightidea
  • 'Countdown' Widget
  • Initiative-level Widgets
  • 'Invite a Friend' to Brightidea
  • 'Phase' Widget
  • 'Post Update 2.0' Widget
See all 7 articles

System Administration

Brightidea System Setup & Information

  • Admin Navigation Bar
  • AI in Brightidea
  • Brightidea 'Notifications'
  • Brightidea's 'Unified Commenting Experience'
  • Configuring 'Global Navigation'
  • Configure Currency in Brightidea
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Security & Administrative Control

  • Brightidea License Management
  • Frame Encapsulation Security
  • Licensing Management
  • Provide Non-SSO Access to Your Brightidea
  • Registration Options
  • Setting the 'Session Timeout' in Brightidea
See all 9 articles

Users, Profiles & Groups

  • Brightidea 'Member Landing Page'
  • Brightidea's Private Messaging Feature
  • Brightidea's User Home
  • Creating a new User within People Pillar
  • Deactivating and Deleting users in Brightidea
  • Discretionary Points in Brightidea
See all 19 articles

Customization

  • Brightidea Site Footer
  • Copying Designs between Brightidea Initiatives
  • Customizing 'Labels' in Brightidea
  • System/Initiative Banner
  • Idea Code Customization

Reporting & Metrics

  • Brightidea Dashboards
  • Brightidea's Asynchronous Reporting
  • Brightidea's Meritology®
  • Community-level Exports/Reports
  • 'Date Range' in Exports
  • "Days in Status" Export
See all 9 articles

Widgets

  • System-level Widgets
  • Updates Widget (System or Initiative)
  • Visual Initiative List Widgets
  • Rich Text/HTML 3.0 (BETA)

Communities

  • Community Dashboards
  • Community-level Widgets
  • Sub-Communities in Brightidea
  • Transitioning from Enterprise to Communities
  • Understanding Communities in Brightidea

Memo

Creating and Viewing Memos

  • Creating a Memo
  • Quick Add in Memo
  • Searching for Memos
  • Viewing Memos

Editing and Sharing Memos

  • AI Writing
  • Brightidea Collaborative Editor
  • Commenting within a Memo Document
  • Sharing a Memo Document

Memo Workflow

  • Memo Backlog
  • Memo Records
  • Memo Statuses
  • Memo Team Site
  • Private vs. Batched Memos
  • Whiteboard and Memo

Memo Reviews

  • Completing a Memo Review
  • Requesting a Memo Review
  • Viewing Results from a Memo Review

Working with Third-Party Documents

  • Memo Review Browser Extension
  • Using Third-Party Documents

Project Room

Project Room

  • Maximum Size for Project Room File Uploads
  • Project Room

Whiteboard

Whiteboards and Idea Management

  • Creating an Idea from a Sticky
  • Sending Ideas to a Whiteboard

Working Within Whiteboards

  • Smart Matrix
  • 'Stack Rank' and 'Now, Next, Later' in Whiteboard
  • Timer
  • Whiteboard Templates

Getting Started

  • Core Tools
  • Getting Started with Whiteboard
  • Miro Import to Whiteboard (BETA)

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