Initiative-level Widgets


Most content on Site pages is displayed inside Widgets. Scores of widgets are available, and they display both static and dynamic content.

 

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To edit the layout of pages or the content displayed, enable Widget Editor mode.

With Widget Editor mode enabled, Admins can modify individual pages by adding and deleting widgets as needed and arrange the layout by simply dragging and dropping widgets as desired.

 

Available Widget Types

Active Blogs

  • This widget shows the 5 most active blogs according to comments
  • Click here to learn more about Site level blogs

 

Blog Archives 

  • The blog archives widget groups the blogs by month, for the past 10 months.

 

Categories

  • The Categories widget displays all of the categories within a specific Initiative.
  • Users can click on each Category to load a filtered Idea list relevant to that Category.
  • Category order is managed under Site Setup > Ideas > Categories.

 

Challenge Overview

  • The Challenge Overview Widget gives users a summary of the Initiative and allows Admins to inform participants of the Challenge goals. 
  • Click here to learn more 
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Community Stats

  • The Community Stats widget displays the totals for the following items within an Initiative:

    • Ideas
    • Comments
    • Votes
    • Registered Users [that have logged in]

 

Countdown

  • This widget provides a countdown to the end of the Initiative.
  • Click here to learn more.
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Download Our Mobile App Widget

  • This widget allows the user to download Brightidea's Mobile app. 
  • Clicking on either of the iPhone or Android options will trigger an email to the user with a link to download the mobile application via the iOS App Store or Google Play 
  • Click here to learn more about installing the Mobile app.

 

Enterprise Update Results

  • All user-inputted update posts will be displayed in this widget.

 

Team (Team Submission)

  • This widget is designed for the View Idea page and displays all members associated with the Team who submitted a particular idea.
  • To learn more about Team Submission, check out this support article.

 

Image Widget

  • This widget allows Admin to upload an image to an Initiative page.
  • The widget supports the following file extensions: JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP.

 

Invite A Friend

  • This widget allows users to invite others to register for the respective Initiative.
  • To learn more about Inviting Friends, check out this support article.

 

Login

  • This widget displays the user's screen name and allows them to log out. Admins can also navigate to Site Setup. By default, this widget is hard coded on each page.
  • Note: This widget cannot be removed from the page and will only be available when Global Navigation is disabled. 

 

Mini Idea List

  • This widget displays all Ideas within the Initiative and offers filtering based on Most Recent, Most Comments, or Most Votes.
  • Users can also sort Ideas in ascending and descending order in the top columns.

 

Mini Tag Cloud

  • This widget displays a tag cloud with the most commonly used tags appearing in larger text and the least commonly used tags in smaller text.
  • Note: If an Idea is deleted, all associated tags will be removed from the widget after the next page refresh. 
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Mini Top Contributors

  • This widget ranks users according to Reputation Points within the Initiative
  • To learn more about Reputation Points, check out this support article.

 

My Blog Drafts

  • With this widget, Admins can view all saved blog drafts in their Initiative blog.
  • To learn more about blogs in Brightidea, check out this support article.

 

My Collaborators

  • This widget displays the names of users who have voted or commented on the user's Ideas.
  • To appear in a user's My Collaborators widget, a person must comment on at least one of the user's ideas.

 

My Comments

  • This widget displays the user’s 20 most recent comments for ideas within the Site. 

 

My Favorites

  • This widget shows the ideas a user has added to their favorites list.
  • Ideas are marked “Favorite” on the idea page by clicking on the star icon.
  • Click here to learn more.

 

My Idea Drafts

  • This widget displays the Title and time since last save for each saved Draft.
  • Users can delete an Idea Draft by selecting the trash icon.
  • This widget is Initiative specific. If a user has saved drafted Ideas in other Initiatives, the Drafts will only appear in their respective Initiative.
  • Once a Draft is submitted, it will no longer appear in this widget.

 

My Ideas

  • This widget displays the user’s 20 most recent ideas within the Site.

 

My Info

  • This widget displays the user's profile fields
  • Users can also select Edit Profile within the widget to edit their information.

 

My Messages

  • This widget displays messages sent by other users and allows users to manage received messages.

 

My Stats

  • This widget displays a user’s personal statistics: the number of Ideas they've submitted to active Initiatives, the number of votes of support received for those Ideas, [non-hidden] Comments, Total Points, and Private Messages.

    • Note: The option for Enterprise-level user profiles must be enabled under Site Setup > Site > Enterprise

 

My Voting Chips

  • This widget allows users to keep track of their voting chips by displaying a counter of their remaining available votes. Users can also recall all of their delegated chips to redistribute as desired.
  • Click here to learn more about Chips Voting.

 

Phase Widget 

  • The phase widget allows Admins to visually inform users of the Initiative's current Phase.
  • Click here to learn more.

 

 Post Blog 

  • This widget brings the user to the Blog Submission page.

 

Post Idea

  • This widget will take the user to the Initiative's Submission Form.

 

Post Update 2.0

  • This widget allows any user to share what they're working on or post an image, a video, etc.
  • Click here to learn more.

 

Recent Blog Titles

  • This widget gives a list of the 5 most recent Site blogs posted.

  

Recent Blogs

  • Displays a list with blog description of the 3 most recent Site blogs posts.

 

Recent Ideas

  • This widget shows the 3 most recent ideas submitted to the Site.

 

Request Initiative

  • Request Initiative allows any user to request their own Site to the system administrator
  • Click here to learn more.
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Rich Text/HTML

  • Admins can add Rich Text or HTML to this widget including bold, italics, underline, embed HTML, etc.
  • Click here to learn more.

 

Send Link

  • This widget allows users to email a link to the Initiative or Idea by triggering a new email message in the user’s email client (Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, etc).

 

Sponsor

  • The sponsor widget displays the sponsor of the Site 

 

Status Widget

  • The Status Widget will display all statuses for the Site.
  • When a user clicks on a status link, the display of ideas is filtered to show ideas of that status only.

 

Subscribe to Initiative

  • This widget allows users to directly subscribe to a Initiative
  • Once subscribed they will receive email notifications about new ideas in that Site.

 

Tags

  • The Tags Widget will display the 7 most common tags and a “more” button to show all tags in a “Tag Cloud”

 

Text/HTML

  • Admins can enter text or HTML/Javascript code into this widget. 
    • Note: Admins can disable Javascript in Text/HTML widgets for that Initiative only under Site Setup > Access > Security.
  • Most common HTML tags are supported. Styles can be included to control the look, feel, and layout of content.

 Top Contributors

  • This widget ranks the top 5 active users according to Reputation Points.

  • Users can message, invite, and view their profiles.

  • To learn more about Reputation Points, check out this support article.

 

Updates

  • This widget shows the 20 most recent updates to all aspects of the Site.
    • For example: Status changes, New Idea Submission, New Comments, etc.

 

User Community

  • This widget displays the latest registered and/or logged-in users for the Initiative.
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    Marti Andrews

    For the Initiative/Site "User Community" Widget, when you're in Widget Edit mode and go to edit this widget, there is a field for Options. Can someone detail what options can be added here?