Crowdsource ideas

Crowdsource Ideas in Power Pages

Crowdsource Ideas

This guide explains how to manage Idea Forums, Idea Comments, and Idea Votes in Power Pages. Users can manage idea-related records under the Community tab once the required site customizations are imported into the Microsoft Dataverse environment.

Idea Forum Attributes and Relationships

The table below outlines the standard fields and relationships available in the Idea Forum table.

Name	Description
Title	Name of the idea forum.
Website	The website associated with the idea forum.
Partial URL	URL segment used to build the site URL for the idea forum.
Summary	HTML description of the idea forum.
Ideas	Relationship containing all idea records linked to the forum.

Name	Description
New Idea Policy	Defines how newly submitted ideas are handled.
Comment Policy	Defines how comments on ideas are managed.
Idea Content Moderation Policy	Content moderation configuration for ideas.
Voting Policy	Defines the voting behavior for the forum.
Type of Voting	Specifies the type of voting allowed.
Votes Per Idea	Number of votes a user may cast on a single idea.
Votes Per User	Total votes permitted per user in the forum.
Roles with Read Access	Web roles permitted to view and participate in the forum.
Moderators	Web roles allowed to moderate the forum.

Note: Display and content attributes are controlled by the views created by the developer. Restricting access to idea forums using web roles is not supported.

Manage Ideas in a Power Pages Site

After site customizations are imported, users can manage ideas from the Community tab.

Name	Description
Title	Title of the idea.
Idea Forum	The forum to which the idea belongs.
Partial URL	URL path for building the idea’s public link. Should contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, or underscores.
Published to Web	Determines if the idea is visible on the website.
Copy	HTML content describing the idea.
Summary	Short description of the idea.
Author Name / Email	Information about the submitter.
Author	Relationship linking the idea to the submitting user.
Submitted On	Date and time of submission.
Status Reason	Indicates the idea’s lifecycle stage (New, Accepted, Completed, Rejected).
Moderation Status	Indicates if the idea is being moderated.
Moderation Reason	Reason selected when users flag ideas (Spam, Inappropriate, Abusive).
Moderation Comment	Comment added during moderation.
Status Comment	Optional explanation related to the idea’s status.
Votes	Vote statistics including up, down, sum, and total votes.
Comments / Votes	Relationships to idea comments and votes.

Enable Voting for Status Reasons

By default, voting is allowed only when the Status Reason is New. To allow voting for additional statuses, create the following site setting:

Name: Ideas/EnableVotingForStatusReasons
Value: Semicolon-separated list of status reason values

Example: Enable voting for New, Accepted, and Rejected:

1;100000000;100000002

If the setting is missing or invalid, voting defaults to New only.

To find status reason numeric values:

Sign in to Power Pages.
Go to Settings → Customization → Customize the System.
Navigate to Entities → Idea → Fields.
Open the statuscode field.
View the list of statuses and their values.

Enable Autocomplete for Ideas

To prevent duplicate submissions, configure the site to show similar ideas during idea creation.

Name: Ideas/EnableAutoComplete
Value: True

Manage Idea Comments

Users can manage Idea Comment records under the Community tab.

Name	Description
Name	Title of the comment.
Idea	The associated idea.
Content	Comment content in HTML format.
Published to Web	Determines if the comment is publicly visible.
Author	Relationship to the submitting user.
Posted On	Date and time of comment creation.

Manage Idea Votes

Idea Vote records can also be managed under the Community tab.

Name	Description
Value	Numerical vote value.
Idea	The associated idea.
Voter	Relationship to the user who voted.
Submitted On	Date and time of submission.