Creating ideas

This topic guides you on how to submit new ideas. For a quick introduction and life cycle of Idea Management, you can refer to Idea Management Overview. These operations can be performed by Idea Contributors.

To create a new idea from BMC Helix Digital Workplace

1. Log in to BMC Helix Digital Workplace and navigate to the Idea tab.
   The Idea Management Console will be displayed where all existing ideas created by other contributors are listed.
2. Click Create New Idea button.

3. On the Create Idea page, enter the values for the following fields:

   Field Labels	Description
   Idea Summary	Enter a Summary of an idea that describes the intention behind this idea.
   Portfolio	A Portfolio is a Collection of Projects, that facilitates effective management meeting the needs which are related to strategic Business Objectives. Idea Contributor needs to describe which product business objective will be achieved by this idea.
   Attachments	Idea Contributor can associate attachments that may have any use case to understand the clear picture.
   Description	This is a special type of field that supports basic formatting, images, tables, and hyperlink. Idea Contributor can enter details of the idea.
   Benefits	This is a special type of field that supports basic formatting, images, tables, and hyperlink. Idea Contributor can enter the benefits of the idea which will be achieved once this idea is implemented.
   Problem Solved	This is a special type of field that supports basic formatting, images, tables, and hyperlink. Idea Manager should list the problems which this idea will resolve.

4. Click Save.
   A new idea is created in the Idea Management Console of BMC Helix Digital Workplace.

To create a new idea from BMC Portfolio Management application

1. Log in Portfolio Management application, and select Create > Idea.

2. On the Create Idea page, enter the values for the following fields:

   Field Labels	Description
   Idea Summary	Enter a Summary of an idea that describes the intention behind this idea.
   Portfolio/Program	A Portfolio/Program is a collection of Projects, that facilitates effective management in meeting the needs of the strategic Business Objectives. Idea Contributor needs to describe which product business objective will be achieved by this idea.
   Attachments	Idea Contributor can associate attachments that may have any use case to understand the clear picture.
   Description	This is a special type of field that supports basic formatting, images, tables, and hyperlink. Idea Contributor can enter details of the idea.
   Benefits	This is a special type of field that supports basic formatting, images, tables, and hyperlink. Idea Contributor can enter the benefits of the idea which will be achieved once this idea is implemented.
   Problem Solved	This is a special type of field that supports basic formatting, images, tables, and hyperlink. Idea Manager should list the problems which this idea will resolve.

3. Click Save.
   The new idea is opened. The status of the idea is Below Review Threshold status.