Yee-haw! We’re delighted out here in Boulder, Colorado. The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and Rally Idea Manager has been spruced up. For those of you who are not familiar, Rally Idea Manager provides a place for users to propose, vote on and discuss enhancement ideas with product managers.

Search has blossomed
The days of searching through pages of results are over! Search results now include values found in the tags, descriptions, statuses, screen names and idea IDs. Also, search is case-insensitive. Results are relevant, what a concept huh?

Hello??? What’s the status of all those ideas in there?
Now, any user who has submitted an idea or subscribed to an idea, will receive an email notification when its status has changed. Email notifications will state what the change of status was so that you don’t have to go directly to the site to discover the status (the ability to turn notification off is still available).

Hey, who are the most active users in my Rally Idea Manager community?
Reputation management can now be viewed via a leaderboard (seen below). The community can see which of their peers are most active. The point system is defined by the administrators. Giving flexibility of what holds higher value based on submission of ideas, comments, votes and site registration while enticing users to share their ideas and contribute to the ideas of others.

Shake it up a bit!
You can now create custom tabs to help users filter ideas. Tabs include (but are not limited to): Featured, Genius, My Favorites, Most Commented, Recent, Random and by Status. And guess what? Administrators have the ability to change these as it suits their community. So users have the option to view the ideas they are most interested in and administrators have the option to expose the ideas (Featured) they are most interested in highlighting to the community.

Cultivate your community: Link idea(s) to a Rally story and publish Rally status
You’ve been able to create a new Rally story from an idea. You have now the ability to link an idea to an existing story and link multiple ideas to a story in Rally. Each association and dissociation between an idea and a story creates a discussion entry on the story with the URL of the idea, so development team members can read up on users’ comments. What’s more, is that you can map any story state to any idea status, as well as set default values on Rally story fields.

Visit our What’s New in Rally Idea Manager for more information.

Oh, and have you seen our implementation of Rally Idea Manager, Rally Ideas? It is abundant and continuously growing with over 1,100 ideas and nearly 1,700 users.

Engage with your peers and the Rally Product Team here!

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