Template for posting Ideas is interfering with useful previews
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Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.
1. What product and version are you running?
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2. What is the problem?
For example, take a look at this screenshot of what are probably some very good ideas, chosen at random. There are three lines of text previewed for each one. How useful is the preview to you? This is the result of the template for new ideas, which was created as part of the "great archive effort", also known as "resetting the clock on ideas that really should have been implemented by now". We're now required to answer these questions, and while the information is useful, it is all collected as text and presented, along with the questions, all smashed together in the preview.
3. Are you using a workaround? If yes, please describe it.
Either vote or ignore while staying uninformed about the actual idea, or load it in another tab.
4. What is the use case for your organization? Describe how your idea would work in context or how it would apply to a practical situation.
- The solution, which I think goes here (there's not a clear place for the actual idea in the template), is to collect the metadata, such as Creo Product and version, as actual metadata (we're already required to select labels and tags, use those), not on the actual text of the form. This would make ideas more easily searchable by version, I'd think. Don't include the questions in the text of the form.
- Maybe include the questions in the text of the page that has the form on it, but not in the form itself so when the idea is presented and previewed, you see only the actual contents.
- If "View More" expanded the entry, rather than loaded a separate page, that would help as well.
5. What impact does this problem currently have on your organization? (Number of users affected, hours of lost productivity, etc.)