Ideas Standard and Custom Fields

Administrators can customize Ideas standard and custom fields to meet the needs of an organization's unique requirements.

User Permissions Needed
To define picklist values:	Customize Application
To set field level security:	Customize Application
To define or change field validation rules:	Customize Application
To create Ideas custom fields:	Customize Application
To enable attachments for ideas:	Customize Application

Define picklist values for the Categories and Status fields.
Click the name of a standard or custom field to set field-level security.
Click the name of a custom field to set validation rules.
Create a custom field for Ideas. Custom fields appear in the Additional Information section on the Post Idea and Idea Detail pages.
Add the Attachment field to the layout and set field-level security. Users can attach all supported file types, including Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations and Excel® spreadsheets, Adobe® PDF files, image files, audio files, and video files. The maximum attachment size is determined by your organization.

Note In custom implementations of Ideas, you can use the URL.getFileFieldURL Apex method to retrieve the download URL for file attachments.

Select Picklist Values and Defaults for a Zone
After you define picklist values for the Categories and Status fields, you can add and remove picklist values from these fields on a per-zone basis and specify a default value.
Define Picklist Values for the Categories and Status Fields
For zone members to assign categories to an idea or view an idea's status, the Ideas administrator must define picklist values for the Categories and Status fields.
Enabling the Categories Field
Switch from the Category field to the multi-select Categories field which allows zone members to associate more than one category with an idea.