Moderation: Merge Ideas

To limit duplicate ideas, IdeaScale has a predictive text tool that searches keywords when ideas are being created. Sometimes, however, dupes get into the community and it's necessary to manually merge two or more ideas together. IdeaScale includes a simple merge tool to assist moderators in combining ideas together quickly and easily. From the Moderator Idea menu (where idea status is changed), there is a Merge option. This will open up the merge cart.

What is the merge cart?

The merge cart is used to collect all the duplicate ideas you've found related to the same topic. The first idea you add to the cart is the "parent idea" or the main idea. All other ideas added to the cart are the "child ideas" - these ideas will be added as comments to the parent idea. In addition, comments added to the child idea will be appended to the parent idea. Once you add two or more ideas, you'll have the option to merge them together and change which idea you'd like to keep as the "parent".

Notes:

• 1. All child idea's votes will be merged with parent idea's votes.
• 2. Once the merge operation is completed, the operation cannot be undone.