Adopting a Feature Submission:
Perhaps the most important feature of the Feature Submissions toolset is being able to “Adopt” a submission. Beyond being a simple form submission, this lets you “put the idea to work” and adopt it either to Feature Voting or your Roadmap. We’ll outline both options below:
a. Adopting directly to your Roadmap: #
When a submission is too good to deny, you can move it directly into production by adopting it to your Roadmap. This will add the submission directly to your production roadmap, and you can add it directly to any Task Group you’ve created for the project it is being added to. To do so, first select “Roadmap” under the “Adopt To” dropdown, and then select which Task Group you’d like to add this new task to, as shown below:
This will move the item directly into your production pipeline!
In many cases however, you may not be ready to pull the trigger. In this case, you’ll want to adopt the submission to Feature Voting to get more input from your community.
b. Adopting to Feature Voting: #
So, you review the submission and think, hey, this is a pretty good idea!” but you’re not quite sure if you’re ready to put the time and money into having it developed. If this is the case, you can adopt this submission to your feature voting panel. Feature Voting allows other community members to offer additional feedback on any given idea, as well as upvoting potential ideas. This means that you can gather crucial data on how to properly develop the feature (and to do it in a way that pleases those actually using your product) but also lets you know exactly what to work on next. For more details, check out this article on PathPro’s Product Feature Voting tool.
For this example, let’s assume we’re adopting this feature submission to the Feature Voting panel. So, after confirming that the title and description match how we’d like it to appear, we select “Feature Voting” under the “Adopt To” option, and click “Confirm Adoption”.
This submission has now officially been added to the Feature Voting section of your project, and is now visible to other community members! This means that others are now free to upvote the item if they too think it will be a valuable addition to your product. Other Community Members can also add their own additional suggestions and feedback on how they’d like the idea to be implemented.
As you can see, Feature Submissions are a powerful and vital part of PathPro, and allow you to truly integrate ideas from those using your product. Give your customers and community a voice! To see how Feature submissions integrate into PathPro’s overall “Golden Pipeline,” check out this article. Next up in our learning path, we recommend you learn more about PathPro’s powerful Feature Voting tool!
