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Can Contributors edit their own Ideas (description/title for example)?

Ori Cohen_8g81z8

Hi,

Is there a plan to allow Contributors to edit some details of their own Ideas (description for example) after it was created?

Many of the Contributors in my organization asked for this option when they need to fix typos, add/change the wording or simply clarify their idea description.

Thanks,
Ori

Accepted answers

Tanguy Crusson

Hi,

This is not possible today. Only creators can edit ideas.

Erki Tammik

Glad to see that other people are requesting the same functionality. It would be nice if something on the form could be modified by a contributor, but we have to keep in mind that the ticket may have already been prioritized and planned on the roadmap by someone in creator role.
Some changes may affect the roadmap depending on what is modified by the contributor.

CGBH

The same worry with Erki Tammik.

I was wondering to have such a feature when I am first to JPD. But after some time of using it. I think it is not that necessary to let Contributors change their own.

If they have typos or have new things to share related to the idea, the Comments and Insights would be the ideal way.

If only a typo needs to be corrected, the PM team can do it for them because the PM team will also refine the Summary sometimes.

The main worry here is that when an idea is created, the ownership is shipping from Contributor to Creator. The Product team will spend time and energy analyzing, communicating, and designing. Let's imagine, sooner or later, the Contributor modified the idea! What if he or she changed the whole thing? It is out of control and will affect all other teams.

I like the Allow Contributors to Edit Own too. But it has to be designed with care.

Just my two cents.

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Tanguy Crusson

Hi,

This is not possible today. Only creators can edit ideas.

Ori Cohen_8g81z8

Is it in the roadmap to allow such updates?

Tanguy Crusson

Not at this point but we'll look at this when we next review this feature.

Ori Cohen_8g81z8

thanks.

Erki Tammik

CGBH

The same worry with Erki Tammik.

I was wondering to have such a feature when I am first to JPD. But after some time of using it. I think it is not that necessary to let Contributors change their own.

If they have typos or have new things to share related to the idea, the Comments and Insights would be the ideal way.

If only a typo needs to be corrected, the PM team can do it for them because the PM team will also refine the Summary sometimes.

I like the Allow Contributors to Edit Own too. But it has to be designed with care.

Just my two cents.

Ori Cohen_8g81z8

I completely agree with your last sentence, although there are workarounds for this, it could be nice if they could edit their own but it needs to be designed correctly.

Omer Meshar_0f60qw

May I suggest to use something like a PR here (pull request, as used by developers) - where a contributor will be able to "request" a change in any of the fields of the form, and this request will be either approved or rejected by the idea's assignee?

Maybe this is a bit of a complicated solution, but it takes care of the need to merge the contributor's changes with the creator's changes (and maybe even have automatic merge, or AI merge it...)

Just an idea...

Yong Yang

Maybe we can consider leting the constibutors edit the summary and descrption fields of their own submitted ideas, but not for all the fields like Roadmap, Assignee, which are not reasonable.

Ricardo_Dinis

We could let the contributors edit is own ideas in To Do status in the workflow where we are still analyzing or discussing the idea, after go to status in progress or done they are not able to edit as a possible solution.

Louise Baker

@Tanguy Crussonany reconsideration of this?
A C-suite submitted an IDEA for the first time (yay!) and then was super irritated that he couldn't edit the idea, and wants to end our subscription now (annoyed he's paying extra for a project that's so restrictive)
There seems to be continued chatter on this topic, so curious if your team has reconsidered?

Tanguy Crusson

@Louise Baker not at this stage - you'd need to give the C-suite person a license to edit ideas.

(Creating ideas like that works like submitting a form)

Jess Brewster

Has there been any updates on this one? Or is it even on the roadmap for next year??

It's proving a bit of a blocker for our users to adopt Jira Product Discovery. Given other gaps, namely that users can create ideas from Jira (thus avoiding our templated idea questions), our Product team regularly needs to go back and forth clarifying ideas and asking for more information. Without the ability for contributors to Edit their own ideas, the product team has to manually do so for each one. This is a waste of our time and add unnecessary delays to the process, as well as frustrating all involved.

Charly V

As a result of a governance gap with the Jira Discovery product, users are able to create Ideas from normal Jira projects, which doesn't apply the mandatory validation nor provide the Template description that we have set in Jira Discovery. This results in poorly populated ideas and then Product Managers having to spend all this time going back and forth with the submitters to close the gaps on their behalf. Forcing users to go to Jira Discovery first when they are in normal Jira all the time is a lost battle and counter intuitive.

We would expect at least this discrepancy to be addressed (ideal), or for submitters to be able to update their idea, as paying for extra licenses because of these UX issues with the product is not an option.

Charly V

I also note that when users search for Ideas from within normal Jira, Insights do not come up. We keep getting inquiries from people asking why they don't have permission to add Insights... It's tiring having to absorb the pain of your product architecture issues and limitations.

Tanguy Crusson

Thanks for the feedback @Charly V

We have a team currently running discovery on the topic of feedback and intake, and this is part of that. There's a lot to unpack here, but it's in the "Next" column of our roadmap to tackle.

Tanguy Crusson

We have a team currently running discovery on the topic of feedback and intake, and this is part of that. There's a lot to unpack here, but it's in the "Next" column of our roadmap to tackle.

Judy Edmonds_8uq9jq

@Tanguy Crusson Is there any update on this allowing Contributors to edit their own ideas please?

Kritika Mohan

Can a contributor edit certain fields on an idea like for example Efforts/ Impact/ Confidence or such custom rating fields?

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