Ideation Status by Group

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Hi All, 
 Hope you are all staying healthy during this troubling time. 
 I am trying to figure out a way to create two different set of Idea statuses for different groups. I see only one master list in the admin panel. Has anyone done this before? 
 
 Example: 
 MW Group is using Ideas and the statuses relate to review and implementation by our company. (Under review, Approved, In Development) 
 I need to create new statuses for a new group that relate to projects being submitted and accepted by our community. (New Project, Thumbs Up, Highly Rated, etc.) 
 Thanks for your help!

Michael Kelley · Accepted Answer

Idea statuses are set at the community level and aren't aware of the specific group in which they are used. The only possible way to work around that behavior that I can think of offhand is to create a copy of and customize the Ideas - Create/Edit Idea Status widget.

The customization would need to define a list of allowed idea statuses for each group:

#set($groupSpecificStatuses1 = ['one','two'])

Then prior to rendering the available statuses check which group it was in:

#foreach ($status in $telligentIdeas_v1_statuses.List())
    #if ( $group.id == 4 )

and then compare the status list you defined with those returned by the system (showing only those that passed that check).

#foreach ($status in $telligentIdeas_v1_statuses.List())
    #if ( $group.id == 4 )
        #foreach ($groupSpecificStatus in $groupSpecificStatuses1)
            #if ( $status.Key == $groupSpecificStatus)
                <option value="$status.Key" #if($idea.Status.Key == $status.Key || ($idea.Status.Key == '' && $status.IsDefault))selected="selected"#end>$status.Name</option> 
            #end

Ideation Status by Group

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