Is there a way for a user to post anonymously?

Hey rwinkler - thanks for asking!

Would these users want to show their name elsewhere on the community? Also, you wouldn't want to hide everyone's name on Idea Exchange, only certain users?

Hi Grant Pankonien 

No we would not want to hide everyone's name. we would want each user to have the option of hiding it. We would want to show their names elsewhere in the community - we actually wouldn't want to offer this option anywhere except some select idea exchanges (not all idea exchanges). We also want to make sure we, admins or moderators, can still see the users' emails and usernames behind the scenes, as needed.

This isn't available out of the box, you would need to write some customizations to allow this.

Hi Steven,

Which API would one use with an idea?  I don't see any idea APIs that have the ExtendedAttribute 'IsAnonymous' but I see ForumThreadsCreateOptions has that option.

Please let me know.

Thanks!

For Ideas specifically, the APIs don't actually support Extended Attributes. You would need some additional customization to manage a separate table for storing and retrieving this additional field per idea. I've logged a bug to investigate addressing this in a future release.

Thanks Steven

I would recommend using the content metadata plugin for storing the values 

https://github.com/RichMercer/ContentMetadata 

I would recommend using the content metadata plugin for storing the values 

https://github.com/RichMercer/ContentMetadata 

Thank you Satish.  We will look into that as needed.