Changing the visibility of an Idea or an Idea comment

Control who sees your Ideas and related comments to protect your competitive advantage and manage customer relationships strategically. Set Ideas as public to gather broad community input on your roadmap, or keep them internal when you need to develop features privately, test concepts with select customers, or maintain confidentiality around sensitive product plans.

This flexibility lets you:

• Share roadmap items openly while keeping strategic initiatives under wraps.

• Collaborate with specific customers without alerting competitors.

• Test ideas internally before making public commitments.

• Manage customer expectations by controlling what appears in your Idea Portal and Public Roadmap.

Edit Idea visibility

1. Select Beamer Feedback from the sidebar to view the Idea dashboard.

2. Change the visibility of a single idea: Click the visibility icon (the eye) to the left of the Idea, then click Accept when prompted.
   Change visibility for multiple ideas: Select the check box next to each idea you want to change, then click the Update visibility icon (the eye) in the Actions header. Select Public or Internal when prompted.
   

   Selecting multiple ideas with different visability

   If you select multiple ideas with different visibility levels (e.g., one public and one internal) and then choose to update their visibility collectively, you must choose either public or internal. You cannot designate different visibility levels for each. Either the update to the selected ideas will be all public or all internal.

   
   

Edit Comment visibility

From within an Idea

1. Select Beamer Feedback from the sidebar and click the title of the Idea you want to edit.

2. Scroll to the comments at the bottom and hover your cursor over the comment you want to edit until you see the action icons appear to the right.
   

3. Click the Visibility icon (the eye) and click Accept to confirm.
   

From the Inbox

1. Select Inbox > Idea Comments from the sidebar.

2. Click Set to internal or Set to public.
   

3. Click Accept to confirm.
   

Note: All new Ideas are automatically set to internal by default (the eye icon will be red), Learn more about changing visibility defaults here.

Filter the Idea view by visibility

You can filter your Ideas by visibility in the dashboard by selecting Public or Internal in the Feedback filter options.