Ideas FAQ

Trellis Ideas is an online space for University of Arizona staff, faculty, and students to share new product ideas with the Trellis CRM team. There are no licenses or special sign-ups needed to submit ideas. We just need your Arizona NetID to authenticate your university affiliation.

While Trellis has a number of projects in the works, and planned projects slated for development, Trellis Ideas serves as an additional intake tool so we can hear about your needs. Information that surfaces from Ideas becomes an important piece of the puzzle to help influence the direction of our development team.

  1. Go to Trellis Ideas.
  2. Select the "Log in" button at the top right and sign in with your NetID credentials.
  3. Select the "Post your idea" button (see screenshots below).
  4. Enter your idea's title.
  5. Choose from one of the categories.
    1. Choose a category that best fits the topic for your idea.
  6. Enter a description.
    1. Include as much detail as you can about what you're proposing, such as the people/groups it would impact, links to any examples, etc.
  7. Select the "Post" button.

Once your idea is posted, it'll automatically receive your upvote and will be listed with the rest of the ideas on the board.

"Post your idea" button 

Idea submission form 

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trellis ideas button

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trellis idea form

Sorting

Use the dropdown at the top right to sort ideas by most popular, trending, or recent.

Filtering

Select filters on the left sidebar to narrow down your results.

Be aware, you can apply filters such that no results will appear. If this happens, either select "All" for every category, or refresh the web page.

Sorting and filtering functions 

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When viewing a post, there are several ways for you to interact with it.

Expand & collapse

Select the arrow at the bottom of a post to either expand or collapse it.

Comments

After expanding a post, you can see comments on that post. Select "Add comment" to write your own.

Voting

Select the thumbs-up or thumbs-down button to vote on an idea. You can only vote on an issue once, either up or down. Each vote is 10 points.

Expanded post 

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Refer to our prioritization criteria for details.

You can view your profile with the following steps:

  1. Select the circular profile icon in the very top right of Trellis Ideas.
  2. Select "My Profile" from the dropdown menu.

Uploading a profile photo

Once on your profile, you can upload a profile photo by selecting the circular photo on the left side of your profile.

Your profile info

You can also see various profile details. There is no need to edit those, as your name, email, and phone should already be correctly populated. The other fields are not important for Trellis Ideas at this time.

Profile icon and notification bell

Profile page

 

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trellis ideas profile menu

trellis ideas profile

You can edit your settings with the following steps:

  1. Select the circular profile icon in the very top right of Trellis Ideas.
  2. Select "My Settings" from the dropdown menu.

On your settings page, you can edit your location and email notification preferences. You don't need to edit any of the other settings.

Profile icon and notification bell

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trellis ideas profile menu

 

To read your notifications, select the bell at the very top right of Trellis Ideas.

Profile icon and notification bell

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trellis ideas profile menu