Add an idea and use suggested ideas

Write one sentence for a new feature, or take an idea {{brand}} found in the records connected to the board.

In short

Every feature starts as an idea: one sentence about what the product should do. You add it yourself, or you take one of up to three suggestions {{brand}} shows in the Idea column. Suggestions come from facts in your connected records, and nothing is added by itself.

Before you start

Who: you need the right to change cards on the board.
Plan: Boards is on every plan.
Suggestions need connected records. See /help/boards/start-a-product-board.

Steps

On the product board, press "New idea".
Under "What should the product do?", write one sentence, such as "Customers can pay by card".
Under "Why?", say what it changes for your customers or the business.
Choose a "Release" if you know it, or leave "Not decided".
Press "Add idea".

Look under "Suggested from your code" in the Idea column.
Read the line and its evidence, for example "3 endpoints in Payments have no checks".
Press "Add to ideas" to make it a Feature card, or "Dismiss" to hide it.

Result: a new Feature card appears in Idea. A suggestion you dismiss does not come back.

Good to know

A suggestion names its fact. It can be endpoints without checks, a slow endpoint, tables without checks, screens that drifted from the approved design, or designed parts nothing uses.
Suggestions are facts only. They use no AI and cost nothing.
The column shows at most three at a time.
"Add card" is still under the arrow beside "New idea" for an ordinary card.
What happens next: the card waits in Idea until a person moves it. In Design the AI can draft the design. See /help/boards/design-a-feature.

If something goes wrong

"Write one sentence first." - the idea needs its sentence.
No suggestions show - nothing is connected, or the connected records have nothing to point out.
"The idea could not be added" - the message gives the reason. Check that you may change cards on this board.