Allow Aha! users to receive the exact same notifications as portal users for idea status changes and promotions

What is the challenge?

• All company employees are Aha! users and submit ideas logging in via the existing SSO. This means however that they are not treated as portal users which means that they do NOT receive portal notifications around when ideas change status, are promoted or have comments etc . Instead these are channeled via existing Aha! notifications which are extremely noisy (people ignore them or tune them out), the visual impact is limited and existing employees have already said that they dont see the relevant notifications related to ideas because they get drowned in other Aha! notifications

What is the impact?

• Employees who submit ideas do not see the progress of their idea and must manually check the progress which is inefficient. Reduces the buy-in and use of the Ideas portal. Employees miss information on how their idea is being handled which may be relevant to them.

Describe your idea.

• Enable the already existing functionality around portal notifications which currently applies to portal users to be applied to Aha! users. This idea can also be seen as a logical extension of this already submitted idea (which is fundamentally a stopgap/workaround): https://big.ideas.aha.io/ideas/A-I-21803