portal users can obviously vote on any idea but there needs to be a feature that forces them to rank/prioritize the ideas they have voted on so they get to play their own product manager and make the tough calls on which of their ideas is most important to them vs least. a dropdown based priority field (needed by) doesn't protect against all ideas being marked as "urgent" so such a capability is quite valuable.
for instance, we could have
idea 1 with 5 votes
idea 2 with 5 votes
>> scenario 1 (votes only) : both will be treated the same
>> scenario 2 (votes + rank) : if 5 customers have idea 1 as their number #1 priority where idea 2 as their #10, i would want to (as PM) - give more weight to idea 1.
We are evaluating Aha to use in our organization. We would very much like to see the voting have the ability to rank as well.
Absolutely, though I think it would be more appropriate to be able to "offer" stack ranking rather than forcing (perhaps 3 options: no stack ranking, optional stack ranking, forced stack ranking)