Add ability to manage Idea Categories across products

I arrived here via admin response to my comment on A-I-9694 and I'm disappointed to see this description is practically the same. I understand the idea to make idea category management more efficient including capabilities like bulk edit (recently shipped), or the ability to import (this idea), or copy (this idea). But that's not what I am trying to request / comment / vote for!

Myself, and other users in the previous idea comments as well as some of the older comments below, want to centrally manage ideas categories in one place for use across a product line or the Aha account. While roughly captured in the idea title above, what I really wanted to vote for is merged idea APP-I-3664!

I don't just want to manage my idea categories faster, I need to ensure a consistent list of categories (my industry standard classification) is used no matter which idea portal or product. Import or copy functionality doesn't ensure the categories stay consistent over time. It's also a giant pain in the neck for reporting, as for all our centralized idea reports we must filter from every set of idea categories. In our case, we have only two, which isn't terrible (see screen shot). I feel for other users who have dozens or more!

I second this. We will be updating and remapping our categories. I'm not looking forward to having to set all these up by hand.

We have the same requirement. Creating the same categories each time is very inefficient and error prone.

I agree.  As I trial Aha and trying to see if it fits my use case, I have having some issues with the ability to do activity Cross-product.  I think I could use Ideas that would span multiple products, but that's a more complex solution and may be against the philosophy of Aha.  But having the categories available across products would definitely be a benefit.  For example, come ideas I might create are "launch outreach to potential partners of my websites."  This may cover marketing (very intrigued by the new functionality here!), and some dev work in that I might need to create some new Email templates that have to get hooked into my Email service, as well as Design, who designs the templates.  I am having trouble right now figuring out how all this would neatly fit in one product only.

Hope that's useful!

Great idea. I would like consistent categorization for all product ideas to simplify reporting across all product opportunities.

We have 15 products across 5 proct lines. Idee categories are always the same. much waste of time to define the categories product based.