Introducing AI-powered ideas exploration 🪄
Use powerful AI capabilities in Aha! Ideas Advanced to research ideas for new functionality, explore feedback themes, and identify similar ideas — all in service of gaining better customer insights.
Suite overview
Suite overview
Introduction
Workspaces and teams
Knowledge
- Documents
- Share documents
- Guest access
- Template library
- Notes
- AI writing assistant
- Introduction to whiteboards
- The whiteboard toolbar
- Add and edit whiteboard content
- Advanced whiteboard shapes
- Add media to whiteboards
- Collaborate on whiteboards
- Convert whiteboard content to Aha! records
- View Aha! records on whiteboards
- Create a whiteboard presentation
Reports
Collaboration
Account management
Billing and users
Security and system requirements
Integrations
Aha! API
Dropbox
Google Drive
Microsoft OneDrive
Aha! Roadmaps
Overview
Introduction
- Run a successful Aha! trial
- Get started with your new account
- How to build a roadmap in five steps
- Import data
- Explore a demo workspace in your account
- Explore a product workspace in your account
- Explore an IT workspace in your account
- Explore a project workspace in your account
- Explore a services workspace in your account
- Explore a business operations workspace in your account
- Explore a marketing workspace in your account
How to
- How to create a custom whiteboard template
- How to build a roadmap in five steps
- How to visualize linked dependency statuses at scale
- How to import your backlog from Jira
- How to show the strategic progress at multiple levels
- How to identify schedule risks with calculation columns
- How to visualize cross-team capabilities with custom tables (Enterprise+)
- How to add a custom field
- How to pull work from Aha! Roadmaps into Aha! Develop
- How to share a report, roadmap, or view
- How to identify and prioritize high-value ideas
- How to import a Jira backlog into your Aha! account as ideas
- How to edit a status workflow
- How to build your product strategy
- How to host a collaborative brainstorming session
Workspaces
- Workspaces
- Workspaces and workspace lines
- Differences between workspace types
- Create a single-workspace hierarchy
- Create a multi-workspace hierarchy
- Create a portfolio hierarchy
- Workspace templates (Enterprise+)
- Archive or delete a workspace or workspace line
- How to define your product workspace
- Duplicate workspace and workspace line prefix error
Settings
- Account settings
- Account billing settings
- Account customization settings
- Workspace settings
- Workspace ideas settings
- Workspace import settings
- Integration settings
- Manage your workspace settings
- Personal settings
- Shortcuts
- Import data from a CSV file
- Getting started with capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Individual capacity planning
- Configure team capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Estimate work for capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Automation (Enterprise+)
Strategy
Releases and schedules
Ideas
- Introduction to ideas
- Proxy votes
- Configure your ideas portal
- Manage ideas portal users
- Manage submitted ideas
- Ideas prioritization page
- Emailed ideas
- Submit-only ideas portal
- Private ideas portal
- Public ideas portal
- Ideas overview page
- Ideas chart page
- Create a central workspace to manage all ideas
- How promoted record status drives idea status
- Configure your own ideas portal URL with a CNAME (Ideas Advanced plan)
- Carry over custom field values from ideas to other record types
- "Filter by status" displays duplicate statuses on ideas portal
- Create one ideas portal for all of your workspaces
- Advanced custom portal design
- Import ideas and portal users
- Custom fields for ideas
- Portal notification emails
- Ideas portal weekly summary email
- Manage portal spam
- Analyze ideas with AI
Features and activities
- Introduction to features
- Introduction to epics
- Introduction to requirements
- Tips for managing and prioritizing features
- User story maps
- Workflow board
- Feature scores
- Features prioritization page
- Mockups
- Copy, move, or bulk edit features
- When to use initiatives vs. epics
- Convert features to other record types
- Carry custom field values from requirements to features
- Estimate effort using custom scorecards
- Add feature start and due dates
- Create templates for features and requirements
- Should I put bugs on my product roadmap?
- Customize feature cards
- Use epics across releases and workspaces
Roadmaps
Analytics
- Introduction to analytics
- Dashboards
- Reports overview
- Step-by-step examples: List reports, pivot tables, and custom roadmaps
- Filter your reports and roadmaps
- List report
- Perform calculations on data in list reports
- Pivot table
- Charts
- Product value report
- Individuals capacity report
- Team capacity report (Enterprise+)
- Resolve capacity conflicts (Enterprise+)
- Troubleshoot missing records on the team capacity report (Enterprise+)
- Dependency report
- Hierarchy report
- Diagram report
- Bulk edit records
- Report on workspace documents
Knowledge
- Knowledge menu
- Documents
- Control workspace document access
- Frameworks
- Meetings
- Share documents
- Guest access
- Notes
- AI writing assistant
- Template library
- Introduction to whiteboards
- The whiteboard toolbar
- Add and edit whiteboard content
- Advanced whiteboard shapes
- Add media to whiteboards
- Collaborate on whiteboards
- Convert whiteboard content to Aha! records
- View Aha! records on whiteboards
- Create dependencies from a whiteboard
- Create Jira issues from your whiteboard
- Add Jira records to whiteboards
- Add ADO work items to whiteboards
- Create a whiteboard presentation
- Files
- Import documents from Confluence
- Import Microsoft Word documents
- Publish a knowledge base (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base settings (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base branding (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base homepage (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base documents (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base access (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base visitor experience (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Custom knowledge base domains (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Custom knowledge base URLs (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Meta descriptions (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base accessibility best practices
- Text editor
- Text editor toolbar
- Style text
- Add and modify tables
- Track history and restore historical versions
- Comment and collaborate on text
- Embed a whiteboard
- Add and comment on media
Presentations
Collaboration
Record management
Customizations
- Statuses and workflows
- Workflow approvals
- Scorecard equations
- Automated scorecard metrics (Enterprise+)
- Custom fields
- Custom layouts
- Advanced custom layouts (Enterprise+)
- Introduction to advanced equations
- Field identifiers for advanced equations
- Custom equation functions and operators
- Filter arrays with logical operators
- Custom tables (Enterprise+)
- Custom worksheets (Enterprise+)
- Manage at-risk work
- Reference Aha! Roadmaps fields in custom worksheet equations (Enterprise+)
- Link custom tables to each other (Enterprise+)
- Use custom tables to manage strategic opportunities
- Track special customer information
Best practices
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Set product strategy
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Review customer feedback
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Prioritize the best ideas
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Create your product roadmap
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Manage product launches
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Communicate roadmap progress
- Best practices for linking your work to strategy
- Best practices for tracking OKRs
- Best practices for configuring Aha! to support SAFe®
- Best practices for configuring Aha! to support the Pragmatic Framework
- Best practices for tracking product development risks
- Best practices for managing cross-functional requests
- Best practices for setting product strategy
- Best practices for capturing and prioritizing customer ideas
- Best practices for launching your ideas portal
- Best practices for managing product platforms
- Best practices for managing solution offerings
- Best practices for managing product components
- Best practices for managing complex product bundles
- Best practices for creating a product information hub
- Best practices for using documents to collaborate with stakeholders
Enterprise+ functionality
- Enterprise+ plan features
- Advanced custom layouts (Enterprise+)
- Automated scorecard metrics (Enterprise+)
- Automation (Enterprise+)
- Back up your account (Enterprise+)
- Configure team capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Custom roles (Enterprise+)
- Custom tables (Enterprise+)
- Custom worksheets (Enterprise+)
- Enable IP address based access control (Enterprise+)
- Estimate work for capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Getting started with capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Integrate with security webhooks (Enterprise+)
- Link custom tables to each other (Enterprise+)
- Monitor your account activity (Enterprise+)
- Reference Aha! Roadmaps fields in custom worksheet equations (Enterprise+)
- Resolve capacity conflicts (Enterprise+)
- Team capacity report (Enterprise+)
- Work requests (Enterprise+)
- Workspace templates (Enterprise+)
Account management
Account plans
Billing and users
Security and system requirements
Single sign-on (SSO)
- Account SSO | SAML 2.0
- Account SSO | Google Cloud Identity
- Account SSO | Okta
- Account SSO | OneLogin
- Account SSO | Microsoft Entra ID
- Account SSO | Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
- Account SSO | Bitium
- Portal SSO | SAML 2.0
- Portal SSO | OpenID Connect
- Portal SSO | JSON Web Token
- Portal SSO | Google Cloud Identity
- Portal SSO | OneLogin
- Portal SSO | Entra ID
- Portal SSO | Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
- Portal SSO | Salesforce
- Portal SSO | Link portal users to organizations (Advanced plan)
- Knowledge base SSO | SAML 2.0 (Aha! Knowledge Advanced plan)
- Knowledge base SSO | OpenID Connect (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base SSO | JSON Web Token (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base SSO | Google Cloud Identity (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base SSO | OneLogin (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base SSO | Entra ID (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base SSO | Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Knowledge base SSO | Salesforce (Aha! Knowledge Advanced)
- Troubleshoot single sign-on issues
Integrations
Introduction to integrations
- How to think about integrating Aha! Roadmaps with your development tool
- Manage your integrations
- Create multiple development tool integrations for a single workspace
- Integrate one workspace with multiple third-party systems
- Integrate with your calendar application
- Allow list IP addresses for on-premises development tools
- Manually send Aha! Roadmaps records to development tools
Integration guides
- Import data from your development system
- Create an integration template
- Map fields between Aha! Roadmaps and your development system
- Configure links between integrated records
- View integration log messages
- How to diagnose development tool integration log messages
- Convert an integration from 1.0 to 2.0
- Move records with Jira or Rally
- Link records in Aha! Roadmaps with existing records in another system
- Send changes and accept imports from another system
- Resync Aha! Roadmaps with your development tool
- Move a linked record to another workspace
- Map a single Aha! Roadmaps record type to multiple development system record types
- Integrate a single workspace with multiple projects from the same development tool
- Send records in bulk to integrated tools
- Import error: no valid relationship link
Aha! API
Aha! Develop
Apple Calendar
Azure DevOps
- Integrate with Azure DevOps
- Recommended Azure DevOps mappings
- Sync sprints with Azure DevOps
- Azure DevOps Services Error: "Configuration error for 'installed': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known"
- Integrate with Azure DevOps Services or Azure DevOps Server (version 1.0)
- Use the Azure DevOps integration through a web proxy
- Integration guides
Bugzilla
Confluence
Dropbox
Flowdock
FogBugz
GitHub
GitLab
Google Calendar
Google Chat
Google Drive
Jira
- Integrate with Jira
- Detailed Jira integration instructions
- Recommended Jira mappings
- Integrate with Jira Server on-premises
- Migrate from Jira Server to Jira Cloud
- Use the Jira integration through a web proxy
- Integrate with Jira next-gen projects
- Sync sprints between Aha! Roadmaps and Jira
- Track capacity between Aha! Roadmaps and Jira
- Use webhooks for Jira integrations
- When multiple webhooks are needed and why
- Integrate a single Aha! Roadmaps workspace with multiple Jira projects
- Integrate with Jira when each project has one record type
- Map records between Aha! Roadmaps and Jira Core
- Integrate with Jira (version 1.0)
- Jira integration guides
Jira integration troubleshooting
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Outlook Calendar
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Teams
Pivotal Tracker
Rally
Redmine
Salesforce
- Integrate with Salesforce (Advanced plan)
- Gather customer feedback with Salesforce (Advanced plan)
- Link Aha! Roadmaps and Salesforce records in bulk (Advanced plan)
- Integrate with Salesforce for idea capture (Legacy access)
- Salesforce application release notes
- Import Salesforce links by CSV (Advanced plan)
ServiceNow
Slack
Trello
Zapier
Aha! Ideas
Ideas
Introduction
How to
Settings
Workspaces
Idea management
- Introduction to idea management
- Ideas overview page
- Idea visibility
- Ideas prioritization page
- Priorities chart
- Manage submitted ideas
- Portal notification emails
- Emailed ideas
- Proxy votes (Advanced plan)
- Segments (Advanced plan)
- Organizations (Advanced plan)
- Contacts (Advanced plan)
- AI-powered idea exploration (Advanced plan)
- Salesforce opportunity report (Advanced plan)
- Analyze ideas with AI (Advanced plan)
Ideas portals
- Introduction to ideas portals
- Configure your ideas portal
- Advanced custom portal design
- Manage ideas portal users
- Import users and data
- Public ideas portal
- Private ideas portal
- Submit-only ideas portal
- Portal comments
- Ideas portal weekly summary email
- Display multiple languages in your portal (Advanced plan)
- Create a custom ideas portal domain (Advanced plan)
- Custom pages (Advanced plan)
- Polls (Advanced plan)
- Manage portal spam
Research
- Schedule an empathy session (Advanced plan)
- Prepare an empathy session (Advanced plan)
- Run an empathy session (Advanced plan)
- Introduction to the community feedback widget (Advanced plan)
- Introduction to the polls widget (Advanced plan)
- Introduction to the in-app idea submission widget (Advanced plan)
- Install in-app feedback widgets in your web application (Advanced plan)
- Frequently asked questions about in-app feedback widgets (Advanced plan)
Reports
Documents
- Documents
- Share documents
- Guest access
- Template library
- Notes
- AI writing assistant
- Meetings
- Introduction to whiteboards
- Add and edit whiteboard content
- Advanced whiteboard shapes
- Add media to whiteboards
- The whiteboard toolbar
- Collaborate on whiteboards
- Convert whiteboard content to ideas
- View Aha! records on whiteboards
- Create a whiteboard presentation
- The text editor
- Text editor toolbar
- Style text
- Add and modify tables
- Comment and collaborate on text
- Embed a whiteboard
- Add and comment on media
- Track history and restore historical versions
Collaboration
Account management
Account plans
Billing and users
Security and system requirements
Integrations
Introduction to integrations
Account single sign-on (SSO)
Aha! API
Dropbox
Flowdock
Google Chat
Google Drive
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Teams
Portal single sign-on (SSO)
- Portal SSO | SAML 2.0
- Portal SSO | JSON Web Token
- Portal SSO | OpenID Connect
- Portal SSO | Google Cloud Identity
- Portal SSO | Salesforce
- Portal SSO | OneLogin
- Portal SSO | Entra ID
- Portal SSO | Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
- Share your SSO configuration between ideas portals (Advanced plan)
- Portal SSO | Troubleshoot single sign-on issues
- Portal SSO | Link portal users to organizations (Advanced plan)
Salesforce
ServiceNow
Slack
Zapier
Aha! Whiteboards
Aha! Whiteboards
Introduction
Settings