Path: Community Topbar >> Apps Icon >> Campaign Management >> Edit Campaigns
A private campaign is only visible to certain members invited to participate. This is controlled by the community administrators.
Private campaigns are achieved by adding a member group that allows them to view and participate in the ideas of the campaign/s to which they are given access.
Note: Private Campaigns are by default visible to all the Community Moderators and Campaign Moderators of that particular campaign, irrespective of assigning a role or invitation.
How to make a campaign private:
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Create groups before campaigns are made 'Private'.
Help Article on Workspace Groups
Help Article on Community Groups -
The Private campaign checkbox is seen while adding a new campaign or editing an existing campaign.
Creating a Private Campaign
Editing a Campaign to make it Private
When this switch is set to Private, administrators see a table listing each user group and the permissions that can be granted to those groups. Selecting the checkbox for a user group in a given column will grant that group the corresponding permission: View Idea, Submit Idea, Submit Comments, or Submit Vote.
The admin can choose to add in groups that will be authorized to participate in the campaign as per the checkboxes enabled for the specific group.
Private Campaign - Notifications
Updates/notifications for Private Campaigns are included in the Digest emails. A member of Private Campaigns should take care not to share such digest emails with other users.
A precautionary message saying " This email includes ideas from Private campaign, Please don't share this email with others " is included in the digest emails.
Notifications can be set from Community Topbar >> Apps Icon >> Community Settings >> General Settings >> Email & Notifications >> Digest Emails >> Include ideas from Private Campaign in Digest Notification.
Note: Ideas from Private campaigns cannot be shared via the 'Email idea' option with unauthorized members.
Help Article on Campaign Settings
The latest feature in a private campaign is all the private campaigns will be now denoted with a lock icon in all the places where the campaign name is displayed.
Note: For Landing page enabled communities with Pinned campaign option, the private campaign block will only be visible to members who are authorized to participate in it.