{"id":188,"date":"2008-01-14T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T20:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2008\/01\/14\/making-a-feature-request\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T20:41:47","slug":"making-a-feature-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2008\/01\/14\/making-a-feature-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a feature request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that MATLAB users have some great ideas on how to make the product better. Browsing through this blog&#8217;s comments reveals some of those ideas. We love your suggestions as responses to blog entries, but if you think you&#8217;ve got a <i>really<\/i> great idea, I&#8217;d encourage you to submit it as an official feature request. We regularly review these requests, so this mechanism will give you a direct pipeline into the development process.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to request an enhancement:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/support.html\">Support section of The MathWorks website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you haven&#8217;t previously logged in, login now, or create a new account.<\/li>\n<li>Click <b>View Service Requests<\/b> in the <b>My Account<\/b> section.\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_feature_request\/view_service_requests.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <b>Create New Request<\/b> under <b>My Support<\/b> (on the right hand side of the screen).\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_feature_request\/create_new_request.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>In <b>Step 1:<\/b> select <b>Technical Support<\/b> which will then reveal more options, from which you should select <b>Request Enhancement<\/b>.\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_feature_request\/type_of_request.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fill out the form with your idea. Make sure to select <b>New Feature<\/b> in the <b>What benefits do you expect from implementing this enhancement?<\/b> section.\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_feature_request\/feature_checkbox.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Feel free to to run your idea by me before officially requesting it if you&#8217;d like (you can email me <a href=\"mailto:ken.orr@mathworks.com\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Let the ideas flow!<\/p>\n<p>Leave us a comment <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/?p=188#respond\">here<\/a> about your experience with feature requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that MATLAB users have some great ideas on how to make the product better. Browsing through this blog&#8217;s comments reveals some of those ideas. We love your suggestions as&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2008\/01\/14\/making-a-feature-request\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2,14,4,12,8,9,5,11,17,7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}