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[JamesDL]

Hi everyone,

First post here for me!

I am working with a small team inside local government that is looking for a way to have community members provide feedback in structured manner.
With 27 groups - each with 4 8 different sub-groups, I thought a forum format may be the most logical format for people to navigate through to their area.

It is part of a project called the Tablelands Community Plan ( http://www.trc.qld.g...-community-plan )

Over the next 8 years, a range of individuals and organistaions will provide feedback against their particular area of activity.
Could the IPS community enable submissons to be structured?

For example:

A structured submission to a topic could include general feedback, and quantitative feedback e.g.

Project name: Tree Planting Project

General feedback: The project is going well. 5000 trees have been planted.

Quantitative feedback:

Number of people involved: 16

Number of hours contributed by community members: 1600

If these quanities could then be featured against the topic - or overall project in a graph, this would help administrators visualise the activity through the sub-groups.

I am a private web page developer, with limited CSS / PHP skills.
More of a designer really.

Keen to determine if anyone has seen anything like this - or should I be looking at project management software?

Cheerio

James

[bfarber]

IP.Board on its own can handle the structure, but the software does not feature "custom fields" for topics. By that I mean, you would not be presented with a form that asked for all of this data - however there would of course be nothing stopping the people submitting their feedback from including it as you did in your example above.

Another option you may wish to consider is IP.Content. Using its databases feature, you can effectively create custom forms that will submit into any chosen structure (you define the categories in each database, much like you would define the forums in IP.Board), and then you can sort and review the feedback submitted to the database in multiple ways.