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This is my first post here.

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.gov.au/tablelands-community-plan ) Over the next 8 years, a range of individuals and organistaions will provide feedback against their particular area of activity.

Could this forum software 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

I've never seen anybody doing anything like this via forum software though I do believe it would be possible with a little work. If I were you, XThreads would be the first thing I'd look at to store the quantitative data then I'd be looking to have a plugin coded to actually build the graphs.

I was looking at this post euantor - I am not convinced that XThreads is the way to go - I would probably recommend a tracker type software that integrates into the board.

(2012-08-12, 03:40 PM)Leefish Wrote: [ -> ]I was looking at this post euantor - I am not convinced that XThreads is the way to go - I would probably recommend a tracker type software that integrates into the board.

Looking at it again, possibly not depending on the number of different projects.

Thanks for those initial thoughts guys.

Would there be any add-ons which would at least allow a structured submission to a forum, so at least the data can be captured in a consistant way?

e.g. A form add-on that I could customise, then perhaps extract the content of the submission to process manually?

Yes, that is XThreads.

You can customise the FIRST POST to have additional data fields. You might be interested in looking at Tomm's tracker and trying to modify that.

It is for 1.4 but I have it running on a 1.6.7 board with no major issues.

http://mods.mybb.com/view/bug-tracker