Unconference Feedback Portlet

Name Feedback Portlet
Version  
Author(s) Jen Bourey
Homepage  
Issue Tracking http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/FBP
License  
Release Docs  
Java API Docs  
Download Source https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/portlets/FeedbackPortlet/

Description/Features

The unconference feedback portlet was designed at the 2007 JA-SIG Unconference at Rutgers.  Many, many thanks to Collier Jones of UMBC who provided all the UI inspiration!

What is this portlet?

The portlet is a JSR-168 Spring PortletMVC portlet. It uses hibernate for its data store.

User feedback submission features:

  • Simple user UI for comment submission
  • Users may make their feedback anonymous, but the default is to collect user information
  • Automatically collect information about the user and his or her browser

Administrative feedback features:

  • Admin interface for viewing feedback with recent comments and overall stats summaries
  • Easily filter feedback by type or user role
  • Shortcuts for sending email to non-anonymous users
  • Excel data export
  • Optional listener to forward feedback submissions on to an email address

Possible future features:

  • forward a comment to a ticketing system
  • provide a flag to indicate if an admin has responded to the ticket

Download and installation

This portlet is available in JA-SIG SVN source control: https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/portlets/FeedbackPortlet/

You'd check it out from source control using something like this:

svn co https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/portlets/FeedbackPortlet/trunk feedback_portlet

Once you've checked it out, you can build it with Maven 2.

In the project root directory:

mvn install

You'll then need to install into uPortal the resulting portlet .war using Ant's portlet install tool:

ant deployPortletApp

Feedback submission interface

Admin interface

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  1. Nov 26, 2007

    Jason Shao says:

    Awesome screenshots. You rock Jenn. How do we: # get this in shared source cont...

    Awesome screenshots. You rock Jenn. How do we:

    1. get this in shared source control
    2. get this incubated and then bundled with uPortal 3
    3. reconcile this with the existing work done by UW and JHU on: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/FeedbackPortlet
      • if emailing feedbacks was added would that address the feature gap?
      • do we have an opportunity for this to be FeedbackPortlet 2.0?