Unconference Feedback Portlet

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