The Visioner tool makes it easy for your community to participate with their ideas at the beginning stages of project, plan or strategy. It's an ideas generating tool that also encourages input on the ideas of others.

The Visioner tool enables participants to post short statements of up to 140 characters in response to a single prompting question. Statements are displayed as a visual wall of virtual ‘post-it’ notes, that can be viewed by other visitors, sorted and filtered, and optionally voted on.

The Visioner is a great tool to collect qualitative thoughts, ideas and issues in a concise format that is easy and fun to use.

When setting up the blocks you can choose whether to enable and define a list of categories, allow participant voting and choose how visitors filter submissions. You can also choose how the tool displays and even select different Visioner input tools to display results.

This means you can choose whether to display results or not and even choose to display results on a different page.

Settings (Input)

Basic

• Activity Status - allows you to make the tool active (on) or inactive (off).
• Activity Question - sets the main question for the Visioner that prompts participants to respond.
• Activity Description - provides a description that can be used to provide further information about the activity, including leaving internal notes to other users.
• Display Description - when selected, the description will be displayed to visitors.
• Activity Dates - allows you to set a close date for this Visioner engagement for reporting purposes only. Please note this does not automatically close the activity.

Activity

• Categories - sets a number of pre-defined categories that participants can choose from to classify their contribution.
• Member Attributes - adds pre-defined Member Attributes to the input form of the Social Map to collect participant information. Member Attributes are defined at the Sitewide level, and allow the collection of standardised user information that can be reused later.

Display

• Placeholder Text - allows you to add custom text in the input field to provide the participant with additional prompts.

Advanced

• Registration Required - sets whether a participant must be a registered Member to make a Contribution. When enabled, this will override the registration defaults set at the Sitewide level. Note that it does not restrict the ability for participants to vote on contributions.
• Moderation Method - allows the moderation method to be changed between Post-moderation (default) and Pre-moderation. Adjusting the moderation method will override the Moderation Method settings set at the Sitewide level.

Notifications

• Contribution Notifications - allows notification messages to be sent to the nominated users every time a participant submits a contribution on this Visioner.

Viewing results and reports

You can access your results and view reports for a Visioner activity by going to Dashboard --> Reports --> Results. Click the 'View Results' link next to the relevant activity name to view the report.

Information in the report is filtered by the date range, which you can adjust at the top-right of the report. Some reporting information relating to categories and voting will only be shown if these features were enabled in the activity.

To get further information about any reporting metric, hover over the question mark at the top-right of the reporting component to view a description.

Summary

The 'Summary' section of the report provides the following information:

• Key statistics - shows a number of top-level metrics relating to the activity including:
  • the number of contributions collected through the activity
  • the number of unique contributors who made contributions
  • the total number of votes cast in the activity
  • the average number of votes cast per contribution, indicating the intensity of the voting activity.
• Sentiment - a bar chart showing the overall sentiment analysis of all posts in the activity, classified as either 'positive', 'negative', 'neutral', 'mixed', or 'unclassified'. This information is determined by Site Users by applying the text analysis tools.
• Tag word cloud - a word cloud visualisation showing tag (theme) analysis of all post content, with the size of each tag determined by the number of times the tag was used. Tags used more frequently display at a larger size in the word cloud than those used less frequently. This information is determined by Site Users by applying the text analysis tools.
• Tag table - a table showing the number of times (count) a tag was used in the tag analysis and the percentage of times that tag was used as a proportion of total tags.
• Voting - a chart showing the overall results of the voting activity. The visualisation type will depend on the voting method used in the activity (e.g. upvoting or upvoting/downvoting).

The summary report can be exported as a PDF by clicking the 'Export' button at the top-right of the page. This will export the entire report as a single PDF including the overall report and a report for each category.

Overview

The 'Overview' section of the report includes high-level meta-information about your activity including information about whether participants were registered members or anonymous, when the activity occurred, what devices and browsers were used by participants and a breakdown of selected demographic information (for member participants only).

This report is standard across all participation tools. More information can be found in the Reporting section.

Data

The 'Data' section of the report includes the raw data collected through the activity, in a table view.

The data table for the Visioner includes the following information:

• Contribution ID - a unique identifier for the post
• Date submitted - the date the contribution was made
• Response - the text comment left in the contribution
• Upvotes - the number of upvotes a contribution received
• Downvotes - the number of downvotes a contribution received
• Total votes - the number of total upvotes and downvotes a contribution received.

Additional fields containing the personal information of the participant may also be appended to the data table.

Data from the data table can be exported by clicking the 'Export' button at the top-right of the page. Data can be exported as either CSV or XLSX.

can be filtered on a number of attributes by clicking the 'Show

Filters' button at the top of the page and adjusting the values. Any

filters applied to the data table will persist in the data export.

Settings (Results)

Basic

• Participant Voting - enables visitors to vote on the Contributions of other participants and sets the voting method (e.g. upvotes or upvotes / downvotes). When enabled, a ‘thumbs up’ and ‘thumbs down’ icon will appear next to each Contribution shown in the Visioner Results Block.
  All Members and un-registered visitors can participate in voting activities when this setting is turned on.

Display

• Visioner Input - selects the associated Visioner Input Block to display results from. Results can be displayed from any Visioner Input Block on your site.
• Voting Display - enables the results of any voting activities to be displayed to visitors. This setting is independent of the ‘Participant Voting’ setting, and simply shows or hides the voting results.
• Filters - enables a variety of categories that can be used to ‘filter’ the Visioner Results. Some filter categories are dependent on whether voting activities are enabled, and the type of voting allowed (e.g. upvotes / downvotes).
• Progressive Loading - allows you to set a specific number of public contributions that are displayed before displaying a ‘Show more’ button.