📊 Global settings for the Proposals feature

The global parameters:

To configure a "Proposal" module, you must go to the features sub-menu and click on "Add a feature". Here we will show you the correspondence between the elements to be filled in the configuration screen and the user space. 

You must first enter the Title of your functionality Proposalsas well as its Display Rank. This setting concerns the menu of your process (see below). Here, the title of the Survey is "Questionnaire", and its display rank is 3. 

You must then enter the global settings for your Proposals feature. 

• Voting limit per user: when necessary, enter the maximum number of votes a user has. A value of 0 implies an unlimited number of votes.
• Minimum number of votes per user: when necessary, enter the minimum number of votes a user must use. 
• The limit of proposals per user: the maximum number of proposals that users can make. The value 0 implies an unlimited number of proposals.
• Maximum number of characters in the body of the proposal: 500 characters by default. 
• Time limit (in minutes) after which the authors can no longer modify their proposals: time limit during which the authors of proposals can modify them. By default, this number is set to 5 minutes. It is advisable not to leave too much time because as soon as someone supports or comments on the proposal, it will no longer be modifiable. 
• Threshold per proposal: maximum number of votes a proposal can receive

You can then check the options you want to see enabled on the general configuration of the feature: 

• May accumulate support beyond the threshold: once the threshold is exceeded, the meter will continue to count additional support (e.g. 600/200 support).
• Allow official reply to proposals: Allows you to reply to users' proposals from the administrator area.
• Allow the creation of official proposals: Allows you to create official proposals from the administrator area.
• Enable the comment module: Allows you to enable or disable the possibility for users to post comments under a proposal.
• Geocoding enabled: deploys a map on the proposal index to locate contributions. When creating a proposal, users can choose to Fill in an address to locate their proposal.
• Allow Attachments: Allows users to upload attachments.
• Authorizations for actions can be defined for each proposal (see the article on authorizations and checks).
• Collaborative drafts enabled : this tool allows users to access the index of participatory drafts, and thus create collaborative projects. For more information, visit the article dedicated to collaborative drafts.
• Activated participatory texts: cannot be activated if proposals have already been posted. For more information, go to the article dedicated to participatory texts.
• Modifications enabled: allows users to amend proposals. For more information, go to the article dedicated to amendments.

Finally, you can set up announcements and help texts to accompany users on the Proposals area and when creating proposals.

• Announcement: help or information text visible to users on the index of proposals
• Help text for the creation of a new proposal: help text appears throughout the proposal submission process (except in the Publish step).
• Help text for the Create New Proposal step: help text appears in the first step of the submission
• Help text for the Compare New Proposal step: Announcement that appears when the proposal is similar to others
• Help text for Completing a new proposal step 
• Help text for the Publish New Proposal step

On the user area, the depository of a proposal sees these announcement messages in the following way (here: step Compare). 

The stage parameters:

You must then configure the parameters for the steps. Here, only one step has been set up. We recommend that you complete all your steps (see the article "Configuring the steps of my Process") before configuring the step settings. 

Warning: the steps can only be set in the spaces Processes. Spaces assemblies are not punctuated by steps.

For each step, you can check the same boxes as for the general settings, to activate or deactivate certain parameters. You can also add hashtags automatically or suggest hashtags to users at each step of the Process. 

Finally, click on "Add a Feature". If you want to publish your feature Proposals, go to the Features submenu of your Process and click on the "Publish" icon.