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Project Launch Checklist ✓

Must do's or highly recommended steps before you launch a project

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Creating projects and folders

Creating a project + 📹

The basic steps to create your first projects. Take your time to fully fill in your project page

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Including a timeline in your project

Managing your most importance resource: time!

Written by Aline Muylaert
Updated over a week ago

Changing the status of your project

How to publish and archive projects and/or project folders

Written by Aline Muylaert
Updated over a week ago

Customising your project tags

Add tags to ideas to make them more searchable, filterable and findable

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Customizing your project descriptions with the Content Builder

Met de Content Builder kun je projectbeschrijvingen aanpassen met flexibele lay-outs, multi-media inhoud en embeds van derden.

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Embedding elements in the Content Builder to enrich project descriptions

Create engaging, informative projects by embedding elements like videos, presentations, social posts and more into the project description.

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Creating manual or smart groups of users + 🎥

Easily organize your users in manual or smart groups based on wide range of variables.

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Managing the project's access rights + 🎥

Define which participants can access and participate in your different projects.

Written by Hugo De Brouwer
Updated over a week ago

Limiting access to your project (phase) to certain user groups

Create user groups to define who can view a project and who can take specific actions.

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Using project folders to group different projects

How to manage and structure your project folders

Written by Aline Muylaert
Updated over a week ago

Use project filters to structure your projects

Filtering the projects by status tabs, geographic areas and tags

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Changing the URL of a project (folder) or input

Editing or shortening URLs for clarity and easy sharing

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

💡 Collecting input and/or feedback in list or map view (participation method)

Collecting input and/or feedback in list view + 📹

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Collecting input and/or feedback on a map + 📹

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Choosing the terminology for posting input

Select from six terms that you can use on your platform to collect free-form inputs

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Customizing the Input Form

Through the input form builder, you get to determine exactly what you want to ask of your community, and how.

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated yesterday

Deciding on the default sorting mechanism for ideas or other input

Organising and arranging how ideas are shown on the page

Written by Aline Muylaert
Updated over a week ago

Assigning input and ideas to your colleagues

Collaborate with colleagues on ideas inside a project

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Bulk import ideas and input (or locations) into your project

Importing ideas gathered (offline) can be done in bulk. Simply add the ideas in the sheet and we'll import them for you into the platform.

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Giving official feedback on and updating the status of many ideas at once

It is possible to easily add a (personalized) official update to a long list of ideas and change their status all at once.

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Styling the basic map layer of your project

Choose the design of your basic underlying map layer

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Customising your project map

Visualize the area for which you collect input, with a clearly structured map. Pre-populate your map with active and passive pins.

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

💰 Budget allocation or participatory budgeting (participation method)

Conducting an budget allocation exercise + 📹

Allow your audience to prioritize and select their favorite ideas. Shopping basket, tokens, valuta, participatory budgeting, budget game.

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

🗳 Polls (participation method)

Creating a poll + 📹

Keeping a pulse on your community

Written by Aline Muylaert
Updated over a week ago

📝 Advanced survey (participation method)

Creating an in-platform survey

You can build survey using our in-house developed survey tool

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Creating an external survey project + 📹

You can easily collect survey input using Typeform, Google Forms or several other survey tools

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Embedding a Typeform survey in your project

How to add a Typeform survey in your project, add hidden fields and use tips to customize and report about the results.

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Embedding your Typeform survey in a project (phase)

Learn how to embed your Typeform survey link in the platform and directly access your results

Written by Joost Vandenbroele
Updated over a week ago

Linking your Typeform survey results to the user registration data on the platform with "hidden fields"

Analysing your survey results - How to link your Typeform survey data to user registration data?

Written by Claire Tobback
Updated over a week ago

Tips & Tricks for Typeform

How to get the most out of your Typeform survey

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Creating a bilingual survey in Typeform

Show the correct language with the use of hidden fields

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Embedding your Google Forms survey in a project (phase)

Getting and embedding your Google Forms survey in the platform

Written by Claire Tobback
Updated over a week ago

Merging a hidden fields survey with the exported user list of a platform using VLOOKUP

Hidden fields in Typeform allow you to link your embedded survey results to the excel with the user-data of your platform. Here's how.

Written by Rabi Wilson
Updated over a week ago

How to embed your SurveyXact survey in a project (phase)?

Getting and embedding your SurveyXact survey in the platform

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

How to embed your Enalyzer survey in a project (phase)?

Getting and embedding your Enalyzer survey in the platform

Written by Claire Tobback
Updated over a week ago

Creating a smart group of registered users who participated in a survey

Building continued engagement with previous participants

Written by Aline Muylaert
Updated over a week ago

✋ Volunteering (participation method)

Organizing a volunteering project + 📹

Allow participants to sign up as a volunteer for a specific project

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

🌱 Proposals (participation method)

Collecting citizen proposals + 📹

Keep track of what matters to your citizens.

Written by Rabi Wilson
Updated over a week ago

🧑🏽‍💻 Online Workshops (participation method)

Setting up an online workshop + 📹

We'll guide you through the key steps of setting up your own online workshops.

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Grouping input with tags in an online workshop

Use the tagging method to group workshop input that belongs together

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago

Setting up dot voting in an online workshop

How to set up and apply dot voting within your online workshop

Written by Stijn Zwarts
Updated over a week ago