Basic Terminology About Voting Board

This article has all the basics about Voting boards for your account users (admins & members).

Boards, Ideas, Votes & Comments

Voting Boards are containers for ideas, and each idea can receive comments and votes from users (internal and external).

For example:

• Board: Product Requests
  • Idea: Dark mode for timeline
    • Comment: Cool! That’s what needed!

Link for this test idea https://videoapp.ducalis.io/idea/61152

Want to see it in action? Check out our TEST Ducalis Voting board https://videoapp.ducalis.io/acme-inc-insights-598

Boards

A board’s access can be set to public or private. Public boards are visible to anyone on the web, private boards limit access to specific groups.

Public boards typically gather user feedback, private boards collect internal team feedback, or can be tailored for specific audiences like customers or select team members.

How Public Voting board looks like:

But to leave the feedback, vote or comment user should signup.

How Private Voting board looks like:

Ideas

1. Anyone with board access can create a new post, whether they’re a regular user or a Ducalis account. Here’s what the idea creation screen looks like for users who have access to ducalis account here https://ducalis.io/

You can also create idea from your backlog issue:

2. Every idea can be assigned an author. This way, there is accountability as to who is responsible for addressing specific feedback. Learn more.

3. As an idea’s status is updated, users who voted on the idea will be notified automatically via email. This way, users are always up to date on what matters most to them! Learn more.

Votes

Ducalis allows your users to show support for a post with just one click! Each user gets one vote per post and vote totals are amassed in Ducalis, allowing you to easily sort and filter your most popular or relevant ideas.

• Casting a vote will automatically enroll that user for updates related to that idea.
• Votes can be added by your team on a user’s behalf. Learn more

• Users can rescind a vote by clicking the downvote button.

• If a vote was added on a user’s behalf, an admin can also rescind it from the All Voters list.

Comments

Comments can be added to an idea by anyone with access to that board.

• As an account user, adding a top-level comment will notify all voters.

• When you reply directly to another comment, only that commenter will be notified.

• Individual @mentions are also supported for when you need to better understand someone’s use case or expectations.

Labels

Each board can have its own unique labels. They are visible to all external users and help organize ideas. Ideas can have multiple labels.

How Labels look on the public part of voting board:

Roadmaps & Changelog

The Roadmap

The roadmap lets your team pull Ducalis ideas and decide what to work on next! It displays your current projects and their progress.

When you update an idea’s status, it automatically moves along the roadmap, showing users that you’re actively working on their requests. Learn more.

See our roadmap at https://feedback.ducalis.io/ducalis-roadmap

Where to Find Your Team’s Roadmap inside ducalis account:

Where to Find Your Team’s Roadmap outside ducalis account:

Learn more How to create Roadmap.

Changelog

The changelog is where you publish all your product updates. Check out our example at https://feedback.ducalis.io/ducalis-roadmap/changelog. It’s a valuable resource to share with company stakeholders, and we recommend including it in your newsletters.

Learn more How to create Changelog.