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Lately I’ve been working with the participatory texts module and so I’ve found some improvements that we could make to the modul.
1) To add an option to download the final text once it has been amended and modified.
This should be done from the back office. The file must maintain paragraphs and separations, regardless of the sections into which the text is divided.
2) When importing a text, the draft or edition section is confusing.
One way to improve this is to not make it mandatory to add a title in every section in which the text is divided.
On the public view of the text, a title won’t be displayed if there’s no title; at this time a default number is displayed as title if there's no text.
3) Disable the possibility of amending when “accepted”
If the option to provide “response” (accept, reject) is enabled, and the admin “accepts” one section of the text (after the amendment process), it should no longer be possible to amend that part of the text as it is considered to be finished.
4) Remove the obligation to amend the title.
When someone wants to add an amendment or when the admin wants to edit the text from the back office, It’s always have to change the title, even if you don’t want to.
I think that these changes can improve a lot the use of the participatory texts module. What do you think?
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I totally agree with you, I think that Participatory Text is a tool with a lot of potential but it has a lot of things to improve. I would add that:
Review the flow of voting on amendments. Enabling the possibility to vote for, against and abstain from each amendment. As well as to think about the voting possibilities when there are several amendments that refer to the same part of the text and that are contradictory between them, what should be the process? From my experience: The two amendments are confronted and the one that wins is confronted with the base text.
Create amendment typologies. Normally in this type of procedure a distinction is made between amendments of form, content or totality.
Another problem is when someone wants to add a new article to a text. There is no possibility to make an amendment that adds a new article to the text.
On point 3, I would say that it is fine for the admin to review the text of the amendment that will finally be incorporated into the text, but the author of the amendment should be able to accept those changes.
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