The portlet is a JSR-168 Spring PortletMVC portlet. It uses hibernate for its data store.

User feedback submission features:

• Simple user UI for comment submission
• Users may make their feedback anonymous, but the default is to collect user information
• Automatically collect information about the user and his or her browser

Administrative feedback features:

• Admin interface for viewing feedback with recent comments and overall stats summaries
• Easily filter feedback by type or user role
• Shortcuts for sending email to non-anonymous users
• Excel data export
• Optional listener to forward feedback submissions on to an email address

Possible future features:

• forward a comment to a ticketing system
• provide a flag to indicate if an admin has responded to the ticket

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Jasig/FeedbackPortlet

# Open the cloned folder
cd FeedbackPortlet

# Install maven dependencies and build
mvn install

# Navigate to uPortal folder
cd ../path/to/uportal

# Deploy Feedback Portlet to uPortal
ant deployPortletApp -DportletApp /path/to/../FeedbackPortlet/target/FeedbackPortlet.war