Accountability Module

The Accountability Module is the method to do project management in Decidim.

To configure the Accountability component:

1. Sign in as admin

2. Go to admin panel

3. In the main sidebar, click in the button for the space that you want to configure the component for. For instance, it could be "Processes", or "Assemblies"

4. Go to components

5. Click on "Add component" button

6. Click on "Accountability"

7. Fill the Add Component form

Name: What is the title of this component.

Order Position: The order in relation to other components and other Accountability Modules. This can be especially seen in the landing page where all components are listed.

Scopes: Meant to help organize components and the parts inside them.

Comments: Whether or not we want to allow comments for the whole Accountability Module.

Intro: Places text over the categories and subcategories part of the Accountability Module.

Display Progress: Creates total progress bar for all categories and subcategories. Note that disabling this won't disable the progress bars on each category or sub category bar.

After creating the Accountability Module you should be able to view a page similar to this one:

• The Export all button allows you to take the information of all the "results" (they can be thought of as the project itself) in the Accountability Module. It will send you the information via email either through JSON, CSV or Excel.

• The import button is for importing another component into the Accountability module. This is primarily for importing a budget component into the Accountability Module.

• The Status button allows you to create custom status's to use on a result. Each status has a key, and a name. It can also have a description and a progress percentage that the result will immediately take the value of when assigned to that status.

Finally clicking on New Result leads you to this page:

• Title is the name of the 'result' that you want to give it.

• Description is where you want to give a general introduction to the 'result.'

• Category is how the result will be sorted. It is very important to have one created and assign every 'result' into a certain category. If you don't you may face issues with locating the result. Including multiple categories will allow the Accountability module to appear like this.

• The start date and end dates appear in the sidebar with the progress bar.

• The status field is not required but it can allow you to quickly assign an appropriate progress bar value. It will also appear next the progress bar.

• Progress field allows you to manually set the bar to a certain percentage. Note that a 100% would be a value of 100.

• The Proposals field allows you to add any relevant proposals to the project. This can be used to provide more information on the project like who is assigned to the project and the origin of the project.

• Included Projects field can be ignored for now.

After configuring everything and publishing the result you want to click on the Project Evolution (the clock icon) of the result. In there you can create a timeline for the project with a title, description, end and start dates. This is where all the goals and their deadlines would be listed for the project. All this information will then appear in the result itself like so: