Activate Public Portal Comments

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Agenda and Meeting Management Select site administrators can choose to turn on a Public Comment form in the Public Portal. Site administrators will have a text field to enter instructions to the residents that will show up on the Public Portal, will specify an email address for the resident comments to be submitted to, and will enable a new comments tab to show up in the Public Portal.

In the new Public Portal, the comments tab is labeled Submit Comments.

The Public Portal Submit Comments tab with fields for name, email, and comment text.

Once the tab is turned on, residents will be able to select a meeting, navigate to the comments tab, fill out an online form, and submit comments for a particular agenda to an email address specified by the site administrator. The email that the site administrator will receive will contain a link to the specific meeting the resident wishes to comment on.

This article will show you how to activate Public Portal comments.

Instructions

  1. Sign in to the system if you have not already

  2. Navigate to the User Menu, then select the Settings option:Meetings Select User Menu with the Settings option highlighted.

  3. Click the Events and Public Portal tile:Meetings Select Site settings menu highlighting the Events and Public Portal option for user navigation.

  4. Click the Portal Settings tile:Meetings Select Portal Settings tile on the Events and Public Portal page.

  5. Scroll to the Public Comments section and insert one email address into the Public Comments Email field:Meetings Select Public Comments Email text box.

    Note:

    This will be the email address that you want residents' emails to be routed to.

  6. Enter Public Comments Instructions to appear in the Public Portal, explaining instructions or communicating other information to residents if desired:Meetings Select Public Comments Instructions text box.

  7. Click the Save Changes button to save your changes:Meetings Select, the green, rectangular Save Changes button which appears below the User menu.

    Note:

    Once you click the Save Changes button, the tab will be active in the Public Portal automatically.