Participatory process creation
Understand the basics
Participatory processes allows administrators to configure components in articulation with different participatory phases. To start creating a process, when on the process list, click the "New process" button at the top right of the page.
The process creation form is divided into different sections that are detailed in the sections below.
Once you created a process, in the secondary navigation panel, you can see all the process configuration available:
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About this process: here you can access and edit all the fields from the creation form.
Konfiguration
General information
This section allows to provide a general description about the process, mainly a title, URL, and description.

Feld | Typ | Beschreibung | Visibility |
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Titel |
Benötigt |
Titel des partizipativen Prozesses. For instance, "Participatory Budgeting 2020" |
Visible in the card of the process on the homepage, the processes index, the navigation, and the "Hero image and CTA" landing page block. |
Untertitel |
Benötigt |
Untertitel. Zum Beispiel "Lassen Sie uns unsere Prioritäten gemeinsam festlegen" |
Visible in the "Hero image and CTA" landing page block. |
Bestellposition |
Benötigt |
Determines the order of the process when displayed in the processes index or homepage. |
N/A |
URL Slug |
Benötigt |
URL-Slugs werden verwendet, um die URLs zu generieren, die auf diesen Prozess verweisen. Akzeptiert nur Buchstaben, Zahlen und Bindestriche und muss mit einem Buchstaben beginnen. |
Visible in the URL of the participatory process, for example https://example.org/processes/participatory-budget-2020. |
Hashtag |
Optional |
Hashtag redirecting to the X social network. |
Visible in the "Hero image and CTA" landing page block. |
Kurze Beschreibung |
Benötigt |
A short explanation of what’s the participatory process about. |
Visible in the "Main data" landing page block. |
Beschreibung |
Benötigt |
A detailed explanation of what’s the participatory process about. |
Visible in the "Main data" landing page block. |
Mitteilung |
Optional |
The text you enter here is shown to the user right below the process information. |
Visible in the "Announcement" landing page block. |
Dauer
This section allows to provide information about the process start and end dates. It can be enabled on the landing page with the "Phase & duration" landing page block.

Feld | Typ | Beschreibung |
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Startdatum |
Optional |
Wenn dieser Prozess beginnt. Sie haben ein Kalender-Widget zum Auswählen des Tages. Erwartetes Format: dd/mm/yyy |
Enddatum |
Optional |
Wenn dieser Prozess beginnt. Sie haben ein Kalender-Widget zum Auswählen des Tages. Erwartetes Format: dd/mm/yyy |
Images

Feld | Typ | Beschreibung |
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Home-Bild |
Optional |
Image used in presentation cards of this process. Anleitung für Datei: Muss ein Bild oder ein Dokument sein. Für Bilder verwenden Sie vorzugsweise Landschaftsbilder, der Dienst bewirtschaftet das Bild. Maximum file size: 10 MB |
Metadaten
This section allows to provide meta information about the process. It can be enabled on the landing page with the "Metadata" landing page block.

Feld | Typ | Beschreibung |
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Promoter-Gruppe |
Optional |
If a specific group is at the origin of the process, like a city direction, an association committee, etc. |
Organisationsbereich |
Optional |
The organization domain or category, if it’s relevant. |
Bereichsmetadaten |
Optional |
Metadata on the process scope, if it’s relevant. |
Wer beteiligt sich |
Optional |
Who are the authorized participants, who can participate to the process. |
Was beschlossen wird |
Optional |
The issue of the process, the object of what is decided. |
Wie wird es beschlossen |
Optional |
The decision making process. |
Filters
This section determines the filters available in the process, in the different components. Filters can then be enabled and configured in each components.

Feld | Typ | Beschreibung |
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Bereiche aktiviert |
Optional |
Aktivieren, wenn Sie die Bereichsfilterung in diesem Prozess verwenden möchten. |
Bereich |
Optional |
Which Scope does this process belongs to. |
Reichweite Filtertiefe |
Optional |
Restrict the scope filter depth. This is relevant if you have complex relations in Scopes children (like a Russian Doll). For instance if you have Grandmother → Mother → Child nested scopes, this setting allows you to choose the Mother scope, so the participants can only filter between the Child sub-scopes. This would be the case for instance if you have Provinces → Cities → Districts, and the process is about a particular City. |
Fläche |
Optional |
Which Area does this process belongs to. |
Visibility
This section allows administrators to configure the process placement in the different pages and its publicity or no.

Feld | Typ | Beschreibung |
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Prozessgruppe |
Optional |
Enables to group multiple processes together. Check Process Groups to know more. |
Privater Raum |
Optional |
Check this if the process should only be accessible by Private Participants. |
Beworben |
Optional |
Check if you want the process to have more visibility in the Process public list and the "Highlighted processes" content block in the Homepage configuration. |
Verwandte Prozesse
This section allows to create relations between processes. It’s different from processes groups. It can be enabled on the landing page with the "Related processes" landing page block.

Feld | Typ | Beschreibung |
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Verwandte Prozesse |
Optional |
Wählen Sie andere Beteiligungsprozesse, die mit diesem verwandt sind. |
Other
This section is empty, unless an administrator already created Process Types. If so, you should be able to select a process type to categorize the process. Participants are then able to filter processes in the processes index with those types.

