Qualitative + quantitative feedback as graphs?

[jamesdl]

Hello - my first post here.

I am working with a small team inside local government that is looking for a way to have community members provide feedback in structured manner. With 27 groups - each with 4 8 different sub-groups, I thought a forum format may be the most logical format for people to navigate through to their area.

It is part of a project called the Tablelands Community Plan. Over the next 8 years, a range of individuals and organistaions will provide feedback against their particular area of activity.

Could this forum software enable submissons to be structured? For example:

A structured submission to a topic could include general feedback, and quantitative feedback e.g. 

Project name: Tree Planting Project

General feedback: The project is going well. 5000 trees have been planted.



Quantitative feedback:

Number of people involved:  16

Number of hours contributed by community members: 1600

If these quanities could then be featured against the topic - or overall project in a graph, this would help administrators visualise the activity through the sub-groups.I am a private web page developer, with limited CSS / PHP skills. More of a designer really.

Keen to determine if anyone has seen anything like this - or should I be looking at project management software?

Cheerio

James

[Kindred]

so, there is a mod called [irul=http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1279]Custom Forms[/iurl] whcih will allow you to build a form and use that form to create the first post of a thread... (structured input)

it does not, however, allow the form contents to be put into individual threads... and nothing that allows graphs.

In other words, I don't think you are looking for a forum software - or a PM software either....  I have worked with most of the PM software out there and what you describe is not typical
You appear to be looking for something completely custom since I have not seen anything that does what you describe.