Votes

Voting allows users to indicate that they would like certain activities to be accelerated, treated with a higher priority, incidents/bugs to get fixed, etc. Users of the system can help high-priority issues to garner attention so that they do not sit for a long time awaiting review/triage. A Vote is therefore useful feedback to managers of activity trackers and people responsible for individual activities:

Figure 4-6. Vote

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Anatomy of a Vote:

Name of the Vote (e.g. a participant's nick name)
use Description for a short summary of the typical roles/tasks/etc. of the Participant
Voter contains a reference to the openCRX Contact who voted

To vote for an activity, execute the operation Tools > Vote for Activity on the respective activity. The total number of votes for an activity is always displayed if you inspect the respective activity:

Figure 4-7. Total number of votes for an activity

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