The Comment Collector System

The Comment Collector System can be used during the Review process to collect information such as suggestions for text changes or to report issues with performance and functionality of the Web-Based Training lesson. When turned on, the Record Comments button appears in the lower-left part of the screen. The Reviewer clicks that button to get the popup shown here. They click in the field, type their information, and click the Save button.

The availability of the tool is controlled by the HTTP Post Process. A return value from an HTTP Post Process sets the value of a variable named RDS_Status to a series of 1's or 0's. We check character 1 of this string to see if we want to show or hide the Record Comments button.

A really good feature of this tool is that if the system is left in the application after final deployment, it can be controlled by the HTTP Post Process and turned on at any time, allowing information or issues to be reported at any time. All that is necessary to do this is to change a number in one line of code of an ASP Page.

Click here to see a sample Comment Report.