Chaz Beck Shaun Brockhoff Jason Lackore Hunter Simington Yuly Suvorov

What is IdeaPad?  User Generated Content website where people can post ideas to group and have them voted and commented on  Users can join or create groups in a hierarchical manner and post ideas only to people part of that group  Allow ideas to grow and evolve through group discussion, but also be protected by privacy controls

Target Audience  Universities  Schools  Clubs  Industry

Requirements  Allow user to register  Allow user to login  Allow user to create group  Allow user to submit ideas to group  Allow user to view ideas  Allow user to search ideas or groups  Allow users to vote (once) and comment (unlimited) on ideas  Allow user to moderate groups

Access  Login (Admin)  View/edit settings  Add/remove from groups  Edit personal information  View/edit ideas  Moderate idea  Search for ideas  Select idea  Vote on idea  Post on idea  Add new ideas  Login(Normal)  View/edit settings  Edit personal information  View/edit ideas  Search for ideas  Select idea  Vote on idea  Post on idea  Add new ideas  Login(anonymous)  View ideas  Search for ideas  Select idea

System Diagram

User Interface Login User Name: Password: IdeaPad

User Interface Groups Personal Groups View Groups All GroupsPublic Groups

User Interface Viewing Idea in a Group Idea #1 Group XYZ Idea #3 Idea #4 Idea #2 Idea #5 Idea #6

User Interface Idea View Idea Name: Abstract: Idea XYX Body: Owner: Votes: Last Updated: My first idea Leonardo Da'Vinci Device for the movement of people through the air using a spinning blade. … (Complicated Gibberish) August 7th, 1493 Vote UpVote Down Comment

Development Environment MyEclipse (with Struts 1.3) Hibernate MySQL phpMyAdmin

Development Environment phpMyAdmin

Development Environment MyEclipse

Database Schema

Hibernate Classes

Struts Actions

Challenges  Communication  Our team mostly uses Google Talk, specifically group chat  Time Deadline  Time influences the scope of the project and what we are able to accomplish  Not Enough or Too Much Work  It is hard to tell sometimes  We have 5 people, have to make sure we have enough for each of us and don’t overload an individual  Understanding the Technology  Had a hibernate assignment  Walk-throughs in class on struts  Tutorials online

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