FCTC VBN Consent Gathering System
The First Chicago Trust Corporation's Vote-By-Net
Online Annual Report Consent Gathering System (hereafter
referred to as the 'Consent System') collects Consents
on a per-company basis. The system consists of the
'user experience' (what a typical shareholder would
see when using the system) and a set of tools that allow
the customization of each company's 'user experience'--
these tools make up the 'admin experience'
User Experience
The user can connect to the Consent System from the VBN homepage
or from an individual consent startpage. (i.e., a page of the form
http://www.vote-by-net.com/consent/companyname ) If they start from
the VBN page they will go to a generic login screen requesting their
issue number and account #. The custom login screens only require the
account #. Once the information has been verified (i.e. the check digit
checked) the user will go to the main page with the company's logo,
the legal statement, input boxes for the user's name, SSN (last 4 digits,)
and e-mail address. There will be two buttons: Accept and Do Not Accept.
The latter returns to the VBN homepage. The former button goes to the
confimration page, where the user's information is redisplayed. (Also
a sanity check can be performed on the e-mail address, and an appropriate
warning displayed, e.g. "This does not look like a valid e-mail address")
The user can return to the previous page to edit the info, or accept the
information and go on to the Thanks page. From the thanks page the user can
return to the VBN homepage or the company homepage.
Admin Experience
The admin experience is very similar to the Proxy-edit experience.
The Proxy and Consent programs will share the logo database,
eliminating the need for adding seperate logos for the proxy
and online-report consent systems.
Database Information
Here is the information needed to be stored for each consent form:
| issue number
| 4 digit #
|
| company name
| regular string (no html)
|
| company name, display version
| HTML string
|
| logo information
| NOLOGO (= no logo) or Logo URL
|
| color info
| HTML for [BODY] tag
|
| Consent Statement
| HTML string
|
| Legal Statement
| HTML string
|
| Thanks Statement
| HTML string
|
| Welcome Statement
| HTML string
|
| Custom Startpage
| NOPAGE or page's filename (for URL)
|
| Return URL
| NOURL or web address to return to after thanks message.
|
Here is the information needed to be saved for each
Consent Entry:
| issue #
| 4 digits
|
| account #
| 10 digits
|
| last 4 digits of SSN
| 4 digits
|
| Name
| String: max ?? characters
|
| Email Address
| String: max ?? characters
|
| Date/Time recorded
| MMDDYYYYHHMMSS
|