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1 BlackbaudNetCommunity Blackbaud NetCommunity User Guide
2 Blackbaud, Inc. This publication, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, storage in an information retrieval system, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Blackbaud, Inc. The information in this manual has been carefully checked and is believed to be accurate. Blackbaud, Inc., assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies, errors, or omissions in this manual. In no event will Blackbaud, Inc., be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from any defect or omission in this manual, even if advised of the possibility of damages. In the interest of continuing product development, Blackbaud, Inc., reserves the right to make improvements in this manual and the products it describes at any time, without notice or obligation. All Blackbaud product names appearing herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blackbaud, Inc. All other products and company names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holder. BBNC
3 Blackbaud NetCommunity User Guide BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY Blackbaud NetCommunity Users Blackbaud NetCommunity User Tasks Integration Tasks The Raiser s Edge Data Entry User Navigate in Blackbaud NetCommunity Navigation Bar Blackbaud NetCommunity Toolbar Action Bar Filter List By Toggle Between Blackbaud NetCommunity and Your Live Website Internet Explorer Buttons Program Basics HTML Editor HTML Editor Table and Line Properties Search Screen Insert Image Create Page Link Constituent Codes WEBSITE Website Overview Site Explorer Pages Templates Image Library Parts Part Types Create and Edit Part Properties Anonymous Newsletter Subscription Change User ID/Password Directory Discussion Group Documents Donation Form Reports
4 Event Calendar Event Calendar Group Event Calendar Highlights Event Registration Form Formatted Text and Images Job Board Membership Form Menu Navigation Buttons News Reader Page Element Types Personal Notes Profile Display Quick Search Search Slideshow Survey Targeted Content User Education Profile Form User Preferences Form User Login User Profile Form Volunteer Opportunity Weblog Web Traffic Reports Layouts Stylesheets Part Type Element Details for Stylesheets Templates Lists Messages Bounced Management Delivery Status Newsletters Acknowledgements Invalid Accounts Campaigns Create Campaigns Create Appeals Notifications ADMINISTRATION Security Users Roles Merchant Accounts Field Options System Options Configuration
5 Code Tables User Imports User Import Status User Import Exception Reasons CHAPTER MANAGEMENT Design and Management Process Chapter Management: Process Overview Chapter Management Roles Pre-Design Work for Chapter Management Manage Chapter Pages Design Chapter Manager Changes in The Raiser s Edge TEAM FUNDRAISING Design and Management Process Team Fundraising: Process Overview Team Fundraising Roles Pre-Design Work for Team Fundraising Fundraiser Page Elements Parts Manage Fundraiser Pages Design the Fundraiser Part Add Help Content for Team Fundraisers Offline Donations for a Team Fundraiser Fundraiser Dashboard Part Fundraiser Reports Changes in The Raiser s Edge PERSONAL PAGES Design and Management Process Personal Pages: Process Overview Create Personal Page Elements Create Web Pages Manage Personal Pages Design the Personal Page Manager Part Add Help Content for Personal Pages THE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge Service URL Currency Configuration Class Note Processing New Constituents Matching Gifts Linked User Constituent Matching Transaction Assignments Advocacy NetCommunity Transactions Overview
6 Required Fields in The Raiser s Edge Process Order for Transaction Types NetCommunity Transactions in The Raiser s Edge Sign-Up Requests User Profile Updates Fundraisers Personal Pages Donations Volunteer Requests Event Registrations Polls Class Notes Advocacy Actions Memberships Surveys INDEX
7 CHAPTER1 Blackbaud NetCommunity In This Chapter Blackbaud NetCommunity Users on page 1 Navigate in Blackbaud NetCommunity on page 4 Program Basics on page 5 Blackbaud NetCommunity provides your organization with a website program for users of all levels. You can create web pages with multiple layers of layout, template, and page design. You can generate and send an to an individual or a group, set security for each section of the program using roles you define, and track statistics about your website usage. Website users can also make a donation or register for an event with online forms you create. In addition, Blackbaud NetCommunity integrates data between your website and other Blackbaud products, such as The Raiser s Edge. Website users enter information into areas of your website such as profiles and donation forms that you download to another Blackbaud program. This documentation is for the administrative side of Blackbaud NetCommunity. The administrative side consists of the Web Site, , and Administration sections. Together, these sections contain the tools you need to create your organization s website. Blackbaud NetCommunity Users Depending on your role in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you will perform different tasks to fulfill your website needs. For example, if you are the Site Administrator, your job in Blackbaud NetCommunity is most likely to create new web pages from start to finish and assign roles to Blackbaud NetCommunity users. If you are the Director of Special Events, your job may be to update last year s Golf Tournament web page with this year s golf tournament information. If you are the Data Entry Manager for The Raiser s Edge, your job is to download information from the website and integrate the information with The Raiser s Edge. Lastly, your constituents use Blackbaud NetCommunity directly from your website.
8 2. CHAPTER 1 Warning: Your organization should assign full Administrator rights to only a select number of users. These users should be knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity. Certain areas, such as Site Explorer, are crucial for your website. A small change can affect multiple web pages. This functionality saves your organization a lot of time and effort. However, if a change is incorrect, you have to spend time and effort to correct the change. We strongly encourage you to establish security that limits general users access to these areas. Constituents perform tasks such as registering for events, joining memberships, and making donations. Once a constituent submits these tasks, you can download the information to The Raiser s Edge. This section outlines possible main user roles in Blackbaud NetCommunity and provides a roadmap for the main tasks each role performs in the program. Blackbaud NetCommunity User Tasks A a wide range of users perform tasks in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Many tasks are captured in the user roles of a Blackbaud NetCommunity administrator, a website designer, a user from The Raiser s Edge who also uses Blackbaud NetCommunity (most likely someone in the Development office), and a constituent. Review the following picture to become familiar with the tasks you can perform, depending on your user role. For details about these tasks, see Security on page 223, Web Traffic Reports on page 120, Website on page 29, and Parts on page 39. Integration Tasks Some individuals (most likely in development) at your organization may have responsibilities that are common to both Blackbaud NetCommunity and The Raiser s Edge. For example, your events data entry person may also be responsible for updating the events page on your website.
9 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 3 If the roles for your job are similar to this, review the following diagram for an example of integration between Blackbaud NetCommunity and The Raiser s Edge. If you have rights to create and edit parts or pages of your website, this diagram helps you get started in the program and understand how the integration process works. For details about the tasks a user of Blackbaud NetCommunity and The Raiser s Edge can perform, see Pages on page 31, Templates on page 35, Parts on page 39, Messages on page 177, and The Raiser s Edge user guides. The Raiser s Edge Data Entry User If you are responsible for The Raiser s Edge data entry, you should periodically download information entered through your website.
10 4. CHAPTER 1 The following diagram explains where data downloads to The Raiser s Edge. The diagram does not include all transaction types. For details about the tasks a Raiser s Edge data entry user performs, see The Raiser s Edge NetCommunity Page on page 329 and your Raiser s Edge user guides. Navigate in Blackbaud NetCommunity Blackbaud NetCommunity contains the commands necessary to complete all website functions. You can customize your website to fit your organization s needs by using Web Site, , and Administration. Learning to navigate in Blackbaud NetCommunity is the first step in using the program to its fullest potential. Navigation Bar The navigation bar is located on the left side of the page. If you need additional space on your computer screen when you make changes to your website, click Hide Navigation Bar on the NetCommunity toolbar. Hiding the navigation bar in Blackbaud NetCommunity is workstation specific. For example, if Jane hides the navigation bar on her workstation and Joe later logs into Blackbaud NetCommunity on the same workstation, the navigation bar remains hidden. Blackbaud NetCommunity Toolbar The Blackbaud NetCommunity toolbar, located at the top left of the screen, contains buttons you can use throughout Blackbaud NetCommunity. The main buttons are Home Page, Preview Site, History, Hide Navigation Bar, and Log Out.
11 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 5 If you hide your navigation bar, the toolbar changes. The buttons then become Home Page, Preview Site, History, Web Site, , Administration, Help, Show Navigation Bar, and Log Out. Action Bar The action bar contains buttons for you to use on a specific screen. Several of these buttons remain on most screens, for example, Delete. However, some buttons on the action bar are specific to a particular screen, for example, Copy Template on an existing Templates screen. Filter List By Near the top of each page, you can select a category or enter search criteria to narrow the list that appears for pages, parts, , templates, layouts, users, or roles. Click Go to display the narrowed-down list. Toggle Between Blackbaud NetCommunity and Your Live Website If you are in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you can click Preview Site on the Blackbaud NetCommunity toolbar to access your live website. This is helpful when you update web pages. You can make changes to the page, save the information, and go directly to the live site to view the changes with the click of one button. If you have Supervisor or edit rights to that page, toolbar buttons appear on your live website that take you directly to Blackbaud NetCommunity. This way, if you notice a mistake on your site, you can immediately access the administrative side of Blackbaud NetCommunity to make the correction. To do this, click Edit this page, History, or Home Page on the Blackbaud NetCommunity toolbar. When you click Edit this page, Blackbaud NetCommunity opens to the Page Designer screen for the web page in Site Explorer. To access your most recently opened parts, click History. When you click Home Page, a menu appears with Web Site, Administration, , and Help so you can access the area of the program you need. You can access only areas to which you have rights. Internet Explorer Buttons To navigate back and forth between screens in Blackbaud NetCommunity, use the Back and Forward arrow buttons on your Internet Explorer toolbar. All other buttons in Internet Explorer control Internet settings. Program Basics Throughout Blackbaud NetCommunity, you can perform similar tasks from different parts. For example, in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you use a powerful HTML editor to format and layout several features, such as , newsletters, and content on web pages. You can use a search screen from different parts to help find and select data to use, such as a constituent query to use to create a Directory part or an appeal for a Donation form.
12 6. CHAPTER 1 HTML Editor Blackbaud NetCommunity provides a powerful HTML editor so you can format and lay out content for your web pages. With the HTML editor, you can update content easily and safely while you maintain control over the website design and content. Before you begin to create content in the HTML editor, you should design custom stylesheets to create unique elements such as colors, font types and sizes, and spacing for your website. For more information about stylesheets, see Stylesheets on page 123. You can use the HTML editor in various modes, depending on your HTML experience and where in the program you access the HTML editor. Normal Normal mode works similar to a standard word processing application. To create content in Normal mode, click Normal. By default, when you enter content in Normal mode, pressing ENTER on your keyboard creates a <p> tag in the HTML content to indicate the start of a new paragraph. Pressing SHIFT + ENTER on your keyboard creates a <br> tag to indicate a single carriage return in the content. Your system administrator can adjust this configuration in Administration. HTML If you have experience with HTML, you can click HTML and create or edit your content s HTML source code. You cannot use HTML mode to embed your own form via HTML in the HTML editor. We recommend you put the form on a page that is not stored in Blackbaud NetCommunity but can be referenced in an iframe. For more information about including customized forms in Blackbaud NetCommunity, contact Blackbaud s Professional Services at [email protected]. Preview In Preview mode, you can view the content as it appears on the web page. To view the HTML editor content in the read-only Preview mode, click Preview. To adjust the content, return the HTML editor to Normal or HTML mode. Preview mode is not available for the HTML editor in . To view a preview of an , click the Preview button on the toolbar. The Preview screen appears. HTML Editor Functions The following tables explain the functions and menus available on the toolbar of the HTML editor in Normal mode and HTML mode. Depending on the mode in which you use the HTML editor, not every function and menu may appear. Note: On your website, the user can use an HTML editor with a limited set of these functions on some parts. With the HTML editor, the user can also insert an image or a link. Buttons on the Toolbar Review the following table to learn about the HTML Editor buttons. Icon Function Description Print To print the current content, click Print. The Print screen appears. Specify the printer and print preferences, and click Print. The program sends the print job to the selected printer and the Print screen closes.
13 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 7 Icon Function Description Preview To preview the current content, click Preview. The Preview screen appears and displays a preview of the current content. When you access the Preview screen from the HTML Editor outside , you can adjust the screen resolution of the previewed content. To view the page at different monitor aspect ratios, click Size: 540x480, 800x600, or 1024x768. The Width and Height fields display the selected the screen resolution for the selected size. To print a hard copy of the preview, click the Print button. The Print screen appears. To close the Preview screen, click Cancel. This function is available only in Normal mode. Find and Replace Clean Up HTML Spell Check Undo Redo Cut To find and replace text in the content, click Find and Replace. The Find and Replace screen appears. In the Find what field, enter the text to search for in the content. To replace found text with other text, in the Replace with field, enter the text to substitute in the place of the found text. Specify whether to search for a whole word or for the same case of text. To search for the Find what text, click Find Next. To replace found text with the text entered in the Replace with field, click Replace. To replace all instances of the Find what text, click Replace All. To close the Find and Replace screen, click Cancel. To clean up the content and remove unnecessary tags from the HTML, such as <font> or <span>, click Clean Up HTML. The Clean Up HTML screen appears. Click the applicable button to clean up the HTML. You can Remove all HTML tags, Remove all word specific markup, Clean up cascading style sheets, Clean up <Font> tags, and Clean up <Span> tags. To close the Clean Up HTML screen, click Cancel. This function is available only in Normal mode. To check the spelling of the content, click Spell Check. The Spell Check screen appears. If the HTML editor finds a misspelled word, the word appears above the Change To field. In the Change To field, enter the correct spelling of the word, or select the correctly spelled word in the Suggestions box. To replace a selected word with the Change To word, click Replace. To replace all instances of a misspelled word, click Replace All. To not replace a word the Spell Check screen displays, click Ignore. To not replace any instances of a word, click Ignore All. To add a selected word to the HTML editor s dictionary, click Add. To close the Spell Check screen, click Cancel. This function is available only in Normal mode. To undo the last operation in the content area, click Undo. The previous operation in the content area is undone. To undo the most recent series of operations, click Undo repeatedly. This function is available only in Normal mode. To redo an undone operation in the content area, click Redo. The most recently undone operation is reinstated. To redo the most recently undone series of operations, click Redo repeatedly. This function is available only in Normal mode. To temporarily remove selected text from the content, such as to paste elsewhere in the content, click Cut. The selected text is removed from the content. Copy Paste To duplicate selected text from the content, such as to paste elsewhere in the content, click Copy. The selected text is copied, and you can paste it repeatedly throughout the content. To insert cut or copied text at a selected position in the content, formatted as when it was cut or copied, click Paste. The formatted text appears at the selected location in the content.
14 8. CHAPTER 1 Icon Function Description Paste plain text To insert cut or copied text at a selected position in the content, without the format of when it was cut or copied, click Paste plain text. The plain text appears at the selected location in the content. This function is available only in Normal mode. Paste From word Delete Insert Hyperlink Remove Link To insert text that was cut or copied from Microsoft Word at a selected position in the content, click Paste From word. The text appears at the selected location in the content, without the proprietary HTML of Word. The text format in the HTML editor may differ from the format in Word. This function is available only in Normal mode. To completely remove selected text from the content, click Delete. The selected text is removed from the content. You cannot paste deleted text. This function is available only in Normal mode. You can link selected text in the content to another web address or page. When you select the text to link, Insert Hyperlink is enabled. If the text is written in a format that Blackbaud NetCommunity recognizes as a web address or page, such as the link formats automatically. To link selected text to another web address or page, click Insert Hyperlink. The Create Page Link screen appears. For information about a page link, see Create Page Link on page 25. This function is available only in Normal mode. To remove an existing hyperlink from selected text in the content, click Remove Link. The hyperlink removes from the selected text. This function is available only in Normal mode. Add image map To add an image map to a selected image in the content area, click Add image map. The Add image map screen appears. From the Add image map screen, you can add hot spots and hyperlinks to the image, increase or decrease the magnification of the image, and adjust the size of the image. For more information about the image map, see Image Map on page 13. This function is available only in Normal mode. Insert Image To insert an image, such as your organization s logo, click Insert Image. The Select Image from the Images Library screen appears so you can select the image to insert. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page 24. This function is available only in Normal mode. Break To insert a line break at a selected location in the content, click Break. The HTML editor adds a <br> tag at the selected location. This function is available only in Normal mode. Insert Paragraph Insert Print Page Break Insert today s date Insert the current time To insert a paragraph at a selected location in the content, click Insert Paragraph. The HTML editor adds a <p> tag at the selected location. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert a printed page break at a selected location in the content, click Insert Print Page Break. The HTML editor adds a division with an attribute of PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: always at the selected location. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert the current date at a selected location in the content, click Insert today s date. Today s date, in the Day, Month, Date, Year format, appears at the selected location in the content. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert the current time at a selected location in the content, click Insert the current time. The current time, in the HH:MM:SS AM/PM format, appears at the selected location in the content. This function is available only in Normal mode.
15 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 9 Icon Function Description Special characters Universal Keyboard To insert a special character at a selected location in the content, click Special characters. The Special characters screen appears. Specify the special character font to use, and, in the Special characters frame, select the character to insert. The special character appears at the selected location in the content. To close the Special characters screen and not insert a special character in the content, click Cancel. This function is available only in Normal mode. To enter international text or characters at a selected location in the content, click Universal Keyboard. The Universal Keyboard screen appears. Click the desired language in which to type, and use the keys on the screen to enter the text or characters. To scroll through the available languages, click kb+ or kb-. To insert the text or characters and close the Universal Keyboard screen, click Insert. To cancel the text or characters and close the Universal Keyboard screen, click Cancel. This function is available only in Normal mode. Insert groupbox To insert a group box at a selected location in the content, click Insert groupbox. The HTML editor adds a <fieldset> tag at the selected location. You can adjust the size of the group box as necessary. Replace the default Title, with an HTML tag of <legend>, with the desired caption and enter the desired paragraph text in the group box. This function is available only in Normal mode. Help To access a description of the HTML editor features, click Help. The Blackbaud NetCommunity help file appears. This function is available only in Normal mode. Insert Table Insert Row Above Insert Row Below Delete Row Insert Column to the Left Insert Column to the Right To insert a table at a selected location in the content, click Insert Table. The Draw Table grid appears. You can design a simple table with up to six columns and four rows. In the Draw Table grid, highlight the desired number of rows and columns and click the grid. The table appears at the selected location in the content. To design a table with specific design or layout, click Table Wizard. The table Properties screen appears. On the Properties screen, you can specify the table layout, design, and font. For more information about table properties, see HTML Editor Table and Line Properties on page 14. To edit the design or layout of an existing table, double-click the table. The Properties screen appears. For more information about table properties, see HTML Editor Table and Line Properties on page 14. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert a row above a selected row in a table, click Insert Row Above. The added row appears in the table. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert a row below a selected row in a table, click Insert Row Below. The added row appears in the table. This function is available only in Normal mode. To remove a selected row from a table, click Delete Row. The selected row is removed from the table. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert a column to the left of a selected column in a table, click Insert Column to the Left. The added column appears in the table. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert a column to the right of a selected column in a table, click Insert Column to the Right. The added column appears in the table. This function is available only in Normal mode.
16 10. CHAPTER 1 Icon Function Description Delete Columns To remove a selected column from a table, click Delete Columns. The selected column is removed from the table. This function is available only in Normal mode. Insert Cells Delete Cells Row Properties Cell Properties Merge cells right Merge cells down Split cells right Split cells down Insert Horizontal Line Visible Borders Select All To insert a cell in a selected row of a table, click Insert Cells. The added cell appears in the selected row. This function is available only in Normal mode. To remove a cell from a selected row of a table, click Delete Cells. A cell is removed from the selected row. This function is available only in Normal mode. To edit the properties of a selected row, click Row Properties. The Properties screen appears. For more information about row properties, see HTML Editor Table and Line Properties on page 14. To save the row properties and close the Properties screen, click OK. To cancel the row properties and close the Properties screen, click Cancel. This function is available only in Normal mode. To edit the properties of a selected cell, click Row Properties. The cell Properties screen appears. For more information about cell properties, see HTML Editor Table and Line Properties on page 14. To save the cell properties and close the Properties screen, click OK. To cancel the cell properties and close the Properties screen, click Cancel. This function is available only in Normal mode. To merge a selected cell with the cell on its right, click Merge cells right. The selected cell merges with the cell on its right. This function is available only in Normal mode. To merge a selected cell with the cell below it, click Merge cells down. The selected cell merges with the cell below it. This function is available only in Normal mode. To split a selected cell into columns, click Split cells right. The selected cell splits into columns. This function is available only in Normal mode. To split a selected cell into rows, click Split cells down. The selected cell splits into rows. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert a horizontal line at a selected location in the content, such as to divide areas on your webpage, click Insert Horizontal Line. The horizontal line appears at the selected location, and the Properties screen appears. For information about the tabs on the Properties screen, see HTML Editor Table and Line Properties on page 14. To save the line properties and close the Properties screen, click OK. To cancel the line properties and close the Properties screen, click Cancel. This function is available only in Normal mode. To turn the visibility of a selected table s borders on or off, click Visible Borders. This function is available only in Normal mode. To select all the content, click Select All. Select None To deselect all selected content, click Select None.
17 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 11 Icon Function Description Bold To make selected text bold, click Bold. The HTML editor adds a <strong> tag around the selected text. This function is available only in Normal mode. Italic To italicize selected text, click Italic. The HTML editor adds an <em> tag around the selected text. This function is available only in Normal mode. Underline To underline selected text, click Underline. The HTML editor adds an <u> tag around the selected text. This function is available only in Normal mode. Left Justify To align selected text to the left, click Left Justify. The HTML editor adds an attribute of align=left to the selected division. This function is available only in Normal mode. Center To align selected text to the center, click Center. The HTML editor adds an attribute of align=center to the selected division. This function is available only in Normal mode. Right Justify To align selected text to the right, click Right Justify. The HTML editor adds an attribute of align=right to the selected division. This function is available only in Normal mode. Justify Full To fully justify selected text, click Justify Full. The HTML editor adds an attribute of align=justify to the selected division. This function is available only in Normal mode. Justify None To not justify content text, click Justify None. The HTML editor removes any align attribute from the selected division. This function is available only in Normal mode. Remove Format To remove the format from selected text, click Remove Format. The selected text appears as plain text. The HTML editor removes any special format attributes from the selected text. This function is available only in Normal mode. Font Color To change the color of selected text, click Font Color and select the color from the palette that appears. The HTML editor adds a <span> tag with the selected color around the text. This function is available only in Normal mode. Highlight To highlight selected text, click Highlight and select the color of the highlight from the drop-down palette.the HTML editor adds a <span> tag with the selected background color around the text. This function is available only in Normal mode. Insert Numbered List Insert Unordered List Indent Text To insert a numbered list at a selected location in the content, click Insert Numbered List. The HTML editor adds an <ol> tag at the selected location. The first list item begins with 1. and appears at the selected location. When you press ENTER on the keyboard, the subsequent list item is numbered sequentially. To end a numbered list, click Insert Numbered List again. This function is available only in Normal mode. To insert a bulleted list at a selected location in the content, click Insert Unordered List. The HTML editor adds an <ul> tag at the selected location. The first list item appears with a bullet at the selected location. When you press ENTER on the keyboard, the subsequent list item automatically begins with a bullet.to end an unordered list, click Insert Unordered List again. This function is available only in Normal mode. To increase the indent of a selected line of text, click Indent Text. The HTML editor adds a <blockquote> tag around the selected paragraph. If you increase the indent of a bulleted item on an unordered list, the bullet changes to indicate a secondary relationship with the bulleted item above it. This function is available only in Normal mode.
18 12. CHAPTER 1 Icon Function Description Outdent Text To decrease the indent of a selected line of text, click Outdent Text. The indent is decreased. If you decrease the indent of a bulleted item on an unordered list, the text becomes plain text, or the bullet changes to indicate a closer relationship with the bulleted item above it. This function is available only in Normal mode. Superscript Text Subscript Text Strikethrough Text Upper case To superscript selected text, click Superscript Text. The HTML editor adds a <sup> tag around the selected text. This function is available only in Normal mode. To subscript selected text, click Subscript Text. The HTML editor adds a <sub> tag around the selected text. This function is available only in Normal mode. To strike a line through selected text, click Strikethrough Text. The HTML editor adds a <strike> tag around the selected text. This function is available only in Normal mode. To change selected text from lower case to upper case, click Upper case. This function is available only in Normal mode. Lower case To change selected text from upper case to lower case, click Lower case. This function is available only in Normal mode. Menus on the Toolbar Review the following table to learn more about the HTML Editor menus. Menu Function Description Font menu The Font menu lists common fonts that appear correctly on most web browsers. To change the font applied to selected text, select a font from the Font menu. The font of the selected text changes to the selected font. This function is available only in Normal mode. Size menu To change the size applied to selected text, select the size from the Size menu. The size of the selected text changes to the selected size. This function is available only in Normal mode.
19 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 13 Menu Function Description CSS Class menu To apply a custom CSS class to selected text, you can select the desired class from the CSS Class menu. From this menu, you can select any custom class that starts with a dot (. ) from the applied stylesheet. This function is available only in Normal mode. Merge Fields menu To add merge fields for personalized information from The Raiser s Edge to the HTML content, you can select the field from the Merge Fields menu. To expand the list, click the + next to a field category. Image Map In Normal mode, you can add an image map to a selected image in the content area. With an image map, you can add hot spots and hyperlinks to the image, increase or decrease the magnification of the image, and adjust the size of the image. Add an image map 1. In the content area, select the image to map and click Add image map on the toolbar. The Add Image Map screen appears and displays the selected image. 2. Adjust the image as necessary. The table below explains the functions available on the Add image map screen. Icon Function Description Add hot spots Insert Hyperlink You can insert a hyperlink to another web address or page in an image. Before you insert the hyperlink in an image, you must define the area of the image, or hot spot, the website user must click on to access the linked web address or page. To add a hot spot to the image, click Add hot spots. A square appears to indicate the hot spot. Move the hot spot to the location on the image. You can adjust the height and width of the hot spot. To link a selected hot spot to another web address or page, click Insert Hyperlink. The Create Page Link screen appears. For information about a page link, see Create Page Link on page 25. Zoom In To increase the image size as it appears on the Add image map screen, such as to magnify a specific section of the image, click Zoom In.
20 14. CHAPTER 1 Icon Function Description Zoom Out To decrease the image size as it appears on the Add image map screen, click Zoom Out. Best Fit To display the image so it maximizes the space available on the Add image map screen, click Best Fit. Actual Size To display the image at its actual size on the Add image map screen, click Actual Size. 3. To save the image map and return to the content area, click Update. HTML Editor Table and Line Properties When you use the HTML editor in Normal mode, you can easily design complete tables, single rows and cells of tables, and horizontal lines such as to divide a web page. You can also adjust the properties of these items as you design them. When you adjust the properties of a table, row, cell, or line, you can specify many of its characteristics, including the size, styles, and color. For information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page 6. You can quickly create a standard table, or you can easily adjust the attributes of a table to create a complex table. To insert a table at a selected location in the content area, click Insert Table on the toolbar. You can use the Draw Table grid or the Table Wizard to design the table. With the Draw Table grid, you can specify a table with up to six columns and four rows. With the Table Wizard, you can specify the table layout, design, and font. To use the Table Wizard to design the table to add, click Table Wizard. The table Properties screen appears. Use the tabs of the Properties screen to design the table and its rows and cells. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on tabs other than the Table Wizard tab. Table Wizard Tab on page 15 Table Tab on page 16 General Tab on page 21 Style Builder Tab on page 22 To adjust the properties of a row in a table while in Normal mode, you can also select the row in the table and click Row Properties on the toolbar. The row Properties screen appears. Use the tabs of the Properties screen to design the row. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on these tabs. TR Tab on page 18 General Tab on page 21 Style Builder Tab on page 22 To adjust the properties of a cell in a table while in Normal mode, you can also select the cell in the table and click Cell Properties on the toolbar. The cell Properties screen appears. Use the tabs of the Properties screen to design the cell. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on these tabs. TD Tab on page 19 General Tab on page 21 Style Builder Tab on page 22
21 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 15 To insert a horizontal line at a selected location in the content area, click Insert Horizontal line on the toolbar. The line Properties screen appears. Use the tabs of the Properties screen to design the horizontal line. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on these tabs. HR Tab on page 20 General Tab on page 21 Style Builder Tab on page 22 Table Wizard Tab On the Table Wizard tab, you can specify the layout of the table and adjust the layout and properties of the cells. In the Table layout field, you can select the basic layout of the table. You can select to create a table with one, two, or three columns; a table with a header, right or left row, top right or top left column, and body; or a three-column table with a header and footer. The Table Designer frame displays the table with the selected layout. Under Cell Properties, you can adjust the properties of a selected row or cell in the table. To adjust the properties of a row in the table, select a cell in the row to adjust and click Row Properties. The row Properties screen appears. For information about the tabs on the row Properties screen, see HTML Editor Table and Line Properties on page 14. To adjust the properties of a cell in the table, select the cell to adjust and click Cell Properties. The cell Properties screen appears. For information about the tabs on the cell Properties screen, see HTML Editor Table and Line Properties on page 14. To adjust the size of a cell in the table, select the cell to adjust and, in the Width and Height fields, enter the pixel dimensions to use for the cell.
22 16. CHAPTER 1 To decrease or increase the number of columns in the table, click the - and + buttons next to Columns. To increase or decrease the number of columns spanned by a cell in the table, select the cell to adjust and click the - and + buttons next to ColSpan. To decrease or increase the number of columns, use the - and + buttons next to Rows. To increase or decrease the number of rows spanned by a cell in the table, select the cell to adjust and use the - and + buttons next to Span. Table Tab On the Table tab, you can adjust the characteristics of the table and its cells. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on the Table tab. In the Table frame, you can specify the attributes of the table. In the Cell spacing field, enter the amount of space to appear between cells of the table. In the Cell padding field, enter the amount of space to appear between the ruled line and the content of a cell in the table. In the ID field, you can assign a unique identifier to the table. In the Border field, enter the width, in pixels, of a border around the table. To display the table with no border, enter 0. In the Background color and Border color fields, enter the colors of the background and border of the table. You can enter the standard color name or hexadecimal value, or you can select the color from the drop-down palette. In the Rules field, select which ruled lines appear between cells of the table. You can select to display all lines, no lines, or only those between rows or columns.
23 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 17 To collapse the table borders into a single border, mark Collapse table border. If you do not mark this checkbox, the table borders are detached, as in standard HTML. In the Summary field, you can enter a summary of the table, such as for speech-synthesizing or non-visual browsers. To display a caption at the top of the table, next to Caption, click Insert. To remove the table caption, click Delete or delete its code in HTML mode. To define a group of rows at the top of the table as a header, next to Thead, click Insert. To remove the table header, click Delete. To define a group of rows at the bottom of the table as a footer, next to Tfoot, click Insert. To remove the table footer, click Delete. In the General frame, you can specify additional attributes for the table, such as size, alignment, and whether to apply a class from the cascading style sheet (CSS). To apply a CSS class to the table, in the Css Class field, enter the class to apply. In the Width and Height fields, enter the dimensions of the table. You can enter the dimensions in pixels (px) or as a percentage (%). In the Alignment field, select the alignment of the table. You can select Left, Center, Right, or Not Set. In the Text-align field, select the alignment of text in the table. You can select Left, Center, Right, Justify, or Not Set. To float the table within another element, in the Float field, select whether the table appears to the left or right of the element. In the Title field, you can enter a title to appear for the table.
24 18. CHAPTER 1 TR Tab On the TR tab, in the Row Properties frame, you can define the attributes of a row in the table. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on the TR tab. In the Width and Height fields, enter the dimensions, in pixels, of the row. In the Alignment field, select the horizontal alignment of the content in the row. You can select Left, Center, Right, or Not Set. In the Vertical Alignment field, select the vertical alignment of the content in the row. You can select Top, Middle, Baseline, Bottom or Not Set. In the Background color and Border color fields, enter the colors of the background and border of the row. You can also specify a different color for the top and left borders than the bottom and right borders of the row. In the Border color light field, enter the color for the top and left borders. In the Border color dark field, enter the color for the bottom and right borders. You can enter the standard color name or hexadecimal value, or you can select the color from the drop-down palette. To apply a CSS class to the row, in the Css Class field, enter the class to apply. In the ID field, you can assign a unique identifier to the row. In the Title field, you can enter a title to appear for the row.
25 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 19 TD Tab On the TD tab, in the Cell Properties frame, you can define the attributes of a cell in the table. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on the TD tab. In the Width and Height fields, enter the dimensions, in pixels, of the cell. In the Alignment field, select the horizontal alignment of the content in the cell. You can select Left, Center, Right, or Not Set. In the Vertical Alignment field, select the vertical alignment of the content in the cell. You can select Top, Middle, Baseline, Bottom, or Not Set. In the Background color and Border color fields, enter the colors of the background and border of the cell. You can also specify a different color for the top and left borders than the bottom and right borders of the cell. In the Border color light field, enter the color for the top and left borders. In the Border color dark field, enter the color for the bottom and right borders. You can enter the standard color name or hexadecimal value, or you can select the color from the drop-down palette. To apply a CSS class to the cell, in the Css Class field, enter the class to apply. In the ID field, you can assign a unique identifier to the cell. In the Title field, you can enter a title to appear for the cell.
26 20. CHAPTER 1 HR Tab In the Insert Horizontal Line frame on the HR tab, you can specify the attributes of the horizontal line, such as the size, width, and color. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on the HR tab. In the Width field, enter the width of the field. You can enter the width as a percentage or as a specific pixel measurement. In the Alignment field, select the alignment of the horizontal line. You can select Left, Center, or Right. In the Color field, enter the color of the horizontal line. You can enter the standard color name or hexadecimal value, or you can select the color from the drop-down palette. In the Shade field, select the whether to display the line as a solid color or as a shaded color. In the Size field, select the thickness of the line. You can select the line to be between 1 and 10 pixels thick.
27 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 21 General Tab In the Attributes frame on the General tab, you can specify general attributes of the table, such as size, alignment, color, and whether to apply a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) class. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on the General tab. To apply a CSS class to the table, in the Css Class field, enter the class to apply. In the Width and Height fields, enter the dimensions, in pixels, of the table. In the Alignment field, select the alignment of the table. You can select Left, Center, Right, or Not Set. In the Text-align field, select the alignment of text in the table. You can select Left, Center, Right, Justify, or Not Set. To float the table within another element, in the Float field, select whether the table appears to the left or right of the element. In the Font Color and Highlight fields, enter the colors of the text and background of the table. You can enter the standard color name or hexadecimal value, or you can select the color from the drop-down palette. In the Title field, you can enter a title to appear for the table.
28 22. CHAPTER 1 Style Builder Tab On the Style Builder tab, you can adjust the style attributes of the font, text, background, border, and layout used in the selected table or its cells. We recommend only users familiar HTML and CSS style elements adjust the properties on the Style Builder tab. To define the style characteristics of font used in the table or its cells, click Font. In the System font field, select Not Set. The remaining options are enabled. You can specify the font s family, style, size, and color. The box at the bottom of the screen displays a sample of the font with the selected attributes. Note: To view the default font characteristics of text, in the System font field, select the text to view. You can select Caption, Icon labels, Menu text, Messagebox, Small caption, or Status bar. A sample of the selected text appears at the bottom of the screen. In the Font Family field, enter the font type to use. In the Decoration frame, specify whether to display the font with an underline or overline or as strikethrough text. In the Style frame, specify whether the font is bold or italic. In the Capitalization field, select whether the text appears in all uppercase, all lowercase, or with only the first letter of each word capitalized. In the Size frame, select the size of the font. You can select a standard description, such as large, or enter a specific size. In the Color field, enter the color of the font. You can enter the standard color name or hexadecimal value, or you can select the color from the drop-down palette.
29 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 23 To define styles used for text in the table or its cells, click Text. You can specify the alignment, spacing, and flow of the text. The box at the bottom of the screen displays a sample of the text with the selected attributes. In the Alignment frame, select the alignment of the text in the table or cell. In the Horizontal field, select the horizontal alignment of the text. You can select Left, Right, Center, or Justify. In the Vertical field, select whether to display the text as subscript or superscript. In the Justification field, select the justification of the text, such as distribute. In the Spacing frame, enter the spacing between letters and text lines. To specify spacing, select Not Set and enter the distance to use for spacing. To use the default spacing, select Normal. In the Text flow frame, specify how the text flows on the screen. In the Indentation field, enter the distance to use for indented text. In the Text direction field, select whether to display text from left to right or from right to left. In the Writing mode field, select whether to flow text horizontally or vertically. To adjust the styles used for the background of the table or its cells, click Background. You can adjust the background color or image of the table. In the Color field, enter the background color of the table or cell. You can enter the standard color name or hexadecimal value, or you can select the color from the drop-down palette. In the Background image frame, adjust the image that appears as the background of the table or cell. In the Url field, enter the location of the image to use as the background. To browse to its location, click the ellipsis. To remove a specified image, click Remove. In the Tiling field, select whether to tile the image and in what direction: horizontal, vertical, or both. In the Scrolling field, select whether the background image is fixed or scrolls. In the Position frame, enter the vertical and horizontal position of the image. You can select a standard position or enter a specific position. To define the styles used for the border of the table or its cells, click Border. You can specify the margin, padding, and style of each border. In the Borders frame, select the border to design. You can select to apply the selected styles to all borders or only the top, bottom, left, or right border. In the Border frame, define the style for the selected border. In the Margin and Padding fields, enter the amount of space to appear around the border and between the border and the table. In the Border field, enter the thickness of the border. You can enter a specific size or select a standard description, such as Thin. In the Style field, select the appearance of the line used by the border, such as dotted or double. In the Color field, enter the color of the border. You can enter the standard color name or hexadecimal value, or you can select the color from the drop-down palette. To define the styles used in the layout of the table or its cells, click Layout. You can define the position and float attributes, size, and clipping of the layout. In the Layout frame, select the style attributes of the layout. In the Position field, select whether the position of the layout is absolute or relative to its parent element. In the Display field, select whether to display the table or cell as a block box, an inline box, or a block box inside an inline box. In the Float field, select whether to float the table or cell and to the left or right of the surrounding content. In the Clear field, select how the table or cell appears after a floated element. You can select to have the table or cell appear before the left-floated elements, right-floated elements, or both left- and right-floated elements. To have the floated element flow around the table or cell, select None.
30 24. CHAPTER 1 In the Size frame, enter the size of the top, left, height, and width of the table or cell. If, in the Position field, you select Absolute, in the Clipping frame, enter the coordinates of the four corners that create the rectangle, offset from the top left corner of the screen, that defines the visible area of the table or cell. In the Misc frame, in the Overflow field, select how to manage content that does not fit in the table or cell. You can select whether to use scrollbars or clip the content. In the z-index field, enter the order of the table or cell on the z-axis. The higher the number you enter, the higher the position on the z-axis. In the Page-break-before and Page-break-after fields, select whether to force a page break before or after the table or cell. To adjust the style of the cursor or filter used with the table or cell, click Other. In the Cursor field, select how the cursor appears when it passes over the table or cell. You can select Default, Move, Text, Wait, or Help. In the Filter field, enter the filter effect attribute to apply to the table or cell, such as blur or dropshadow. Search Screen In Blackbaud NetCommunity, you may need to select data from the database to create parts for your website. For example, can select a constituent query to use to create a Directory part or an appeal for a Donation form on your Blackbaud NetCommunity website. To help find and select data to use, the program provides a search screen specific to the type data you need. On the Search screen, you can enter search criteria to help find the data. The criteria options available depend on the type of data needed. Use the search screen to select data Search results that appear in the grid must match all the criteria you enter. We recommend you search by one or two of the most helpful criteria types. If you add too much criteria information, you can prevent the data you want from appearing. 1. On the search screen, enter the criteria to use to find the data. The criteria options available depend on the type of data you need. To search the database for all data of that type, leave the criteria fields empty. 2. Click Search. The program searches the database for data that meet the criteria entered and displays the results in the grid. 3. If the search returns multiple pages of results, use the First, Previous, Next, and Last buttons to navigate through the pages of results. 4. In the grid, find the data to use and click Select next to its listing. You return to the previous screen. Insert Image From the HTML editor and several parts, such as the Navigation Buttons part, Weblog part, and User Photo Form part, you can use the Insert Image function to select an insert an image from the Image Library.
31 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 25 Note: On your website, if the user clicks the Insert Image button on the HTML editor, an Insert Image screen appears. From this screen, the user can insert an image and load or edit existing images. You can configure the user s Image Library, including image approval, in System Options on page 234. For information about Image Library, see Image Library on page 38. Insert an image 1. On the Edit Part screen, click the Image button. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. To search the database for all data of that type, leave the criteria fields empty. 2. Click Search. The program searches the database for data that meet the criteria entered and displays the results in the grid. 3. If the search returns multiple pages of results, use the First, Previous, Next, and Last buttons to navigate through the pages of results. Note: To add a new image to Image Library, on the Select Image from Image Library screen, click Add Image. Image files must be of a *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg, or *.jpeg file type. For more information, see Image Library on page In the grid, find the data to use and click Select next to its listing. You return to the previous screen. Create Page Link From the HTML editor and several parts, such as the Event Registration Form or Menu part, you can link the page to a personal page or another web page. Note: On your website, if the user clicks the Insert Hyperlink button on the HTML editor, an Insert Link screen appears. From this screen, the user can add a link to another web page. If the user has a personal page on your website, the user can also link to it. Insert a link 1. On the Edit Part screen, click the Link or Insert Link button. The Create Page Link screen appears. 2. Select whether to create or remove a link from the part. To create a link to another Blackbaud NetCommunity web page, select Create Link to NetCommunity Page and click the Click here to select a page link. The Select a Page screen appears. Select the option next to the page you want and click OK. You return to the Create Page Link screen. To create a link to an Preferences page or a Home page, Login page, or Privacy page defined in System Options, select Create Link to Special Page. In the Page field, select the page to link. To create another type of link, select Create Other Type of Link. In the Type field, select the type of link to create. For example, select ftp:, or telnet. In the URL field, enter the exact path to the page to link to the event registration form.
32 26. CHAPTER 1 To remove an existing link from the part, select Remove existing link. 3. In the Target field, enter where the linked page opens. For example, to open the link in a new window, enter New window. 4. Click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen. Constituent Codes A constituent code tells you why a constituent is in your database. For example, you select a constituent code from The Raiser s Edge, such as Friend, to associate with users who donate on your website. You can select additional constituent codes from The Raiser s Edge to associate with other constituents, such as Event Participant or Volunteer. This way, when a user submits data on your website for processing to The Raiser s Edge, you efficiently track the reason each constituent is in your database. In Blackbaud NetCommunity, there are two ways to download constituent codes to The Raiser s Edge. You can select constituent codes for new constituents in NetCommunity Options. Once a transaction is processed, these constituent codes automatically apply to new constituent records. When you create certain part types, you can select to associate a constituent code with the part. When the website user submits data for the part, the constituent code defaults in the transaction. Automatically Apply Constituent Codes From Options on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, when you select a constituent code for New Constituents, the constituent code downloads automatically to The Raiser s Edge for all new constituent records processed from Blackbaud NetCommunity. The code does not download to existing constituent records. Tip: Selecting a constituent code for New Constituents is optional. In The Raiser s Edge, to query on new records created from Blackbaud NetCommunity, we recommend you select a constituent code in New Constituents. If you select a constituent code for the Matching Gifts option, the constituent code downloads automatically to The Raiser s Edge for all new organization records processed from a matching gift donation.
33 BLACKBAUD NETCOMMUNITY. 27 Constituent Codes on a Transaction screen From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, the Sign-Up Requests, Donations, Volunteer Requests, and Event Registrations transaction types include a constituent code field. The constituent code in the field defaults in both new and existing records in The Raiser s Edge. The constituent code in this field defaults from the Constituent Code field on the Edit Part screen in Parts. For example, Online is the constituent code for Donations transactions. When the Donation Form part was created, Online was selected in the Constituent Code field. Tip: If the constituent code on the transaction screen is the same code as the New Constituents constituent code, the code is not duplicated on the Bio 2 tab in the constituent record in The Raiser s Edge. If the constituent codes are different, both codes download to the new constituent record. You can download the constituent code to The Raiser s Edge constituent record. You can also select a different constituent code for the constituent. To prevent the constituent code from downloading to The Raiser s Edge, delete the code from the field. Constituent Codes and NetCommunity Part Types Review the following information for details about the Constituent Code field on various part types in Blackbaud NetCommunity. User Login The code applies to new and existing constituent records and is specific to each User Login part. For example, you can create separate login parts for subsites you create, such as multiple chapters. The constituent code for a login part may be Atlanta Member. The constituent code you select for this part defaults to the Transaction Constituent Code frame in Sign-up Requests on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge for processing. The code selected for New Constituents in NetCommunity Options also downloads to The Raiser s Edge for new constituents. However, if the constituent code on the User Login part and in New Constituents is the same, the code is not duplicated on the record in The Raiser s Edge. Donation Form The constituent code applies to new and existing constituents. This is the same for the donation steps in a Personal Page Manager and a Fundraiser part. Event Registration Form The constituent code applies to new and existing event registrants.
34 28. CHAPTER 1 Fundraiser This part contains two Constituent Code fields. The first field, located on the Step 2: Fundraiser Options screen, downloads automatically to new and existing records in The Raiser s Edge. This constituent code is typically used if you consider the fundraiser participant constituency to be different than a regular Blackbaud NetCommunity user constituency. These constituent codes do not appear in the Fundraiser transaction on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. However, after you process the transaction, they appear automatically on the Bio 2 tab in the constituent record. The second Constituent Code field, located on the Step 6: User Login Form screen, applies to users who register for the Fundraiser that are not yet members of your site. This constituent code defaults to the Transaction Constituent Code frame on the Sign-up Requests transaction on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. This is the same for the two Constituent Code fields in a Personal Page Manager part. The first field is on the Step 1: Personal Page Options and Administrator Roles screen. The second field is on the Step 2: User Login Form screen for a Personal Page Manager. It applies to users who sign up using the personal page registration. Membership Form The constituent code applies automatically to new and existing constituent records. This includes members or gift of membership recipients. This constituent code does not appear in the Memberships transaction on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. However, after you process the transaction, it appears on the Bio 2 tab in the constituent record. Volunteer Opportunity The constituent code downloads for volunteers who sign up for a job online. The code applies to existing constituent records.
35 CHAPTER2 Website In This Chapter Website Overview on page 30 Site Explorer on page 31 Image Library on page 38 Parts on page 39 Layouts on page 121 Stylesheets on page 123 In Blackbaud NetCommunity, you create web pages in Web Site. To modify web pages, you can design page layout, create and use templates, and add and remove part type information and images. Most likely, Blackbaud NetCommunity users who create web pages are site administrators with Supervisor rights. This section contains information about how to create and edit the parts for your web pages in Web Site.
36 30. CHAPTER 2 Website Overview The diagram depicts how to construct a Blackbaud NetCommunity web page from beginning to end. Stylesheets, Layouts, and templates sections are for Administrator use only. Most likely, you will not need to create new layouts and templates for a new web page; you will use existing ones. If you have edit rights, you can create and update web pages and part types. The Administrator must assign these security rights to user roles. For information about security, see Security on page 223. Web Site contains multiple sections. Each plays a major part when you construct and design a web page. Site Explorer You can store each web page and template individually in Site Explorer with quick access to each page. In Site Explorer, you can create, edit, and delete pages for your website and view the URL path for each page. To create a web page, you must add content parts from Parts to your page in Site Explorer. Note: Templates are the framework for your website and establish consistency throughout your site. Administrators can create, edit, and delete templates in Site Explorer. When you create new web pages, you can start with an existing template. Image Library Use Image Library to add, delete, and approve images for your website. In addition, view a preview of an image to make sure it appears on the screen correctly. Images must be saved as a *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg or *.jpeg file. An image does not appear on your website until you add it to a web page.
37 WEBSITE. 31 Parts Use Parts to create, edit, and delete reusable content information, such as a user login and user profile form. A content part does not appear on your website until you add it to a web page. To create a web page, you must add parts from Parts to your page in Site Explorer. You can also assign security rights to roles for each content part in Parts. Note: With some parts and layouts, you use a powerful HTML editor to format and lay out several features, such as , newsletters, and content on web pages. With the HTML editor, you can update content easily and safely while you maintain control over the website design and content. Layouts Administrators use Layouts to design and place elements on your web page, such as content and images. Customize each page by inserting rows, adding bullets, and adjusting font size and style. Stylesheets Administrators use stylesheets to create unique elements such as colors, font types and size, and spacing for your website. Stylesheets, written in Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) format, are easier to use than other methods such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. You can create custom stylesheets in Stylesheets that override a Blackbaud NetCommunity default style. Site Explorer In Site Explorer, you create, edit, and remove web pages and templates made up of reusable part types. This way, you can easily customize pages and templates to fit the needs of your website. The Page Designer screen contains editable regions, based on the template you select, so you can add existing or new parts. You can also edit and remove content parts on your web page. Think of Site Explorer as the shell for your website. The program stores each page and template separately here, so you can quickly access each piece. Although you can manage your parts in Parts, it is easier to work with them in Site Explorer because you can preview a page and see how parts fit together. We strongly recommend you create and update content parts while you work on the page in Site Explorer. You can establish security rights for Blackbaud NetCommunity users for pages and templates. This protects secure web pages, web pages that are more complicated in design, and pages that are used repeatedly on your website. Pages To create a web page, you must add part types to your page. The Page Designer screen contains editable regions, based on the template you select, so you can add existing or new parts. You can also edit or remove parts on your web page. Although you can manage your parts in Parts, it is easier to work with them in Site Explorer because you can preview a page and see how parts fit together. We strongly recommend you create and update content parts while you work on the page in Site Explorer. You can establish security rights for Blackbaud NetCommunity users for each page. This protects secure web pages, web pages that are more complicated in design, and pages that are used repeatedly on your website. Note: For more information about security in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Security on page 223. Create a new web page 1. From Web Site, click Site Explorer. The Site Explorer screen appears. 2. On the action bar, click New Page. The New Page screen opens on the Properties tab.
38 32. CHAPTER 2 3. In the Page Name field, enter a name for your web page, such as Class of This page name is so Blackbaud NetCommunity users can quickly identify the page in Site Explorer. Note: If you need additional space on your computer screen, click Hide Navigation Bar on the Blackbaud NetCommunity toolbar. 4. In the Display Name field, enter the page title to appear on the web page, such as your organization s name. For more information, see System Options on page In the Template field, select the existing template on which to base your new web page. For more information about how to create a template, see Templates on page In the Folder field, click Select Folder to select an existing folder in which to store your web page. When you select a folder for the web page, you can find the page and its associated web pages easily in Site Explorer. Note: Web Site is the root folder in Site Explorer. You cannot edit this folder. To add a new folder to Blackbaud NetCommunity, click Create a new folder on the Folders tab action bar. You cannot add folders as you create a new page. If you need a new folder for a new page, first add the folder. 7. Select the Security tab. 8. In the grid, assign view, edit, delete, and change security rights for each role. The Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For more information about security, see Security on page 223. After you save your page, an embedded URL field appears above the Page Security grid. The program automatically assigns a location for your web page. When you add links to this page on other web pages, it is helpful to refer to the URL information here. 9. To save your web page, click Next. The Page Designer screen appears with your new page and the selected template design. For information about the Page Designer screen, see Edit web page design on page 33. Edit web page properties Site Explorer stores each web page separately. This way, you can customize each page to fit the needs of your website. When you search for an existing web page to update, use the Search tab. In the All or part of a page name field, you can enter a partial name to search for a page. To search for a page that uses a specific part type, use the Pages containing part type field. In the Page types to include field, you can select to search all pages, web pages only, or templates only. 1. From Web Site, click Site Explorer. The Site Explorer screen appears. 2. On the action bar, click New Page. The New Page screen opens on the Properties tab. 3. For the web page to edit, click Properties in the Action column. The Page Properties screen opens on the Properties tab. Note: To create a new web page based on an existing web page, click Copy Page on the action bar. The Copy Page screen appears. In the New Page Name field, enter a new name and click Save on the action bar. For more information about how to create new web pages, see Create a new web page on page Make the changes for the Name, Template, or Folder fields.
39 WEBSITE. 33 You cannot edit the Web Site folder. It is the root folder in Site Explorer. Warning: To edit the template, click Template Designer on the action bar on the Page Designer screen. It is important to remember if you edit an existing template, you change the template for all web pages that use it. To update a web page with its own specific template, you can make a copy of an existing template that is similar to your needs. Click Template Designer on the action bar. The existing Templates screen appears. Click Copy Template and make the changes for the web page. If there is not an existing template to use for your template, you can create a new one. For more information about creating new templates, see Templates on page In the embedded URL field at the bottom of the page, you can view the URL information for the web page. 6. Select the Security tab. 7. In the grid, you can edit view, edit, delete, and change security rights for each role. The Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For more information about security, see Security on page To save your changes on the Page Properties screen, click Save and Close. You return to the Site Explorer screen. For information about how to edit the Page Designer screen, see Edit web page design on page 33. Edit web page design To design a web page, you must add parts to your page. The Page Designer screen contains editable regions, based on the template you select, so you can add existing or new parts. You can also edit or remove content parts on your web page. Although you can manage your parts in Parts, it is easier to work with them in Site Explorer because you can preview a page and see how the parts fit together. We strongly recommend you create and update content parts while working on the page in Site Explorer. In the View As field, select a role to view how a website user in that role sees the page you are designing. For example, you can select a Class of 1988 role to see how a website user from that class views the page. If you enter a date in the on date field, the web page uses the Scheduled Publishing information from Part Properties to display the page as it would appear on that particular date. For information about roles, see Roles on page 227. For information about part publishing, see Create a part on page From Web Site, click Site Explorer. The Site Explorer screen appears. Note: The Page Properties screen displays the page name, template, folder, security, and URL information. To access this, click Page Properties on the action bar. 2. To edit an existing page, click Edit in the Action column. The Page Designer screen appears. To create a new page, first save the page properties. For more information about page properties, see Create a new web page on page To insert an existing part, click Insert. The Select a Part screen appears. a. On the Select a Part screen, use the search tools to search for an existing part. For example, in the Part Type field, select the part type to add to the template. To search for a part, enter a partial name in the Name field. At the bottom of the Select a Part screen, narrow the number of parts to view on the screen in the Results Per Page field. If you know the page number where the part is stored, select it in the Page field. b. To select the part, click beside the name of the part you need.
40 34. CHAPTER 2 c. Click OK. The part appears on the web page. Note: Based on the template you select, your Page Designer screen contains multiple editable regions for you to select to add existing or new parts. 4. To create a new part for the page, click Create. The New Part screen appears. For information about how to create parts, see Create a part on page To edit an existing part, click Edit. The Edit Part screen appears. 6. To view the properties for a part, click Properties. The Part Properties screen appears. For information about properties, see Edit a part on page If the page contains a Fundraiser part, click Quick Links. A menu appears and displays links to the Fundraiser Page Element parts and the Template used for the Fundraiser. To quickly access a part or template, click its link. 8. To conserve space on your design screen, click Minimize this part. This button minimizes the part display. To maximize the part, re-click the button (which appears as down arrows). 9. To quickly move parts to other areas of the web page, click Drag to move this part and drag and drop the part to another area of the page. Note: To remove a part, click Remove. 10. To view the page properties on the Page Designer screen, click Page Properties on the action bar. 11. To view the web page, click Preview on the action bar. Make sure the web page contains the information you want. To close the page, click the X in the top right corner. 12. Administrator Step: To edit the template design, click Template Designer on the action bar. Warning: It is important to remember if you edit an existing template, you change the template for all web pages that use it. To create a web page that is specific to only one template design, but similar to an existing one, click Template Designer to save time. The existing Templates screen appears. To copy and save a new template based on the one you selected for your web page, click Copy Template on the action bar. 13. Administrator Step: To edit the stylesheet, click Stylesheet on the action bar. Remember, if you edit an existing stylesheet, you change the style for all web pages that use it. When you use a stylesheet other than the Blackbaud NetCommunity system default stylesheet, the Stylesheet button appears on the action bar. For more information, see Stylesheets on page To create a new web page from an existing web page, click Copy Page on the action bar. 15. The program automatically saves your information. To continue with the next task in Blackbaud NetCommunity, navigate to the area you need. To return to the main Site Explorer screen, click Return on the action bar.
41 WEBSITE. 35 Templates Templates are the framework for your website. When you create and design templates, Blackbaud NetCommunity users have consistent website components from one page to the next. If you are a site administrator and you must create a new web page that is completely different from any page you currently have, you will most likely create a new template. For example, for the first time, your organization wants to add an online donor recognition page. You want to create a virtual wall similar to the way you include information in your newsletters. To add this to your website, you require a new page that is different from existing ones. You must start from the beginning. In Site Explorer, the design of your template becomes the main component for this new donor recognition web page. To save time and effort during the template design, you can add pieces from other areas of Blackbaud NetCommunity such as Layouts, Parts, and Image Library. Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for this section. General users should not access templates. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly encourage only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform the tasks in this section. Create a template Once you create a template, you can use the template repeatedly to save time and effort. For more information about editing an existing template, see Edit template properties on page From Web Site, click Site Explorer. The Site Explorer screen appears. 2. Click New Template. The New Template screen opens on the Properties tab. 3. In the Template Name field, enter a name for your template, such as Donor Recognition, so Blackbaud NetCommunity users can quickly identify the file in Site Explorer. This name is for internal use and does not appear on your website. 4. In the Layout field, select a layout to use for your template. Note: The template layout is crucial for your website users. Layout is the design and placement of important elements of your web page. The layout includes where you place content, graphics, and navigation buttons. To create a new layout, see Layouts on page In the Folder field, click Select Folder to select an existing folder in which to store your template. When you select a folder for the template, you can find the template and its associated templates easily in Site Explorer. Note: Web Site is the root folder in Site Explorer. You cannot edit this folder. To add a new folder, click Create a new folder on the Folders tab action bar. You cannot add folders as you create a new template. If you need a new folder for a new template, first add the folder. 6. Select the Security tab. 7. In the grid, assign view, edit, delete, and change security rights for each role. The Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For more information about security, see Security on page 223. After you save the template, a Pages using this template box appears. The box displays your web pages that use the template. If no pages use the template, a This template is not being used by any pages message appears.
42 36. CHAPTER 2 8. Click Next. The Template Designer screen appears. For more information about the Template Designer screen, see Edit template design on page 36. Edit template properties To search for an existing template, use the Search tab in Site Explorer. In the All or part of a page name field, you can enter a partial name to search for a template. To search for a template that uses a specific part type, use the Pages containing part type field. In the Page types to include field, you can select to search all pages, web pages only, or templates only. 1. From Web Site, click Site Explorer. The Site Explorer screen appears. Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for this section. General users should not access templates. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly encourage only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform the tasks in this section. 2. For the template to edit, click Properties in the Action column. The Template Properties screen opens on the Properties tab. 3. Make the changes for the Template Name, Layout and Folder fields. You cannot edit the Web Site folder. It is the root folder in Site Explorer. To select a different layout from Layouts, click Template Properties on the action bar. In the Layout field, select the new layout. Note: If you need additional space on your computer screen, click Hide Navigation Bar on the Blackbaud NetCommunity toolbar. 4. In the Pages using this template box, view the web pages linked to the template. The box is for informational purposes only. 5. Select the Security tab. 6. In the grid, assign view, edit, delete, and change security rights for each role. The Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For more information about security, see Security on page To save your changes on the Template Properties screen, click Save and Close. You return to the Site Explorer screen. For information about how to edit the Template Designer screen, see Edit template design on page 36. Edit template design Templates are the framework for your website. Because of the time, research, and detail involved when you create a template, you should base a new web page on an existing template when possible. You can edit and update an existing template to fit your web page needs, or you can create a copy of an existing template on which to base a new template. The Template Properties screen displays the template name, layout, folder, pages using this template, and security information. To access this, click Template Properties on the action bar. 1. From Web Site, click Site Explorer. The Site Explorer screen appears.
43 WEBSITE. 37 Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for this section. General users should not access templates. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly encourage only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform the tasks in this section. 2. To edit an existing template, click Edit in the Action column. The Template Designer screen appears. Based on the selected layout, your Template Designer screen contains multiple editable regions for you to select to add existing or new parts. If you create a new template, first save the page properties. For more information about page properties, see Create a template on page 35. Note: To create a new template from an existing one, click Copy Template on the Template Designer screen. The Copy Template screen appears. In the New Template Name field, enter a new name and click Save on the action bar. 3. To insert an existing content part, click the Insert button. The Select a Part screen appears. a. On the Select a Part screen, use the search tools to search for an existing part. For example, in the Part Type field, select the part type to add to the template. To search for a part, enter a partial name in the Name field. At the bottom of the Select a Part screen, narrow the number of parts to view on the screen in the Results Per Page field. If you know the page number where the part is stored, select it in the Page field. b. To select the part, click next to its name. c. Click OK. The part appears on the template. Note: In the View As field, select a role to view how a website user in that role sees the template. For example, you can select a Class of 1988 role to see how a website user from that class views the template. Depending on your security, this may be different than someone in the Supervisor role. For more information about roles, see Roles on page To create a new part for the template, click Create. The New Part screen appears. For information about how to create parts, see Create a part on page To edit a part, click Edit. The Edit Part screen appears. For information about how to edit parts, see Edit a part on page 47. Note: To remove a part, click Remove. 6. To view properties, click Template Properties on the action bar. 7. To view the web page, click Preview on the action bar. 8. To select a different layout from Layouts, click Template Properties. In the Layout field, select the new layout. To change your layout, click Layout Designer on the action bar. It is important to remember if you edit an existing layout, you change the layout for all web pages that use it. To create a template that is specific to only one layout design but similar to an existing one, click Layout Designer. The existing Layouts screen appears. To copy and save a new layout based on the one you selected for your web page, click Copy Layout on the action bar. For information about editing layouts, see Design a layout on page 122.
44 38. CHAPTER 2 9. The program automatically saves your information. To continue with the next task in Blackbaud NetCommunity, navigate to the area you need. To return to the main Templates screen, click Return on the action bar. Image Library Image Library stores images for your website. After you save an image, you can use the image repeatedly on your web pages. For example, you can save an image of your volunteers who work on the latest project. You can upload the image to your Welcome page, the Volunteers page, and the What s Happening page. You can approve images and photos uploaded to your website by users before they are published. In System Options, you can require approval before publishing uploaded images. In the User Image Options frame, mark Require approval for all images uploaded by users. When a user uploads an image to a profile page, you must approve the image before users can view it on your site. In System Options, you can also set a maximum number of images or a maximum image size each user can load. For more information, see System Options on page 234. Save an image for the first time Image Library stores each image separately within a category. To search for an existing image, use the Search tab in Image Library. In the All or part of the image name field, you can enter a partial name to search for an image. To search for an image contained on a specific part type, use the Type of image field. In the Approval status field, you can select to search by All, Approved, or Unapproved images. In Selected images categories, mark the checkbox beside the category in which to search for an image. 1. From Web Site, click Image Library. The Image Library screen opens on the Categories tab. 2. On the action bar, click Add Image. The Add Image screen appears. 3. In the Upload a new image from field, click Browse to search for your image on your hard drive or computer network. The Choose file screen appears. Image files must be of a *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg, or *.jpeg file type. 4. Select the image to load and click Open. The file name appears in the Upload a new image from field. 5. In the Image Name field, the file name of the selected image appears. If necessary, change this name so users can quickly identify the file in Image Library. This name does not appear on your website. 6. In the Image Caption field, enter text to appear for slideshow images. 7. In the Image Category field, mark the checkbox beside the existing category in which to store the image. When you select a category for the image, you can easily find it and its associated images in Image Library. To add a new image category, enter the name in the And/or new category field. The program saves the image using the new category you enter. After you save the image, the new category appears on the Categories tab.
45 WEBSITE. 39 Note: When Require approval for all images uploaded by users is marked in System Options, images the website user loads are saved as unapproved. Until the administrator approves an image, it is visible only to the user who loads it. To other users, an unapproved image appears as a Photo Not Available graphic. 8. In the Approval field, if the image is appropriate for your website, mark Approved. When you mark Approved, the image is available on the website. Tip: After you save an image, you can open the website user record from Image Library. In the Images frame on the right, click Click here to open this user s record on the image. The user record in Administration, Users opens. 9. In the Preview frame, the image you select in the Upload a new image from field automatically appears. Verify the image is the one you want. 10. To close and save the image, click Save and Close. The program saves the image in the Images frame on the right. You return to the Categories tab. Update an image You can replace and rename images in just a few steps. If you include an image on multiple web pages, you can update the image file in Image Library once for all pages. Image files must be of a *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg, or *.jpeg file type. 1. From Web Site, click Image Library. The Image Library screen appears. 2. In the Images frame on the right, click Click here to edit image properties under the image to edit. The Add Image screen appears. Note: To search for an existing image, use the Search tab in Image Library. In the All or part of the image name field, enter a partial name to search for an image. To search for an image contained on a specific part type, use the Type of image field. In the Approval status field, select to search by All, Approved, or Unapproved images. In Selected images categories, mark the checkbox beside the category in which to search for an image. Parts 3. Change the image properties as necessary. For example, add a new image, edit the name of the image, or change the approval status. 4. In the Original File Location field, view where the original image is saved. 5. In the URL field, view the web page that contains the image. 6. To close and save the image, click Save and Close. You return to Image Library. In Parts, you can write, edit, and delete content for your website. For example, to include your organization s mission statement on your site, you can write the statement in Parts and include your organization s logo in the part. Other part type examples include navigation buttons, user profile forms, event registration forms, and frames. After you save a part, you can display the information on as many web pages as you want. This section contains information about how to create parts for your website. For information about how to update an existing part, see Edit a part on page 47.
46 40. CHAPTER 2 Part Types This section briefly describes each option in Parts. Procedures exist for commonly used content tasks. Note: Content does not appear on your website until you add the content to a web page in Site Explorer. To create a web page, you must add content parts from Parts to your page in Site Explorer. For more information about pages, see Pages on page 31. Anonymous Newsletter Subscription With the Anonymous Newsletter Subscription part, website visitors can subscribe to a specific newsletter without becoming a registered user on your website. Because the subscriber does not create a user account, no sign-up transaction or constituent record is created in The Raiser s Edge. For more information, see Anonymous Newsletter Subscription on page 48. Change User ID/Password With the Change User ID/Password part, website users can change their user IDs and passwords in the Blackbaud NetCommunity database without affecting the user IDs and passwords for integrated Blackbaud programs. For more information, see Change User ID/Password on page 48. Chapter Links With the Chapter Links part, you can add links on the website home page, which managers and members can click to access a chapter site. A manager or member only views the links to chapters in which he is a member. We recommend you create only one Chapter Links for your Chapter Manager part. For more information, see Chapter Links Part on page 257. Chapter Manager With the Chapter Manager part, you can include subsites within your website. You can use a Chapter Manager part to create separate web pages for local or regional chapters. For example, an alumni association can use the part to create web pages for individual alumni classes or the different colleges established at one school, such as the College of Architecture. Your Blackbaud NetCommunity site contains the Chapter Manager part. However, the Chapter Manager part groups its pages together in a separate subsite organization. For more information, see Chapter Management on page 253. Chapter Page Element With the Chapter Page Elements part, you can add sections to a dynamic web page that can be customized for a chapter manager s use. These web pages are personal pages for the manager. Individuals who support the manager visit the page to learn more about the manager s involvement with your chapter and to make donations. Web pages that use Chapter Page Element parts also contain static sections that are other parts in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Use these sections to create defaults for your organization that you want on every chapter manager s personal page. For more information about Chapter Page Elements, see Page Element Types on page 83. Class Notes With the Class Notes part, alumni can add notes to their class notes web page. You can create a class notes page for each graduating year. Each page includes the same Class Notes part. For security reasons, you can have only one Class Notes part. Once you create a Class Notes part, the option is removed from the Part type field on a New Part screen so another cannot be created. If you mark Require Approval when you create the part, users with edit rights must approve class notes on the web page before they appear online. Note: You can download the notes alumni add about themselves to the Notes tab of their constituent record in The Raiser s Edge. This helps you know more specifics about your constituents. For more information, see Class Notes on page 388. Directory With the Directory part, website users can browse constituent information from your database in The Raiser s Edge. For example, you create and save a query for the Class of 2000 in The Raiser s Edge. You use this query to create a directory in Blackbaud NetCommunity. You can include the fields website visitors can use as a search tool, such as First Name and Gender. You can also select the fields to appear on your web page if the user s search finds results. For example, you can select to display First Name, Last Name, Address Line 1, City, and State for your Directory page results. For more information, see Directory on page 50.
47 WEBSITE. 41 Discussion Group With the Discussion Group part, you can create an electronic bulletin board for interactive discussion by your website users. For example, you can create a Reunion 2010 Discussion Group for your alumni to participate in discussions, such as to plan events and arrange to meet with old friends. On this electronic bulletin board, website users can submit new topics or add responses to an existing topic. Your organization can create multiple Discussion Group parts to post on your website. Users with manager rights can approve and delete topics. For more information, see Discussion Group on page 52. Documents With the Documents part, you can easily upload documents of any type to your website and share the information. For example, you can upload a Microsoft Word document (*.doc file type) of your board meeting minutes. You can include a message to appear on the website page to provide details about the information the document contains. For your board meeting minutes Word document, you can include Board Meeting minutes from 05/05/2007. If you have questions or comments, please call the office. Users with manager rights can approve and delete uploaded documents. For more information, see Documents on page 54. Donation Form With the Donation Form part, website users can donate to your organization through your website. When you create a Donation Form part, you select the constituent code, fund, and giving levels for your web donations. When you select a Donation Form part for your web page, a standard donation form appears and uses the selected constituent code, fund, and giving level information. The Donation Form part also contains an Acknowledgement tab. On this tab, you can create a standard to send to donors who use the donation form. You can also integrate your web donations with The Raiser s Edge. For more information, see Donation Form on page 55. Forwarding Form With the Forwarding Form part, website users can establish an address that never changes. With this part, users can sign up and create a lifelong address that is forwarded to an address they select. If their address changes, they can change the forwarding address and other users never know and do not need to keep up with changes. To allow users to create their own forwardable address, mark User-Editable Life-Long Address. To configure your organization s forwarding domain, review the Technical Requirements document provided by Blackbaud Professional Services. Note: The program shares forwarding data between the Forwarding Form part and the Forward tab on a user record in Users. You can set up address forwarding information for a website user on the Forward tab. The website user can change the addresses from the Forwarding Form part on a web page. For information about the Forward tab, see Edit a user record on page Reports With the Report ( ) part, you can create reports about sent through Blackbaud NetCommunity. For more information, see Reports on page 59. Event Calendar With the Event Calendar part, you can add calendars to your website. The Event Calendar part can: Act as a standalone calendar. For example, the academic departments at your school manage their own calendars on your website. Each department can create and maintain a separate Event Calendar part for its calendar. Work as a sub-calendar that feeds events to a larger organizational calendar. For example, your website has a main calendar that lists events for all areas of the school. With an Event Calendar Group part, each departmental calendar can feed events from its Event Calendar part into the main calendar for the school. For more information, see Event Calendar on page 60. Event Calendar Group With the Event Calendar Group part, you can create a top-level calendar that receives events from smaller sub-calendars created with Event Calendar parts. For example, the academic departments, athletic department, and alumni association at your school each maintain a calendar on your website. Your website has a main calendar that includes events for all areas of the school. The departments and alumni association use Event Calendar parts to create their own calendars. You can then create an Event Calendar group for the main school calendar and assign the department and alumni calendars as sub-calendars of that group. For more information, see Event Calendar Group on page 63.
48 42. CHAPTER 2 Event Calendar Highlights With the Event Calendar Highlights part, you can display short descriptions of upcoming or prior events on any web page. The display includes the event name, date, and time and may also include a link to the event calendar where the user can view more details about the event. You can select which calendar events feed into the highlights display and the period of time they are included. For more information, see Event Calendar Highlights on page 63. Event Registration Form With the Event Registration Form part, website users can register for events online. This information links directly to information in The Raiser s Edge. For more information, see Event Registration Form on page 64. Formatted Text and Images With the Formatted Text and Images part, you can include text and images from Image Library on your web pages. To write general text information for your website, select this for your content. When site users access web pages that use this part, the URL for the page begins http. For more information, see Formatted Text and Images on page 70. Formatted Text and Images (Secured) With the exception of requiring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the Formatted Text and Images (Secured) part has the same functionality as the Formatted Text and Images part type. With the Formatted Text and Images (Secured) part, you can include secured text and images from Image Library on your web pages. To write secured text information for your website, select this for your content. When site users access web pages that use this part, the URL for the page begins https. If you do not want to secure information for this part type, use Formatted Text and Images. The tasks to create the Formatted Text and Images (Secured) and the Formatted Text and Images part types are the same. For more information, see Formatted Text and Images on page 70. Frame With the Frame part, you can store a live web page from another website on your site. This part is helpful when you migrate from one website to a new one. For example, you can store pages from your organization s old website in a frame for your Blackbaud NetCommunity site. Fundraiser With the Fundraiser part, you can generate an interactive set of web pages that drives volunteers, participants, donors, solicitors, and others to your site. This part brings awareness to a particular cause and typically centers around an event. Using a Fundraiser part, you can designate a recipient fund from The Raiser s Edge for the fundraiser, allow solicitors and visitors to sign up as captains or team members, select customizable parts for participants to select when they design personal pages, and link a donation page where visitors contribute. In addition, you can link events to your fundraiser and generate welcome, acknowledgement, and forgotten password . The Fundraiser part contains many more features. To prepare, plan, and take advantage of all features available for your organization, it is important you review the information about the fundraiser. For more information, see Team Fundraising on page 273. Fundraiser Dashboard With the Fundraiser Dashboard part, you can display current information about the progress of a fundraiser on your website. The dashboard contains a series of graphs to display information such as donation totals, best performing participants and teams, a breakdown of online and offline gifts, event pricing and totals, and activity. For more information, see Fundraiser Dashboard Part on page 304. Fundraiser Reports With the Report (Fundraiser) part, you can create a summary report about the progress of multiple fundraisers. The report displays information graphically in a 3-D bar graph chart, textually in table format, or both. For more information, see Fundraiser Reports on page 306. Fundraiser Page Element With the Fundraiser Page Element part, you can add sections to a Fundraiser part that are customizable for a participant s or solicitor s use. These web pages are personal pages for the participant. Supporters visit the page to learn more about your organization and the participant s involvement with the organization. When you create a Fundraiser part, you select the Fundraiser Page Element parts to include on your site. When you select multiple Fundraiser Page Element part, you can offer participants a personal page of their preference. For more information, see Page Element Types on page 83.
49 WEBSITE. 43 Giving History With the Giving History part, you can create and display the giving history for a donor on your website. The Raiser s Edge stores the data for the Giving History part. You select the filters for the gift information contained in the Giving History part type. For example, you can select filters for gift type, campaign, fund, and appeal. You can also select to display soft credits. Once the donor logs into your website, the Giving History appears based on the user s authenticated user ID and password. On your website, gifts appear in order from the newest to oldest. The gift date, gift type, payment method, and gift amount appear for the donor to view. Job Board With the Job Board part, you can create an area on your website so users can post and search job postings. When you create this part, you customize the name, captions, and messages for the Job Board. Users with manager rights can approve and delete postings. For more information, see Job Board on page 71. Macromedia Flash Files With the Macromedia Flash Files part, you can create specific content in which to store a file and reuse it on multiple web pages. For example, you can use this part to convert pages from your old website to your Blackbaud NetCommunity website. Note: Blackbaud NetCommunity requires Macromedia Flash File version Membership Form With the Membership Form part, you can design a membership web page and solicit for new members on your website. When you design the membership page, you decide the membership categories for which to advertise online. You can create links to renew existing memberships, allow gifts of membership, and customize the confirmation message for your web users. For more information, see Membership Form on page 73. Menu With the Menu part, you can create a menu that appears when users moves the mouse over the toolbar on your website. For example, when you visit and moves the mouse over the Training link, a menu appears with selections such as Classroom Training and Online Training. With the Menu part, you can create this menu form. To indicate to the site user that a submenu appears from a menu, you can include glyphs (graphics). For more information, see Menu on page 78. Navigation Button With the Navigation Button part, you can create or edit a navigation bar. Buttons on a navigation bar honor Blackbaud NetCommunity security settings. For example, if you have a Board Members Only page, only website users logged in as a Board Member can view a button on the navigation bar used to access this page. For more information, see Navigation Buttons on page 80. News Reader With the News Reader part, you can display Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom content on your website. These are XML-based formats used to distribute web information. For example, if your organization is health-related, you can create a web page for health tips and include a News Reader part that includes news headline feeds from other health-related websites. The News Reader part and RSS or Atom content provide a way to automatically include these headlines on your website. Blackbaud NetCommunity supports RSS versions 0.9, 1.0, and 2.0 and Atom version.3. Send an to Blackbaud NetCommunity Support at [email protected] for more information. For more information about how to create a News Reader part, see News Reader on page 82. Personal Notes With the Personal Notes part, you can display contents from the Notes tab of a constituent record in The Raiser s Edge on your site. You can display all note types or a select group of note types. Using this part, a site user searches notes for himself or other constituents. In addition, the user can manage his personal notes, such as to add, edit, or delete a personal note on his record. A user cannot change a note for another constituent. For more information, see Personal Notes on page 97. Personal Page Element With the Personal Page Element part, you can add dynamic sections to a web page that is customizable for individual use. These web pages become personal pages for any website user to whom you grant rights. Individuals who create personal pages using Personal Page Element parts have multiple reasons for the page. For example, someone who is ill would like to create a care page for family and friends to visit. When someone has a personal page on your site, other people who support or know the individual visit the personal page to learn more about his or her relationship with your organization. For more information, see Page Element Types on page 83.
50 44. CHAPTER 2 Personal Page Manager With the Personal Page Manager part, you can create templates so website users can create personal pages. Personal pages are personalized pages supporters can set up on your website to help communicate information about your organization s mission. Personal pages can contain several features, including weblogs, news readers, photo galleries, report abuse actions, comment boards, and simple or rich text. For more information, see Personal Pages on page 311. Poll Most website users are familiar with a poll or survey posted on a website. A poll may ask a trivia question or who they predict to win a race. Once the website user submits an answer, the program calculates results which then appear on the site. With the Poll part, you can create this feature on your website. Warning: Poll responses are limited to 255 characters. If you expect long poll answers, we recommend you enter a pixel (px) size in the Chart Image Width field. If you enter an image width less than a poll response, the response is truncated in the image. To correct this, adjust the pixel size in the Chart Image Width field. With the Poll part, you can enter your poll or survey question, the text to display on the submit button, whether to use a pie chart or bar chart to display the results, and, if required, the possible answers for the poll or question. To prevent skewed polling results, once a website user responds to a poll, these fields are disabled in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Profile Display With the Profile Display part, you can create a read-only user profile that displays biographical, address, and contact information. You select which fields of information to include on the profile. The profile can display information for only the logged-in user, or it can link to a directory so it displays information for any person selected in the directory. For more information, see Profile Display on page 99. Quick Search With the Quick Search part, you can search other Blackbaud NetCommunity parts: Formatted Text and Images, Formatted Text and Images (Secured), Discussion Group, Event Calendar, Job Board, and Weblogs. When you add a Quick Search part to your web page, a text box with a search button appears so site users can search for information on your website. You must select the page on which search results appear. To use a Quick Search part in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you must have Microsoft s Full-Text Search on your web server. For more information, see Quick Search on page 101. Note: The primary difference between the Quick Search and Search parts is the way results appear on your site. With a Quick Search part, you select a web page for results to appear on. With a Search part, results appear automatically below your Search part. You can add a Quick Search part to a web page template. However, we recommend you not add a Search part to a template. Search With the Search part, you can search other Blackbaud NetCommunity parts: Formatted Text and Images, Formatted Text and Images (Secured), Discussion Group, Event Calendar, Job Board, and Weblogs. When you add a Search part to your web page, a field name, text box, and search button appear so site users can search for information on your website. Search results appear automatically below your Search part on the web page. To use a Search part in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you must have Microsoft s Full-Text Search on your web server. For more information, see Search on page 102. Slideshow With the Slideshow part, you can create a slideshow presentation of graphics on your website. For more information, see Slideshow on page 104. Survey With the Survey part, you can create an online survey for your website visitors. You can add several types of survey questions in multiple formats and download constituent survey responses to The Raiser s Edge. For more information about the Survey part, see Survey on page 105. Targeted Content With the Targeted Content part, you can display specific information on a web page depending on who reads it. User roles define who sees the part. For more information, see Targeted Content on page 107.
51 WEBSITE. 45 User Education Profile With the User Education Profile part, website users can update their education information online. You select the fields of information to appear on the display and on the update form. For more information, see User Education Profile Form on page 108. Note: If you use Alumni Tracking for The Raiser s Edge, use the Education Profile Form. User Preferences Form With the User Preferences Form part, you can add a subscription page on your website. With this form, a user can subscribe to or unsubscribe from specific lists or mark a checkbox to opt out of all from your organization. If you set Everyone security for the part, nonmembers and members who are not logged in can access this subscription form. The lists that appear are determined by templates with Subscription/Newsletter marked. When is generated from subscription templates, the designated list and users who mark User Preferences Form to subscribe receive the . For more information, see User Preferences Form on page 110. User Interests Form With the User Interest Form part, you can create a web page that captures a website user s interests. The interests that appear on your form default from table attributes in The Raiser s Edge. For example, you can have a constituent attribute called Interests with a data type of table in The Raiser s Edge. This attribute appears on the User Interests Form. You can download the information website users select from Blackbaud NetCommunity to the The Raiser s Edge. You can use this information to raise funds and create awareness for your organization. For example, if many website users select Wine Tasting on your User Interests Form web page, you can host a wine-tasting event in your community. Note: In the Interests Attribute field in System Options, make sure to select The Raiser s Edge attribute to map to for downloads. For more information, see System Options on page 234. User Login With the User Login part, you can control the areas users access on your website. When a user logs in, the user login determines to which roles the user belongs and which features the user has security rights to access. You can create separate login parts for any subsite you create, such as a subsite for chapters. You can add forms to the user login for new user registrations, forgotten passwords, and forgotten user IDs. You can also create to send to users to acknowledge their registration or to provide a forgotten password or user ID. For more information, see User Login on page 112. User Photos Form With the User Photos Form part, you can create or edit a website profile page with images. With the User Photos Form part, a website user can select a photo from her Image Library to publish on her profile page. For example, you can enable alumni to include photos in their website profile. A website user can upload a photo to her Image Library and use the User Photos Form to publish it on a profile page. For more information about Image Library, see Image Library on page 38. Tip: In System Options, you can select to require approval before the program publishes uploaded images. In the User Image Options frame, mark Require approval for all images uploaded by users. When you include the User Photos Form on a profile page and a user uploads a photo, you must approve the photo in Image Library before it appears on your site. In System Options, you can also set a maximum number of images or a maximum image size a user can load. For more information, see System Options on page 234. When you design the User Photos Form, you can specify a default caption to appear when the user does not enter a caption for a photo. You also select the image category and set the maximum display height and width for uploaded photos. You can also specify where to direct website users after they use the User Photos Form part.
52 46. CHAPTER 2 User Profile Form With the User Profile Form part, website users can enter biographical information on your website Profile page. To track current information and solicit the user for a donation, you can download the information the user enters to The Raiser s Edge. For example, Jane Compton is a member of the Class of 1988 and she visits your website for the first time. As a part of this first-time process, she navigates to your Profile page and enters her full name, current address, and spouse information. You can download the information she enters on your website directly to The Raiser s Edge. For more information, see User Profile Form on page 114. Volunteer Opportunity If you use Volunteer Management for The Raiser s Edge, you can use the Volunteer Opportunity part to display a list of jobs on your website. A website user can learn about your volunteer jobs, sign up for a job, and enter data relative to the job. For example, the volunteer can provide emergency contact information, special skills, and needs and inform you of medical needs. For more information, see Volunteer Opportunity on page 115. Volunteer transactions appear on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. When The Raiser s Edge downloads a volunteer transaction, the data appears on the Volunteer tab of the website user s constituent record. The Raiser s Edge automatically creates a job assignment for the user. For more information, see Volunteer Requests on page 371. Weblog With the Weblog part, you can create an area on your website to collect or share information that pertains to your organization. This ranges from your organization s news to appeals sent to your alumni to links to other related websites. Blackbaud NetCommunity users and website users who have security rights can update a Weblog part. For more information about security, see Security on page 223. For information about how to create a Weblog part, see Weblog on page 118. Web Traffic Reports With the Report (Web Traffic) part, you can create reports with statistics about your website s traffic. For more information, see Web Traffic Reports on page 120. Create and Edit Part Properties When you include a part on multiple web pages, you can edit and update the part once for all pages. If you create a new part and want to make sure you keep the look of the part (such as font size and style for text) consistent with the rest of your website, make a copy of the existing content. You easily retain the bulk of information required to create new content. The procedures in this section inform you how to create a part and edit properties for a part. For more information about how to design a part, see the individual part s section. For a complete list of parts, see Part Types on page 40. Create a part 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen opens on the Properties tab. 2. On the action bar, click New Part. The New Part screen appears. After you save the part type, the information on the New Part screen becomes the Part Properties screen. 3. In the Part Name field, enter a name for your content, such as Mission Statement, so Blackbaud NetCommunity users can quickly identify the information in Parts. This name is for internal use and does not appear on your website. 4. In the Part Description field, enter any additional information to identify the part. 5. In the Part Type field, select a part type, such as Formatted Text and Images. This is the type of content to include text information for a web page. Once you save the part, you cannot change the part type. 6. To make the part available within a certain time frame, mark Activate. When you mark this checkbox, the date fields are enabled.
53 WEBSITE. 47 Note: If you do not mark Activate, no time limits exists for the part. a. In the Publish Date field, enter the date and time the part first becomes available on your site. b. In the Expiration Date field, enter the date and time the part becomes unavailable on your site. If an expired part exists on a live web page on your site, the part does not appear. The other parts on the page dynamically fill the space where the expired part previously appeared. Note: After you save the part type, a Pages using this part box appears to display your web pages that use the part. If no pages use the part, a This part is not being used by any pages message appears. 7. Select the Security tab. 8. In the Part Security grid, assign view, edit, delete, and change security rights for each role. The Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For more information about security, see Security on page Click Next. The part design screen appears. For information about how to design part types, see Part Types on page 40. Edit a part When you search for existing content to update, use the search tools available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. For example, at the top of the Parts screen, select a type in the Part Type field to narrow your search. In the Name field, you can enter a partial name to search for content. At the bottom of the Parts screen, you can narrow the number of pages to view on the screen in the Results Per Page field. If you know the page number in Parts where your information is stored, select it in the Page field. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: To create a new part based on an existing part, click Copy Part in the Action column on the Parts screen. The Copy Part screen appears. In the New Part Name field, enter a new name and click Next. The Edit Part screen appears so you can make the changes required. For more information about how to create new content, see Create a part on page For the part to edit, click Properties in the Action column. The Part Properties screen opens on the Properties tab. 3. Make the changes for the Part Name or Part Description fields. The Part Type is embedded. You cannot change the part type from the one originally selected. Note: The Pages using this part box displays your web pages that use the part. The information is for informational purposes only. If no pages use the part, a This part is not being used by any pages message appears. 4. Select the Security tab. 5. In the Part Security grid, assign view, edit, delete, and change security rights for each role. The Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For information about security in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Security on page 223.
54 48. CHAPTER 2 6. To save your changes on the Page Properties screen, click Save and Close. You return to the Parts screen. For information about how to edit the Page Designer screen, see Edit web page design on page 33. Anonymous Newsletter Subscription With the Anonymous Newsletter Subscription part, you can offer a newsletter to which website visitors can subscribe without becoming a registered user on your website. Because the subscriber does not create a user account, no sign-up transaction or constituent record is created in The Raiser s Edge. Typically, you may want to enable anonymous subscriptions for a particular newsletter, such as an introductory newsletter, that may lead the subscriber to become more involved with your organization, at which point he becomes an active user and constituent. On the web page, the Anonymous Newsletter Subscription part appears as a box where users can enter their names and addresses and click a button to subscribe. Design Anonymous Newsletter Subscription 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Anonymous Newsletter Subscription part. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Newsletter field, select the newsletter to which users can anonymously subscribe. 4. In the Form title field, enter the text to appear at the top of the Anonymous Newsletter Subscription part on your website, such as Get the Newsletter!. 5. In the After subscribing navigate to field, select the web page, such as a Welcome or Thank You page, to appear after the site user clicks Subscribe. a. Click Click here to select a page. The Select a Page screen appears. b. Select the web page to appear after the website user clicks Subscribe. c. Click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen. Note: If you do not select a web page in the After subscribing navigate to field, the website user returns to the Anonymous Newsletter Subscription part after he clicks Subscribe. 6. To save this part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Change User ID/Password With the Change User ID/Password part, website users can change their user IDs and passwords in the Blackbaud NetCommunity database without affecting the user IDs and passwords for other integrated Blackbaud programs. On the website, the user can update the user ID, password, and password reminder.
55 WEBSITE. 49 Design Change User ID/Password 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information defaults automatically to the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Change User ID/Password. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Heading field, enter the text to appear at the top of your Change User ID/Password form, such as Change User Login. 4. In the Change User ID/Password grid, select the fields to appear on your Change User ID/Password form. You can select to display the User ID, Password, Confirm Password, Reminder Phrase, and Time Zone fields. For details about the grid, see Change User ID/Password Grid on page In the After update navigate to field, select the web page to appear after the website user changes the user login and password. a. Click Click here to select a page. The Select a Page screen appears. b. Select the web page to appear after the website user changes the user name and password. c. Click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen. Note: If you do not select a web page in the After update navigate to field, the Home Page selected in System Options automatically appears after the website user changes the user name or password. 6. To save this part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Change User ID/Password Grid The table provides information about the options in the Change User ID/Password grid. Option Blackbaud NetCommunity Administrator or Website User? Notes Include Blackbaud NetCommunity Mark the checkbox next to the fields to include on your Change User ID/ Password form. Field N/A Displays the default field name for your Change User ID/ Password form. Editable Blackbaud NetCommunity and website To enable other users to edit the field, mark this checkbox. Required Website To make a field required on the Change User ID/Password form, mark this checkbox. Alternate Caption Blackbaud NetCommunity To edit a field name, enter a new name in this column. For example, you may want to call the User ID field User Name.
56 50. CHAPTER 2 Directory With a Directory part, your website users can contact each other. To publish directories on your website, select queries to pull constituent information from The Raiser s Edge. For example, you create and save a query for the Class of 2000 in The Raiser s Edge. You can use this query to create a directory in Blackbaud NetCommunity. You select the fields website users can use as a search tool, such as Last Name and Gender. You can include multiple-value fields such as organization Type, Donor Category, and Retirement Date. You can also provide links in the directory to constituent personal pages. Note: The directory search can return up to 500 results that match the criteria entered by a site user. You also select the fields to appear on your web page when the user s search produces results. For example, you can select to display First Name, Last Name, Address Line 1, City, and State fields for your directory results. The field you list first for results links to the constituent s published profile information. Design Directory 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information defaults automatically to the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Directory. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Directory title field, enter a name for the directory, such as Class of 2000 Directory. 4. In the Records to Include frame, specify the records to include in the directory. a. The Limit to query field displays the selected query of records included in the directory. By default, All Constituents appears. Tip: For a query to appear as a selection, you must first create it in The Raiser s Edge. When you create a new query, you may need to refresh Blackbaud NetCommunity for it to appear as a selection. To refresh, select View, Refresh from the menu bar. To include information from all constituents in your database in The Raiser s Edge, leave the default All Constituents. To select another existing constituent query to use as the directory, click Change. The Query Search screen appears. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. b. In the Include field, select the type of constituent records to include in the directory. You can select Both Organizations & Individuals, Individuals Only, or Organizations Only. 5. In the Search Form frame, in the Split search fields into field, select how many columns of search fields to appear in the criteria table. You can display up to five columns.
57 WEBSITE. 51 To process a search while the user browses your Directory part, mark Load unfiltered results when this part is loaded. When you mark this checkbox, the directory search processes before the user enters criteria and clicks Search on your website. 6. In the Results frame, set up how to display search results on your Directory part. a. In the Show navigation controls field, select where the navigation buttons should appear. You can select Above the results, Below the results, or Both above and below the results. b. The directory search can return up to 500 results that match the criteria entered by a site user. In the Results per page field, select the maximum number of results to appear on a page when a site user searches the directory. You can display up to 50 results per page. c. In the No records found message field, enter the message to appear if no records meet the search criteria the user enters to search the Directory on your website. By default, the message No directory entries match your criteria appears. d. Directory results link to a page on your website. In the Linked profile page field, select the page to which the link should go. The field you list first in the Listing Fields box becomes the link to the page you select in Linked profile page field. e. You can link individual constituents included in the results to an associated Team Fundraiser or Personal page. In the Include a page link for field, select the page to which to link individual constituents in the directory results. 7. In the Fields to Include frame, select the fields the user uses to search the directory, such as First Name or Last Name. Right-click and drag the field from the Profile Fields box to the Search Form Fields box, or select the field in the Profile Fields box and click the right arrow to move it to the Search Form Fields box. Note: The system administrator selects the attributes available under Constituent Attributes and Education Attributes in System Options on page 234. To arrange the placement of a field in the Search Form Fields box, select the field and click the Up or Down button. Note: The fields in the Search Form Fields list and the Listing Fields list do not have to match. 8. Select the fields to appear when the search finds a match. To select a field, right-click and drag it from the Profile Fields box to the Listing Fields box. To move a field from the Profile Fields box to the Listing Fields box, you can also select it and click the right arrow. To arrange the placement of a field in the Listing Fields box, select the field and click the Up or Down button.
58 52. CHAPTER 2 Warning: The listing field you put first for results acts as a link to the constituent record. However, if, on the User Profile Form, the field s data is marked Privacy Editable and the user selects to hide the data, no link exists. For example, if you select to list First name first, and the user selects to hide First name data, no link appears. While you can link every field, the field you place first in the Listing Fields box automatically links to the page you select in the Linked Page field. For example, you select to display the alumni s last name, first name, birth date, address, and whether they want to receive . In this case, the last name is the link. When results appear, to indicate the last name is a link, it is underlined and changes color when you drag your mouse over it. When a website user clicks the alumnus s last name, the published profile information for that constituent appears. 9. To save this part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Discussion Group Select the Discussion Group part type to create an electronic bulletin board so website users can participate in interactive discussions. For example, you can create a Reunion 2007 Discussion Group for your alumni to plan events and arrange to meet with old friends. Website users can submit new topics or add responses to existing topics in this electronic bulletin board. Your organization can create multiple Discussion Group part types to post on your website. If you have manager security rights, you can approve and delete messages and topics posted to the website. Additional buttons also appear on messages for discussion group managers. To block the content of a message without affecting replies to the message, click Block. To delete a message and all replies to the message, click Prune. Design Discussion Group 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Discussion Group. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Group Name field, enter the main topic of discussion you want to generate, such as Reunion In the Post New Topic Message box, enter the message to display on your website for users to read more information about the discussion topic. For example, enter Post a new topic for the Reunion 2007 discussion group. Feel free to start a discussion about a reunion event or meeting with friends at your favorite old college hang-outs!. Note: The website user s message box for postings is limited to 3000 characters. 5. In the Post New Reply Message box, enter the message to display on your website for users who post a message. For example, enter Thank you for participating in the Reunion 2007 discussion! We look forward to seeing you on campus!
59 WEBSITE If you mark Require approval for topics and messages added to this group, topics and messages posted by user roles with Can Manage rights appear on your website immediately. A user with manager rights must approve other topics. Warning: If you do not mark this checkbox, all topics appear immediately on your website. 7. In the Security Rights frame, assign Can Manage rights to roles for discussion group users. Note: Managers can approve or delete any messages and topics added to groups. Additional buttons appear on messages for managers. To block the content of a message without affecting replies to the message, click Block. To delete a message and all replies to the message, click Prune. For more information about how to manage a discussion group, see Manage Discussion Group on page 53. For information about roles, see Roles on page In the Spelling Correction frame, customize messages on your website for users who participate in the discussion group. a. In the Topic With Errors Message box, enter the message to appear if a website user posts a new topic with spelling errors. b. In the Topic With No Errors Message box, enter the message to appear if a website user posts a new topic without any spelling errors. c. In the Reply With Errors Message box, enter the message to appear if a website user post a response to an existing topic with spelling errors. d. In the Reply With No Errors Message box, enter the message to appear if a website user posts a response to an existing topic without spelling errors. 9. To save this part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Manage Discussion Group If you are a user with Can Manage rights, you have additional options with the Discussion Group part type. These options are available when you log into your website with your manager role. 1. Using your manager role with Can Manage security rights, log into your organization s website. 2. In the upper right corner of your Discussion Group part, the View field appears. In this field, select which postings to view. You can select All, Approved Only, or Pending Approval. Note: If Require Approval for Topics Added to This Group is unmarked on the Edit Part: Discussion Group screen, Approve does not appear on your website for users with manager roles. However, the View field and Delete remain available. 3. To approve a message or topic, click Approve in the same row as the message or topic to approve. This makes the information available for all website users to view and respond. 4. To delete a message or topic, click Delete in the same row as the message or topic to remove. This permanently removes the information from the website. 5. To block the content of a message without affecting replies to the message, click Block in the same row as the message to block.
60 54. CHAPTER 2 Note: When you click Block, the button changes to Unblock. To recover the message, click Unblock. 6. To delete a message and all its replies, click Prune in the same row as the message to prune. The program deletes the only the selected message and its replies. Any messages posted in the topic prior to the pruned message remain. 7. To exit the web page, log out of the website or click Go to Blackbaud NetCommunity on the Blackbaud NetCommunity toolbar to enter the administrative side of the program. Documents Using the Documents part, you can easily upload documents of any type to your website and share the information. For example, you can upload a Microsoft Word document (*.doc file type) of your board meeting minutes. You can include a message to appear on the website page that provides details about the information the document contains. For your board meeting minutes Word document, you can include Board Meeting minutes from 05/05/2007. Please call the office if you have questions or comments. The ability to upload documents is based on security rights. For example, users with manager rights can approve and delete documents. For more information about security, see Security on page 223. Design Documents 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information defaults automatically to the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Documents. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Title field, enter a name to identify the documents. 4. In the Message field, enter the message to appear on the website page, such as to provide details about the documents or instructions for site users. 5. In the Upload Button field, enter the text to appear on the button the website user clicks to upload documents to your website. 6. In the Maximum File Size field, enter the enter the maximum size of a document to store on your site. The size is stored in kilobytes. By default, the maximum file size is typically 4096 KB.
61 WEBSITE. 55 Warning: To prevent possible Denial of Service attacks, there is a limit to the size of the files you can upload. The default is typically set to 4096 KB, but the system administrator can adjust it up to 10,000 KB. We do not recommend you go over this size. The administrator can specify this limit in the Web.Config file. For example, to increase the file size, add maxrequestlength="8192" (where 8192 is the file size) to the <httpruntime usefullyqualifiedredirecturl="true" /> key. For very large files, increase the website timeout setting. For example, to increase the timeout setting, add executiontimeout="120" (where 120 is the duration in seconds) to the <httpruntime usefullyqualifiedredirecturl="true" /> key. Before you maximize the document file sizes or website timeout settings, visit and review the Microsoft Knowledgebase article. 7. Specify whether uploaded documents require approval before they appear on your website. If you mark Require Approval, documents posted by user roles with Manage rights appear on your website immediately. Other documents must be approved by a user with manager rights. If you do not mark Require Approval, all documents appear immediately on your website. 8. In the Security Rights frame, specify which roles have upload and manage rights for the Documents. a. In the Upload column, mark the checkbox for each role allowed to upload documents. These roles cannot edit or delete documents. To automatically assign upload rights to all roles, mark Upload at the top of the column. Note: If the part is marked Require Approval, documents are pending until a user with Manage rights approves them. A user with Upload rights can view his or her pending documents, but not those of other users with Upload rights. Only users with Manage rights can view all pending documents. b. In the Manage column, mark the checkbox for each role allowed to add, edit, and delete documents. If the part is marked Require Approval, these roles can approve documents. To automatically assign management rights to all roles, mark Manage at the top of the column. For information about roles, see Roles on page To save this part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Donation Form For a new Donation Form part, you select the constituent code, fund, and giving levels to use for web donations. When you select a Donation Form part for your web page, a canned donation form appears using the constituent code, fund, and giving level information you select. The Donation Form part also contains an Acknowledgement tab. On this tab, you can create a standard to send to donors who donate via your website. For more information about generating and sending an , see on page 163. When you download gifts from your website, you can create new gift records for the donations in The Raiser s Edge. Gift data from the website integrates with gifts in The Raiser s Edge. This data includes information such as amount, credit card number, billing address, an option to give anonymously, and comments. Design Donation Form 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears.
62 56. CHAPTER 2 Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information defaults automatically to the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Donation Form. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Constituent Code field, select a constituent code to assign to donors in The Raiser s Edge database. For more information about how to select constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page In the Button Text field, enter the text to appear on the button that submits the donation to your organization. For example, enter Submit or Donate Now!. The button appears at the end of the donation page. 5. In the Payment Methods frame, mark the payment types donors can use to contribute to your organization. You can mark Direct Debit and Pledge (Bill me later). Note: The Donation Form part automatically includes Credit Card as a payment method for donors. 6. In the Donor Options frame, select which options to make available to donors on the donation form. a. To allow a company to donate, mark Allow Corporate gifts. When you mark this checkbox, This donation is on behalf of a company appears on the donation form for a representative from a company to mark. b. To allow donors to give anonymously, mark Allow Anonymous gifts. When you mark this, I prefer to make this donation anonymously appears on the donation form for the donor to mark. c. To allow donors to enter comments on your site, mark Allow Comments. If you mark this checkbox, the program downloads comments to the Attributes tab on a gift record in The Raiser s Edge. d. To allow donors to provide matching gift company information, mark Allow Matching gifts. When you mark this checkbox, My company will match my gift appears on the donation form for the donor to mark. Donors can mark the checkbox and enter the company name in a Company field. If you use MatchFinder Online, Look it up appears next to the checkbox. Visitors click the link to access MatchFinder Online and search for the company. MatchFinder Online contains information about matching gift companies, such as the minimum and maximum gift details and match ratio. Data from MatchFinder Online integrates with The Raiser s Edge. Note: Send an to [email protected] for information about MatchFinder Online purchasing options. For information about downloading matching gift information to The Raiser s Edge, see Download donations - single transaction process on page 354. For information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see the The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide.
63 WEBSITE To allow donors to contribute regular recurring gifts, in the Recurring Gifts frame, mark Allow Recurring gifts. To allow the donor to select the frequency of the recurring gift, select General. When you select this, a Frequency field appears on your website. In this field, donors can select to make a contribution every week, month, quarter, or year. Once the website user selects a frequency, start and end date fields appear on the web page. Warning: If a constituent donates a recurring gift and selects a start date that is not today s date, the transaction downloads to The Raiser s Edge. However, the transaction is not sent to your bank merchant when the donor submits the recurring gift. The merchant receives the transaction from the batch output you send to your bank for processing from The Raiser s Edge. For more information about bank merchants, see Merchant Accounts on page 229. To define the recurring gift frequency, select Specific. The Custom Frequency frame appears. a. Select Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Annually as the frequency. b. In the On field, select the day of the week on which the recurring gift is donated. c. To add the frequency to the donation page, click Add Frequency. To add multiple frequency options to the donor web page, select the custom frequency setting and click Add Frequency for each option. d. After you click Add Frequency, Allow Donor to enter Ending Date appears. To allow donors to enter the end date for the recurring gift, mark this checkbox. 8. To create a tribute section on the donation form, in the Tribute Gifts frame, mark Allow Tribute gifts. Note: If you use Honor/Memorial Tracking in The Raiser s Edge, use the Tribute Gifts frame. a. To remove the Description field from the tribute section on the web page, mark Hide Tribute Description field. b. If you do not mark the Hide Tribute Description field checkbox, in the Description Text field, enter text to appear at the beginning of the Tribute Information frame on your donation form, such as This gift is made in honor of someone special. c. To allow the donor to select the tribute, select General. Mark all tribute type checkboxes to include in the tribute section on the donation form. The tribute types listed are the entries in the Tribute Types table in The Raiser s Edge. d. To have all tributes from the donation form go to a specific tribute, select Specific. When you select this, Honor/Memorial appears with a Tribute field. To select an honor or memorial individual from The Raiser s Edge, click Honor/Memorial. A search screen appears so you can search for the individual. In the Tribute field, select the tribute type and description to use. Information in this field is from the Honor/Memorial tab in the The Raiser s Edge. The selections are a combination of the data from the Tribute type and Description fields.
64 58. CHAPTER 2 Note: When you include tribute information on your donor page, Mail a letter on my behalf automatically appears on the page. When a donor marks this checkbox, name and address fields appear for the donor to enter this information. You can use this information in a tribute letter. 9. In the Designations frame, to select a fund for gifts, click Add Fund in the Fund column. The Fund Search screen appears so you can select a fund. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. a. In the Display Name field, enter the name of the fund as it will appear on the website. By default, the text entered in the Fund Name field in The Raiser s Edge appears as what you enter in the Display Name field. b. If the user does not select a fund, and this is the fund in which to apply the gift, mark the checkbox in the Transaction Default column. For each additional fund to make available on your Donation Form, click Add Designation. Another row appears in the grid for you to repeat these steps. If you add multiple funds, you provide a list of funds from which donors can select the fund to which they want to donate. c. To allows users to write in a fund other then the ones provided, mark Allow Other designation. d. To include in the list the funds the donor has previously contributed to, mark Include Donor s prior gift designations. If you mark this checkbox, the list displays funds from the donor s last 50 gifts. e. To allows users to donate to multiple funds, mark Support Multiple designations. Tip: When more than one fund exists in the Designations frame, Support Multiple designations appears. When you mark this checkbox, Add to Cart appears on your website. Similar to purchasing items from a store, users select the multiple funds to which to donate. 10. To select a giving level for your donors, click Add Giving Level in the Giving Levels frame. When you include giving levels and also mark Support Multiple designations, each donation made to a fund is considered for the giving level. For example, if a $500 donation is required for Gold status, and a donor donates $250 to the 2008 Annual Fund and $250 to the Building Equipment Fund, the donor does not receive Gold status. If the gift is one $500 donation to the 2008 Annual Fund, the donor receives the Gold giving level status. a. In the Display Name field, enter the name of the giving level as it will appear on the website. b. In the Amount field, enter the gift amount for which the giving level applies. You can enter the start amount or both the start and end amounts. c. To include a blank $ Other field on the Donation page, mark Allow Other amount. 11. To select an appeal for the gift, click Add Source in the Sources frame. With this information, your organization can manage how donors learn about donating through the website. a. To include an appeal, click Add Appeal in the Appeal column. The Appeal Search screen appears so you can select an appeal. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. b. In the Display Name field, enter the name of the appeal as it will appear on the website.
65 WEBSITE. 59 By default, the text entered in the Appeal Name field in The Raiser s Edge appears as what you enter in the Display Name field. c. If the user does not select an appeal, and this is the appeal in which to apply the gift, mark the checkbox in the Transaction Default column. For each additional appeal to make available on the Donation Form, click Add Source. Another row appears in the grid for you to repeat these steps. If you add multiple appeals, you provide a list of appeals from which donors can select. 12. In the Attributes frame, mark the checkbox beside the gift attribute you want in the Display column. To make the attributes required, mark the checkbox in the Required column. To change the text of the attribute on your donation page, enter the text to display in the Caption field. Note: When you download a gift to The Raiser s Edge, some gift attributes can automatically add to the gift record. These attributes include NetCommunity Comments, NetCommunity Corporate Donation Contact, NetCommunity Source, NetCommunity Source ID, NetCommunity Page, and NetCommunity Page ID. You do not view these gift attributes in the Attributes frame or on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Once the gift downloads to The Raiser s Edge, you can view the information on the gift record. These are gift attributes from The Raiser s Edge. Gift attributes are stored on the Attributes tab of a gift record. To add a new attribute, create it in The Raiser s Edge. 13. In the Merchant Account frame, select the merchant account to use to process credit cards. For example, select your IATS account. The system administrator sets up merchant accounts in Administration. For information, see Merchant Accounts on page Click Next. The Acknowledgement screen appears. 15. Create an acknowledgement for website users who use the donation form to donate to your organization. For information about how to design a donation acknowledgement , see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page 201. Tip: When you edit a Donation Form part, you can also click Acknowledgement on the action bar to access the Acknowledgement screen. For information about how to design an to acknowledge an registration, see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page To save the , click Save and Close. You return to the Edit Part screen. 17. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Reports Using the Report ( ) part, you can create reports for your website about sent through Blackbaud NetCommunity. Revenue Summary The Revenue Summary displays the amount of donations collected through a link in the to a donation page. Website users can filter the report results by date range, message type, and revenue type.
66 60. CHAPTER 2 Activity Report The Activity Report displays details for each sent including the title, type, sender s name, and date sent. Other details include the number of opened and bounced , and the number of page visits generated by each . The report also contains a bar graph which shows the total number of opened, bounced s, and page visits for all s included in the report. Website users can filter the report results by type, date range, and action. This table explains the items included in the Activity Report. Type Sent Opened Bounced Page Visits Type of message sent , Acknowledgement, Newsletter, or Fundraiser, or Chapter Number of s sent Number of s sent that were tracked as opened Number of s sent that were not delivered successfully Number of web page visits generated by a link in the Design Reports 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Report ( ). Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Report Type field, select the type of report to create. Select Revenue Summary or Activity Report. To view a pop-up preview of the report, click on the report type. For more information about report types, see the introduction to Reports on page In the Report Title field, select the title to use for the report. To use the report s name for the title, select Default. To enter a custom report title, select Other and enter the title in the field. 5. To display the report title above the report, mark Show Report Title. 6. To save the report, click Save and Close. You return to the Report ( ) design screen. 7. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Event Calendar You can use the Event Calendar part to add a calendars to your website. Event Calendar parts can: Act as standalone calendars. For example, the academic departments at your school manage their own calendars on your website. Each department can create and maintain a separate Event Calendar part for its calendar. Work as sub-calendars that feed events to a larger organizational calendar. For example, your website has a main calendar that lists events for all areas of the school. With the Event Calendar Group part, each departmental calendar can feed events from their Event Calendar parts into the main calendar for the school. For more information about Event Calendar Groups, see Event Calendar Group on page 63.
67 WEBSITE. 61 You can use Event Calendar part properties to manage who views and manages each calendar. For example, a school may have a sub-calendar of faculty events that only users assigned to Administrator or Faculty roles can view or edit. You can also use Event Categories to manage the types of events added to the calendar and who manages them. For example, a soccer calendar may have categories such as Registration, Practice, and Games, and only users in the Coaches role have rights to add, edit, or delete events in these categories. Calendar managers can create recurring events. When you edit recurring events, the manager can select whether to change all occurrences in the series, only the selected occurrence, or all future occurrences in the series including the selected occurrence. When you change an occurrence of an event, you cannot later make that occurrence part of a recurring series. Calendar managers can select a time zone for the event. If an event does not have a specific time zone, the logged-in user s time zone setting determines the date and time displayed for the event. For anonymous users or any user who does not have a time zone specified, the event displays the time and date based on the system s setting. If your website users are all in the same time zone, we recommend managers leave the time zone field blank. If your website users are in multiple time zones, we recommend you set the time zone to the user s setting. Calendar managers can to add Google or Yahoo! map links to event locations. They can use the HTML editor to add pictures and hyperlinks and to format text. Website users have three views of the calendar: the Calendar View, the List View, and Published Events. The Calendar View displays a large monthly calendar. Dates with scheduled events are colored and list the events that occur that day. Users can click Filter Events to customize the categories of events that appear. Event names are hyperlinked so users can click them to read more information about the event. In this view, icons indicate whether an event is recurring, occurs in a specific time zone, or lasts longer than one day. The List View displays a list of all the events scheduled for the selected period of time. Event names are hyperlinked so users can click them to read more information about the event. Users can filter events by date or click Filter Events to select the types of events to view. If you enable the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Event Publishing capabilities, calendar managers can post stories in a weblog form with details about upcoming events. Site users can click Published Events to view the calendar weblog. Posted events also appear in site search results. To cancel an event, a manager can mark Mark Canceled. In the List View and Calendar Highlights, the event title is appended with - Canceled. In the Calendar View, the event name is struck through. For the calendar weblog, Update or Removed is added to the title, and readers who subscribe to the calendar weblog receive an updated calendar event posting through their RSS feed. Design Event Calendar 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Event Calendar. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In Calendar Title field, enter a name for the calendar.
68 62. CHAPTER 2 4. In the Event Categories frame, select which event categories to associate with the calendar. Once you add a category, click Assign rights to the category. The Event Category Security screen appears so you can assign security rights to roles for the event category. For example, a Soccer calendar may have the Registration, Practice, and Games categories, and only users in the Coaches role can add, edit, or delete events in these categories. For information about how to add event categories, see Code Tables on page In the Uncategorized Events Management Rights frame, mark which roles have rights to manage any events not associated with a category. 6. To include a weblog for the Event Calendar part, mark RSS Event Publishing. Additional fields for the weblog appear. a. In the Title field, enter a title for the weblog. b. In the Link URL field, enter a website address news readers can use to link to the calendar weblog. Also, if your website has a News Reader part, add this link to your news reader so it displays new events when they are posted. For more information about the News Reader part, see News Reader on page 82. c. In the Description field, enter a description for news readers about the types of events posted on the calendar. For example, if your organization supports environmental advocacy, enter Upcoming Local and National Events Supporting the Environment. To view the information you enter in this field, click XML for the calendar weblog. Using the above example, the XML information for your description reads <description>upcoming Local and National Events Supporting the Environment</description>. d. In the Copyright field, enter a copyright notice for the weblog, if you have one. e. In the Editor s field, enter the address for the person responsible for the content of calendar postings. f. To approve weblog posts before they appear on your site, mark Moderated. 7. To add a picture to the calendar weblog, click Select Image in the Image Properties frame. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page In the Link URL field, enter the web address to open when a user clicks the image. The link can access another page on your site or an outside website. 9. In the Security Rights frame, define which roles have post and manage rights for the weblog. a. In the Can Post column, mark the checkbox for each role allowed to post to the weblog. These roles cannot edit or delete postings. To automatically assign posting rights to all roles, mark Can Post at the top of the column. Note: If the list is marked Moderated, posts are pending until a user with Can Manage rights approves them. A user with Can Post rights views his or her pending posts, but not those of other Can Post users. Only users with Can Manage rights view all pending posts. b. In the Can Manage column, mark the checkbox for each role allowed to add, edit, and delete weblog postings. If the list is marked Moderated, these roles can approve postings. To automatically assign management rights to all roles, mark Can Manage at the top of the column. For information about roles, see Roles on page 227.
69 WEBSITE To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Event Calendar Group You can use the Event Calendar Group part to add create a top-level calendar that receives events from smaller sub-calendars. For example, the academic departments, athletic department, and alumni association at your school each maintain a calendar on your website. Your website also has a main calendar that includes events for all areas of the school. In this scenario, the departments and alumni association create their own calendars with the Event Calendar part. You can then create an Event Calendar group for the main school calendar and assign the department and alumni calendars as sub-calendars of that group. For more information about the Event Calendar part, see Event Calendar on page 60. Design Event Calendar Group 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Event Calendar Group. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In Calendar Group Title field, enter a name for the calendar group. 4. In the Sub Calendars frame, mark each calendar whose events to include in this group. The Event Calendar part creates the available sub-calendars. For more information, see Event Calendar on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Event Calendar Highlights You can use the Event Calendar Highlights part to display short descriptions of upcoming or prior events on any web page. The display includes the event name, date, and time and may also include a link to the event calendar, where the user can view more details about the event. You can select which calendars events feed into the highlights display and the period of time they are included. Design Event Calendar Highlights 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Event Calendar Highlights.
70 64. CHAPTER 2 Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Event Source frame, mark the calendars whose events to include in the display. 4. To include a section that displays highlights of upcoming events, mark Show Upcoming Events. a. In the Upcoming Events Title field, enter a title for the upcoming events section. b. In the Show next [ ] field, select the period of time to include events in the display, such as events that occur within the next 5 days or next month. 5. To include a section that displays highlights of previous events, mark Show Recent Events. a. In the Recent Events Title field, enter a title for the recent events section. b. In the Show previous [ ] field, select the period of time to include events in the display, such as events that occurred within the previous 5 days or previous month. 6. In the More Events URL field, enter a URL to another page on the website or to a separate site that contains more information about events. If you add a URL, More Events appears on your website. 7. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Event Registration Form To allow website users to register for events online, you can create and edit event registration forms. You can link your online events to event records in The Raiser s Edge and download the online registration information directly to event records in The Raiser s Edge. Note: If you use The Raiser s Edge Events Management, use the Event Registration Form part type. When members register for events online, you can allow relationships in The Raiser s Edge to appear as selections as participants, making online registration easy for your members and adding personal details to their registration form. Design Event Registration Form For optimal performance, include only one Event Registration Form part for each web page. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Event Registration Form. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page 46.
71 WEBSITE In the Helplets frame, enter custom text to appear on the Event Registration forms to help website users understand how to use the form. a. In the Screen field, select the form to create help text for. You can select Selection, Prices, Attendees, Register Now, or Acknowledgement. b. In the box, enter the text to appear on the form. To format the content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page 6. c. Once you create help text for one form, select another form type in the Screen field. The program automatically saves changes for the first form, and an asterisk appears next to the form name to indicate it has saved help content. 4. In the Fund from The Raiser s Edge frame, select the fund with which the event is associated in The Raiser s Edge. To select a fund, click Select. The Fund Search screen appears so you can select a fund. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. Tip: A red asterisk designates a required field. When information is missing from any of these fields, you cannot save the form. To replace the selected fund with another fund, click Change. The Fund Search screen appears so you can select a different fund. When you download information to The Raiser s Edge, registration fees paid online through this form apply directly to the designated fund. For more information, see Event Registrations on page 374.
72 66. CHAPTER 2 5. In the Giving Options frame, specify whether to allow website users to provide matching gift claims through the website. When you mark Allow Matching gifts, My company will match my gift appears on the web page. Site visitors can mark this checkbox and enter the company name in a Company field. If you use MatchFinder Online, Look it up appears next to My company will match my gift on the web page. Visitors can click the link to access MatchFinder Online and search for the company entered in the Company field. MatchFinder Online contains information about matching gift companies, such as the minimum and maximum gift details and match ratio. Data from MatchFinder Online integrates with The Raiser s Edge. For information about how to purchase MatchFinder Online, please send an to [email protected]. For information about how to download matching gift information to The Raiser s Edge, see Event Registrations on page 374. For information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see the The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide. 6. In the Required Fields frame, mark the checkbox for each field you want to make required on the registration form. To ensure you download complete constituent information into The Raiser s Edge, we recommend that you make all of these fields required. 7. In the Constituent Code field, select a constituent code to apply to registrants not in the database in The Raiser s Edge. If a registrant signs up for events on the website but does not already exist in The Raiser s Edge, The Raiser s Edge creates a new record and assigns the constituent code you select here when you commit the downloaded event information. For more information about how to select constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page 26.
73 WEBSITE. 67 Note: If a registrant already exists in the database, The Raiser s Edge updates the constituent record with gift and event data with the downloaded event information. 8. In the Captions frame, for each button or label listed, enter the text to appear on the Event Registration form. 9. In the Registration Options frame, select whether to display the event information and selection as two pages. If you include a second page, the website user selects the events for which he wants to register on one page and enters registration quantity and pricing information on another page. To allow the website user to select both events and registration options on one page, mark Exclude the first Event Info/Selection page from registration. Note: If your Event Registration form includes one or few events, we recommend you mark Exclude the first Event Info/Selection page from registration to minimize steps for your registrants. If your Event Registration form includes multiple events, a second event information and selection page may be helpful to your website users. 10. To display a progress status bar for the user to view during the event registration, mark Display progress indicator. If you do not mark Exclude the first Event Info/Selection page from registration, a five step progress indicator appears at the top of the event registration form for the user. Step 1: Start This is the Event Selection page. Information about each event appears, including the description, date, and time of the event from The Raiser s Edge. On this page, the website user selects the events to which to register. Step 2: Prices This is the Quantity and Pricing page. The pricing options and units for the selected events appears. On this page, the website user enters the quantities of event units to register.
74 68. CHAPTER 2 Step 3: Attendees This is the Attendees page. On this page, the website user enters who will attend the selected events and selects any participant attributes you add to the Event Registration form. Step 4: Register This is the Payment page. A summary of the event registration appears. On this page, the website user verifies the registration options selected are correct and enters any billing and payment information. Step 5: Finish This is the Confirmation page. A summary of the billing and payment information appears. Note: If you mark Exclude the first Event Info/Selection page from registration, Step 1: Start does not appear on the progress indicator. The progress indicator displays the event registration as four steps: Prices, Attendees, Register, and Finish. In a four step registration, the user selects the events and enters the quantities of event units as part of the Prices step. 11. In the Events from frame, select the event from The Raiser s Edge to use. Tip: The Raiser s Edge does not need to be open when you select an event. To add an event to the field list, click Add Event. The Event Search screen appears so you can select an event. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. You can use this event registration form for more than one event. To add another event to the form, click Add Event and select an additional event. 12. For each event selected for the event registration form, set up how its registration appears on the form. a. In the Event Name field, select the event registration to set up. b. In the Display Name field, enter the name of the event as it will appear on the website. By default, the text in the Event Name field in The Raiser s Edge appears in the Display Name field. c. In the Display Description field, enter the description of the event as it will appear on the website. By default, the text entered in the Description field in The Raiser s Edge appears as what you enter in the Display Description field. d. The Capacity field displays the capacity for the selected event, as entered in The Raiser s Edge. To limit how many registrants can sign up for the event using the event registration form online, mark Do not allow registrations beyond capacity. e. To display any relationship records linked to a member s constituent record in The Raiser s Edge for selection in participant fields, mark Display individual relationships as available participants.
75 WEBSITE. 69 For example, Mark Adamson has a constituent record in The Raiser s Edge. His wife Vicki has a relationship linked to Mark s constituent record. If you mark Display individual relationships as available participants, when Mark registers for the Annual Golf Tournament on your website, Vicki s name appears in the drop-down list when Mark assigns participants. He can select Vicki or enter another name. f. In the Pricing Options frame, select the prices to appear on the registration page for each event unit. To display a listed price, mark its checkbox in the Include column. In the Description field, enter the text to appear on the registration page for the event unit, such as Individual or Couple. In the Participants/Unit column, enter the number of people allowed for the unit. In the Max Units column, select the maximum number of each unit allowed for each registration. By default, this value is 4. To allow participants to register for an event unit anonymously, mark its checkbox in the Allow Anonymous? column. When you mark this checkbox, the Name field is not required when the website user registers for the event unit. In the Price (Gift Amount) and Receipt Amount columns, data from the Prices tab of the event record in The Raiser s Edge appears and is disabled. You cannot change this information in Blackbaud NetCommunity. To change the price or receipt amount, edit the event record in The Raiser s Edge. g. In the Attributes frame, select the participant attributes to appear on the event registration page. To display a participant attribute, mark its checkbox in the Display column. One-per-record attributes with a type of Date, Text, Number, Currency, and Yes/No can be used in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Table type attributes are available without being marked as one per record. Fuzzy Date and Constituent Name type attributes are not available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. To make a selected attribute required, mark its checkbox in the Required column. To change the text of the attribute on the registration page, in the Caption field, enter the text to appear. Note: When you download an event registration to The Raiser s Edge, The Raiser s Edge automatically adds the Online registrant? participant attribute on the participant record. You do not view this attribute in the Attributes frame or on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Once the event registration downloads to The Raiser s Edge, this information appears on the Attributes/Notes tab of the participant record. Online registrant? appears in the Category column, Yes appears in the Description column, and NetCommunity appears in the Comments column. To add a new attribute, create it in The Raiser s Edge. For information about attributes, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide. h. In the Page Link frame, to add a link to another web page, click Link. The Create Page Link screen appears. For information about how to create a page link, see Create Page Link on page 25.
76 70. CHAPTER In the Merchant Account frame, select the merchant account to use to process credit card transactions received through the event registration form, such as your organization s IATS merchant account. The system administrator sets up merchant accounts in Administration. For more information, see Merchant Accounts on page Click Next. The Acknowledgement screen appears. 15. Create an acknowledgement for website users who use the event registration form to register for an event. For information about how to design an event registration acknowledgement , see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page 201. Tip: When you edit an Event Registration Form, you can click Acknowledgement on the action bar to access the Acknowledgement screen. For information about how to design an to acknowledge an registration, see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page To save the , click Save and Close. You return to the Edit Part screen. 17. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Formatted Text and Images To include text and images (in Image Library) on your web pages, use the Formatted Text and Images part. For example, to include your mission statement with your organization s logo on multiple pages of your website, use the Formatted Text and Images part to create this content. You can also use the Formatted Text and Images part to create a footer for your website that includes your webmaster s contact information. On the Options tab of the Formatted Text and Images part, you can specify whether website users can copy the content from your Blackbaud NetCommunity site, such as from a personal page, to use on another web page for social networking. For example, the site user can copy the HTML code necessary for the content on her personal page to appear on a family website or weblog. You can add Formatted Text and Images parts to each web page in Site Explorer. For more information about how to add content parts in Site Explorer, see Site Explorer on page 31. With Blackbaud NetAdvocacy, you can download advocacy action data to The Raiser s Edge. This data includes alerts, information, and attributes. Blackbaud NetAdvocacy is used with Capwiz subscription service to include pages on your site where users can influential individuals (such as Congressional, state, and local officials) to encourage their influence on particular causes, such as grant funding for a nonprofit. To include links to landing pages on your Blackbaud NetCommunity site for advocacy functionality, use the Formatted Text and Images part. In addition, when you send advocacy alert from Blackbaud NetCommunity, the advocate s actions automatically link to their record in The Raiser s Edge once the action is complete. For information about how to use Blackbaud NetAdvocacy and Capwiz and to set up action alerts on your site, see your Capwiz Site Control page.
77 WEBSITE. 71 Warning: You cannot use HTML to embed your own form via HTML in a Formatted Text and Images part. We recommend you put the form on a page that is not stored in Blackbaud NetCommunity but can be referenced in an IFRAME tag. For more information about how to include customized forms in Blackbaud NetCommunity, contact Blackbaud s Professional Services at [email protected]. Design Formatted Text and Images To secure the content for formatted text and images, use the Formatted Text and Images (Secured) part type. This part type uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). When site users use this part to access web pages, the URL for the page starts with https. To design a Formatted Text and Images (Secured) part type, follow the same steps in this procedure. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Formatted Text and Images. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page Select the Content tab. 4. In the HTML editor content area, enter the content and format its appearance and layout. For example, you can manually enter or copy and paste your organization s mission statement. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page To allow site users to copy and paste the content s HTML code: a. Select the Options tab. b. Mark Enable HTML Code Publishing. c. In the Help Text field, enter custom text to appear on the web page to help site users understand how and why to copy the HTML code. By default, the message Copy and Paste the following code where you would normally publish HTML content appears. 6. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Job Board The Job Board part creates an area on your website for users to post and search job postings. With this part type, you can customize the name, captions, and messages for the job board. Users with manager rights can approve and delete postings. Tip: To post a job, a website user must log into your site. However, a user does not have to log in to search for a job posting. You can display a Job Board part on any Blackbaud NetCommunity web page. The initial landing page includes the job board name and hyperlinks that link website users to the appropriate search or post web page of the job board. You can customize additional messages to explain job board functionality to your website users.
78 72. CHAPTER 2 Design Job Board 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Job Board. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Board Name field, enter the name for the job board for your website, such as Working at ABC Learning Center. This field is required and limited to 225 characters. 4. In the Legend Message box, enter the message to appear below the name of your job board, such as The Working at ABC Learning Center job board provides a way to post your organization s job openings as well as search for current available jobs posted to this site. This field is required and limited to 225 characters. 5. In the Search Link Caption field, enter the information to appear when a website user moves the mouse over the search hyperlink, such as Click here to search for available jobs. This field is required and is limited to 150 characters. 6. In the Search Message box, enter a message that appears under the search hyperlink and explains to website users the purpose of this section, such as Search available jobs by entering specific criteria you would like to have in a job. This field is required and is limited to 225 characters. 7. In the Post Link Caption field, enter the information to appear when a website user moves the mouse over the post hyperlink, such as Click here to add a job posting. This field is required and limited to 150 characters. 8. In the Post Message box, enter a message that appears under the post hyperlink and explains what website users can do in the job posting section, such as Add a job posting for your organization. This field is required and limited to 225 characters. 9. In the Post Job Message box, enter the information to appear at the top of the actual job posting form, which appears when a website user enters information for the available job. For example, enter Post your job using this form. To preview your post, click Preview. To add your job posting to the website immediately, click Post Job. This field is required and is limited to 225 characters. Note: The Post Job form website users use to create a job post contains standard job criteria fields. For example, job type, description, and salary range are included on the form. The website user has the option to post the company name and a name and address for the applicant to contact. A red asterisk designates required fields on the form. 10. If you mark Require Approval for Posts Made to This Board, jobs posted by user roles with Can Manage rights appear on your website immediately. A user with manager rights must approve other job postings.
79 WEBSITE. 73 Warning: If you do not mark Require Approval for Posts Made to This Board, all topics appear immediately on your website. 11. In the Role grid, you can assign Can Manage rights for the job posting users. Managers can approve or delete any postings added to the website. For more information about roles in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Roles on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Membership Form With the Membership Form part, you can design a membership web page and solicit for new members on your website. When you design the membership page, you decide the membership categories for which to advertise online. You can create links to renew existing memberships, allow gifts of membership, and customize your confirmation message for web users. Note: If you use The Raiser s Edge Membership Management, use the Membership Form part type. The Membership Form in Blackbaud NetCommunity creates and displays multiple pages on your website. The first page, which you can select not to display on your website, is Current Membership. This displays a website user s current membership information for review. The second page (or the first, if you do not display Current Membership) is the Join/Renew page. This page contains the available membership categories you select to display on your website. After this, your website user comes to the Cards/Guest Pass page. You do not have to give your members the option for additional cards and guest passes. You can select not to display this page on your website. The next page is Transaction. It displays the member name and financial information. The last page is for the acknowledgement message. When you generate an acknowledgement in the Membership Form part type, you can select to display the message on your web page for the site user to read once the membership is submitted. At the same time, Blackbaud NetCommunity automatically sends an acknowledgement to the member. To generate a Membership Form part type from the beginning, start with the Design the Current Membership page procedure. Once you complete the steps in this procedure, follow the remaining procedures for this part type to create your Membership Form. Design the Current Membership page The first page is Current Membership, which you can select not to show. The Current Membership page displays a website user s current membership information for review. Only active and lapsed memberships appear on the page. Dropped memberships do not appear. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: If you use The Raiser s Edge Membership Management, use the Membership Form part. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Membership Form. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page 46.
80 74. CHAPTER 2 3. In the Title field, enter the title for the membership screens on your website, such as Smith Museum Membership Program. 4. To display the member s current membership, mark Show Current Membership(s). If you do not mark this checkbox, the Membership Form starts with the Join page on your website. For more information, see Design the Join/Renew page on page To allow your members to view program and subcategory information, mark Include Program and Include Subcategory. 6. In the Caption field, enter the text to appear on your website to explain what is being viewed, such as Your Current Membership Information. 7. In the Message box, enter any additional information to provide for your site users, such as If you have questions about your current membership, please contact us at In the Join Button and Renew Button fields, enter the text to appear on each button, such as Join Now and Renew Now, respectively. 9. In the Program - Category table, mark the current memberships to appear on your website. For any memberships to appear, mark the checkbox in the Show column. To designate the memberships to allow for renewals, mark the checkbox in the Allow Renew column. 10. To display current benefits for your memberships, mark Show Benefits. Additionally, to show details of the benefits, mark Show Quantity, Show Total Value, Show Comments, or Show Notes. Note: The Raiser s Edge determines the available membership benefits. If you mark Show Benefits and the member selects to waive benefits, a message appears on your website to inform the member that benefits are waived. Design the Join/Renew page The second page (or the first, if you do not display Current Membership) is the Join/Renew page. This page displays the available membership categories you select for your website. This way, a website user can select the membership to join or renew from the available category list. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: If you do not display the Current Membership page, your member cannot renew a membership on your Membership Form part. For more information about Current Membership, see Design the Current Membership page on page To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Membership Form. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page To allow members to make a pledge, mark Accept Pledges. When you mark this checkbox, Bill Me Later appears on the Transaction page of the Membership Form. For more information about the Transaction page, see Design the Transaction page on page 76.
81 WEBSITE To allow members to enter comments, mark Allow Comments. When you mark this checkbox, a text box appears on the Transaction page. You can download the information directly to The Raiser s Edge. The membership record in The Raiser s Edge stores any comments a member enters. If you mark Allow Matching gifts, My company will match my gift appears on the page. Site visitors can mark this checkbox and enter the company name in a Company field. If you use MatchFinder Online, Look it up appears next to the checkbox. Visitors click the link to access MatchFinder Online and search for the company. MatchFinder Online contains information about matching gift companies, such as the minimum and maximum gift details and match ratio. Data from MatchFinder Online integrates with data in The Raiser s Edge. Send an to [email protected] for information about how to purchase MatchFinder Online. For information about how to download matching gift information to The Raiser s Edge, see Memberships on page 391. For information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide. 5. In the Required Fields frame, mark the checkbox for each field you want to make required on the membership form. To ensure you download complete constituent information into The Raiser s Edge, we recommend that you make all of these fields required. 6. In the Constituent Code field, select a constituent code to add for any new members not already in your Raiser s Edge database. Your website users do not view this information. You can download the information directly to The Raiser s Edge. For more information about selecting constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page To allow website users to purchase gifts of membership, mark Allow gifts of membership. When you do this, you have several selections for this type of membership giving. You can select a specific constituent code for these membership recipients and allow the donor to decide whether the member or the donor receives the benefits and renewal notices. You can also include a text box on your website so donors can include a special message for the gift of membership recipient. 8. In the Button Text field, enter the text to appear on the button for users to click to purchase a gift of membership, such as Give a gift of membership. Note: The button user click to purchase a gift of membership appears on the Current Membership page. When users click this button, the Join/Renew page appears. 9. When you mark Allow additional donations, an additional contribution field appears on your website. For members who contribute an additional donation, in the Raiser s Edge Fund field, select the fund to credit. You can download the gifts directly to The Raiser s Edge. 10. To track why a website user joins the membership, mark Include Join Reasons. In the box below, mark the reasons to show as possible answers for your website users, such as Interested in supporting the program. Note: The Raiser s Edge determines the available join reason information. 11. To track why a website user renews a membership, mark Include Renew Reasons. In the box below, mark the reasons to show as possible answers for your website users, such as Special Interest. 12. In the Join Message box, enter a message that appears when the website user clicks your join button, such as Welcome to the ABC Museum!.
82 76. CHAPTER In the Renew Message box, enter a message that appears when a website user clicks your renew button, such as Welcome Back!. 14. In the Submit Button field, enter the text to appear on your submit button, such as I want to join now!. Design the Cards/Guest Pass page An individual membership Cards/Guest Pass page on your site uses the information created in this procedure. If you create the Membership Form part for the first time, the information in this section does not appear on the Membership Form until you select a membership in the Raiser s Edge Memberships to Include frame in step 3 of the Design the Transaction page on page 76 procedure. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Membership Form. Note: Card and guest pass creation is not a onetime task for the Membership Form. To provide this for your website users, you must create card and guest pass information for each membership category included on your Membership Form. 3. In the Cards/Guest Pass details frame, enter additional card and guest pass information. 4. Mark Allow member to specify the card/guest pass information so members can request additional cards and guest passes. 5. In the Message box, enter the text to appear for the website user to read, such as the maximum number of cards each primary member should have. 6. To allow members to identify who the additional cards or guests are, mark Allow member to specify the names and relationships of additional members. You can designate the maximum number of additional members to allow for and select the relationship types to include as options for your website users. The Raiser s Edge determines the available relationship types. Design the Transaction page The Transaction page displays options for your member to join or renew a membership, request additional cards and guest passes, and view benefit information. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Membership Form. Note: When a website user completes the Membership Form on your website, the Transaction page is completed before the membership card information. For more information about cards, see Design the Cards/Guest Pass page on page In the Raiser s Edge Memberships to Include frame, select the membership to appear on your website. a. Click Insert New. The Raiser s Edge Membership Categories screen appears. b. Beside the membership category to include on your website, click Select. The Raiser s Edge Membership Categories screen closes, and you return to the Membership Form part type.
83 WEBSITE. 77 Note: You must add each membership category separately for your Membership Form part. To remove a membership category from your website, click Remove next to the category name selected in the Membership Category field. 4. For each membership category you select, membership category data appears on the Membership Form part design screen. The Raiser s Edge stores this data. View the integrated data and select whether to include the program and subcategory information (if it exists) on your website, enter a text message, and enter a dues amount. 5. Select The Raiser s Edge fund to which to credit the dues amount. You download the gifts directly to The Raiser s Edge. For more information about how to download information into The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge NetCommunity Page on page To allow your members to view subcategory information, mark Include Subcategories. 7. In the Caption field, enter the text to appear on your website to inform the member that the subcategory is being viewed, such as Membership Subcategory. Next to the membership subcategories to appear on your website, mark the checkbox. The membership record in The Raiser s Edge determines the available subcategories. 8. To allow members to identify who the additional cards or guests are, mark Allow member to specify the names and relationships of additional members. Benefits appears next to the membership category on your website. To view benefit details, the site user can click this link. 9. Mark Show Quantity, Show Total Value, and Show Comments to display these details for the benefits of your membership categories. The Raiser s Edge determines the available membership benefit information. 10. In the Benefits Form Message box, enter the text to appear on the Benefits screen. When a user clicks Benefits, the text appears on the screen that appears under the membership category name. 11. To display benefit notes on the Benefits screen, mark Show Benefit Notes. 12. In the Show Benefit Notes box, enter the text to appear below the benefit details. When a user clicks Benefits, the text appears below the benefit information from The Raiser s Edge that appears. 13. In the Merchant Account frame, select the merchant account to use to process credit cards, such as your IATS account. The system administrator sets up merchant accounts in Administration. For more information, see Merchant Accounts on page Click Next. The Acknowledgement screen appears. 15. Create an acknowledgement for website users who use the membership form to join or renew a membership. For information about how to design a membership acknowledgement , see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page 201. Tip: When you edit a Membership Form, you can click Acknowledgement on the action bar to access the Acknowledgement screen. For information about how to design an to acknowledge a membership transaction, see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page To save the , click Save and Close. You return to the Edit Part screen.
84 78. CHAPTER To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Menu With the Menu part, you can create a menu that appears when website users moves the mouse over the toolbar on your website. For example, when you visit a menu appears when you moves the mouse over Training with selections such as Classroom Training and Distance Learning. With Blackbaud NetCommunity, you can create this menu form. You create the Menu part in two steps. One step is to add the menu definitions, such as Home, Support, and About Us. From each main menu definition, you can define submenus. You can also include glyphs (graphics) to indicate to the site user that a submenu displays from a menu option. Note: The order in which you create the Menu part does not matter. You can either create menu definitions or write the CSS information for the Menu part type first. The other step in Menu part creation is to create the style and format of your menu. For example, you can add a specific color and font for your menu to show when a website user moves the mouse over the menu. To perform this step, you include CSS (Cascading Stylesheet) information for the Menu part. Design a Menu definition When you create a menu definition, you add the menu options to appear on your website. This menu provides a main source of navigation for your website. Site users use these menus to navigate to the web page they need. From each main menu definition, you can define submenus. You can also include glyphs (graphics) to indicate to the site user that a submenu displays from a menu option. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Menu. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page To add the first menu item, select Menu Definition and click Add menu item. The Edit Part screen for Menu appears. Tip: To move a menu definition out of its parent menu, select the menu and click the left arrow button. To sort menu definitions, select a menu and click the down arrow button. 4. In the Selected Item Properties frame, in the Text field, enter the name of your menu item, such as Support. The text you enter in this field is the actual menu name that appears on your website. For example, the Training menu that appears on would be entered as Training in this field. 5. In the Tooltip field, enter the information to appear when a website user moves the mouse over the text you entered in the Text field, such as Support ABC University.
85 WEBSITE To add a link to another web page, click Link on the toolbar. The Create Page Link screen appears. For information about how to create a page link, see Create Page Link on page 25. Tip: The Link button is enabled when you select the text to link. If text is written in a format that Blackbaud NetCommunity recognizes as a web address or page, such as the link formats automatically. 7. The Target field on the Edit Part screen is for informational purposes only. To change the information, click Link. For information about how to create a page link, see Create Page Link on page In the Glyph Padding field, enter the amount of space, in pixels, to allow between the text on your menu option and the graphic. 9. For each required menu definition, add additional menu items. Select Menu Definition and click Add menu item on the left side of your screen. Repeat the procedure from the Selected Item Properties frame step. Note: You can continue to build your Menu part type, creating as many menus and submenus as necessary. To create this drill-down menu, follow the same pattern. Select the menu or submenu from which to generate a submenu. To create the submenu definition, click Add menu item. To add a submenu item, select the menu item from which to generate the submenu and click Add menu item. For example, to add the submenu options of Make a Donation from the Support menu, select Support and click Add menu item. Repeat the procedure from the Selected Item Properties frame step. 10. To save the menu definition, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design the Menu using CSS The second step of Menu part creation is to create the style and format of your menu. For example, the system administrator can add a specific color and font for your menu to appear when a website user moves the mouse over the menu. To perform this step, you include CSS (Cascading Stylesheet) information for the Menu part. 1. In the Menu Orientation field, select Horizontal or Vertical. 2. In the Menu CSS box, enter the CSS text to use for your menu. This includes styles such as color, font, and text size. You can configure multiple properties. backgroundcolor borderstyle color fontsize fontweight bordercolor borderwidth fontfamily fontstyle 3. In the Item CSS box, enter the CSS text to use when you change the entire menu. Any changes included in the Item CSS box affects the main menu and submenu items. 4. In the Mouseover Item CSS box, enter the CSS text to use for the tooltip box that appears when a website user moves the mouse over a menu, such as CSS text to make the tooltip yellow.
86 80. CHAPTER 2 5. In the Active Item CSS box, enter the CSS text to use when a site user is on the web page of the menu item that was accessed. For example, if a user selects the Support menu item on your website, the Support page appears. From this page, the Support menu item is now the active item. 6. In the Submenu Item CSS box, enter the CSS text to use for any submenus for your main menu. You may want to simply use the same CSS text in the Menu CSS box. Tip: Use the glyph graphic to indicate that a submenu exists for the menu, such as an arrow graphic. When you create the menu definition, you enter the space between the menu text and the graphic, or glyph padding. For more information, see Design a Menu definition on page To include a graphic for the menu, click Submenu Glyph. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page In the Glyph Location field, select whether to display the glyph on the right or left of the menu text. 9. To allow users to click a menu item before the submenu opens, mark Click to open submenus. If you do not mark this checkbox, a submenu opens when a user moves the mouse over the menu item. 10. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Navigation Buttons To create a new navigation bar, use the Navigation Buttons part. Buttons on a navigation bar follow the Blackbaud NetCommunity security settings. For example, if you have a Board Members Only page, only a website user logged in as a board member can view a button on the navigation bar used to access this page. Design Navigation Buttons 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Navigation Buttons. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Orientation field, select the orientation to display the navigation bar on your web page. To display the navigation bar from left to right, select Horizontal. To display the navigation bar from top to bottom, select Vertical.
87 WEBSITE. 81 Tip: Use the up and down arrows to sort your navigation buttons in the order they will appear on your web page. 4. In the Preview with Stylesheet field, select the stylesheet to use for your navigation bar. For example, to use the Blackbaud NetCommunity stylesheet, select System Default. For more information about stylesheets, see Stylesheets on page To add a button for your navigation bar, click Add Item. The Navigation Bar Item screen appears. 6. In the Caption field, enter the information to appear in a yellow box when your website user moves the mouse over a navigation bar button. Warning: All images used for navigation bar buttons must be previously created and saved using graphics software such as Microsoft Photo Editor. These images cannot be created in Blackbaud NetCommunity. To not use images for a navigation bar button, add a linked heading for navigation. In the Caption field, enter the heading to link. The heading you enter appears on your web page and is linked automatically. To select the web page to which to link, complete the next step in this procedure. 7. In the Page field, click the binoculars to select the web page on which the navigation bar appears. The Create Page Link screen appears. For information about how to create a page link, see Create Page Link on page In the Default Image field, view the image that automatically appears when your website user accesses the web page, before the website user moves the mouse over or clicks the button. To select a default image, click the Image button. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page In the Hover Image field, view the image that appears when your website user moves the mouse over the button on the navigation bar but does not click the button. To select a hover image, click the Image button. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page In the Selected Image field, view the image that appears when your website user clicks the button on the navigation bar. To select a selected image, click the Image button. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page To save the images for your navigation bar and close the Select Image from Image Library screen, click OK. To cancel the addition of the images for the navigation bar, click Cancel. The images you select appear on the Design tab for you to view. 12. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
88 82. CHAPTER 2 News Reader The News Reader part type allows the system administrator to display Really Simple Syndication (RSS) content or Atom content on your website. These are XML-based formats used to distribute web information. For example, if your organization is health related, you can create a web page for health tips and include a News Reader part type that includes news headline feeds from other health-related websites. Using RSS or Atom and the News Reader part, you can include these headlines on your website automatically. Blackbaud NetCommunity supports RSS versions 0.9, 1.0, and 2.0 and Atom version.3. Send an to Blackbaud NetCommunity Support at [email protected] for more information. Design News Reader 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for News Reader. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Feed URL field, enter the website address that contains the XML content to display on your website. Typically, sites that share this content display an orange XML icon that is a hyperlink to their website s feed. 4. In the Display only the [ ] most recent articles field, enter the number of recent articles to display on your News Reader part. For example, to display five articles, enter 5. To display all recent articles, leave the default 0 in the field. 5. To designate a number of breaks per web page, mark Use paged output, with [ ] articles per page. In the with [ ] articles field, enter the number of outputs, or breaks, to display on the News Reader part. If you do not mark this checkbox, the articles appear on one web page. 6. To display only the article title, mark Display only the headlines in this feed. 7. To include any graphics from the other website feed, mark Display any graphic associated with this feed. If you do not mark this checkbox, the complete article appears on the News Reader part. 8. To include the date the feed posts to your website, mark Display the date for each posting, if available. 9. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
89 WEBSITE. 83 Page Element Types To add sections to a web page that are dynamic and customizable for an individual s use, create page element parts. Blackbaud NetCommunity contains multiple page element part types for the end users of personal pages. These part types are Chapter Page Element Parts on page 258 for chapter managers, Fundraiser Page Elements Parts on page 276 for a solicitor or participant for a fundraiser, and Create Personal Page Elements on page 313 for anyone who wants to create a personal page on your site. One example is someone who is ill and wants to create a care page for family and friends to visit. With web pages that contain page elements, the pages have customization parts (the page element types) for use on a personal level. When someone has a personal page on your site, other people who support or know the individual can visit the personal page to learn more about his relationship with your organization and make donations. Web pages with page elements also contain static sections that are other parts in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Use these sections to create defaults for your organization to appear on every personal page. For example, use the static parts to include your mission statement, graphics, or any other information to appear on every personal page. When you create a page element part, you select the type of page element to appear on a personal page. The chart lists every page element type and the page element parts in which they are available. For example, for a Fundraiser or Personal Page Element, you can select a Comments element type. Page element types create various forms of customizable parts for pages. For information about each page element type, review the procedure that applies to the type. Page Element Type Chapter Page Element Fundraiser Page Element Action X X X Comments X X Directory X Donor List X Event Calendar X News X X News Reader X X Page Links X Personal Notes X Photos X X X Profile X X Rich Text X X X Team List X Text X X X Thermometer X Personal Page Element Design Action for Page Elements To include a Report Abuse button on a web page for a Chapter Manager, Fundraiser, or Personal Page Manager part, you can create an Action page element type. Site visitors can click this button to report activity that is inappropriate for your site. When a visitor clicks this button, your Blackbaud NetCommunity administrator automatically receives an notification about the inappropriate activity. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element.
90 84. CHAPTER 2 Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appear on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Action. Note: You can include the Action page element in a Chapter Manager, Fundraiser, or Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the action section on the page. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements, such as to change the text on the Report Abuse button. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page In the Details frame, depending on the personal page type you create, such as Chapter Page Element, different selections appear in the Display As field. For more information about this field, review the chart and steps. Details frame, Display As field Chapter Page Fundraiser Page Personal Page Element Element Element Chapter Console Link Team Page Link Report Abuse Report Abuse Report Abuse 7. In the Display As field, if you create the Action page element for a Chapter Manager part, select Chapter Console Link. This creates a navigation link for content and data managers to click to access his Home page on your chapter site. The link appears only for managers contained in a role with rights to manage the chapter content or data. When you select Chapter Console Link, a Link Text field appears. Enter the text to appear as a hyperlink on your chapter site, such as My Console Manager. Managers of the site click the link to access the Home page. If you create the Action page element for a Fundraiser part, select Team Page Link. This creates a navigation link to direct the site visitor to the solicitor s team page. When you select this, a Text field appears on your site for the participant to enter link text for his personal page, such as Click here to visit my page. If the solicitor is really a participant and not on a team, the link to the team page does not appear. If you create the Action page element for a Personal Page Manager part, select Report Abuse to include a Report Abuse button on the personal web page. Additional fields appear. a. In the Display Text field, enter the text to appear on the button on your website, such as Report Website Offense. b. In the field, enter your Blackbaud NetCommunity administrator s address. This address does not appear on your site. However, if a user clicks the Report Abuse button on your site, your Blackbaud NetCommunity administrator automatically receives an notification about the inappropriate activity. c. In the Confirmation Message field, enter the text to appear for a site user who clicks the Report Abuse button. The default text is This page has been reported to the administrator.
91 WEBSITE To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Comments for Page Elements To allow page owners to add a comments section to their personal page, create a Comments page element type. When a personal page has this functionality, friends and family of the personal page s owner can post comments, public or private, to the page. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Comments. Note: You can include the Comments page element in a Fundraiser or Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the comments section on the page. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements, such as to change the text on the Post a Message button. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page In the Details frame, in the Default Title field, enter a title for your comments box on your website. a. To allow visitors to create private comments, mark Allow Private Messages. b. To include the date a comment is made, mark Show Date. In the field beside the checkbox, enter a column header name for the date. The default column name is Date. c. To allow comments entered to appear on your site, mark Show Message. In the field beside the checkbox, enter a column header name for the comment. The default column name is Message. d. To display the site visitor s name on your site, mark Show Author. In the field beside the checkbox, enter a column header name for the site visitor name. The default column name is Author. e. In the Post Caption field, enter the text to appear on the button site users click to post a comment, such as Leave a message for me. 7. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
92 86. CHAPTER 2 Design Directory for Page Elements To allow chapter managers to access directories on chapter pages, use the Directory page element type. This directory contains a list of the names in the Members role in the Chapter Manager part. For more information about this role, see Chapter Management Roles on page From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Directory. Note: You can include the Directory page element in a Chapter Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the directory section on the page. 5. In the Linked Profile page field, select the page to which the link should go from the list of web pages. Only pages that contain a Profile Display part appear in the drop-down list. Note: We recommend you link to a web page that contains a Profile Display part with a Directory source. For more information about a Profile Display, see Profile Display on page 99. The field you put at the top of the Listing Fields list becomes the link to the page you select in the Linked Profile Page field. 6. In the Directory Title field, enter a name for the directory. 7. In the No Records Found Message field, enter a message to appear on screen if no records meet the member s directory search criteria. By default, this message is No directory entries match your criteria. 8. To process a search while a user browses your Directory page, mark Auto Search. The search processes before a user enters criteria and clicks Search on your website. 9. In the Results Per Page field, select the number of names to return on a page when a site user searches the directory. 10. Right-click and drag fields from the Profile Fields box on the left and drop them in the Search Form Fields box on the right. You can also select the field and click the right arrow to move it. Select fields the user can search by, such as First Name or Last Name.
93 WEBSITE. 87 Note: The system administrator selects the attributes available under the Constituent Attributes section on the System Options on page 234 page in Administration. On the website, multiple-value attribute fields, such as Organization type, become drop-down boxes with the multiple attributes available as selections. To arrange the order of fields in the list, click the Up and Down buttons. 11. To select which fields appear when the search has found a match, right-click and drag fields from the Profile Fields box to the Listing Fields box. The field you put first in the list links to the page you select in the Linked Profile Page field. For example, you select to list the alumni s last name, first name, birth date, address, and whether they want to receive . In this case, the last name is the link. When results appear, the last name has a line underneath it and changes color when you move your mouse over it to indicate it is a link. When a website user clicks the last name link, the published profile information for that directory member appears. 12. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Donor List for Page Elements To include a list of donors on a participant s personal web page for a Fundraiser part, create a Donor List page element type. When you include a Donor List on a page, there is no customizable part for the participant to edit. However, this list allows you to recognize donors on your site. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Donor List. Note: You can include the Donor List page element in a Fundraiser part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the donor list section on the page. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements, such as colors, fonts and styles, and spacing for your part. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page In the Details frame, select the order of appearance for the donor names. a. In the Sort By field, select whether to sort by date or amount or in ascending or descending order. b. In the Name Format field, select whether to display the full first and last names or by initial only.
94 88. CHAPTER 2 c. To display comments the donor enters on the donation page, mark Display Comments. d. To display the gift donation amount, mark Display Amount. 7. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Event Calendar for Page Elements To include a calendar on your chapter site, create an Event Calendar page element type. Managers use the calendar to post event dates and information to a web page. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Event Calendar. Note: You can include the Event Calendar page element in a Chapter Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the event calendar section on the page. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements, such as a border around an image. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page In the Calendar Title field, enter a name for the calendar. 7. To add a weblog to the events calendar, mark RSS Event Publishing. Additional options appear. a. In the Title field, enter a title for the weblog. b. In the Link URL field, enter a website address news readers can use to link to the weblog. Note: If your website has a News Reader part, you can add the website address you enter in the Link URL field to your news reader so it displays new events when they post. For more information about the News Reader part, see News Reader on page 82. c. In the Description field, enter a description for news readers about the types of events posted on the calendar. For example, if your organization supports environmental advocacy, enter Upcoming Local and National Events Supporting the Environment. To view the information you enter in this field, click XML for the weblog. For the above example, the XML information for your description reads <description>upcoming Local and National Events Supporting the Environment</description>.
95 WEBSITE. 89 d. In the Copyright field, enter a copyright notice for the weblog, if you have one. e. In the Editor s field, enter the address for the person responsible for the content of calendar postings. f. In the Image Properties frame, click Image to add a picture. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page 24. g. In the Link URL field, enter the web address to open when a user clicks the image. The link can access another page on your site or an outside website. h. In the Security Rights frame, to assign your website members rights to edit the news weblog posts, mark Allow members to add, edit, and delete posts. For more information about roles in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Roles on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design News for Page Elements When you add a News page element type to a personal page, users can include news on their page. For example, a user who is ill creates a personal page that contains a News page element part. She can write her own news article about her sickness for the personal page, or she can include links to news articles from other websites to create awareness about her type of sickness. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select News. Note: You can include the News page element in a Chapter Manager and Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the news section on the page. 5. In the Details frame, in the Title field, enter a title for your news weblog. This name appears on the personal page. a. In the Link URL field, enter the website link that news readers such as NewsGator use to link to your site. This link should direct the website user to your news weblog or a general information page about your organization. b. In the Description field, enter any additional information as required. For example, if your organization supports environmental advocacy, enter Check weekly for updates. To view the information you enter in this field, click XML for the weblog. For this example, the XML information for your description reads <description>check often for weekly updates</description>. c. In the Copyright field, enter a copyright notice for the news, if you have one.
96 90. CHAPTER 2 d. In the Editor s field, enter your address or the person who is responsible for the content of your weblog. 6. In the Image Properties frame, click Image to add a picture. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page In the Link URL field, enter a link to another website so you can share valuable information from that website with your site users. 8. In the Security Rights frame, to assign your website members rights to edit the news weblog posts, mark Allow members to add, edit, and delete posts. For more information about roles, see Roles on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design News Reader for Page Elements With the News Reader page element type, you can display Really Simple Syndication (RSS) content or Atom content on personal pages. These are XML-based formats used to distribute web information. For example, if your organization is health related, users can create a personal page for health tips and include a News Reader part that displays news headline feeds from other health related sites. With RSS or Atom and the News Reader part, you can include these headlines on personal pages automatically. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select News Reader. Note: You can include the News Reader page element in a Chapter Manager and Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the news reader section on the page. 5. In the Feed URL field, enter the website address that contains the XML content to appear on your website. Typically, sites that share this content display an orange XML icon that is a hyperlink to their website s feed. Note: Blackbaud NetCommunity supports RSS versions 0.9, 1.0, and 2.0, and Atom version.3. Send an to Blackbaud NetCommunity Support at [email protected] for more information. 6. In the Display only the [ ] most recent articles field, enter the number of recent articles to display on your news reader. For example, to display five articles, enter 5. To display all recent articles, leave the default 0 in the field.
97 WEBSITE To designate a number of breaks per web page, mark Use paged output, with [ ] articles per page. In the with [ ] articles field, enter the number of outputs, or breaks, to appear on the news reader. If you do not mark this checkbox, the articles display on one web page. 8. To display the article title only, mark Display only the headlines in this feed. If you do not mark this checkbox, the complete article displays on the news reader. 9. To include any graphics from the other website feed, mark Display any graphic associated with this feed. 10. To include the date the feed posts to your website, mark Display the date for each posting, if available. 11. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Page Links for Page Elements For users who have multiple personal pages, you can add Page Links to a personal page element to create a list of links to the personal pages that are public. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Page Links. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the personal page element. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements, such as a border around an image. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page 123. Note: You can include the Page Links page element in a Personal Page Manager part. 6. In the Default Title field, enter a default title for the list of links. 7. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Personal Notes for Page Elements To display contents from the Notes tab of a constituent record in The Raiser s Edge on your site, create a Personal Notes page element. This creates a list of notes for a user on a personal page in the Personal Page Manager part. You select the note types to appear on the page. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears.
98 92. CHAPTER 2 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Personal Notes. Note: You can include the Personal Notes page element in a Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the notes section on the page. 5. In the Topics to Include frame, mark the checkbox beside the note topic to include on your web page. The Notepad Type table in The Raiser s Edge determines the available note topics. To add or edit a note topic, do this in The Raiser s Edge. a. In the Display As column, enter the information to appear for the note topic on the web page. b. To allow users to create more than one note topic, mark Multiple Submissions Allowed. If you do not mark this checkbox and the user has multiple note topics of the same type existing on a constituent record, all notes can appear in note search results. 6. In the Heading frame, in the Default Title field, enter a name for the web page. 7. In the Default Instructions field, enter content to inform the user how to search for a note. Leave the default instructions, or write your own instructions. 8. In the Listing Options frame, in the No records found message field, enter the message to appear when a user does not have notes to display. Leave the default text, or write your own text. To allow users to update their personal notes, mark Allow users to edit/update their own notes. 9. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Photos for Page Elements To upload graphics for a personal page, create a Photos page element. You can upload graphics for individual use on a personal page, or you can upload a series of graphics to create a slideshow. Your organization can upload all the graphics for personal pages and allow a user to select the images she wants, or you can allow a user to upload an image of her choice. When you create a Photos page element, you must select a default image to appear on the page. If a user does not upload an image to the Photos part on her personal page, the default image appears. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element.
99 WEBSITE. 93 Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Photos. Note: You can include the Photos page element in a Chapter Manager, Fundraiser, and Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the photos section on the page. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements, such as a border around an image. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page Upload each image. a. In the Details frame, click Add Image. The Select from Images screen appears so you can select and upload the image. For more information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page 24. b. To make the uploaded image the default image, mark Default. The default image appears when a user does not select one. Note: You must select one default image for the page. c. To include a caption with the image, in the Caption frame, mark Display Caption. In the Default field, enter default text for the caption to appear below the image. To allow the user to enter the caption text, leave this field blank. 7. In the Image frame, enter the maximum dimensions for an image in your slideshow in the Maximum Height/Width [ ] px field. This setting defines the height and width of the boundary that contains the image but does not directly alter the size of the images. Warning: An image s number of pixels cannot exceed the number you enter in the Maximum Height/Width [ ] px field. For example, if you have an image that is 200 pixels and set this boundary to 500 pixels, the image does not increase to 500 pixels. Conversely, if you have an image that is 500 pixels and set the height/width size to 200, the image shrinks to fit that boundary. 8. In the Slide display interval (seconds) field, enter the number of seconds to display an image before the next image in the slideshow appears. Tip: The default time for an image to appear in a slideshow is five seconds. 9. To allow users to upload personal images to your site, in the Image Upload frame, mark Allow Uploads.
100 94. CHAPTER 2 Note: If a user has rights to upload an image and does so, the default image you select in the Details frame may be overwritten. a. In the Image Category field, select an existing category in which to store your image. When you select a category for the image, you can find it and its associated images easily in Image Library. To add a new image category to Blackbaud NetCommunity, enter its name in the add New Category field. The program saves the image in the new category. b. In the Maximum File Size field, enter the maximum size, in kilobytes, of an image to store on your site. c. In the Maximum Uploads Per User field, enter the maximum number of graphics to appear in a slideshow on a page. 10. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Profile for Page Elements To allow personal page owners to create profiles of the individuals who visit their personal pages, add a Profile page element to a Fundraiser or Personal Page Element part. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Profile. Note: You can include the Profile page element in a Fundraiser and Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the profile section on the page. 5. In the bottom right box, enter the content to appear on the profile. Drag and drop the fields from the tree view to the right box. 6. To format the content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
101 WEBSITE. 95 Design Rich Text for Page Elements To add a hypertext link, a remote photo hosted on another server, or formatted text to a personal page, create a Rich Text page element. When you add include the Rich Text page element, remember that it provides a lot of power to the owner of the page. The program automatically removes IFRAME and SCRIPT tags from Rich Text page elements, but the potential remains for site abuse. With a Rich Text page element, page owners can link to or display inappropriate content. However, visitors of the page cannot edit the page element. When you use the Rich Text page element for remote photos, you can only link to an existing image URL. You cannot upload images. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Rich Text. Note: You can include the Rich Text page element in a Chapter Manager, Fundraiser, and Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the rich text section on the page. Note: Details are not available for the Rich Text page element because it is not editable for visitors of the personal page. 5. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Team List for Page Elements To include a list of team members on a participant s personal web page, create a Team List page element. If the participant is not a member of a team, the list does not appear on your site. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information defaults automatically to the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Team List.
102 96. CHAPTER 2 Note: You can include the Team List page element in a Fundraiser part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the team list section on the page. Tip: When you include a Team List page element on a Fundraiser personal page, there is no customizable part for the participant to edit. However, you can recognize team members on your site. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements such as colors, fonts and styles, and spacing for your part. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Text for Page Elements To allow users to enter general content text on a personal page, create a Text page element. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Text. Note: You can include the Text page element in a Chapter Manager, Fundraiser, and Personal Page Manager part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the text section on the page. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements such as colors, fonts and styles, and spacing for your part. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page In the Details frame, in the Maximum Length field, enter the maximum number of characters for the customizable text. 7. In the Default box, enter any default text to include in the part, such as a welcome message. The maximum number of characters count includes the text you enter in this field. 8. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
103 WEBSITE. 97 Design Thermometer for Page Elements To allow solicitors to include a thermometer graphic on a Fundraiser personal page, create a Thermometer page element. The thermometer visually shows progress toward the solicitor s goal. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Page Element. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Display As field, select Thermometer. Note: You can include the Thermometer page element in a Fundraiser part. 4. In the Display Name field, enter a name for the thermometer section on the page. 5. In the CSS box, enter Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) text to override the default style of this element. Use CSS text to create unique elements such as colors, fonts and styles, and spacing for your part. CSS is easier to use than other methods, such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. For more information about CSS, see Stylesheets on page In the Details frame, in the Default Color field, select a default color for the thermometer. 7. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Personal Notes To display content from the Notes tab of a constituent record in The Raiser s Edge on your site, create a Personal Notes part. You can select all note types to appear on the site or select a group of note types to appear. With this part, a site user can search notes for himself or for other constituents. In addition, a user can manage his personal notes. Managing notes includes the ability for a user to add, edit, or delete a personal note on his record. A user cannot make changes to a note for another constituent. The Personal Notes part can create two pages on your website. The first page is a display page for notes. This page contains an area to search for notes. The second page, if created, is the manage page, where users can make changes to personal notes. If a user changes a personal note, the data downloads to the Notes tab in The Raiser s Edge as a profile update transaction. For more information about how to download note information, see User Profile Updates on page 345. Design Personal Notes 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Personal Notes.
104 98. CHAPTER 2 Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, you must first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Topics to Include frame, mark the checkbox beside the note topic to include on your web page. The Notepad Type table in The Raiser s Edge determines the available note topics.to add or edit a note topic, do this in The Raiser s Edge. a. In the Display As column, enter the information to appear for the note topic on the web page. b. To allow users to create more than one note topic, mark Multiple Submissions Allowed. If you do not mark this checkbox and the user has multiple note topics of the same type existing on a constituent record, all notes can appear in note search results. 4. In the Display Notes field, to create a web page to search for note information, mark Available. To mark this page as the default page for personal notes on your website, select Default. 5. In the Heading frame, in the Title field, enter a name for the web page. Remember that this creates the display page for notes. a. When both Display Notes and Manage are marked Available on the Edit Part screen, the Tab caption field appears. In this field, enter the text to appear at the top of the page. Leave the default text, or write your own text. When the user is on the Manage page, this text becomes a link. The user clicks the link to access the Display page. b. In the Instructions field, enter content to instruct the user on how to search for a note. Leave the default instructions, or write your own instructions. 6. In the Search Options frame, select the note search features. a. To filter a note topic search, select a query in the Limit to query field. To choose an existing constituent query from The Raiser s Edge, click Change. b. In the Split search fields into [ ] columns field, select the number of search field columns to appear in the criteria table. You can display up to five columns. c. To process a search while the user browses the web page, mark Load unfiltered results when this part is loaded. When you mark this checkbox, the search processes before the user enters criteria and clicks Search on your website. d. Select the fields the user can use to search notes, such as First Name or Last Name. To select a field, right-click and drag it from the Profile Fields box to the Search Form Fields box. To move a field from the Profile Fields box to the Search Form Fields box, you can also select it and click the right arrow. Tip: To display only a list of notes on your web page and not note search fields, mark Load unfiltered results when this part is loaded and do not include fields in the Search Form Fields box. The system administrator selects the attributes available under Constituent Attributes in System Options on page 234 in Administration. On the website, multiple-value attribute fields, such as Organization type, become drop-down boxes with the various attributes available as selections.
105 WEBSITE. 99 To arrange the placement of a field in the Search Form Fields box, select the field and click the Up or Down button. 7. In the Listing Options frame, in the No records found message field, enter the message to appear if no records meet the search criteria the user enters in a note search. By default, No notes match your criteria appears. a. In the Show navigation options field, select where to display the navigation buttons when the search finds results. You can select Above the results, Below the results, or Both above and below the results. b. In the Results per page field, select the maximum number of results to appear on a page when a site user searches notes. You can display up to 50 results per page. Search results sort by the date the note was last changed in The Raiser s Edge. To view this date, select File, Properties on the notepad for the screen. Notes with the same modify date sort by name. Notes with the same modify date and name sort by note topic. Warning: Note text formatting in The Raiser s Edge does not convert to the Personal Notes part on your web page. c. To allow users to update their personal notes, mark Allow users to edit/update their own notes in search results. 8. In Manage field, to create a second page for the Personal Notes part so users can manage notes, mark Available. To mark this page as the default page for personal notes on your website, select Default. Note: To manage notes, users must first log into your Blackbaud NetCommunity website. Changes the user makes do not appear on the website until they are approved on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. If a new user registers for your site, the user cannot manage notes until The Raiser s Edge processes the sign-up transaction. For more information, see Sign-Up Requests on page In the Heading frame, in the Title field, enter a name for the second personal notes web page. Remember that this creates the manage page for notes. a. When both Display Notes and Manage are marked Available on the Edit Part screen, the Tab caption field appears. In this field, enter the text to appear at the top of the page. Leave the default text, or write your own text. When the user is on the Display page, this text becomes a link. The user clicks the link to access the Manage page. b. In the Instructions field, enter content to instruct the user how to manage the personal notes. Leave the default instructions, or write your own instructions. 10. In the Listing Options frame, in the No records found message field, enter the message to appear if no records meet the search criteria the user enters to search notes on the web page. By default, the message You have no notes at this time appears. 11. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Profile Display To create a read-only user profile that displays biographical, address, and contact information, use the Profile Display part. You select which fields of information the profile includes.
106 100. CHAPTER 2 Note: For more information about how to create an editable profile display form, see User Profile Form on page 114. You can use the Profile Display part to display information for only the logged-in user or to link to a directory so it displays information for any person selected in the directory. For more information about directories, see Directory on page 50. Warning: You cannot use HTML to embed your own form via HTML in a Profile Display part. Consider putting the form on a page that is not stored in Blackbaud NetCommunity, but can be referenced in an IFRAME tag. Contact Blackbaud s Professional Services at [email protected] for more information about customized forms in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Design Profile Display 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Profile Display. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Source field, select the profile type to appear when the website user clicks the link. Current User Select this to display the profile for the logged-in user. Directory Select this if this profile part is added to a page linked to a directory. When a profile is linked to a directory, users can click a field in the directory to display the profile for the selected person. For more information about directories, see Directory on page Select whether to create Profile Design part content for an individual or organization constituent. Note: You create Profile Design part content for individual and organization constituents separately. To design content to appear for an individual constituent, select the Individuals tab. To design content to appear for an organization constituent, select the Organizations tab. 5. To enter and format the profile content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. You can add merge fields for personalized information from The Raiser s Edge to appear. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
107 WEBSITE. 101 Quick Search To use the Quick Search part, you must have Microsoft Full-Text Search on your web server. If you do not, the part does not appear in Blackbaud NetCommunity. This part can search other parts: Formatted Text and Images, Formatted Text and Images (Secured), Discussion Group, Event Calendar, Job Board, and Weblogs. Note: You can select to install Full-Text Search when you install SQL Server. For general information about Full-Text Search, see your SQL Server documentation. For information about how to implement Full-Text Search with Blackbaud NetCommunity, see the Blackbaud NetCommunity Installation and Upgrade Guide. Learn About Quick Search The Quick Search part is a text box with a search button that appears on the web page for site users to search for information. Due to its small size, it is useful to include on a web page template to add search functionality on pages throughout your site. The search text box has a limit of 255 characters. Because the part does not have room to display search results, you must select a web page for the results to appear on. The web page must contain a Search part. This part is large enough to display search results similar to Google. The first line is a hyperlink to the web page. The next several lines provide a preview of the text that contains the word or phrase a user searched on. Words or phrases used in the search appear in bold. Note: The primary difference between the Quick Search and Search parts is how results appear on your site. With the Quick Search part, you select a web page for results to appear on. With a Search part, results appear automatically below the Search part. You can add a Quick Search part to a web page template; however, we recommend you not add Search parts to a template. The parts available for a quick search are indexed by part. For example, a Formatted Text and Images part contains boy. On the same page, a Discussion Group part contains scout. If a user enters boy scout in the search field, results do not appear because the same part does not contain both words. Warning: When the Quick Search part performs a search, the search includes all pages that contain a searchable part in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Therefore, the potential exists for a user s search results to return your unfinished web pages. To prevent this, establish security for the unfinished page that grants only the applicable Blackbaud NetCommunity administration users with edit and view rights. The Quick Search part uses stem search. When a user enter a word in the search field, the search results include the word plus its plurals and verb tenses. For example, if a user searches for run, the search results return parts that contain the words run, ran, and running. The search also accepts certain operators and wildcards in the search text box. You can use the asterisk, quotation marks, and the minus sign in the Quick Search part. Operator Asterisk (*) Quotation marks ( ) Minus ( - ) Function Begins with (For example, enter donat* to return results such as donate, donating, donation.) Whole phrases (For example, Become a Member Now returns results that contain the entire phrase.) All words in search box minus preceding word or words (For example, event registration -form searches for event and registration, but excludes results that contain form ).
108 102. CHAPTER 2 When a site visitor performs a search with the Quick Search part, role security is upheld. For example, a web page contains the Formatted Text and Images part with the phrase Board Member Personal Addresses. Only users in the Board Member role have access to this page. A user with Donor role rights searches for board member + addresses. This page is not returned in the search results because users of the Donor role cannot access the page. For information about security, see Security on page 223. Design Quick Search 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Quick Search. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appear on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Search Button Caption field, enter the text to appear on your search button, such as Go. If you do not enter text for the button in the field, the button does not appear on your site. To process search results, site users press ENTER on the keyboard after they enter search information in the text field. 4. To select the web page on which search results appear, click Click here to select a page. The Select a Page screen appears. Select the option beside the page on which to display search results and click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen and the web page name appears. 5. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Search To use a Search part, you must have Microsoft Full-Text Search on your web server. If you do not, the part does not appear in Blackbaud NetCommunity. This part can search other parts: Formatted Text and Images, Formatted Text and Images (Secured), Discussion Group, Event Calendar Job Board, and Weblogs. Note: You can select to install Full-Text Search when you install SQL Server. For general information about Full-Text Search, see your SQL Server documentation. For information about how to implement Full-Text Search with Blackbaud NetCommunity, see the Blackbaud NetCommunity Installation and Upgrade Guide. Learn About Search When you add a Search part to your web page, a field name, text box, and search button appear on the page for site users to search for information on your website. Results appear below the Search part similar to Google. The first line is a hyperlink to the web page. The next several lines provide a preview of the text that contains the word or phrase a user searched on. Words or phrases used in the search appear in bold.
109 WEBSITE. 103 Note: The primary difference between the Quick Search and Search parts is how results appear on your site. With the Quick Search part, you select a web page for results to appear on. With the Search part, results appear automatically below your Search part. You can add a Quick Search part to a web page template; however, we recommend you not add a Search part to a template. The parts available for a search are indexed by part. For example, a Formatted Text and Images part contains boy. On the same page, a Discussion Group part contains scout. If a user enters boy scout in the search field, results do not appear because the same part does not contain both the words. Warning: Administrator Note: When the Search part performs a search, the search includes all pages that contain a searchable part in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Therefore, the potential exists for the user s search results to return your unfinished web pages. To prevent this, establish security for the unfinished page that grants only the applicable Blackbaud NetCommunity administration users with edit and view rights. The Search functionality uses stem search. When a user enter a word in the search field, the search results include the word plus its plurals and verb tenses. For example, if a user searches for run, the search results return parts that contain the words run, ran, and running. The search also accepts certain operators and wildcards in the search text box, such as asterisks, quotation marks, and minus signs. Operator Asterisk (*) Quotation marks ( ) Minus ( - ) Function Begins with (For example, enter donat* to return results such as donate, donating, donation.) Whole phrases (For example, Become a Member Now returns results that contain the entire phrase.) All words in search box, minus preceding word or words (For example, event registration -form searches for event and registration, but excludes results that contain form ). When a site visitor performs a search through the Search part, role security is upheld. For example, a web page contains the Formatted Text and Images part with the phrase Board Member Personal Addresses. Only users in the Board Member role can access this page. A user with Donor role rights searches for board member + addresses. This page is not returned in the search results because users of the Donor role cannot access the page. For information about security, see Security on page 223. Design Search 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Search. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Title field, enter a name for your Search part. This title appears on your site. 4. In the Description field, enter additional text to appear for Blackbaud NetCommunity users to read, such as Search Job Postings. 5. In the Search Button Caption field, enter the text to appear on your search button, such as Go.
110 104. CHAPTER 2 If you do not enter text for the button in the field, the button does not appear on your site. To process search results, site users press ENTER on the keyboard after they enter search information in the text field. 6. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Slideshow To include a slideshow presentation of graphics on your website, you can create a Slideshow part. The slideshow can present graphics in a specified or random order. You can add navigation buttons so website users can start and stop the slideshow and move forward and backward between pictures. If the image has an assigned caption, it appears below the image and above the navigation buttons. Design Slideshow 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Slideshow. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. Button If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page To display images in the slideshow in random order, mark Random display order. 4. To include buttons below the slideshow, mark Show navigation buttons. This table includes the navigation buttons available for the Slideshow part. Function Play Pause Forward Back Stop 5. To enter the maximum dimensions for an image in your slideshow, mark Fixed height/width for all images: [ ] pixels and enter the number of pixels. This setting defines the height and width of the boundary that contains the image but does not directly alter the size of the images. An image s number of pixels cannot exceed the number you enter in this field. For example, if you have an image that is 200 pixels and set this boundary to 500 pixels, the image cannot increase to 500 pixels. Conversely, if you have an image that is 500 pixels and set the height/width size to 200, the image shrinks to fit that boundary.
111 WEBSITE. 105 Note: There is no limit to the number of photos you can include in a slideshow. 6. In the Slide display interval (seconds) field, enter the number of seconds to display an image before the next image in the slideshow appears. The default amount is five seconds. 7. Click Add Image. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page To change the order of or remove images in the slideshow, click Move up, Move down, or Delete. 9. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Survey With the Survey part, you can create surveys to learn more about your website users. You can view a summary of responses, view response details, clear responses, and refresh the survey results on the Edit Part screen. These selection appear as buttons after a user submits a response. You can download survey responses to constituent records in The Raiser s Edge. The Raiser s Edge downloads only responses from constituents who log into the website. When you click Clear Responses on a Survey part, an additional transaction appears on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. When you process this transaction, The Raiser s Edge deletes prior responses to the cleared survey from the constituent records. Survey responses are not visible on constituent records, but you can create constituent queries in The Raiser s Edge to view or report on survey responses. For more information, see Surveys on page 395. Warning: After a user submits a response, you cannot edit questions for a survey. You can add several types of survey questions in multiple formats. Choice - One Answer (Vertical) Select this to ask a question that allows respondents to select an answer from a vertical list. To allow respondents to enter an answer that is not provided, you can add an Other selection. Choice - One Answer (Horizontal) Select this to ask a question that allows respondents to select an answer from a horizontal list. Choice - One Answer (Dropdown) Select this to ask a question that allows respondents to select one answer from a drop-down list. To allow respondents to enter an answer that is not provided, you can add an Other selection. Choice - Multiple Answers (Vertical) Select this to ask a question that allows respondents to select multiple answers from the vertical list. To allow respondents to enter an answer that is not provided, you can add an Other selection. Choice - Multiple Answers (Horizontal) Select this to ask a question that allows respondents to select multiple answers from a horizontal list. Matrix - One Answer Per Row Select this to ask a question and arrange possible answers in columns. The respondent can select one answer per row. Matrix - Multiple Answers Per Row Select this to ask a question with possible answers arranged in columns. The respondent can select multiple answers per row. Matrix - Multiple Answers Per Row (Dropdown) Select this to ask a question with possible answers arranged in columns. The respondent can select multiple drop-down answers per row. Open Ended - One Answer Select this to ask a question that allows one text answer no longer than a single field. You can define the maximum number of characters a respondent can use in his answer.
112 106. CHAPTER 2 Open Ended - Multiple Answers Select this to ask a question that allows multiple text answers no longer than a single field. You can define the maximum number of characters a respondent can use in his answer. Open Ended - Essay Select this to ask a question that allows a text answer longer than a single field. You can define the maximum number of characters a respondent can use in his answer. Open Ended - Constant Sum Select this to ask a question that requires a numerical answer. You can define an amount all answers must total. Open Ended - Date Select this to ask a question that requires a date as an answer. The respondent can enter the date in the field or click the calendar button to select the date. Presentation - Text Select this to add text to the survey, such as a message to thank the respondent for taking the survey. Presentation - Image Select this to add an image with text to the survey. The text can describe the image, or you can leave the text box blank and add questions that refer back to the image. Presentation - Page Break Select this to add a page break between survey questions. Design Survey 1. From the Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Survey. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Title field, enter a name to appear on your web page for your survey. 4. In the Subtitle field, enter additional text about the survey for website users to read. 5. In the Submit Button Text, Next Button Text, and Previous Button Text fields, enter the text to appear for these navigation buttons. You can use the default values or enter different text for each button. 6. In the On Submit Message box, enter a message that appears when the user clicks Submit. 7. To add a Show Survey Results button after the user submits his response, mark Allow respondents to view survey results. 8. In the Survey is frame, select the survey s current status. In Test Mode Select this to test the survey. The program does not record survey responses entered during test mode. Open Select this to allow respondents to take the survey. Closed Select this to close the survey. If you mark Allow respondents to view survey results, a Show Survey Results button appears instead of questions. In the Survey Closed Message box, enter a message to appear to notify users when the survey is closed. 9. To add a question, click New Question. The Add Survey Question screen appears.
113 WEBSITE. 107 Note: When you select a question type, a sample appears in the Sample frame. 10. In the Question frame, in the Type field, select the type of question to add. The options that appear in the Question and Answers frames depend on the selected question type. For more information about question types, see Survey on page In the Question field, enter the question to ask. 12. To not have the program automatically number the survey questions, mark Skip Auto Numbering. 13. To require respondents to answer the question before they can submit the survey or move to the next page of a multi-page survey, mark Answer Required. 14. In the Answers frame, enter possible answers on separate lines. Enter the first answer choice in the box and press ENTER on your keyboard. On the second line, enter the second answer choice and press ENTER. Continue until you have entered all possible answers. 15. To display answers in random order, mark Display in random order. 16. If you select an open-ended question type, in the Limit Answers to [ ] characters field, enter the maximum number of characters a respondent can enter in his answer. 17. If you select a choice question type, Other appears. To add Other as an answer choice with a text field for respondents to enter their response, mark this checkbox and, in the Limit Answers to [ ] characters field, enter the maximum number of characters a respondent can enter in his answer. 18. If you select a matrix question type, the Answer Columns frame appears. Enter answer column names on separate lines. 19. To display columns in random order, mark Display in random order. 20. If you select a Matrix - Multiple Answers per Row (Dropdown) question type, in the Number of Dropdowns field, select the number of columns to appear. In the Heading fields, enter a heading for each column. In the Choices box, enter answer choices for each column on separate lines. 21. If you select a Presentation - Text question type, in the Text box, enter the text to appear. 22. If you select a Presentation - Image question type, in the Question box, enter the text to appear. To insert an image, click Add Image. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page Click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen and the new question appears at the bottom of the screen. 24. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Targeted Content With the Targeted Content part, you can display specific information on a web page, depending on who reads it. User roles define who sees the part. For example, you want your Major Donors to see a donation form designed specifically for them, but you want all other members to see the standard donation form. Create a targeted content piece and put it on your Donations page. When a major donor logs into the site and accesses the Donations page, he sees the information designed for him. When a regular member logs into the site and selects Donations, he sees the standard donation form. However, the regular member still sees a complete page, with no missing information. Design Targeted Content 1. From the Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears.
114 108. CHAPTER 2 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Targeted Content. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Primary Part frame, select a part to appear on the web page for a targeted audience. For example, you want only major donors to see specific information. a. Click Select a Part. The Select a Part screen appears. b. Select the part to appear for the targeted audience, such as Major Donor Donation Form. c. Click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen. The Targeted Roles field in the Primary Part frame displays the roles associated with the selected part. The roles determine who sees the targeted content when they log into the website and access the web page that includes the targeted content part. For example, the Major Donor Donation Form you selected has view rights set for the 10,000 Club user role. When members of this role log into the website and access the Donations page, they see a form designed specifically for them that other user roles do not see. Major donors do not know other members see a different page. 4. In the Default Part frame, select a part to appear for all other users who access this page. a. Click Select a Part. The Select a Part screen appears. b. Select the part to appear for users who are not the target audience, such as Standard Donation Form. c. Click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen. Roles that have view rights set on the Standard Donation Form see the standard form when they log into the website and access the Donations page. Regular members do not know that major donors see a different form. For more information about Roles, see Roles on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. User Education Profile Form With the User Education Profile Form part, you can create profile forms for users to update their education information online. You select the fields of information that appear on the display and update forms. The user can specify which items of profile information are public, which all users can view; or private, which only the user can view. We recommend you use the User Education Profile part on password-protected pages only. Note: You can update the database for The Raiser s Edge with changes users make on the update form. Design User Education Profile Form 1. From the Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears.
115 WEBSITE To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for User Education Profile Form. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Primary Alumni frame, specify whether users can edit or delete their primary alumni education records. To allow users to edit their primary alumni education records, mark Allow users to edit the Primary Alumni Education record. To allow users to delete their primary alumni education records, mark Allow users to delete the Primary Alumni Education record. 4. To allow users to add new non-primary alumni education records, mark Allow users to add new education records. 5. To allow users to delete their non-primary alumni education records, mark Allow users to delete existing education records. 6. In the Message to display when there are no education records box, enter the text to appear on the form when the user has no education record. 7. In the Education record field options frame, set up the Education and Education Attributes sections of the User Education Profile form. a. In the Section field, select the section type to set up. Select Education or Education Attributes. b. In the Heading field, enter the text to appear at the top of the section. For example, for the Education section, enter My Education. c. In the Fields grid, select the fields to include in the section and other options. Option Show in grid Show in Edit/Details Form Field Editable Required Privacy Editable Use Code Table Function Mark the checkbox next to each field to include in the profile display grid. Mark the checkbox next to each field to include on the update form. This column displays the fields from The Raiser s Edge you can include in the section. To allow the user to edit a field, mark this checkbox. If you do not mark this checkbox, the field appears in the profile, but the user cannot change its value. To make a field required, mark this checkbox. If you mark this checkbox, the user must select or enter a value for the field to complete the form. To allow users to hide a field on the profile display grid, mark this checkbox. For example, if you mark this checkbox for GPA, users can select whether to display their GPA on the profile. If a field has code table values, this checkbox appears. If you mark this checkbox, the field on the form displays the code table values from The Raiser s Edge. If you do not mark this checkbox, the user must enter a value in the field.
116 110. CHAPTER 2 Option Editable Codes Alternate Caption Function If a field has code table values, this checkbox appears. To allow users to enter values other than a code table value, mark this checkbox. On the form, an Other field appears next to the field so users can enter a value other than those provided. To edit a field name, enter a new name in this column. For example, you may want to call the Frat/Sorority field Fraternity/Sorority. 8. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. User Preferences Form With the User Preferences Form, website users can easily subscribe or unsubscribe from lists or select to receive no . Web pages created with the User Preferences Form enable nonmembers and members who are not logged in to click a link and update their subscription preferences. The User Preferences Form appears for users who access it from a link in an , regardless of whether they are members or log into the site. However, if a user accesses the form from the website, it appears only if he is a logged-in member. Warning: In each you send, you must include a link to the page of your website that contains this form. For more information, see on page 163. When a website user marks the opt-out checkbox on this form, The Raiser s Edge marks Requests no on his constituent record when it processes the user profile update. If, on a subscription page, a website user selects to receive two subscriptions but not the other three subscriptions available on the page, he opts out of the other three subscriptions. This applies only to subscriptions presented together in the same content part on a web page. To have at least one web page where users can subscribe or unsubscribe from lists, you must allow the Everyone user role edit and read security rights for at least one User Preferences Form you create. You can also create other User Preferences Form parts that do not have Everyone security set and require a login, but you must set at least one part for everyone. lists with Subscription marked determine the lists that appear for selection when you create the form. When you generate using a subscription list, users who marked User Preferences Form to subscribe receive the , in addition to the designated list. Note: Subscriptions are a special type of list targeted to recipients derived from Raiser s Edge queries. Blackbaud NetCommunity sends subscription to all constituents on the assigned lists, plus additional subscribers and minus explicit unsubscribers and users with Requests No marked in their user profile. The program does not duplicate messages for users who are both on a list and a subscriber or for multiple users with the same address. Design User Preferences Form 1. From the Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for User Preferences Form.
117 WEBSITE. 111 Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Title field, enter a name for the preference. 4. To select which page appears for website users after they update their subscription information, in the After update navigate to field, click Click here to select a page. The Select a Page screen appears. Select the option beside the page and click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen. If you do not select a page, the page selected as the Home Page in System Options appears for the website user. 5. In the Titles frame, enter the text to appear on your website in the title bar of your opt out section for chapter , regular , and notification . For example, for the opt out section for chapter , enter Chapter List Subscriptions. In the Chapter List Title field, enter the text to appear for chapter . In the List Title field, enter the text to appear for regular . The program automatically configures lists under the opt out section. Blackbaud NetCommunity groups Chapter Manager part name - Chapter name List for the list. For example, Alumni Chapter Manager - San Diego List is the Chapter Manager part named (Alumni Chapter Manager) - Chapter name (San Diego) List.
118 112. CHAPTER 2 In the Notifications Title field, enter the text to appear for Team Fundraising notification . For more information about notification , see Notifications on page In the Opt-Out frame, customize the instructions that appear for the opt out section of the User Preferences form. In the Opt-Out Instructions field, enter the text to appear for the Opt-Out checkbox on the website, such as To no longer receive from us, mark the checkbox. For verification purposes, if a user selects to opt out of an list, the user is asked to enter his or her address. If the address is not registered with Blackbaud NetCommunity, the user cannot opt out of the list. 7. In the Subscriptions frame, customize the instructions that appear for the subscriptions section of the User Preferences form. In the Subscribing Instructions field, enter the text to appear for the subscription checkboxes for the multiple lists on the website. 8. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. User Login To control the areas users can access on your website, you can create a User Login part. When a user logs in, the user login determines which roles the user belongs to and which features the user has security rights to access. You can create separate login parts for any subsites you create. For example, you may have a subsite for chapters or schools. The Fundraiser part has its own user login. For more information about how to create the user login for a Fundraiser, see Step 6: User Login Form on page 291. You can add forms to the user login for new user registrations, forgotten passwords, and forgotten user IDs. You can also create that users receive to acknowledge their registration or that contain their forgotten password or user ID. Multiple users can use the same address when they sign up for your site. This makes it easy for an entire family to sign up for a fundraiser or other event. If a family shares an address and one user forgets his password or user name, the reminder sent to the shared address contains all user names associated with the address separated by semicolons, with passwords masked with asterisks. Design User Login 1. From the Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for User Login. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Helplets frame, enter custom text to appear on the Login, New User Registration, or Forgotten Password/User ID forms to help website users understand how to use these forms. a. In the Screen field, select the form to create help text for. Select Login, New User Registration, or Forgotten Password or User ID. b. In the box, enter the text to appear on the form. To format the content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page 6.
119 WEBSITE. 113 c. Once you create help text for the first form, in the Screen field, select another form type. The program automatically saves changes for the first form, and an asterisk appears next to the form name to indicate it has saved help content. 4. In the Captions and Properties frame, enter a title for the user login form and text for the hyperlink that directs users to the login form. To include forms for new registrations, forgotten passwords, and forgotten user IDs, enter a title in the Form Title field and a name in the Hyperlink field, and mark Enabled. We recommend you disable new registrations only if you import records from other Blackbaud programs into Blackbaud NetCommunity. Imported users are registered automatically, so they do not need to register a second time with the User Login part. Note: Once you create a login page with the User Login part, select it in the Member Login Page field in the Registration and Login Options frame of System Options. For more information, see System Options on page In the Constituent Code field, select the constituent code to assign to users who use this form on your website. For more information about how to select constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page In the Navigation frame, select the web page that appears for users after they log in, log out, or register. By default, the Login, Logout, and New User Registration forms are set to Sample Default Page. This is the page selected as the Home Page in System Options. To change the web page selected for a form, click Change for that form. The Select a Page screen appears where you choose a different page. To remove the web page selected for a form, click Remove for that form. The page is removed and Click here to select a page appears. If you do not select a page, users are directed to the page selected for the login form. 7. In the Additional Fields frame, select the biographical information fields to include on the new user registration form. a. In the Fields grid, mark the checkbox in the Include column for each field to appear on the form. To make the fields required, mark the checkbox in the Required column. If the checkbox in the Include column is marked, the Address block and Gender fields are automatically required. b. To include attribute fields on your registration form, mark the checkbox in the Include column for each attribute field to appear on the form. To make the attributes required, mark the checkbox in the Required column. The Raiser s Edge provides these are constituent attributes. To add new attribute for your part, create it in The Raiser s Edge. For example, you can use a constituent attribute to track t-shirt sizes for participants. To track this information, create a t-shirt size attribute. If you know an attribute exists in The Raiser s Edge, but do not see it, check System Options to verify the attribute is available in Blackbaud NetCommunity 8. In the Role Assignment frame, mark the checkbox in the Member column for each role to assign to users who sign up through this User Login part. 9. To create a reminder to send to members who click Forgotten Password/User ID, click Forgotten Password/User ID on the action bar. The Forgotten Password/User ID screen appears. Use the merge fields to include the password, reminder phrase, and/or the user ID.
120 114. CHAPTER To create an to send to new users after they register, click New User Registration on the action bar. The New User Registration screen appears. Use the merge fields to include the password, reminder phrase, and/or user ID. For information about how to create an , see Design an message on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. User Profile Form The User Profile Form is a simple way to generate a form to capture the biographical information necessary for your website s user profile page. You can download the information the user enters to The Raiser s Edge so you can maintain current information and solicit the user for a donation. For example, Jane Compton is a member of the Class of 1988 and she visits your website for the first time. As part of this first-time process, she navigates to the user profile page and enters the information you selected to appear on the User Profile Form part, such as her full name, current address, and spouse information. You can download the information she enters on your website directly to The Raiser s Edge. When you design a Directory part, you can link it to another page. If the linked page contains a User Profile Form part, the user can click a field in the directory listing to view the profile for the selected person. When a profile form is linked to a directory, users can edit their own profile but not those for relations. For more information about the Directory part, see Directory on page 50. Design User Profile Form 1. From the Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for User Profile Form. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the After update navigate to field in the Profile Edit Form Design frame, select the web page that appears for a website user after she submits her profile information. To select the web page, click Click here to select a page. The Select a Page screen appears. Select a page and click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen. If you do not select a page, the user returns to the profile form after she submits profile information. 4. Add each section to the user profile form as required. a. In the Section field, select the section to add. Select Bio, Preferred Address, Business, Phones and , Spouse, Constituent Attributes, Primary Alumni, Education Attributes, or User Login.
121 WEBSITE. 115 Note: For constituent attributes to have multiple table entries on the profile form on your website, they must be accessible from The Raiser s Edge. On the navigation bar, click Administration, System Options. In the Attributes frame, mark the checkbox for the constituent attribute to include in Blackbaud NetCommunity. For more information, see System Options on page 234. b. In the Heading field, enter the text to appear at the top of the section. For example, for the Bio section, enter Personal Information. To specify the order of sections, add a number to the beginning of each section heading. For example, if you select Preferred Address in the Section field and enter 2. Preferred Address in the Heading field, the Preferred Address section appears second in the profile. c. In the Fields grid, select the fields to include in the section and select options about the selected fields. Option Show in grid Show in Edit/Details Form Field Editable Required Privacy Editable Use Code Table Editable Codes Alternate Caption Function Mark the checkbox next to each field to include in the user profile display grid. Mark the checkbox next to each field to include on the update form. This column displays the fields from The Raiser s Edge you can include in the section. To allow the user to edit a field, mark this checkbox. If you do not mark this checkbox, the field appears in the profile but the user cannot change its value. To make a field required, mark this checkbox. If you mark this checkbox, the user must select or enter a value for the field to complete the form. To allow users to hide a field, mark this checkbox. For example, if you mark this checkbox for the Birth date field, users can select whether their birth date appears on the profile. If a field has code table values, this checkbox appears. If you mark this checkbox, the field on the form displays the code table values from The Raiser s Edge. If you do not mark this checkbox, the user must enter a value in the field. If a field has code table values, this checkbox appears. To enable the user to enter a value other than a code table value, mark this checkbox. On the form, an Other field appears next to the field so users can enter a value other than those provided. To edit a field name, enter a new name in this column. For example, you may want to call the Birth date field the Birth date (mm/dd/yyyy) field. 5. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Volunteer Opportunity If you use Volunteer Management for The Raiser s Edge, you can create a Volunteer Opportunity part to show a list of jobs on your website. A website user can learn about the volunteer jobs, sign up for a job position, and enter data that is relevant to the position. For example, the volunteer can provide emergency contact information, special skills and needs, and medical needs.
122 116. CHAPTER 2 Note: For more information about volunteers and jobs in The Raiser s Edge, see the Records section in the Raiser s Edge help file. The Volunteer Opportunity part creates multiple volunteer pages. The first page, the job list page, contains a list of volunteer jobs at your organization. The second page, the job details page, appears after a user selects a job on the job list page. The job details page displays information about the selected job, such as its description, start date, and position. The third page is the volunteer sign-up form. This page appears after the user clicks the sign-up button on the job details page. The user completes this form to submit to your organization. Volunteer transactions appear on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. When The Raiser s Edge processes a volunteer transaction, the data appears on the Volunteer tab on the user s constituent record and a job assignment for the user appears on the job record. For more information, see Volunteer Requests on page 371. Design Volunteer Opportunity 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Volunteer Opportunity. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Constituent Code field, select a constituent code to add for volunteers in your database in The Raiser s Edge. For more information about how to select constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page In the Volunteer Type field, select a volunteer type to assign to the user, such as Coordinator or Gift Shop Staff. A volunteer type denotes the capacity in which a volunteer serves your organization. The Raiser s Edge determines the volunteer types available in this field. 5. In the Job List frame, in the Title field, enter the title for the job list. Leave the default part name, or enter your own title, such as Outside Volunteer Jobs. This title appears at the top of the first volunteer web page. Note: The Job List frame creates the first volunteer page. a. In the Instructions field, enter content to instruct the user on how to use the job list page. Leave the default instructions, or enter your own. b. To select a job query from The Raiser s Edge that contain the jobs to appear in the job list for this part, click Change. The Query Search screen appears. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24.
123 WEBSITE. 117 Tip: For a query to appear as a selection, you must first create it in The Raiser s Edge. When you create a new query, you may need to refresh Blackbaud NetCommunity for it to appear as a selection. To refresh, select View, Refresh from the menu bar. c. In the box under the Jobs to Include field, enter the text to appear on the page if the query does not return job results, such as There are no volunteer jobs at this time. Please check back next month. Leave the default message, or enter your own. d. Under Specify how you d like the list to appear, specify how job results appear on the page. Select the number of jobs to appear per page, whether page links for the job appear above or below the results (or both), whether the job start and end dates appear, whether users can search the list, and whether to use the field names from The Raiser s Edge. In the box under Allow this list to be displayed, enter the text to appear if no jobs match the user s job search, such as Please search our volunteer jobs again! Your criteria did not return any jobs. Leave the default message, or enter your own. 6. In the Job Detail frame, in the Instructions field, enter content to instruct the user on how to use the job details page. These instructions appear at the top of the page after a user selects a job on the job list page. Leave the default instructions, or enter your own. Note: The Job Detail frame creates the second volunteer page. a. In the Button Text field, enter the text to appear on the button that creates the sign-up form for the job the user selects. You can leave the default text or write your own button text. b. To display the field names as they appear in The Raiser s Edge, mark Use field names from The Raiser s Edge. c. In the Display column, mark the checkbox beside the volunteer attribute to appear. To change the text of the attribute on your donation page, enter the text in the Caption field. 7. In the Volunteer Sign-Up Form frame, in the Instructions field, enter content to instruct the user on how to use the sign-up page. These instructions appear at the top of the page after the user clicks the sign-up button on the job detail page. If the Minimum age field on the job record in The Raiser s Edge contains an age, a required Date of Birth field appears after the instructions. Note: The Volunteer Sign-Up Form frame creates the third volunteer page. In the Button Text field, enter the text to appear on the sign-up button. This button submits the sign-up form to your organization. You can leave the default text or write your own button text. Tip: To sign up for a job, the user must be registered to your website. 8. To store volunteer emergency contact information in The Raiser s Edge, mark Emergency Contact Information. To make this a required field on the sign-up form, mark Require emergency contact name and phone number. 9. To display a Vehicle section on the sign-up page, mark Vehicle Information.
124 118. CHAPTER 2 In the Available Checkbox Caption field, enter text to appear beside the vehicle checkbox on the sign-up page. Leave the default text, or enter your own. On the sign-up page, a Vehicle Type field appears with this checkbox. The Volunteer Vehicle Type table in The Raiser s Edge determines the selections in this field. 10. To include an additional information section on the sign-up page, mark Additional Information. a. In the Section Title field, enter the text to appear at the top of the additional information section. Leave the default title, or enter your own. b. In the Instructions field, enter content to instruct the user on how to use the additional information section. Leave the default instructions, or enter your own. 11. The job record in The Raiser s Edge for the selected job determines the remaining sections available to add to the sign-up page. For example, you can create sections for skills and experience, courses and training, medical information, special needs, interests, or checklist items. To add a section to the sign-up page, mark its checkbox and, in the Section Title and Instructions fields, enter the information to appear for the section. 12. In the Navigation frame, select the web page to appear after users submit a volunteer sign-up request. Click Click here to select a page. The Select a Page screen appears so you can select a page and click OK. You return to the Edit Part screen. If you do not select a page, the page selected as the home page in System Options appears. 13. Click Next. The Acknowledgement screen appears. 14. Create an acknowledgement for website users who use the volunteer opportunity form to submit a volunteer sign-up request. For information about how to design a volunteer acknowledgement , see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page 201. Tip: When you edit a Volunteer Opportunity part, you can click Acknowledgement on the action bar to access the Acknowledgement screen. For information about how to design an to acknowledge a volunteer sign-up request, see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page To save the , click Save and Close. You return to the Edit Part screen. 16. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Weblog With the Weblog part, you can collect or share information on your website that pertains to your organization. This can range from your organization s news to appeals sent to your alumni to links to other related websites. Given the appropriate security rights, your Blackbaud NetCommunity users and website users can update the Weblog part. Design Weblog 1. From the Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Weblog.
125 WEBSITE. 119 Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the RSS Publishing Properties frame, in the Title field, enter the title of your weblog, such as Best Solicitation Practices for Fundraising. Note: The Title field is optional. However, to save a weblog, you must either enter a title or enter description information in the Description field. a. In the Link URL field, enter your website link that news readers such as NewsGator use to link to your site. This link should direct the website user to your weblog or a general information page about your organization. b. In the Description field, enter any additional information, such as Check weekly for updates. To view the information you enter in this field, click XML for the weblog on your site. For the example, the XML information for your description reads <description>check often for weekly updates</description>. In addition, news readers use the weblog description information to provide general information about the contents of the weblog. For more information about the News Reader part in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see News Reader on page 82. c. In the Copyright field, enter a copyright notice for your weblog, if you have one. d. In the Editor s field, enter your address or the person who is responsible for the content of your weblog. e. To approve weblog posts before they appear on your site, mark Moderated. 4. In the Image Properties frame, click Image beside the Selected Image box. The Select Image from Image Library screen appears. For information about how to insert an image, see Insert Image on page To share valuable information from another website with your site users, in the Link URL field, enter the address of the website to link to the weblog. 6. In the Security Rights frame, specify which roles have post and manage rights for the weblog. a. In the Can Post column, mark the checkbox for each role allowed to post to the weblog. These roles cannot edit or delete postings. To automatically assign posting rights to all roles, mark Can Post at the top of the column. b. In the Can Manage column, mark the checkbox for each role allowed to add, edit, and delete weblog postings. These roles can approve postings if the list is marked Moderated. To automatically assign management rights to all roles, mark Can Manage at the top of the column. For more information about roles, see Roles on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
126 120. CHAPTER 2 Web Traffic Reports Using the Report (Web Traffic) part, you can create reports with statistics about your website s traffic. Warning: To create a Web Traffic report, you must run Microsoft SQL Server Agent. If you are unsure whether you run this program, consult your system administrator. You can add several types of Web Traffic reports: Site Usage Report The Site Usage Report displays the total number of hits each page on your website received and the percentage of total hits compared to other pages on your site. Web pages are hyperlinked so you can open them directly from the report. Page Rank Report The Page Rank Report is a small bar graph that displays the number of hits a page received and its overall rank compared to other pages on your website. You can place this graph on any page. We recommend you give view rights in Part Security only to those who need to see the statistics. Page View Summary The Page View Summary displays the total number of page views, the average number of page views, and the average number of page views per visit for all pages in the website. Website users can filter the report results by date range and group the results displayed in the bar graph by day, week, or month. Page Overview Report The Page Overview Report displays the total number of page visits and views for each page viewed. It also includes a bar graph that displays the total number of page visits and views for each page ID. You can filter the report so it includes only pages with the top 10 number of views or visitors, the bottom 10 number of views or visitors, or all pages that had views or visitors. Web pages are hyperlinked so you can open them directly from the report. Visit Summary The Visit Summary displays statistics for website visits during the specified period of time. The summary includes the total number of visits and average number of visits per day. It also includes the total length of time visitors spent on the website and the average visit length per visitor. To calculate the average visit length, the program divides the total length of time of all the visits by the total number of sessions (individual visits). Visitor Summary The Visitor Summary displays statistics including the total number of website visitors, the number of unique visitors, the number of one-time visitors, the number of repeat visitors, and the average number of visits per visitor. The summary also includes the total number of Blackbaud NetCommunity visitors and the number of unique Blackbaud NetCommunity visitors. Website users can filter the report results by date range. This table explains the items included in Web Traffic reports. Hits Views Visits Unique visitors Return Visitors Only Visited once Number of times a page was accessed Number of times visitors viewed a page Number of times users logged into the website Number of logged-in users and anonymous visitors (those not logged into the website) who visited the website Number of unique users who visited the website more than once while logged in. (This excludes return visits by those not logged in.) Number of logged-in users and anonymous visitors (those not logged into the website) who visited the website only once Design Web Traffic Reports 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Report (Web Traffic).
127 WEBSITE. 121 Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information automatically appears on the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. Layouts If you create a new part, first save the part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Report Type field, select the type of report to create. Select Site Usage, Page Rank, Page View Summary, Page Overview, Visit Summary, or Visitor Summary. To view a pop-up preview of the report, click on the report type. For more information about report types, see the introduction to Web Traffic Reports on page In the Report Title field, select the report title to use. To use the report name as the title, select Default. To use a custom title, select Other and enter the report title in the field. 5. To display the name of the report above the report, mark Show Report Title. 6. To save the report, click Save and Close. You return to the Report (Web Traffic) design screen. 7. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. The layout for your template is crucial for your web page. Layout is the design and placement of important elements for your web page. This includes where you place parts, graphics, and navigation buttons. Web page layouts can look similar, such as a Programs page and a Projects page, or they can look different, such as a Login page and a Volunteers page. Make sure you know your audience when you select the elements for your new layout. It is important to understand what an audience expects and wants from a web page. The layout of a web page is vital to its success. When you design a new page layout, a key element is to include similar characteristics from the rest of your website, so the end result the new web page is recognizable as one of your organization s pages. For example, make sure you include buttons, links, images, fonts, and colors that are consistent with the rest of your website. You can use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) information to make most of these customizations for the layout in Stylesheets. For more information about stylesheets, see Stylesheets on page 123. Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Layouts. We recommend general users not access layouts. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly encourage only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Layouts. Create a layout 1. From Web Site, click Layouts. The Layouts screen appears. 2. Click New Layout. The New Layout screen appears. 3. In the Layout Name field, enter a name for your layout, such as Login. This name helps Blackbaud NetCommunity users quickly identify the file in Layouts. This name is for internal use and does not appear on your website.
128 122. CHAPTER 2 4. In the Description field, enter any additional information about the layout, such as Use for President s page and Profiles page. Note: After you save the template, a Templates/Pages using this layout box appears. The information in the box is a graphic display of your templates and pages that use the layout. If the layout is not in use, This layout is not being used appears. 5. In the Stylesheet field, select the style to use for this layout. For example, to use the Blackbaud NetCommunity stylesheet, select System Default. For more information about stylesheets, see Stylesheets on page In the DOCTYPE field, select whether to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional (DOCTYPE) code for the pages and templates on your website that use this layout. 7. To save your layout, click Next. The Layout Designer screen appears. For information about the Layout Designer screen, see Design a layout on page 122. Edit layout properties To search for an existing layout, use the search tools in Blackbaud NetCommunity. For example, at the top of the Layouts screen, to search for a layout, enter a partial name in the Name field. At the bottom of the Layouts screen, select the number of layouts on the screen in the Results Per Page field. If you know the page number in Layouts where your information is stored, select it in the Page field. 1. From Web Site, click Layouts. The Layouts screen appears. Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Layouts. We recommend general users not access layouts. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly recommend only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Layouts. 2. For the layout to edit, click Properties in the Actions column. The Layout Properties screen appears. 3. In the Layout Name, Description, and Stylesheet fields, make the changes as required. 4. In the DOCTYPE field, select whether to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional (DOCTYPE) code for the pages and templates on your website that use this layout. 5. In the Templates/Pages using this layout box, view the templates and web pages linked to the layout. The box is for informational purposes only. 6. To save your changes, click Save and Close. You return to Layouts. For information about how to edit the Layout Designer screen, see Design a layout on page 122. Design a layout To search for an existing layout, use the search tools in Blackbaud NetCommunity. For example, at the top of the Layouts screen, to search for a layout, enter a partial name in the Name field. At the bottom of the Layouts screen, select the number of layouts on the screen in the Results Per Page field. If you know the page number in Layouts where your information is stored, select it in the Page field. 1. From Web Site, click Layouts. The Layouts screen appears.
129 WEBSITE. 123 Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Layouts. We recommend general users not access layouts. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly recommend only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Layouts. 2. To edit a layout, click Edit in the Actions column. The Layout Designer screen appears. If you create a new layout, first save the layout properties. For more information about layout properties, see Create a layout on page To add existing content from Parts, click Insert Content Placeholder on the toolbar. A yellow Content box appears as a placeholder for a part type. You create the part type in Parts on page 39. You can add the part to a template in Layouts or a web page in Pages on page 31. Note: When you update a layout, it is important to include similar characteristics from the rest of your website. This way the new web page remains recognizable as one of your organization s pages. For example, include buttons, links, images, fonts, and colors that are consistent with the rest of your website. You can use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) information to make most of these customizations for the layout in Stylesheets. For more information about stylesheets, see Stylesheets on page To edit or view the stylesheet for the layout, click Stylesheet on the action bar. The Edit Stylesheet screen appears. 5. In the Templates/Pages using this layout box, view the templates and web pages linked to the layout. The box is for informational purposes only. Remember, we strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Layouts. This is very important for editing or viewing stylesheet information. We recommend general users not access this functionality. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly recommend only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Layouts. 6. To close the Edit Stylesheet screen, click Save and Close. You return to the Layout Designer screen. To cancel any changes you made, click Cancel. 7. To save and close your layout, click Save and Close on the Layout Designer screen. You return to Layouts. Stylesheets Stylesheets create unique elements such as colors, font types and size, and spacing for your website. Stylesheets, written in Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) format, are easier to use than other methods such as HTML. Unless you specify a custom stylesheet, your website uses Blackbaud NetCommunity default stylesheets. You can create custom stylesheets in Stylesheets that override a Blackbaud NetCommunity default style. When you override elements in stylesheets, we recommend you make changes only once to update the pages that use the stylesheet. This saves time and helps eliminate mistakes when you update your website. You use stylesheets when you create layouts in Layouts. In Layouts, you link a stylesheet to the layout. For more information, see Layouts on page 121. When you design and customize your website, we recommend you test the rendering of your site in multiple browsers. For example, if your primary browser is Internet Explorer, also test your site with Mozilla Firefox. If your site renders differently, we recommend you modify your stylesheets so your site has a similar look and feel in all browsers you test.
130 124. CHAPTER 2 For information about part types and their corresponding style elements, see Part Type Element Details for Stylesheets on page 126. Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Stylesheets. General users should not have access to stylesheets. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly recommend only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Stylesheets. Create a stylesheet 1. From Web Site, click Stylesheets. The Stylesheets screen appears. 2. Click New Stylesheet. The New Stylesheet screen appears. 3. In the Stylesheet Name field, enter a name for your stylesheet, such as Index Page Stylesheet. This name helps Blackbaud NetCommunity users quickly identify the file in Stylesheets. This name is for internal use and does not appear on your website. 4. In the Description field, enter any additional information about the stylesheet, such as Created for index web page. 5. In the Stylesheet Security grid, assign View, Edit, Delete, and Change Security rights for the stylesheet. In the Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For more information about security, see Security on page 223. Note: Stylesheets must be applied in Layouts. For more information, see Layouts on page To save your stylesheet, click Next. The Stylesheet Designer screen appears. For information about the Stylesheet Designer screen, see Design a stylesheet on page 125. Edit stylesheet properties To search for an existing stylesheet, use the search tools in Blackbaud NetCommunity. For example, at the top of the Stylesheets screen, to search for a stylesheet, enter a partial name in the Name field. At the bottom of the Stylesheets screen, select the number of stylesheets on the screen in the Results Per Page field. If you know the page number in Stylesheets where your information is stored, select it in the Page field. 1. From Web Site, click Stylesheets. The Stylesheets screen appears. Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Stylesheets. General users should not have access to stylesheets. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly recommend only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Stylesheets. 2. For the stylesheet to edit, click Properties in the Actions column. The Stylesheet Properties screen appears. 3. In the Stylesheet Name and Description fields, make the required changes. 4. In the Stylesheet Security grid, assign View, Edit, Delete, and Change Security rights for the stylesheet. In the Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For more information about security, see Security on page 223.
131 WEBSITE To save your changes, click Save and Close. You return to Stylesheets. For information about how to edit the Stylesheet Designer screen, see Design a stylesheet on page 125. Design a stylesheet To search for an existing stylesheet, use the search tools in Blackbaud NetCommunity. For example, at the top of the Stylesheets screen, to search for a stylesheet, enter a partial name in the Name field. At the bottom of the Stylesheets screen, select the number of stylesheets on the screen in the Results Per Page field. If you know the page number in Stylesheets where your information is stored, select it in the Page field. 1. From Web Site, click Layouts. The Layouts screen appears. Warning: When you design and customize your website, we recommend you test the rendering of your site in multiple browsers. For example, if your primary browser is Internet Explorer, we recommend you also test your site with Mozilla Firefox. If your site renders differently, we recommend you modify your stylesheets so your site has a similar look and feel in all browsers you test. 2. To edit an existing stylesheet, click Edit in the Actions column. The Stylesheet Designer screen appears. If you create a new stylesheet, first save the stylesheet properties. For more information about stylesheet properties, see Create a stylesheet on page To override the default stylesheet: a. Click the plus sign to the left of Defaults. The default styles list expands. Note: The Defaults styles apply to common elements throughout your web pages that use the stylesheets you select, such as Form Titles and Textboxes. b. Click an element, such as.bbformtable. The Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) information appears on the right side of the screen, such as border:1pt solid buttonface;. For information about part types and their corresponding style elements, see Part Type Element Details for Stylesheets on page 126. c. To override the default style of this element, enter CSS text in the box on the right screen. 4. To override a specific style class: a. Click the plus to the left of the node, such as Job Board. The list expands. b. Click an element, such as.jobboardpostlink:link. The CSS information appears on the right side of the screen, such as color:06c;text-decoration:none;. If you override the.bbformtable stylesheet in Defaults, your CSS text information appears here as well. c. To override the style class, enter CSS text in the box on the right screen. 5. To create custom styles and classes: a. At the end of the tree view, click Custom CSS. b. In the Custom Styles frame, enter your CSS text for the stylesheet. For example, you can customize the body of an HTML Document part type or define classes to use throughout the website. 6. To save your changes, click Save and Close. You return to Stylesheets.
132 126. CHAPTER 2 Part Type Element Details for Stylesheets This section includes part types and their corresponding style elements. The graphics have meaning in the way the part type and element appear. For example, if you see dashed lines around an element, this indicates the styling applies to what is inside that element. For example, the Documents part has a dashed box around the list of documents. The style BBDocumentDisplayTable applies to the entire list of documents, not to each item in the list. Warning: We strongly recommend your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Stylesheets. General users should not have access to stylesheets. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly recommend only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Stylesheets. For each part, styling appears one time for objects that have similar styles. For example, the Documents part has an <HR> element between each listed document. The styling BBDocumentDisplaySeparator appears on one <HR>; however, the styling applies to all. Default styles appear first. For example, this graphic specifies that the element has two CSS classes applied to it BBFormTable and BBDocumentFormTable. BBFormTable applies first, followed by BBDocumentFormTable. Most elements inherit styling from the Blackbaud NetCommunity default styles. Warning: When you design and customize your website, we strongly recommend you test the rendering of your site in multiple browsers. For example, if your primary browser is Internet Explorer, also test your site using Mozilla Firefox. If your site renders differently, we recommend you modify your stylesheets so your site has a similar look and feel in all browsers you test. Each graphic appears using a small scale. For better viewing, access this section in the Blackbaud NetCommunity help file under Stylesheets. Graphics appear as a thumbnail in the help file. For a full screen viewing, click the thumbnail. To print the graphic, select File, Print from the Internet Explorer menu. To print the full graphic, change your print setting to landscape. Anonymous Newsletter Subscription
133 WEBSITE. 127 Chapter Manager Class Notes
134 128. CHAPTER 2 Class Notes- list and add\edit Directory Discussion Group
135 WEBSITE. 129 Discussion Group- topic list and post new topic Discussion Group- discussion
136 130. CHAPTER 2 Discussion Group- spell check Discussion Group- post reply Documents
137 WEBSITE. 131 Documents- list Documents- add\edit
138 132. CHAPTER 2 Donate Form Donate Form- billing information
139 WEBSITE. 133 Donate Form- payment information Forwarding Form Event Calendar
140 134. CHAPTER 2 Event Calendar- Add Event screen
141 WEBSITE. 135 Event Calendar- calendar view Event Calendar- event list
142 136. CHAPTER 2 Event Calendar- event details Event Calendar Highlights
143 WEBSITE. 137 Event Registration Form Event Registration Form- registration details
144 138. CHAPTER 2 Event Registration Form- participant information Event Registration Form- summary Fundraiser
145 WEBSITE. 139 Activity Log Fundraiser- Home page
146 140. CHAPTER 2 Fundraiser - Join Options screen Fundraiser- Search for Participant screen
147 WEBSITE. 141 Fundraiser Dashboard Giving History HTML Editor
148 142. CHAPTER 2 Copy and Paste the following code where you would normally publish HTML content checkbox Job Board Job Board- job list
149 WEBSITE. 143 Job Board- add\edit job Job Board- job search MatchFinder
150 144. CHAPTER 2 MatchFinder- only if you use MatchFinder Online MatchFinder- only if you use MatchFinder Online
151 WEBSITE. 145 MatchFinder- only if you use MatchFinder Online Membership Form
152 146. CHAPTER 2 Membership Form- current membership
153 Membership Form- membership list WEBSITE. 147
154 148. CHAPTER 2 Membership Form- card information Membership Form- transaction summary
155 WEBSITE. 149 Modals Use CSS to edit dialog windows in Blackbaud NetCommunity Personal Notes Personal Notes- add note
156 150. CHAPTER 2 Personal Notes- manage notes Personal Notes- Search
157 WEBSITE. 151 Poll Poll- questions and results
158 152. CHAPTER 2 Quick Search and Search Report ( )
159 WEBSITE. 153 Report (Fundraiser) Slideshow Survey
160 154. CHAPTER 2 Survey- questionnaire
161 WEBSITE. 155 Survey- response User Preferences Form
162 156. CHAPTER 2 User Interests Form User Login
163 User Login- new user WEBSITE. 157
164 158. CHAPTER 2 User Photos Form User Profile Form Volunteer Opportunity
165 WEBSITE. 159 Volunteer Opportunity- job list Volunteer Opportunity- job details
166 160. CHAPTER 2 Volunteer Opportunity- job sign-up
167 Weblog WEBSITE. 161
168 162. CHAPTER 2
169 CHAPTER3 In This Chapter Templates on page 163 Lists on page 171 Messages on page 177 Newsletters on page 190 Acknowledgements on page 197 Invalid Accounts on page 206 Campaigns on page 208 Notifications on page 216 is a quick and inexpensive way to send your messages. contains Messages, Newsletters, Templates, Lists, Acknowledgements, Invalid Accounts, and Campaigns. When you create an message in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you first create an template. Next, you create the list of recipients. Lastly, you select the type of to send: message, newsletter, or acknowledgement. In Invalid Accounts, you can view address accounts reported as invalid by their host internet service provider (ISP). For example, an ISP may report an address account as invalid due to a nonexistent or canceled account. Typical causes of an invalid account occur when the address contains a typographical error or the account is canceled due to inactivity. Templates Templates contains the templates and defaults for the different types of you can send. You can use templates to maintain standards between similar types of . For example, you can have an organization template with a header and font used to send to all alumni. On the Template Editor tab, you set defaults for the messages created from the template, such as a bounceback address or a forgotten user ID and password. On the Design tab, you design the basic layout for the template, including any graphics or pictures.
170 164. CHAPTER 3 Warning: It is important your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for . Any changes can affect multiple web pages. We strongly encourage users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity to perform tasks in . When you create a new message, you can base the message on a template to save time and effort. All the elements exist in the template. You can change a specific message, but the template provides a good base to start with and maintains consistency. Note: In each you send, you must include links to the page of your website that contains the User Preferences Form and your organization s privacy statement. We recommend you create the links in the template. Design an template You do not send messages or select recipients from Templates. You send messages from Messages and save recipients as lists in Lists. For more information about how to send messages, see Messages on page 177. For more information about lists, see Lists on page From , click Templates. The Templates screen appears. 2. On the action bar, click New Template. The New Template screen appears.
171 Select the Properties tab. 4. In the Template Name field, enter a name for the template. Keep in mind you use the template for all messages of this type. 5. In the Description field, enter any additional information about the template. For example, enter a brief description or any notes about the template. 6. In the Data Source field, select the type of user to receive you create with the template. The data source determines which merge fields are available when you create a mailing. You can select None, Constituents, Subscribers, or NetCommunity Users. For general intended for all NetCommunity users, select NetCommunity Users. 7. In the Default Mailing Options frame, enter a subject for the template in the Subject field. When you use this template to create an message, the text you enter here automatically appears in the subject line of the to provide the recipient an idea of the message s content. When you create an individual message, you can overwrite what you enter here. Note: Because you do not send from Templates, the program does not include recipients in the Send To field in the template. The program saves the recipients as an list in Lists. For more information about lists, see Lists on page In the From Address field, enter the address to appear in the From field on the In the Display Name field, enter the name to appear in the From field on the , such as your organization s name. 10. To have recipients of the respond to a different address than the one you send the message from, enter the address in the Reply Address field. 11. In the Notifications are to be sent to the following addresses frame, specify whether and where to receive failure messages. To maintain messages that are not delivered, mark Failures. In the field next to the checkbox, enter the address to which to send failure messages.
172 166. CHAPTER 3 Note: Failures are addresses on the list that do not receive the sent. A failure can also be called a non-delivery receipt, bounceback, UnDeliverable, or Delivery Status Notification (DSN). For information about how the program handles failed delivery, see Bounced Management on page Select the Security tab. 13. In the grid, the Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For each user, assign Send, Edit, Delete, and Change Security rights for the template. For more information about security, see Security on page 223. Note: In this case, Edit rights enable the user to change the template and its defaults. To use this template to create an message, a user needs only Send rights. If a template is edited, changes to a template do not affect individual messages already created based on the template. 14. On the action bar, click Save. The template opens to the Design tab.
173 Note: To see the scroll bar on an template, you must use a screen resolution of greater than 800 x In the bottom pane, enter the default content for all messages created from this template. To have personalized information from other Blackbaud programs appear in messages created from this template, add merge fields. a. To display the list of available merge fields, click the Merge Fields field on the toolbar. To expand the list, click the plus sign next to a field category. b. To add a merge field to the message, select the field from the list. The list closes and the field appears in the bottom pane. c. Put fields where you want them to appear in the body of the . For example, enter Hello, Bio.First Name after it. In the , Hello, [recipient s first name] appears. To move a field, click and drag it to the new location. For example, you can create a Linked User Registration template for messages sent to existing NetCommunity Users who attempt to register again. In the bottom pane, you can enter the content required to remind the user he is already a registered user and to provide the existing user ID and password information. 16. Create links to the pages of your website that contain the User Preferences Form and your organization s privacy statement. You must include these links in each you send. 17. To format the template s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information, see HTML Editor on page On the action bar, click Save. Warning: If you select the Messages tab before you click Save, you lose the information you entered on the Design tab. 19. To send a message based on the new template, select the Messages tab and click New Message. The New Message screen appears. For more information about how to send a message, see Design an message on page To save the template, click Save on the action bar. 21. To return to Templates, click Return on the action bar.
174 168. CHAPTER 3 View the tabs of an template Once you create an template, you can view its properties and design and any messages created based on it. If you have applicable security rights, you can also edit the properties and design of the template. Changes made to the template do not affect individual messages already created based on the template. 1. From , click Templates. The Templates screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the template to view. You can enter the template s name or subject or select its data source. 3. Click Go. In the grid, templates that match the entered filter criteria appear. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 4. Next to the template to view, click Click here to edit this Template. The template Properties screen appears. 5. On the Properties tab, view the properties and security settings entered when the template was created. To help you navigate through the information, the Properties tab contains the Properties and Security tabs.
175 On the Properties tab, view the name, description, data source, and default mailing options entered when the template was created. If the template message contains merge fields, you cannot change the selected data source. On the Security tab, view the security rights assigned to each user of the template. 6. To view the default content for all messages based on the template, select the Design tab. 7. To view the messages created based on the template, select the Messages tab. 8. To return to Templates, click Return on the action bar. View a message created from an template 1. From , click Messages. The Messages screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, in the Template field, select the template for which to view messages. 3. Click Go. In the grid, the messages that use the selected template appear.
176 170. CHAPTER 3 To view a sent message, select it in the grid and click Click here to view report in the Action column. The Message Report screen appears. For information about the tabs on this screen, see View the tabs of a sent message on page 182. To view a message the program has not yet sent, select it in the grid and click Click here to edit this Message. The Editor screen appears. For information about how to edit the message, see Design an message on page 178. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 4. To return to , click Return on the action bar. Copy an template Save yourself time and effort. If you must create a new template and a similar one exists, you can copy and tweak the existing template to create the new template rather than start with a blank screen. 1. From , click Templates. The Templates screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the template to copy. You can enter the template s name or subject or select its data source. 3. Click Go. In the grid, templates that match the entered filter criteria appear.
177 Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 4. Next to the template to copy, click Click here to copy this Template. The Copy of template screen appears and displays the settings from the existing template. 5. In the Template Name field, enter a unique name for the new template. 6. On the Properties and Security tabs, edit the information as required to design the new template. For information about how to design an template, see Design an message on page On the action bar, click Save. The Design tab appears and displays a layout based on the original template. 8. Change the layout and design of the new template as required to design the new template. For information about how to design an template, see Design an message on page On the action bar, click Save. 10. To return to Templates, click Return on the action bar. Lists In Lists, you can use queries from our programs to create and view lists. You can create multiple lists, each one targeted at a different group of your users. For example, in The Raiser s Edge, you can create a query of all constituents in your database who have an attribute interest of Sports on their records. In Blackbaud NetCommunity, you can use the query to create an list of constituents interested in sports and invite them to your sporting event fundraisers. In the message, you can include a link to the page of your website where the recipient can sign up for the event. In Lists, only individual constituent queries from The Raiser s Edge and imported lists are available for selection. You can use static or dynamic queries but not queries that contain ask at runtime operators. If the query is dynamic, the program automatically updates the list in Lists. However, if the query is static, the list does not automatically update. To update a list that uses a static query, refresh the query in the other program. For more information about how to create and refresh a query, see the Query section of the help file of the other Blackbaud program.
178 172. CHAPTER 3 The grid on the Lists screen contains all lists created in Lists but also those automatically generated when you send a newsletter. Newsletter lists contain only users who subscribe to the newsletter so the generated list name is always [Newsletter Name] Subscribers. You can add, delete, and view lists in the grid. Create an list 1. From , click Lists. The Lists screen appears. 2. Click New List. The Select Data Source screen appears. 3. In the Data Source field, select a record type for the list. The record type determines which queries are available. You can select Constituents, NetCommunity Users, or Imported Lists. For example, for lists that include all your users in Blackbaud NetCommunity, select NetCommunity Users.
179 Note: In the Data Source field, you can select to create a list for a query of constituents. These records must be individual constituents. Blackbaud NetCommunity does not support lists of organization constituents unless they are included in an imported list. 4. Click OK. The New List screen appears. 5. Select the Properties tab. In the Data Source field, the record type selected on the Select Data Source screen appears. 6. In the List Name field, enter a unique name to distinguish this group for specific messages, such as Class of In the Description field, enter any additional information. For example, enter a brief description of who the mailing list includes or the types of messages this list receives, such as Class of 1994 Alumni. When a user creates a new in Messages and clicks Send to, the program displays all saved lists for which the user has security rights. 8. If, on the Select Data Source screen, you select Constituents as the source type, the Constituent Queries frame appears. To add a query, click Add Query. The Query Search screen appears so you can select the query for the list. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. For a query to appear as a selection, it must first be created in the other program. To add multiple queries, click Add Query again. You can add queries until you select all queries required for the list. To replace a query with another, click Change next to the query to replace. The Query Search screen appears so you can select a different query. To remove a query from the list, click Remove next to the query to remove.
180 174. CHAPTER 3 9. If, on the Select Data Source screen, you select Imported Lists as the source type, the Load File frame appears. In the File field, select the comma-separated values (*.csv) file to import for the list. To map to the location of the import file, click Browse and use the Choose File screen. Note: The first row of the imported *.csv file must contain the field names. Once you select the import file, the Uploaded File Details and Field Mapping frames appear. a. In the Uploaded File Details frame, the File name field displays the selected import file. To import a different file, click Replace this file. The Load File frame appears. b. In the Field Mapping frame, select the fields from the import file to use as the address and recipient display name in the list. 10. Select the Security tab. 11. In the grid, the Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For each user, assign View, Edit, Delete, and Change Security rights for the list. For more information about security, see Security on page On the action bar, click Save. On the Properties tab, the List Status frame displays information about the data acquisition from the selected source. You return to Lists.
181 View the tabs of an list 1. From , click Lists. The Lists screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the list to view. You can enter the list s name or select its data source. 3. Click Go. In the grid, the lists that the entered criteria appear. 4. Next to the list to view, click Click here to edit this List. The list appears. 5. To view the messages created based on the list: a. Select the List Messages tab. b. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the messages to view. You can enter the message s name or address. You can also select to view results by the template used. c. Click Go. The grid displays the messages that meet the criteria.
182 176. CHAPTER 3 Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 6. To view the properties and security settings entered when the list was created, select the List Properties tab. To help you navigate through the information, the List Properties tab contains the Properties and Security tabs. On the Properties tab, view the data source, list name, description, and the queries or load file entered when the list was created. On the Security tab, view the security rights assigned to each user of the list. 7. If the list is based on a query of records, the View List tab appears. To view the recipients included in the list: a. Select the View List tab. b. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the record to view. You can enter the record s display name or address. You can also select to view results by the source query or status or whether to view opt outs. Note: If you create a new query in another program, you may need to refresh Blackbaud NetCommunity for it to appear as a selection. To refresh, select View, Refresh from the menu bar. c. Click Go. The grid displays the records in the list that meet the criteria.
183 Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 8. To view the templates created that use the list: a. Select the List Templates tab. b. In the Filter List By frame, enter the name or subject of the template to view. c. Click Go. The grid displays the templates that meet the criteria. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. Messages 9. To return to Lists, click Return on the action bar. In Messages, you can add, delete, and view messages. To ensure consistency and save time, you can create an message from an existing template. You create templates in Templates. We recommend only users with Administrator rights create and edit templates. You can also use an existing message to create a new one. To do this, open and copy the existing . You can change the copy as required, save it as a new , and send the message. Note: On the Messages screen, if Click here to edit this message appears in the Action column, the program has not sent the . Before you send an , you can edit it in Messages. Click Click here to edit this message and make your changes. With Blackbaud NetAdvocacy, you can download advocacy action data to The Raiser s Edge. This data includes alerts, information, and attributes. Blackbaud NetAdvocacy is used with Capwiz subscription service to include pages on your website where users can send to influential individuals, such as Congressional, state, and local officials, to encourage their influence on a specific cause such as grant funding for a nonprofit. You can use Messages to include links in your alert from Blackbaud NetCommunity advocacy functionality. In addition, when you send an advocacy alert from Blackbaud NetCommunity, the advocate s actions automatically link to their record in The Raiser s Edge once the action is complete. For information about how to use Blackbaud NetAdvocacy and Capwiz to set up action alerts on your site, see your Capwiz Site Control page.
184 178. CHAPTER 3 Design an message When you create and design an in Messages, it is sent only once. You can edit the before you send it, but not after. 1. From , click Messages. The Messages screen appears. 2. On the action bar, click New Message. The Select Template screen appears. 3. In the Template field, select the template on which to base the . To decide which template to use, consider the type of you intend to write. The selections that appear are categories that already exist in Templates. For more information about templates, see Templates on page 163.
185 Click OK. The New Message screen appears. Note: To see the scroll bar on an message, you must use a screen resolution greater than 800 x Click To. The Select Lists screen appears. On the grid, you can view all saved lists for which you have security rights. You create and store lists in Lists. For more information about Lists, see Lists on page 171.
186 180. CHAPTER 3 6. Select the lists to include on the . a. In the Filter List By frame, enter the name of the list to use. b. Click Go. The grid displays the lists that meet the criteria. c. The Selected Lists box displays the lists included on the . You can include multiple lists on the . To add an list to the , select it in the grid on the left and click Add. d. Once you select the lists to include, click OK. You return to the New Message screen. 7. In the Name field, enter a unique name to help identify the If you entered a subject on the selected template, it automatically appears in the Subject field. You can enter or edit the subject of the . The text you enter here appears as the subject line of the sent to the recipient. 9. In the From Address field, enter the address to appear in the From field when the recipient receives the In the Issue Date field, the current date and time appear automatically. To change the issue date, enter the date and time to store as the date you create the In the Send After Date field, the current date and time automatically appear. You can schedule to send the at a future date. For example, you may be out of the office for the next month but need to send your regular weekly during that time. Or you design an event marketing campaign to send several messages, designed in advance, as reminders one week, three days, and the day before the event. To send the at a future date or time, in the Send After Date field, enter the date and time to send the . After you design the , you must still click Send on the action bar. However, the mailing service does not process the until the date and time you enter in the Send After Date field. To send the once you click Send, leave the current date and time in the Send After Date field. After you design the and click Send, the mailing service automatically processes the So recipients see a name instead of an address in the From field on the , enter it in the From Name field, such as enter your organization s name.
187 To view or edit message defaults assigned in the template, click More Options. Below the From Address and From Name fields, additional fields appear. Note: To hide the details, click Hide Options. To have responses from recipients of the arrive at a different address from the one from which you send the message, enter the address in the Reply Address field. In the Notifications are to be sent to the following addresses frame, specify whether and where to receive failure messages. To maintain messages that are not delivered, mark Failures. In the field next to the checkbox, enter the address to which to send failure messages. Note: Failures are addresses on the list that do not receive the sent. A failure can also be called a non-delivery receipt, bounceback, UnDeliverable, or Delivery Status Notification (DSN). For information about how the program handles failed delivery, see Bounced Management on page The bottom pane displays the s default content. To format the message s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information, see HTML Editor on page 6.
188 182. CHAPTER To personalize the message with information about the constituent from The Raiser s Edge, add merge fields. a. To display the list of available merge fields, click Merge Fields on the toolbar. To expand the list, click the plus sign next to a field category. b. To add a merge field to the message, select the field in the list. The list closes and the field appears in the bottom pane. c. In the body of the , put fields where you want them to appear. For example, enter Hello, Bio.First Name. In the , the recipient reads Hello, [the recipient s first name]. To move a field, click and drag it to the new location. 16. To save your message, click Save on the action bar. 17. Send the message. To send the message now, click Send on the action bar. Depending on the size of the selected list, the message may take a few minutes to send. When the program sends the message, you return to Messages. Note: The Send button appears on the action bar only when you select an list on the Message Recipients screen. For information about lists, see Lists on page 171. To send the message at a later time, click Return on the action bar. You return to Messages. The new appears at the top of the list. To send the , click its name in this list. When the message opens, click Send on the action bar. Note: Each sent contains a text version in addition to its HTML-formatted version. client readers set to display text only show either this text version of the or its own text version, generated from the HTML. The text version of the cannot be altered. View the tabs of a sent message 1. From , click Messages. The Messages screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the message to view. You can enter the message s name or subject or select its template or data source. 3. Click Go. In the grid, the messages that meet the criteria entered appear.
189 Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 4. Next to the for which to view a summary report, click Click here to view report. The Message Report screen appears. Note: If Click here to view report does not appear next to an , the has not been sent. 5. View the summary and statistics of the message. To help you navigate through the information, the Message Report screen contains multiple tabs. On the Summary tab, view the information in the Delivery Status and Recipient Summary frames. In the Delivery Status frame, the Status field displays the status of the , such as Completed or No Valid Recipients. For more information about the status, see Delivery Status on page 189. In the Recipient Summary frame, the graph and Recipient Delivery Summary grid display the total number of recipients targeted to receive the and how many copies of the are sent and not sent. On the Messages Sent tab, view the information in the Messages Sent frame. The graph and Breakdown of Messages Sent grid display how many copies of the Blackbaud NetCommunity sent and how many of the sent messages are opened, not opened, and not delivered. When a message is delivered and the recipient displays its images or clicks on a link in the , it is considered opened. When a message is delivered but the recipient does not display its images or click on a link in the , it is considered not opened.
190 184. CHAPTER 3 When a message is sent but cannot be delivered, or bounces, it is considered not delivered. The delivery of an may fail for multiple reasons, such as a temporary network issue, a full mailbox, a content filter, or an invalid account. For more information about bounced , see Bounced Management on page 188. Note: If the delivery of an fails because the hosting internet service provider (ISP) of the recipient reports the address as invalid, the address automatically appears in Invalid Accounts. An ISP considers an account as invalid if it does not recognize the address or recipient. For information about Invalid Accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page 206. Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send a message if it recognizes that the recipient selected to opt out or if the address is missing or listed in Invalid Accounts. If Blackbaud NetCommunity has not sent all the copies of the , the Messages Not Sent tab appears. On this tab, view the information in the Messages Not Sent frame. Note: If the Messages Not Sent tab does not appear, the program sent all copies of the . The graph and Breakdown of Messages Not Sent grid display how many copies of the Blackbaud NetCommunity did not send and how many the program did not send due to opt-outs, no addresses, and invalid accounts. Note: To prevent your address from being blacklisted, Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send to an account that is marked invalid. For more information about invalid accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page 206. On the Click Throughs tab, view the information in the Page Clicks frame. In the grid, the Page column displays the web pages linked to the message. For each linked web page, the Total Views column displays how many times the page is accessed from the link in the message. The Unique Viewers column displays how many unique recipients use the link to access the page. For example, a recipient clicks the link in the three times to access the events page on your site. For the events page, the Total Views column increases by three, and the Unique Viewers column increases by one. On the Conversions tab, view how many transactions your organization receives as a result of the message. You can view data for donation, event registration, membership, and advocacy conversions. For each type of conversion, the Payment Method column displays the payment methods used in response to the , such as CreditCard. For each payment method listed, the Donations column displays how many transactions received were of this method, and the Total column displays the sum of those transactions. 6. For additional summary information about your message, view the Status Report. To generate this report, click Status Report on the action bar. The Status Report screen appears and displays valuable information about your , such as a [Prepared] date and time stamp.
191 To view who received the message, select the Recipients tab. 8. In the grid, view the address to which the program sends the for each recipient. You can limit the addresses that appear in the grid. a. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the address to view. You can enter the name of the recipient, address, or type. b. Click Go. In the grid, the addresses that meet the criteria entered appear. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 9. For each address to which the program sent the , view the name of the recipient and the date and time Blackbaud NetCommunity sent the . Also, view the date and time the was open or bounced. If an message cannot be delivered to a recipient, the Bounced column displays the date and time when the message delivery failed. For more information about bounced , see Bounced Management on page 188. If the recipient opens the message and displays its images or clicks on a link in the , the Opened column displays the receipt details. 10. To open a constituent record in The Raiser s Edge, click Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge in the Actions column beside the user name. To display Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge, you must use The Raiser s Edge and Blackbaud NetCommunity on the same workstation.
192 186. CHAPTER 3 Note: If Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge does not appear next to the user name, a constituent record for the user does not exist in The Raiser s Edge, or you do not use The Raiser s Edge and Blackbaud NetCommunity on the same workstation. 11. If Blackbaud NetCommunity cannot deliver an , click Click here to view detailed bounce information in the Actions column to view the bounce error. The Bounce Information screen appears and displays the exact wording of the bounce error. You can use this information to help determine the cause of the bounce error. For more information about bounced , see Bounced Management on page To view property information and the content of the message, select the Properties tab. 13. In the Job Details frame, view information about the message, such as who it was sent to and from and its sent date. 14. In the Message Content frame, view the body of the message. 15. To return to Messages, click Return on the action bar.
193 Copy an message 1. From , click Messages. The Messages screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the message to copy. You can enter the message s name or subject or select its template or data source. 3. Click Go. In the grid, the messages that meet the criteria entered appear. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 4. Next to the message to copy, click Click here to copy this Message in the Action column. The Copy of Message screen appears. Note: To access the Copy of Message screen, you can also open the message to copy and click Copy Message on the action bar. 5. In the Name field, enter a unique name to identify the new message. 6. Edit the information as required to design the new message. For information about how to design an message, see Design an message on page To save your message, click Save on the action bar.
194 188. CHAPTER 3 8. Send the message. To send the message now, click Send on the action bar. Depending on the size of the selected list, the message may take a few minutes to send. When the program sends the message, you return to Messages. Note: The Send button appears on the action bar only when you select an list on the Message Recipients screen. For information about lists, see Lists on page 171. To send the message at a later time, click Return on the action bar. You return to Messages. The new appears at the top of the list. To send the , click its name in this list. When the message opens, click Send on the action bar. Note: Each sent contains a text version in addition to its HTML-formatted version. client readers set to display text only show either this text version of the or its own text version, generated from the HTML. The text version of the cannot be altered. Bounced Management A bounced is one that is sent but cannot be delivered. The delivery of an may fail for multiple reasons, such as a temporary network issue, a full mailbox, a content filter, or an invalid account. You can view a breakdown of how many sent copies of an bounced. To view a breakdown of how many copies of a sent message bounced, select the Messages Sent tab of the Message Report tab on the Message Report screen. For information about the Message Report tab, see View the tabs of a sent message on page 182. To view a breakdown of how many copies of a sent newsletter issue bounced, select the Issues Sent tab of the Issue Report tab on the Issue Report screen. For information about the Issues Report tab, see View the tabs of a sent newsletter issue on page 195. To view a breakdown of how many copies of a sent acknowledgement bounced, select the Acknowledgements Sent tab of the Acknowledgements Report tab on the Acknowledgements Report screen. For information about the Acknowledgements Report tab, see View the tabs of a sent acknowledgement on page 203. If a sent bounces, you can view the bounce error Blackbaud NetCommunity receives. For a message or newsletter, you can view bounce information on the Recipients tab on the Message Report or Issue Report screen. For an acknowledgement, you can view bounce information on the Messages tab on the Acknowledgement Report screen. To view a bounce error of an , click Click here to view detailed bounce information in the Actions column. The Bounce Information screen appears and displays the exact wording of the bounce error. For information about the Recipients tabs, see View the tabs of a sent message on page 182 or View the tabs of a sent newsletter issue on page 195. For information about the Messages tab, see View the tabs of a sent acknowledgement on page 203. How Blackbaud NetCommunity handles a bounced depends on the type of delivery failure. If the bounce error is caused by a temporary failure, such as a network error, full mailbox, or content filter, Blackbaud NetCommunity tries to send the again periodically for at least 24 hours or until delivery is successful. For a message or newsletter, you can view the latest bounce information on the Recipients tab on the Message Report or Issue Report screen. For an acknowledgement, you can view the latest bounce information on the Messages tab on the Acknowledgement Report screen.
195 Note: If an bounces due to a temporary failure, you can click Click here to resend in the Action column to attempt to send the again. If the bounce error is caused by a permanent failure, such as an unknown user or address, the account is marked invalid. You can also view bounce information about these accounts in Invalid Accounts. For information about how to manage your invalid accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page 206. Note: To prevent your address from being blacklisted, Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send to an account that is marked invalid. For more information about invalid accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page Delivery Status When you send an from Blackbaud NetCommunity, the program prepares the and sends it through the NetCommunity Windows service. The NetCommunity Windows service retrieves any merge data from other Blackbaud programs, processes the , and then uploads the to the Blackbaud NetCommunity mail server to be sent to its recipients. After you send an from Blackbaud NetCommunity, you can view the current status of the sent message or newsletter issue. To view the delivery status of an , access its Message Report or Issue Report screen and select the Summary tab. In the Delivery Status frame, the Status field displays the current status of the . For information about the Summary tab, see View the tabs of a sent message on page 182 or View the tabs of a sent newsletter issue on page 195. Created The is created in Blackbaud NetCommunity and has not yet been sent through the NetCommunity Windows service. Prepared The is in the queue to be processed by the NetCommunity Windows service. Processing The NetCommunity Windows service is processing the , including retrieving any merge data from another Blackbaud program. Processed The NetCommunity Windows service processed the , and the is in the queue to be uploaded to the mail server. No Valid Recipients The cannot be delivered to the selected list, such as if the list contains no recipients or no recipients selected have valid addresses. Uploading The NetCommunity Windows service is uploading the to the Blackbaud NetCommunity mail server. Upload Failed The NetCommunity Windows service could not upload the to the mail server. If the upload fails, the NetCommunity Windows service automatically tries to upload the again. Accepted The successfully uploaded to the mail server and is in the queue to be processed. Active The mail server is processing the to prepare it for delivery. Completed The mail server processed the , which has been sent or is in the queue to be sent to the recipients. Note: When the Status field displays Completed, the mail server may be in the process of sending the to its recipients. Some messages or newsletter issues in the may not yet be sent. Exception The could not be uploaded to the Blackbaud NetCommunity mail server due to an error when the NetCommunity Windows service processed the . For Support assistance with Blackbaud NetCommunity, send an to [email protected].
196 190. CHAPTER 3 Exception on Server The could not be sent due to an error on the Blackbaud NetCommunity mail server. For Support assistance with Blackbaud NetCommunity, send an to [email protected]. Newsletters In Newsletters, you can create a newsletter template for each type of newsletter you send by . For example, you can create a newsletter in Blackbaud NetCommunity for your alumni and another for your foundation donors. Within each saved newsletter, you can generate the current issue of the newsletter to send from the Issues tab. Once you send the issue via , Blackbaud NetCommunity stores the newsletter on the Issues tab for reference. Note: Newsletters are sent only to users who subscribe to the newsletter on the User Preferences Form. For more information about the User Preferences Form part type, see User Preferences Form on page 110. To share with users what newsletters are available, we recommend you link the page users are directed to after they register to the Preferences page so they can subscribe to mailings as soon as they register. You can also include information about newsletters in NetCommunity messages with a link to the Preferences page. Warning: It is important your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Newsletters. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly encourage only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Newsletters. Design a newsletter 1. From , click Newsletters. The Newsletters screen appears.
197 On the action bar, click New Newsletter. The New Newsletter screen appears. 3. Select the Properties tab. 4. In the Newsletter Name field, enter a unique name to identify the newsletter. 5. In the Description field, enter any additional information, such as a brief description of the newsletter or notes about the template layout. Note: In the Default Mailing Options frame, the Send To field is disabled. Blackbaud NetCommunity automatically generates a mailing list that includes only users who subscribe to the newsletter on the User Preferences Form. 6. In the Subject field, enter a subject for the newsletter. When you create a newsletter from this template, your entry here automatically appears in the Subject field of the the user receives. This provides the recipient with an idea of the content of the . When you create an individual newsletter , you can edit what you enter here. You do not have to enter anything here, but we recommend it for consistency and to save time when you create newsletter In the From Address field, enter the address to appear in the From field on the So recipients of the newsletter can respond to an address different from the one from which you send the message, in the Reply Address field, enter the address to receive responses. 9. In the From Name field, enter the name to appear in the From field of the . This provides the recipient with an idea of who sends the newsletter, such as your organization name. 10. In the Notifications are to be sent to the following addresses frame, specify whether and where you want to receive failure messages. To maintain messages that are not delivered, mark Failures. In the field next to the checkbox, enter the address to receive failure messages.
198 192. CHAPTER 3 Note: Failures are addresses on the list that do not receive the sent. A failure can also be called a non-delivery receipt, bounceback, UnDeliverable, or Delivery Status Notification (DSN). For information about how the program handles failed delivery, see Bounced Management on page To assign the security rights for the newsletter, select the Security tab. 12. In the grid, the Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For each user, assign Send, Edit, Delete, and Change Security rights for the newsletter. For more information about security, see Security on page 223. Note: In this case, Edit rights enable the user to change the newsletter template and defaults. To create a newsletter from this template, a user needs only Send rights. 13. On the action bar, click Save. The program saves the information on the New Newsletter screen on the Properties tab. The Issues and Design tabs appear. 14. To design the content and appearance of the newsletter, select the Design tab. 15. In the bottom pane, enter default content for the newsletter. To have personalized information from another program appear in the newsletter for each recipient, add merge fields. For example, when you select the First name field, recipients receive a newsletter addressed directly to them. a. To display the list of available merge fields, click the Merge Fields field on the toolbar. To expand the list, click the plus sign next to a field category.
199 b. To add a field to the newsletter, select a field from the list. The list closes and the field appears in the bottom pane. c. Put fields where you want them to appear in the body of the newsletter. For example, enter Hello, Bio.First Name after it. In the , the recipient reads Hello, [his or her first name]. To move a field, click and drag it to the new location. 16. To format the newsletter s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information, see HTML Editor on page To save the newsletter, click Save on the action bar. 18. To send an issue of the newsletter, select the Issues tab. For information about how to send an issue from the Issues tab, see Design and send an issue of a newsletter on page To return to Newsletters, click Return on the action bar. Design and send an issue of a newsletter 1. From , click Newsletters. The Newsletters screen appears. 2. To limit the results that appear in the grid: a. In the Filter List By frame, enter the name or subject of the newsletter to view. b. Click Go. The grid displays the newsletters that meet the criteria. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 3. Next to the newsletter to view, click Click here to edit this Newsletter in the Action column. The Issue screen appears. 4. To design a new issue of the newsletter, select the Issues tab.
200 194. CHAPTER 3 5. On the action bar, click New Issue. The New Issue screen appears. 6. In the Name field, enter the name of this issue of the newsletter, such as The User s Edge for the week of August 8, In the Subject field, enter the subject for this issue of the newsletter. 8. In the Issue Date field, today s date and time automatically appears. To edit this information, enter the date and time to display as the creation date and time of the newsletter. 9. In the Send After Date field, you can schedule the issue to be sent at a future date and time. For example, you may be out of the office for the next month but need to send your regular weekly newsletter during that time. If you enter a date other than the current date and time, you must still press Send on the action bar after you design the newsletter. However, the mailing service does not process the message until the date and time you enter in the Send After Date field. If you do not want to schedule this for a future date, leave the current date and time in the Send After Date field. When you click Send on the action bar, the program automatically sends the In the Send To field, the newsletter list name automatically appears. The issue will be sent to only subscribed users. Note: If recipients do not want to receive your newsletter, they can unsubscribe from the list. To enable a recipient to unsubscribe, use the Formatted Text and Images part type to create an unsubscribe footer. For more information, see Formatted Text and Images on page In the bottom pane, the default newsletter content appears. You can edit content for this issue; change the layout, design, and text; and add or edit any current articles. 12. To save the issue of the newsletter, click Save on the action bar. 13. To send the issue of the newsletter, click Send on the action bar. The mailing service processes the message at the date and time entered in the Send After Date field. Note: Each sent contains a text version in addition to its HTML-formatted version. client readers set to display text only show either this text version of the or its own text version, generated from the HTML. The text version of the cannot be altered. 14. To return to Newsletters, click Return on the action bar.
201 View the tabs of a sent newsletter issue 1. From , click Newsletters. The Newsletters screen appears. 2. To limit the results that appear in the grid: a. In the Filter List By frame, enter the name or subject of the newsletter to view. b. Click Go. The grid displays the newsletters that meet the criteria. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 3. Next to the newsletter to view, click Click here to edit this Newsletter in the Action column. The Issues screen appears. Note: From the Issues screen, you can create a new issue based on the existing issue. On the action bar, click Copy Issue. The New Issue screen appears so you can begin your new issue. For information about how to design an issue of a newsletter, see Design and send an issue of a newsletter on page To select the issue of the newsletter to view, select the Issues tab. 5. To limit the results that appear in the grid: a. In the Filter List By frame, enter the name or subject of the issue to view. b. Click Go. The grid displays the issues that meet the criteria. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 6. Next to the issue to view, click Click here to view report in the Action column. The Issue Report screen appears. Note: If Click here to view report does not appear next to an issue, the program has not yet sent the issue. 7. On the Issue Report tab, view the summary and statistics of the issue. To help you navigate through the information, the Issue Report tab contains multiple tabs. On the Summary tab, view the information in the Delivery Status and Recipient Summary frames. In the Delivery Status frame, the Status field displays the status of the issue, such as Completed or No Valid Recipients. For more information about the status, see Delivery Status on page 189. In the Recipient Summary frame, the graph and Recipient Delivery Summary grid display the total number of recipients targeted to receive the issue and how many copies of the issue are sent and not sent. On the Issues Sent tab, view the information in the Issues Sent frame. The graph and Breakdown of Issues Sent grid display how many copies of the issue Blackbaud NetCommunity sent and how many of the sent issues are opened, not opened, and not delivered.
202 196. CHAPTER 3 When a newsletter is delivered and the recipient displays its images or clicks on a link in the , it is considered opened. When a newsletter is delivered but the recipient does not display its images or click on a link in the , it is considered not opened. When a newsletter is sent but cannot be delivered, or bounces, it is considered not delivered. The delivery of an may fail for multiple reasons, such as a temporary network issue, a full mailbox, a content filter, or an invalid account. For more information about bounced , see Bounced Management on page 188. Note: If the delivery of an fails because the hosting internet service provider (ISP) of the recipient reports the address as invalid, the address automatically appears in Invalid Accounts. An ISP considers an account as invalid if it does not recognize the address or recipient. For information about Invalid Accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page 206. Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send an if it recognizes that the recipient selected to opt out or if the address is missing or listed in Invalid Accounts. If Blackbaud NetCommunity has not sent all the copies of the issues, the Issues Not Sent tab appears. On this tab, view the information in the Issues Not Sent frame. Note: If the Issues Not Sent tab does not appear, the program sent all copies of the issue. The graph and Breakdown of Issues Not Sent grid display how many copies of the issue Blackbaud NetCommunity did not send and how many were not sent due to opt-outs, no addresses, and invalid accounts. Note: To prevent your address from being blacklisted, Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send to an account that is marked invalid. For more information about invalid accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page 206. On the Click Throughs tab, view the information in the Page Clicks frame. In the grid, the Page column displays the web pages linked to the newsletter. For each linked page, the Total Views column displays how many times recipients access the page from the link in the issue. The Unique Viewers column displays how many unique recipients use the link to access the page. For example, a recipient clicks the link in the issue three times to access the events page on your site. For the events page, the Total Views column increases by three, and the Unique Viewers column increases by one. On the Conversions tab, view how many transactions your organization receives as a result of the newsletter. You can view data for donation, event registration, membership, and advocacy conversions. For each type of conversion, the Payment Method column displays the payment methods used in response to the newsletter, such as CreditCard. For each payment method listed, the Donations column displays how many transactions received were of this method, and the Total column displays the sum of those transactions. 8. For additional summary information about your message, view the Status Report. To generate this report, click Status Report on the action bar. The Status Report screen appears and displays valuable information about your , such as a [Prepared] date and time stamp. 9. To view who received the issue, select the Recipients tab.
203 In the grid, view the address to which the program sends the for each recipient. You can limit the addresses that appear in the grid. a. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the address to view. You can enter the name of the recipient, address, or type. b. Click Go. In the grid, the addresses that meet the criteria entered appear. 11. For each address to which the program sent the , view the name of the recipient and the date and time Blackbaud NetCommunity sent the . Also, view the date and time the was open or bounced. If an message cannot be delivered to a recipient, the Bounced column displays the bounce details. If the recipient opens the message, the Opened column displays the receipt details. 12. To open a constituent record in The Raiser s Edge, click Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge in the Actions column beside the user name. To display Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge, you must use The Raiser s Edge and Blackbaud NetCommunity on the same workstation. Note: If Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge does not appear next to the user name, a constituent record for the user does not exist in The Raiser s Edge, or you do not use The Raiser s Edge and Blackbaud NetCommunity on the same workstation. 13. If Blackbaud NetCommunity cannot deliver an issue, click Click here to view detailed bounce information in the Actions column to view the bounce error. The Bounce Information screen appears and displays the exact wording of the bounce error. You can use this information to help determine the cause of the bounce error. For more information about bounced , see Bounced Management on page To view the properties and content of the issue, select the Properties tab. 15. In the Job Details frame, view information such as who the issue was sent to and from and the sent date. 16. In the Message Content frame, view the body of the issue. 17. To leave the Issue Report screen, click Return on the action bar. Acknowledgements You can generate acknowledgement from part types that contain acknowledgement functionality. For example, you generate acknowledgements from the Donation Form part. Acknowledgements contains the default acknowledgement for Blackbaud NetCommunity. You can use this as the default template for acknowledgement for part types. In addition, you can view acknowledgement statistics from Acknowledgements.
204 198. CHAPTER 3 Warning: It is important your organization assigns full Administrator rights to only a select number of users for Acknowledgements. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We strongly recommend only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and Blackbaud NetCommunity perform tasks in Acknowledgements. Design a default acknowledgement 1. From , click Acknowledgements. The Acknowledgements screen appears.
205 Next to the Acknowledgement Defaults , click Click here to view/edit this Acknowledgement s properties. The Properties screen appears. 3. Select the Properties tab. 4. In the Default Mailing Options frame, in the From Address field, enter an address to appear in the From field on the To receive responses from recipients of the at a different address than the one from which you send the message, enter the address in the Reply Address field. 6. In the From Name field, enter the name to appear in the From field on the . This provides the recipient with an idea of who sent the message, such as your organization name. 7. In the Notifications are to be sent to the following addresses frame, specify whether and where to receive failure messages. To track messages that are not delivered, mark Failures. In the field next to the checkbox, enter the address to receive failure messages. Note: Failures are addresses on the list that do not receive the sent. A failure can also be called a non-delivery receipt, bounceback, UnDeliverable, or Delivery Status Notification (DSN). For information about how the program handles failed delivery, see Bounced Management on page In the Template Security grid, the Role column displays the Blackbaud NetCommunity users. For each user, assign Send, Edit, Delete, and Change Security rights for the newsletter. For more information about security, see Security on page 223.
206 200. CHAPTER 3 Note: In this case, Edit rights enable the user to change the template and defaults. To be able to create an message from this template, a user needs only Send rights. 9. To design the content and appearance of the acknowledgement, select the Content tab. 10. In the box, enter the default text for all acknowledgement . When you create an acknowledgement sent from the Donation Form, Membership Form, or Event Registration Form part types, this text automatically appears. 11. To format the default content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information, see HTML Editor on page 6. Note: You do not add merge fields on the acknowledgement default template. Merge fields are available for the individual message created from donation parts. 12. To save the , click Save on the action bar. 13. To return to Acknowledgements, click Return on the action bar.
207 Design an acknowledgement for a transaction You can generate an acknowledgement from part types that contain acknowledgement functionality, such as the Donation Form part or Event Registration Form part. The acknowledgement appears on your website after the site user completes a transaction. In addition, this message is automatically sent in an to the site user. For the site user to receive an acknowledgement, you must design and create an acknowledgement for the part type. 1. On the Edit Part screen, click Acknowledgement on the action bar. The Acknowledgement screen appears. Note: The screen shown above is the Acknowledgement screen for a Donation Form part. Depending on the part type you use, your Acknowledgement screen may differ slightly. 2. In the Name field, enter a name for the In the Subject field, enter the subject of the . The text you enter appears as the Subject field of the to provide the recipient with an idea of the content of the message. 4. In the From Address field, enter the address to appear in the From field on the In the From Name field, enter the name to appear in the From field of the . This provides the recipient with an idea of who sends the . For example, enter your organization name. 6. To enter a reply address or specify whether and where to receive failure notices, click More Options.
208 202. CHAPTER 3 Note: To hide the details, click Hide Options. To have responses from recipients of the arrive at a different address from the one from which you send the message, enter the address in the Reply Address field. Note: For a donation acknowledgement, if you use the Receipts task in The Raiser s Edge, you can generate ereceipts to send to constituents. For more information about ereceipts, see The Raiser s Edge Mail Guide. In the Notifications are to be sent to the following addresses frame, specify whether and where to receive failure messages. To maintain messages that are not delivered, mark Failures. In the field next to the checkbox, enter the address to which to send failure messages. Note: Failures are addresses on the list that do not receive the sent. A failure can also be called a non-delivery receipt, bounceback, UnDeliverable, or Delivery Status Notification (DSN). For information about how the program handles failed delivery, see Bounced Management on page In the box, the text from the default acknowledgement appears. Enter or edit the content of the as required. To customize content, select fields from the Merge Fields drop-down. To format the content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page 6. Note: You can include conditional fields in your acknowledgement . Conditional fields do not appear in the final if they do not apply to the transaction being acknowledged. For example, for a donation acknowledgement, you can enter We greatly appreciate <Company Name> s support! If the donation is not from a company, this sentence does not appear in the final acknowledgement. To identify conditional fields, look for begin section and end section indicators. For example, <Corporate.Begin Section> and <Corporate.End Section> indicate that the sentence with <Company Name> is conditional. 8. To save the , click Save and Close. You return to the Edit Part screen. 9. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
209 View the tabs of a sent acknowledgement 1. From , click Acknowledgements. The Acknowledgements screen appears. 2. Next to the to view, click Click here to view report. The Acknowledgement Report screen appears. 3. On the Acknowledgement Report tab, view the summary and statistics of the issue of the newsletter. To help you navigate through the information, the Acknowledgement Report tab contains multiple tabs.
210 204. CHAPTER 3 On the Summary tab, the Recipient Summary frame displays the graph and Recipient Delivery Summary grid to show the total number of recipients targeted to receive the acknowledgement and how many copies of the acknowledgement are sent and not sent. On the Acknowledgements Sent tab, view the information in the Acknowledgements Sent frame. The graph and Breakdown of Acknowledgements Sent grid display how many copies of the acknowledgement Blackbaud NetCommunity sent and how many of the sent acknowledgements are opened, not opened, and not delivered. When an acknowledgement is delivered and the recipient displays its images or clicks on a link in the , it is considered opened. When an acknowledgement is delivered but the recipient does not display its images or click on a link in the , it is considered not opened. When an acknowledgement is sent but cannot be delivered, or bounces, it is considered not delivered. The delivery of an may fail for multiple reasons, such as a temporary network issue, a full mailbox, a content filter, or an invalid account. For more information about bounced , see Bounced Management on page 188. Note: If the delivery of an fails because the hosting internet service provider (ISP) of the recipient reports the address as invalid, the address automatically appears in Invalid Accounts. An ISP considers an account as invalid if it does not recognize the address or recipient. For information about Invalid Accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page 206. Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send an if it recognizes that the recipient selected to opt out or if the address is missing or listed in Invalid Accounts. If Blackbaud NetCommunity has not sent all the copies of the acknowledgement, the Acknowledgements Not Sent tab appears. On this tab, view the information in the Acknowledgements Not Sent frame. Note: If the Acknowledgements Not Set tab does not appear, the program sent all copies of the acknowledgement. The graph and Breakdown of Acknowledgements Not Sent grid display how many copies of the acknowledgement Blackbaud NetCommunity did not send and how many were not sent due to opt-outs, no addresses, and invalid accounts. Note: To prevent your address from being blacklisted, Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send to an account that is marked invalid. For more information about invalid accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page 206. On the Click Throughs tab, view the information in the Page Clicks frame. In the grid, the Page column displays the web pages linked to the acknowledgement. For each linked page, the Total Views column displays how many times recipients access the page from the link in the . The Unique Viewers column displays how many unique recipients use the link to access the page. For example, a recipient clicks the link in the acknowledgement three times to access the events page on your site. For the events page, the Total Views column increases by three, and the Unique Viewers column increases by one.
211 Note: If the acknowledgement does not contain any page links, the Click Throughs tab displays This message does not contain any links. 4. To view who received the acknowledgement, select the Messages tab. 5. In the grid, view the address to which the program sends the for each recipient. You can limit the addresses that appear in the grid. a. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the address to view. You can enter the name of the recipient, address, or type. b. Click Go. In the grid, the addresses that meet the criteria entered appear. 6. For each address to which the program sent the , view the name of the recipient and the date and time Blackbaud NetCommunity sent the . Also, view the date and time the was open or bounced. If an message cannot be delivered to a recipient, the Bounced column displays the bounce details. If the recipient opens the message, the Opened column displays the receipt details. If the address is an invalid account, No Valid Recipients appears in the Status column. For information about how to manage invalid accounts, see Invalid Accounts on page To open a constituent record in The Raiser s Edge, click Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge in the Actions column beside the user name. To display Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge, you must use The Raiser s Edge and Blackbaud NetCommunity on the same workstation. Note: If Click here to open this recipient in The Raiser s Edge does not appear next to the user name, a constituent record for the user does not exist in The Raiser s Edge, or you do not use The Raiser s Edge and Blackbaud NetCommunity on the same workstation. 8. If Blackbaud NetCommunity cannot deliver an acknowledgement, click Click here to view detailed bounce information in the Actions column to view the bounce error. The Bounce Information screen appears and displays the exact wording of the bounce error. You can use this information to help determine the cause of the bounce error. For more information about bounced , see Bounced Management on page To return to Acknowledgements, click Return on the action bar.
212 206. CHAPTER 3 Invalid Accounts In Invalid Accounts, you can view address accounts that have been reported as invalid by their hosting internet service provider (ISP). For example, an ISP may report an address account as invalid due to a nonexistent or canceled account. Typical causes of an invalid account occur when the address contains a typographical error or the account is canceled due to inactivity. Accounts that bounce for another reason, such as a temporary network issue, a full mailbox, or due to a content filter, do not appear in Invalid Accounts. Note: For information about how Blackbaud NetCommunity handles accounts that bounce but are still valid, see Bounced Management on page 188. To prevent your address from being blacklisted, Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send to an invalid account. For each address in Invalid Accounts, you can view the bounce error that caused the ISP to report the account as invalid. If you feel an account is incorrectly marked invalid, you can mark it as active to include it in a mailing. View invalid address account information 1. From , click Invalid Accounts. The Invalid Accounts screen appears. In the grid, addresses reported as invalid by their hosting ISP appear. For each invalid account, you can view the bounce statistics. The Count column displays how many bounce errors you have received for the account. The Create Date column displays when the account was marked as invalid, and the Update Date column displays when the account s bounce information was last updated. 2. To limit the addresses that appear in the grid, in the Filter List By field, enter the address to display and click Go. 3. To view more detailed bounce information about an invalid account, click Click here to edit this Invalid Account next to the account. The Invalid Account Viewer screen appears. 4. View the messages and bounce details of the account.
213 In the column, view the subject of the that bounced at the address. In the Sent Date column, view the date and time when the program sent the message. If the message delivery failed, in the Bounce Date column, view the date and time the message bounced. The Bounce Text column displays the exact wording of the bounce error received from the hosting ISP. Note: If an address is incorrectly marked invalid, you can mark it as valid. For information about how to mark an invalid account as valid, see Mark an invalid account as valid on page To return to Invalid Accounts, click Return on the action bar. Mark an invalid account as valid Blackbaud NetCommunity does not send to an account that an Internet Service Provider (ISP) has marked invalid. If you feel an ISP incorrectly marks an address as invalid, such as a new address you include in a mailing before the account is active, you can mark it as valid. Once you mark it as valid, Blackbaud NetCommunity sends to it when included in a mailing. 1. From , click Invalid Accounts. The Invalid Accounts screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By field, enter the address to mark as valid and click Go. 3. In the grid, click Click here to edit this Invalid Account next to the account. The Invalid Account Viewer screen appears. 4. On the action bar, click Mark as Valid. You return to Invalid Accounts. In the grid, the address no longer appears.
214 208. CHAPTER 3 Campaigns In Campaigns, you can create campaigns using sent to targeted lists. For example, during tax season, your organization asks its members to donate their tax refunds to help buy food for a rescued animals living in a shelter. You can create a series of messages that are tailored for specific audiences. Using A/B split testing, you can identify which messages are most effective for each list. For more information about Campaigns, see: Create Campaigns on page 208 Create Appeals on page 208 Create Campaigns Campaigns records store related appeals and their associated lists and messages. You can create multiple campaign folders to organize related campaigns. Create a new campaign 1. From , click Campaign. The Campaign page appears. 2. On the action bar, click New Campaign. The New Campaign screen appears. Note: If you need additional space on your computer screen, click Hide Navigation Bar on the Blackbaud NetCommunity toolbar. 3. In the Name field, enter a name for your campaign. 4. In the Description field, enter a description about the campaign, such as the campaign s goal or theme. 5. To select a folder to store the campaign, click Select Folder. The Save Folder screen appears. If you do not select a folder, the program saves the campaign in the Campaigns folder. 6. In the Project Security grid, you can assign View, Edit, Delete, and Change Security rights for each of your roles. Blackbaud NetCommunity users are identified in the Role column. For more information about security, see Security on page To save your campaign and return to the Campaign pages, click Save and Close. Create Appeals You can create multiple appeals and test the effectiveness of each message. The Appeal Wizard is a series of tabs that guides you through creating an appeal. On these tabs, you select the lists and messages for the appeal, send test and final messages, and view the results. You can view message and target list summary reports to monitor the success of individual messages and target lists. You can also view the appeal summary report to evaluate the success of all messages and lists associated with the appeal.
215 The flowchart provides an overview of the appeal creation process. Create an appeal 1. From the Campaign page, find the campaign to add the appeal to. In the upper right pane, the campaign appears. In the bottom pane, any appeals previously created for the campaign appears. To find a campaign from the Folders tab, select the folder that contains the campaign. To find a campaign from the Search tab, search for the campaign by name. 2. Click New Appeal. The Appeal Properties screen appears. 3. In the Name field, enter a name for the appeal. 4. In the Description field, enter a description that identifies the appeal. 5. Click Next. The Appeal Wizard appears and opens to the 1: Target Lists tab. For information about this tab, see Complete the 1: Target Lists tab on page 209. Complete the 1: Target Lists tab On the 1: Target Lists tab, you select lists containing the primary recipients you are targeting for your appeal. You select lists saved in Lists; these can be query-based or imported. For more information about lists, see Lists on page From the 1: Target Lists tab, click Insert Target List. The New Appeal List screen appears. 2. To add an list, select the list on the left and click Add to move it into the Selected Lists box. Add each list as required. 3. Click OK. You return to the 1: Target Lists tab. In the grid, the selected lists appear.
216 210. CHAPTER 3 4. In the Action column, view a summary report or the properties of the selected target list. You can also remove the selected target list from the appeal. To view a summary report for the selected target list, click Click to Target List report. The tabs on this report display the same information as the Target List Results on the Results tab. For more information, see Complete the 7: Results tab on page 213. To view the selected target list s properties, click Click here to view/edit this Target List s properties. On the List Properties tab, view the list s data source and query or import file name. The List Status box displays whether the program loaded the list successfully or if there are any errors. On the View List tab, view a list of all recipients included in the list. On the List Templates tab, view a list of all templates associated with the selected list. On the List Messages tab, view a list of all messages sent to the selected list. To remove the selected target list from the appeal, click Click here to remove this Target List from this Appeal. 5. In the Data Source column, view the data source for the lists, such as a query of constituents or an imported list. 6. If a problem exists with a selected list, the error appears in the Loaded Status column. To resolve the error, exit Campaigns and open the list in Lists, where you can edit the queries that make up the list or replace the *.csv file that creates an imported list. If the list is imported, you can also change the field mapping for the address and the recipient display name. For information about how to edit a list, see Lists on page 171. Note: Each recipient in a target list receives one from the appeal. After you add a target list, you can run a duplicate search to identify any addresses that appear in more than one target list. For more information about duplicate searches, see Search for duplicate addresses on page To select the seed lists that contain the recipients to copy on all test messages, click Next or select the 2: Seed Lists tab. For information about this tab, see Complete the 2: Seed Lists tab on page 210 To save the appeal and return to the Campaigns page, click Return on the action bar. Complete the 2: Seed Lists tab On the 2: Seed Lists tab, you select seed lists that contain the recipients to copy on all test messages. These are typically people in your organization who track the progress of the appeal. On the Lists tab of the appeal summary report, you can view the statistics for test messages sent to seed lists. Seed lists are excluded from statistics on all other tabs of the report, such as the Messages Sent and Click Throughs tab. 1. From an open appeal, select the 2: Seed Lists tab. 2. Click Insert Seed List. The New Appeal List screen appears. 3. To add a seed list, select the list on the left and click Add to move it into the Selected Lists box. Add each list as required. 4. Click OK. You return to the 2: Seed Lists tab. In the grid, the selected lists appear. 5. In the Action column, you can view a summary report or the properties of the selected seed list. You can also remove the selected seed list from the appeal. To view a summary report for the selected seed list, click Click to Seed List report.
217 To view the selected seed list s properties, click Click here to view/edit this Seed List s properties. On the List Properties tab, view the list s data source and query or import file name. The List Status box displays whether the program loaded the list successfully or if there are any errors. On the View List tab, view a list of all recipients included in the list. On the List Templates tab, view a list of all templates associated with the selected list. On the List Messages tab, view a list of all messages sent to the selected list. To remove the selected seed list from the appeal, click Click here to remove this Seed List from this Appeal. 6. In the Data Source column, view the data source for the lists, such as a query of constituents or an imported list. 7. If a problem exists with a selected list, the error appears in the Loaded Status column. To resolve the error, exit Campaigns and open the list in Lists, where you can edit the queries that make up the list or replace the *.csv file that creates an imported list. If the list is imported, you can change the field mapping for the address and the recipient display name. For information about how to edit a list, see Lists on page To select the exclusion lists that contain the recipients to exclude from all sent for this appeal, click Next or select the 3: Exclusion Lists tab. For information about this tab, see Complete the 3: Exclusion Lists tab on page 211. To save the appeal and return to the Campaigns page, click Return on the action bar. Complete the 3: Exclusion Lists tab On the 3: Exclusion Lists tab, you select exclusion lists that contain recipients to exclude from all sent for the appeal. Exclusion lists allow you to exclude recipients without editing the existing target list. For example, if you send a follow-up to an appeal you sent earlier, you may want to exclude all recipients who already donated as a result of the previous From an open appeal, select the 3: Exclusion Lists tab. 2. Click Insert Exclusion List. The New Appeal List screen appears. 3. To add an exclusion list, select the list on the left and click Add to move it into the Selected Lists box. Repeat for each list you want to add. 4. Click OK. You return to the 3: Exclusion Lists tab. In the grid, the selected lists appear. 5. In the Action column, view the properties of the selected exclusion list. You can also remove the selected exclusion list from the appeal. To view the selected exclusion list s properties, click Click here to view/edit this Exclusion List s properties. On the List Properties tab, view the list s data source and query or import file name. The List Status box displays whether the program loaded the list successfully or if there are any errors. On the View List tab, view a list of all recipients included in the list. On the List Templates tab, view a list of all templates associated with the selected list. On the List Messages tab, view a list of all messages sent to the selected list. To remove the selected exclusion list from the appeal, click Click here to remove this Exclusion List from this Appeal. 6. In the Data Source column, view the data source for the lists, such as a query of constituents or an imported list.
218 212. CHAPTER 3 7. If a problem exists with a selected list, the error appears in the Loaded Status column. To resolve the error, exit Campaigns and open the list in Lists, where you can edit the queries that make up the list or replace the *.csv file that creates an imported list. If the list is imported, you can also change the field mapping for the address and the recipient display name. For information about how to edit a list, see Lists on page To create test messages for each target list, click Next or select the 4: Messages tab. For information about this tab, see Complete the 4: Messages tab on page 212. To save the appeal and return to the Campaigns page, click Return on the action bar. Complete the 4: Messages tab On the 4: Messages tab, you create test messages for each target list. 1. From an open appeal, select the 4: Messages tab. 2. For all the target lists, create each message. a. Select a list in the Target List pane and click New Message. The Select Template screen appears. b. In the Template field, select an template for the message. The templates that appear in the list are those associated with the target lists type. For example, if the target list is based on a query of constituents, templates with Constituents or Generic selected in the Data Source field appear. c. Click Next. The Properties screen appears. d. In the Name field, enter a unique name to help identify the . e. In the Issue Date field, the current date and time appear automatically. To edit the issue date, enter a different date and time. f. The bottom pane displays the s default content. You can use the HTML editor to change the message s content, appearance, and layout. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page 6. g. To save the message, click Save and Close. You return to the 4: Messages tab. 3. To set test parameters for each message, click Next or select the 5: Send Tests tab. For information about this tab, see Complete the 5: Send Tests tab on page 212. To save the appeal and return to the Campaigns page, click Return on the action bar. Complete the 5: Send Tests tab On the 5: Send Tests tab, you set test parameters for each message. You can test variables for each message, such as the message s content, subject line, scheduled time of departure, and the name and address used for sending. You can also define the sample size for each test message. 1. From an open appeal, select the 5: Send Tests tab. 2. To create test parameters for a message, select a list in the Target List pane and select a message in the Messages for <Target List> pane. 3. For each message, set the test parameters. a. In the Test Message Parameters pane at the bottom, the Subject, Send date, and From fields display the default values from the message s template. You can enter a new values for these fields.
219 b. In the Sample Size field, specify how many recipients included in the target list are to receive the test message. To send the test message to a percentage of the recipients, select Percent of list and enter the percentage of recipients. To send the test message to a specific number of the recipients, select Recipients and enter the number of recipients. Note: To send the test message to the entire target list, select Percent of list and enter 100%, or select Recipients and enter the total number of eligible records in the target list. c. Specify whether to send the test message now or later. To send the test message now, click Send Test Message. The test parameters are disabled, and the Status displays Processing as the messages process. Once the is processed, click Refresh. The Status displays Sent. To save the test parameters and send the test message at a later time, click Save. When you later open the appeal, you can then click Send Test Message to send the message. 4. To send the message that has the best test results to all remaining recipients for each target list, click Next or select the 6: Send Final tab. For information about this tab, see Complete the 6: Send Final tab on page 213. To save the appeal and return to the Campaigns page, click Return on the action bar. Complete the 6: Send Final tab On the 6: Send Final tab, you can send the message with the best test results to all the remaining recipients, such as those who did not yet receive an , in a target list. This message is not sent to any seed list recipients. 1. From an open appeal, select the 6: Send Final tab. 2. Select a target list. In the Results of Test Messages pane on the right, all the test messages for that list appear. 3. To identify which test message is most successful, select each message and view its results. 4. Select the message to send as the final message to all remaining recipients in that target list and click Send As Final. A message appears to confirm you want to send the message. 5. Click OK. The Final Status displays Processing as the final messages are sent. 6. Once the is processed, click Refresh. The Final Status displays Sent. 7. To view the results for each target list, click Next or select the 7: Results tab. For information about this tab, see Complete the 5: Send Tests tab on page 212. To save the appeal and return to the Campaigns page, click Return on the action bar. Complete the 7: Results tab On the 7: Results tab, you can view the results for each target list. 1. From an open appeal, select the 7: Results tab. 2. In the Target Lists box on the left, select a list. In the box on the right, information about the target list appears. To view information about the list s results, select the applicable tab.
220 214. CHAPTER 3 To view a pie chart of the percentage of messages that are sent and not sent to the selected list, select the Summary tab. A table displays the number of sent and not sent messages to the list and the total number of recipients. To view a pie chart of the opened, unopened, and undelivered messages sent to the selected list, select the Sent tab. A table breaks down the number of opened, unopened, and undelivered messages by the total number sent to the list, the percentage of sent , and the percentage of total messages. The % of Sent column displays the percentage of opened and unopened , excluding those that are undelivered. The % of Total column includes all , including the undelivered. To view the pages the recipients in the target list access from links in the message, select the Click Throughs tab. To view the transactions generated by the recipients in the target list as a result of the message, select the Conversions tab. To view summary information about each message sent to the target list, select the Message tab. To view a summary report about a specific message, click the message s name in the Test Message column. For more information about the message summary report, see View a message summary report on page To save your appeal, click Save. 4. To return to the Campaigns page, click Return. View a message summary report The message summary report contains information about a specific message. 1. From an open appeal, select the 7: Results tab. 2. In the Target Lists box on the left, select a list. Information for that list appears in the box on the right. 3. To view information about a message, select the Messages tab. 4. To view a summary report for a specific message, click the message s name in the Test Message column. The report screen appears and displays the Summary tab. The Summary tab contains a series of tabs you can select to view information about the message s results. To view the delivery status of the message, select the Summary tab. A pie chart displays the percentage of messages sent and not sent and a table displays the total number of messages sent and not sent. To view a pie chart of the opened, unopened, and undelivered messages, select the Messages Sent tab. A table breaks down the number of opened, unopened, and undelivered messages by the total number sent , the percentage of sent , and the percentage of total messages. The % of Sent column displays the percentage of opened and unopened , excluding those that are undelivered. The % of Total column includes all , including the undelivered. To view the pages the recipients access from links in the message, select the Click Throughs tab. To view the transactions generated by the recipients as a result of the message, select the Conversions tab.
221 Note: To view an Status Report, click Status Report on the Summary tab. The Status report contains the time and date the program created, prepared, processed, uploaded, and accepted the message. 5. To view details about the and preview the message s content, select the Properties tab. 6. To view all the recipients of the message, select the Recipients tab. The grid displays each recipient s name and address and the date and time the message was sent. If the message bounced or was opened, the date and time are also included. 7. To close the message summary report, click OK. You return to the 7: Results tab. 8. To return to the Campaigns page, click Return. View an appeal summary report The appeal summary report provides a current snapshot of the appeal s results. This report includes information about all messages sent to lists as part of the appeal. 1. From the Campaigns screen, open the saved appeal. The Appeal Wizard screen appears. 2. On the action bar, click Appeal Summary Report. The Appeal Summary Report screen appears. On this screen, you can select tabs to view information about the results. To view the recipient summary of all messages sent for the appeal, select the Summary tab. A pie chart displays the percentage of messages sent and not sent and a table displays the total number of messages sent and not sent. To view a pie chart of the opened, unopened, and undelivered messages, select the Messages Sent tab. A table breaks down the number of opened, unopened, and undelivered messages by the total number sent , the percentage of sent , and the percentage of total messages. The % of Sent column displays the percentage of opened and unopened , excluding those that are undelivered. The % of Total column includes all , including the undelivered. To view a pie chart showing the percentage of messages that were not sent for the appeal because of opt-outs, no addresses, and invalid accounts, select the Messages Not Sent tab. A table breaks down the number of opt-outs, no addresses, and invalid accounts by the total number of messages not sent, the percentage of messages not sent, and the percentage of total messages. The % of Not Sent column displays the percentage of messages not sent. The % of Total column includes all sent and not sent, including those delivered successfully. To view the pages the recipients access from links in messages sent for the appeal, select the Click Throughs tab. To view the transactions generated by the recipients as a result of message sent for the appeal, select the Conversions tab. To view a breakdown of message results for each target list, select the Lists tab. To view a summary report about a specific target list, click the list s name. The tabs on this report display the same information as the Target Lists Results on the Results tab. For more information, see Complete the 7: Results tab on page To close the appeal summary report, click OK. You return to the Appeal Wizard screen.
222 216. CHAPTER 3 Search for duplicate addresses You can search for addresses that appear in more than one target list. 1. Access the Search for Duplicates screen. From the Campaigns screen, click the Duplicate Search button for the appeal to search for duplicates. From the Appeal Wizard screen for the appeal to search for duplicates, click Duplicate Search on the action bar. 2. Select the Duplicate Search tab. 3. To run the duplicate search, click Start. The Search Status displays This appeal has been queued for searching. The amount of time the search is queued can be longer than 30 minutes. These items determine how long a search is queued: The intervals set in the List Acquisition and Refresh frame in Configuration. If you start a duplicate search while a list is being refreshed, there may be delay because the search cannot begin until the list refresh is complete. For more information about List Acquisition and Refresh frame in Configuration, see Configuration on page 237. The number of list queued for refresh before the search. Those lists must refresh before the duplicates search can begin. 4. When the search is queued, close the Duplicate Search screen. 5. After the search is complete, open the Duplicate Search screen again. The Search Status displays This appeal has been successfully searched and a grid displays any lists that contain duplicate addresses. 6. To view addresses that appear in multiple target lists, select the Duplicate Records tab. 7. The grid displays the addresses that appear in multiple target lists. Using the filter options at the top of the grid, you can filter the list of duplicates by address, recipient name, or target list. Note: Search results on the Duplicate Records tab are not dynamic. The records that appear in the grid are those from the last search and any changes made to target lists, such as due to reacquiring, adding, and removing, since the last search do not appear. To update the search results, click Start to run the search again. 8. To close the Duplicate Records screen, click Close. Notifications A notification is an message a Team Fundraising solicitor automatically receives when a user performs a specific action on the website. A solicitor can select to receive notifications when he receives a new donation, the fundraising team receives a new donation, or a new participant signs up for the team. In Notifications, you can design and edit the notifications your website users receive.
223 Design a new notification 1. From , click Notifications. The Notifications screen appears. 2. On the action bar, click New Notification. The New Site Notification screen appears. 3. On the Notification tab, in the Notification Type field, select the type of notification to create. To create a notification a fundraiser solicitor receives when he receives a new donation, select Fundraiser Participant Donation Acknowledgement. To create a notification a fundraiser team captain receives when the fundraising team receives a new donation, select Fundraiser Team Captain Donation Acknowledgement. To create a notification a fundraiser team captain receives when the fundraising team receives a new participant sign-up, select Fundraiser Team Captain Sign-up Acknowledgement.
224 218. CHAPTER 3 4. Click Create. The Notification Type field is disabled, and the Create button appears. 5. Click Create . The New Site Notification template screen appears. 6. In the Name field, enter a unique name to help identify the notification In the Subject field, enter or edit the subject of the notification. The text you enter here appears as the subject line of the notification sent to the recipient. 8. In the From Address field, enter the address to appear in the From field when the recipient receives the notification. 9. So recipients see a name instead of an address in the From field on the notification , enter it in the From Name field, such as your organization s name.
225 To view or edit message defaults assigned in the notification, click More Options. Below the From Address and From Name fields, additional fields appear. Note: To hide the details, click Hide Options. To have responses from recipients of the notification arrive at a different address from the one from which you send the message, enter the address in the Reply Address field. In the Notifications are to be sent to the following addresses frame, specify whether and where to receive failure messages. To maintain messages that are not delivered, mark Failures. In the field next to the checkbox, enter the address to which to send failure messages. Note: Failures are addresses on the list that do not receive the sent. A failure can also be called a non-delivery receipt, bounceback, UnDeliverable, or Delivery Status Notification (DSN). For information about how the program handles failed delivery, see Bounced Management on page The bottom pane displays the notification s default content. To format the s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information, see HTML Editor on page To personalize the with information about the constituent from The Raiser s Edge, add merge fields. a. To display the list of available merge fields, click Merge Fields on the toolbar. To expand the list, click the plus sign next to a field category. b. To add a merge field to the , select the field in the list. The list closes and the field appears in the bottom pane. c. In the body of the , put fields where you want them to appear. For example, enter Hello, Bio.First Name. In the , the recipient reads Hello, [the recipient s first name]. To move a field, click and drag it to the new location.
226 220. CHAPTER To save the notification template, click Save and Close. You return to the New Site Notification screen. 14. Select the Notification tab. 15. In the Display Name field, enter a name to identify the notification so Blackbaud NetCommunity users can quickly identify it in Notifications. By default, the selection in the Notification Type field appears. Use this default text, or enter a new name. 16. In the Description field, enter any additional information to identify the notification, such as when users should use the notification. Default text appears for each notification type. Use this default text, or enter a new description. 17. To allow users to receive this notification, mark Enabled. 18. Under Specify parts using this notification, the Fundraiser parts eligible to use the notification appear. For each part to use the new notification, mark its checkbox. 19. To save the notification, click Save and Close. You return to Notifications. In the grid, the new notification appears. View the tabs of a notification 1. From , click Notifications. The Notifications screen appears.
227 In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the notification to edit. You can enter the name of the notification or whether it is enabled. 3. Click Go. In the grid, notifications that match the entered filter criteria appear. 4. Next to the notification to edit, click the pencil. The notification appears. 5. View or edit the notification as required. For information about the Notification and Template tabs and how to design the notification, see Design a new notification on page 217. On the Notification tab, view or edit the notification s display name and description, enable or disable the notification, or specify the Fundraiser parts to use the notification. On the Template tab, view or edit the properties of the notification or the message the recipient receives with the notification. Note: When you edit the notification, you can change its name and description, enable or disable it, and specify which parts use it. However, you cannot change its notification type. To change the notification type, you must delete the notification and create a new one. For information about how to delete a notification, see Delete a notification on page To save any changes made to the notification, click Save and Close. You return to Notifications. To return to Notifications without saving any changes, click Cancel.
228 222. CHAPTER 3 Delete a notification 1. From , click Notifications. The Notifications screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the notification to edit. You can enter the name of the notification or whether it is enabled. 3. Click Go. In the grid, notifications that match the entered filter criteria appear. 4. Next to the notification to delete, click the red X. A message appears to confirm the deletion of the notification. 5. Click OK. You return to Notifications. The grid no longer displays the notification.
229 CHAPTER4 Administration In This Chapter Security on page 223 Merchant Accounts on page 229 Field Options on page 234 System Options on page 234 Configuration on page 237 Code Tables on page 242 User Imports on page 243 We recommend that only website administrators or those with Supervisor rights in Blackbaud NetCommunity access Administration. In Roles, you can create user roles to group users by security level. In Users, you can manage user profiles and assign individual users to roles. You can apply security in Blackbaud NetCommunity in Administration and throughout the program on each content part, page, template, and layout. Using Merchant Accounts, you can link a donation part type to a specific merchant account. In Field Options, you can set default privacy settings for profile information. In System Options, you can establish settings for the program and your website, such as default pages. In Configuration, you can enter server information and set options related to your website and overall performance. Warning: Blackbaud NetCommunity ships with the user name supervisor and password admin. We recommend you change your Supervisor password immediately and make sure at least one other person in your organization knows the new password. Security It is important to maintain constant security because it protects your website, promotes consistency, and helps prevent errors. Although there is an Administration section of Blackbaud NetCommunity, you can also set security rights throughout the program. We recommend only administrators access Administration and Layouts.
230 224. CHAPTER 4 Warning: Blackbaud NetCommunity is shipped with a user name of Supervisor and a password of Admin. We recommend you change your Supervisor password immediately and make sure at least one other person in your organization knows the new password. You can establish security on multiple levels. In Administration, users with Site Administrator rights can create user roles and define general rights for these roles in Roles. In addition, you can assign view, edit, delete, and change security rights for each part that goes into making a web page. You can assign the same type of security for each web page created in Site Explorer. You also have control over the same types of rights for the template from which a page or is created. You set the security for each level in the piece you design while you create the part, page, or template. Each part, page, and template has its own Security grid. You can grant any website user edit rights to a particular page on your website, such as a class page. Website users with edit rights to a page can access and update the administrative side of Blackbaud NetCommunity for that page. For example, you create a user role of Class President and grant its members edit rights to their respective class pages. Class President users can switch to edit mode and access the administrative side of Blackbaud NetCommunity directly from their class page on the website. They do not need to have Blackbaud NetCommunity installed on their computers. They can only view and edit pages and parts to which they have rights. The rest of Blackbaud NetCommunity remains secure. For more information about how website users can edit the page to which they have rights, see Toggle Between Blackbaud NetCommunity and Your Live Website on page 5. To assign specific users to a role group, see Users on page 224. To create roles to group users by security rights, see Roles on page 227. Users We recommend only website administrators or those with Supervisor rights in Blackbaud NetCommunity access Users. In Users, you can add and manage user records for your website. User records contain basic biographical and user login information. When a user signs up for your website through the User Login, Personal Page Manager, or Fundraiser parts, the program automatically creates a user record. To search for a user, use the fields in the Filter List By frame on the Users screen to narrow your search. You can filter by roles, login, last name, first name, or records to which the user is linked. To narrow the search to users who are linked only to records in another Blackbaud program or to users who are not linked to any record, use the Linked to field. If you mark Deleted, the query includes user records that have been deleted. To view or edit an existing user record, click the name in the list on the Users screen. To open the user record in The Raiser s Edge, click the Click here to open this record in The Raiser s Edge button in the Action column. In the Roles field, select a role to view only users assigned to that role. In Users, you assign specific users to a role group. You create the roles in Roles. For information about roles, see Roles on page 227. Create a user record 1. In Administration, click Users. The Users screen appears. 2. Click New User. The New User screen appears. 3. In the Login Name field, enter a login name for the user. The user name you enter must be unique. 4. In the New Password field, enter the password for the user. 5. In the Confirm New Password field, reenter the password. When you create a new user, the Reminder Phrase field is disabled.
231 A DMINISTRATION In the Time Zone field, select the user s time zone. For example, if the user is located in New York, select America/New York (EST) GMT-5:00. Note: Blackbaud NetCommunity uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as its time standard. Time zones are expressed as offsets from the UTC. This enables the program to retain time and date information and display it accurately in multiple time zones. The time and dates the user sees on your site pages and in Blackbaud NetCommunity use the time zone selected here. If no time zone is specified, the default time zone selected in System Options appears. 7. To enable the user to access all areas of the program, including the ability to set security rights for others, mark This user has Supervisor rights and can manage Users and Roles. We recommend only a select few in your organization have Supervisor rights. 8. In the First Name, Middle Initial, and Last Name fields, enter the user s name. 9. If the user has a personal page dashboard, the Fundraiser Participation or Personal Pages grid appears. To copy a URL link to a user with Administrator rights, click Administer in the Dashboard column of the grid. Users with Administrator rights for a Fundraiser or Personal Page Manager part can edit the user s personal page dashboard. The URL link bypasses the login for the dashboard user so the Administrator can access the page. For more information about the personal page dashboard, see Manage Personal Pages on page 314 or Manage Fundraiser Pages on page 277. The Fundraiser or Personal Page Manager column displays the part name. In the Page column, click the Visit link to quickly access the dashboard. To remove the personal page dashboard for the user, click Delete for Personal Pages. 10. In the Role Membership grid, mark the checkbox for each role to which this user is assigned. Roles act as security for sections of Blackbaud NetCommunity and the website. When you assign security rights to various roles, users assigned to those roles are granted that security access. For example, add a new user who can create content to the Content Authors role. For more information about roles, see Roles on page To save and close the user record, click Save on the action bar. You return to Users. 12. To edit the user rights, click the Click here to edit this user button in the Actions column beside the user name. The User Editor screen appears. The information you entered in this procedure appears on the User Editor tab. In addition, the Messages and Forward tabs appear. For information about these tabs, see Edit a user record on page 225. Edit a user record 1. To edit a user record, in the list on the Users screen, click the user s first name. The User Editor screen appears. On the User Editor tab, the information entered when the user was created appears. For more information about the User Editor tab, see Create a user record on page 224.
232 226. CHAPTER 4 Tip: If you mark Allow team captains to manually add new team members or Add non-anonymous attendees to registrant s during event registration on a Fundraiser part, <Enter a Login Name for this User> may appear in the Login Name field. On the Users page, in the Login column, [user account not activated] appears. This indicates the user is a member of a team, but has not registered for the Fundraiser on your website. For more information, see Team Fundraising on page 273. If the user has been deleted, a message appears above the login name. For more information about how to restore a user record, see Restore a deleted user record on page If the user is linked to a record in The Raiser s Edge, The Raiser s Edge Linked Record appears above the name and initial fields, along with address information. You cannot edit these fields. To break the link between the user and the constituent record in The Raiser s Edge, click Break Link and Generate a New Signup Transaction. For example, you realize a user is linked to the wrong constituent record and want to correct the error. When you click Break Link and Generate a New Signup Transaction, the link is broken and a new pending sign-up transaction appears in The Raiser s Edge. When you process the sign-up transaction, you can link the user to the correct constituent record. 3. To view a list of Blackbaud NetCommunity sent to the user, select the Messages tab. 4. To set up forwarding for the user, select the Forward tab. If a website user sets up his own forwarding, to view or change the information, select this tab. This tab shares forwarding data with the Forwarding Form part. A website user who accesses the Forwarding Form from a page on your website can change addresses you enter on the Forward tab. 5. To enable forwarding, mark Enabled. 6. In the Information Address field, enter the address the user set up for forwarding. For example, MUAlumni_1981. Your domain appears after the field. If you have multiple domains, select the one to use. 7. In the Forwarding Address field, enter the user s original address. If the user s address changes, enter the new address here. This way, other users are never aware of the change and continue to use the forwarding address. If a user changes his own address, this field updates the information automatically. 8. To save and close the user record, on the action bar, click Save. You return to Users. View user information added through your website 1. From Administration, click Users. The Users screen appears. 2. Beside the user name for which you want to view information, click the Click here to edit this user button. The User Editor screen appears. 3. In the Login Name, New Password, Reminder Phrase, and Time Zone fields that appear, review the information the website user entered on the user login screen. 4. To enable the user to access all areas of the program, including the ability to set security rights for others, mark This user has Supervisor rights and can manage Users and Roles. We recommend only a select few in your organization have Supervisor rights. 5. If the user is linked to a record in another Blackbaud program, information from that linked record appears. You can view information in the First Name, Last Name, Middle Initial, and Address fields.
233 A DMINISTRATION. 227 If the user is a participant in a fundraiser, the Fundraiser Participation grid appears. You can view the Fundraiser part name, a link to the user s participant personal page, performance units, and whether the performance is complete. If the user is a personal page owner, the Personal Pages grid appears. You can view the Personal Page Manager part name and a link to the personal page. 6. In the Query Based Membership Last Refreshed On field, the date the query was last refreshed appears. To refresh the query the user is in, click Refresh Now. 7. In the Role Membership grid, the checkbox is marked for each role this user is assigned. Roles act as security for sections of Blackbaud NetCommunity and the website. When you assign security rights to various roles, users assigned to those roles are granted that security access. For example, add a new user who can create content to the Content Authors role. For more information about roles, see Roles on page To view a list of Blackbaud NetCommunity sent to the user, select the Messages tab. 9. To save and close the user record, on the action bar, click Save. You return to Users. Restore a deleted user record 1. To find the deleted user s record, on the Users screen, mark Deleted and click Go. The list displays all deleted user records. 2. Click the first name of the user to restore. The User Editor screen appears. Above the user s login name, a message appears to tell you the user is deleted. 3. To restore the record: If the user was previously linked to a record in The Raiser s Edge, click undelete. The program restores the user record and the link to the record in The Raiser s Edge. Above the user s login name, the deleted user message disappears. If the user was not previously linked to a record in The Raiser s Edge, click undelete and generate a signup transaction. The program restores the user record, and the deleted user message disappears. In The Raiser s Edge, a new pending sign-up transaction appears. When you process the sign-up transaction, you can link the user to a constituent record. 4. To save and close the user record, on the action bar, click Save. You return to Users. Roles Depending on your role in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you perform different tasks to fulfill your website needs. For example: The Site Administrator may create new web pages from start to finish and assign roles to Blackbaud NetCommunity users. You can create a Supervisor role with security rights to all areas of Blackbaud NetCommunity. The Director of Special Events may update last year s Golf Tournament web page with this year s information. Users with Supervisor rights may create a role for Event Managers and grant security access only to create event registration forms but view all other areas of the program. A constituent may be President of the Class of 1980 and have no direct involvement with Blackbaud NetCommunity or The Raiser s Edge but needs security rights to update the class Home page. After a newly registered user is accepted in a downloaded transaction, the user is included in queries in other Blackbaud products. At a minimum, the user is included in the All Constituents query. During this phase, Blackbaud NetCommunity has a role that needs to be refreshed. For information about role refresh, see Role Refresh on page 228.
234 228. CHAPTER 4 Users with Administrator or Supervisor rights have read and edit rights to all areas of the program. We recommend only website administrators or users with Supervisor rights in Blackbaud NetCommunity access Roles. Note: To search for an existing role, you can use the Name field. To narrow the search to users who are linked only to records in other Blackbaud programs or to users who are not linked to any record, use the Linked to field. In Roles, you create roles so you can group users by security rights. In Users, you assign specific users to a role group. For information about Users, see Users on page 224. Create a role-based security group 1. In Administration, click Roles. The Roles screen appears. 2. On the action bar, click New Role. The New Role screen appears. 3. In the Role name field, enter a name for this role, such as Member or Website administrator. 4. Assign users to the role. To automatically assign users to the role now, in the Base role membership on a query field, select a query and click Change. The Query Search screen appears. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. Note: If you just created a query in the other Blackbaud program, you may need to refresh Blackbaud NetCommunity for it to appear as a selection. To refresh, from the menu bar, select View, Refresh. To assign users individually to the role later, in the Base role membership on a query field, select None. 5. In the Grant this role the same content rights as field in the Content Rights frame, select an existing role group for which to assign the same content rights for the new role group. 6. In the Task Rights frame, mark the checkboxes for areas of the program to which users in this role group can access. For example, when you mark Has all Page related rights, a user in this role has full view, edit, delete, and assign security rights for every area of Pages. 7. To save and close the role, on the action bar, click Save. You return to Roles. Role Refresh New website members are not part of a query in another Blackbaud program because they have not yet been downloaded to the product from Blackbaud NetCommunity. New members are immediately granted anonymous access rights and are referred to as provisional members. By default, roles are not assigned to these registered members but can be assigned on the User Login part. It is important to decide the content you want your provisional members to access. Without a role assigned, provisional members see the same content made available to the Everyone role in Blackbaud NetCommunity. These users have the same access anonymous users have when they visit your Blackbaud NetCommunity website. After another Blackbaud program accepts a newly registered user in a download transaction, the user is included in queries in that product. During this phase, Blackbaud NetCommunity has a role that needs to be refreshed. You can refresh roles using standard role refresh, or on demand by the user.
235 A DMINISTRATION. 229 Standard Role Refresh Blackbaud NetCommunity refreshes member roles once every 24 hours after a member s last login. If another Blackbaud program has not accepted the member in a download transaction since the last login, there is no role to refresh. Once another Blackbaud program accepts the member in a download transaction, the role refreshes upon the next login, and the 24-hour interval is set to that date and time. You can modify the role refresh settings for Blackbaud NetCommunity as often as you want. For information about how to modify the role refresh settings, see Configuration on page 237. Refresh Role By User and On Demand An Administrator can refresh a user role on demand in Blackbaud NetCommunity. To refresh a user role, select Administration, Users. This is done on a per-user basis. For more information about user roles, see Roles on page 227. Merchant Accounts Using Merchant Accounts, you can link a donation part type, such as the Donation Form, Membership Form, or Event Registration Form, to a specific merchant account. From the donation part, you can select the merchant account to use in the Merchant Account frame. Note: To view the parts with merchant account information, select the Merchant Accounts Usage tab on the Merchant Accounts screen. To access one of these parts, select Web Site, Parts. For more information about parts, see Parts on page 39. To process credit card transactions, Blackbaud NetCommunity supports merchant accounts from multiple credit card processors, including Authorize.Net; BeanStream; International Automated Transactions Service (IATS), owned by Ticketmaster; Payflow Pro, owned by PayPal (formerly Verisign); and Verus Card Services, owned by Sage Payment Solutions. Warning: PayPal has acquired Verisign. If your organization has a Verisign account, PayPal may contact you to convert to a Payflow Pro account. To ensure the program continues to manage your credit card transactions smoothly, please contact Blackbaud NetCommunity support when you convert to Payflow Pro. Configure an Authorize.Net merchant account 1. In Administration, click Merchant Accounts. The Merchant Accounts screen appears. 2. Select the Merchant Accounts tab. 3. On the action bar, click New Merchant Account. The New Merchant Account screen appears. 4. In the Gateway field, select Authorize.Net. The fields required to set up an Authorize.Net merchant account appear. 5. In the Name field, enter a unique name for the account, such as Authorize.Net account. 6. If you are not ready to make the account available for use on a donation part but want to set it up in Blackbaud NetCommunity, mark Merchant account is inactive. 7. In the Gateway Country field, select the country for which you use the account to process credit card transactions.
236 230. CHAPTER 4 8. When you set up an account with Authorize.Net, you receive a vendor login ID and password. In the Authorize.Net Vendor Login field, enter your vendor ID. 9. In the Authorize.Net Vendor Transaction Key field, enter your password from Authorize.Net. Regardless of the characters you enter, only bullets appear in this field. 10. In the Confirm Authorize.Net Vendor Transaction Key field, enter the password from Authorize.Net again. Regardless of the characters you enter, only bullets appear in this field. 11. In the Authorize.Net Vendor Currency Type field, select the currency of the country for which you use the account to process credit cards transactions. Note: To support multiple currencies, add a merchant account for each currency you process. Your merchant account settings are the same, except for the information you enter in the Authorize.Net Vendor Currency Type and Name fields. To differentiate between accounts, you can include the currency type in the Name field, such as Authorize.Net account for Canadian dollars. 12. On the action bar, click Save. You return to Merchant Accounts. Configure a BeanStream merchant account BeanStream is Canada s leading provider of authentication and electronic payment processing solutions. BeanStream supports transactions only in United States or Canadian dollars. 1. From Administration, click Merchant Accounts. The Merchant Accounts screen appears. 2. Select the Merchant Accounts tab. 3. On the action bar, click New Merchant Account. The New Merchant Account screen appears. 4. In the Gateway field, select BeanStream. The fields required to set up a BeanStream merchant account appear. 5. In the Name field, enter a unique name for the account, such as BeanStream account. 6. If you are not ready to make the account available for use on a donation part but want to set it up in Blackbaud NetCommunity, mark Merchant account is inactive. 7. In the Gateway Country field, select the country for which you use the account to process credit card transactions. Warning: BeanStream requires its country abbreviations be two characters. By default, The Raiser s Edge provides a three-character country abbreviation. For each country for which you configure a BeanStream account, you must enter a two-character country abbreviation in The Raiser s Edge. To configure a country abbreviation, click International in The Raiser s Edge Configuration. 8. When you set up an account with BeanStream, you receive a vendor merchant identification number. In the BeanStream Vendor Merchant Identification Number field, enter your vendor ID. 9. In the BeanStream Vendor Currency Type field, select the currency of the country for which you use the account to process credit cards transactions.
237 A DMINISTRATION. 231 Note: To support multiple currencies, add a merchant account for each currency you process. Your merchant account settings are the same, except for the information you enter in the BeanStream Vendor Currency Type and Name fields. To differentiate between accounts, you can include the currency type in the Name field, such as BeanStream account for Canadian dollars. BeanStream supports transactions only in United States or Canadian dollars. 10. On the action bar, click Save. You return to Merchant Accounts. Configure an IATS/Ticketmaster merchant account 1. From Administration, click Merchant Accounts. The Merchant Accounts screen appears. 2. Select the Merchant Accounts tab. 3. On the action bar, click New Merchant Account. The New Merchant Account screen appears. 4. In the Gateway field, select IATS. The fields required to set up an IATS/Ticketmaster merchant account appear. 5. In the Name field, enter a unique name for the account, such as IATS account. 6. If you are not ready to make the account available for use on a donation part but want to set it up in Blackbaud NetCommunity, mark Merchant account is inactive. 7. In the Gateway Country field, select the country for which you use the account to process credit card transactions. 8. When you set up an account with IATS/Ticketmaster, you receive a vendor login and password. In the IATS Vendor Login field, enter your vendor ID. 9. In the IATS Vendor Password field, enter your password from IATS/Ticketmaster. Regardless of the characters you enter, only bullets appear in this field. 10. In the Confirm IATS Vendor ID Password field, enter the password from IATS/Ticketmaster again. Regardless of the characters you enter, only bullets appear in this field. 11. In the IATS Vendor Currency Type field, select the currency of the country for which you use the account to process credit cards transactions. Note: To support multiple currencies, add a merchant account for each currency you process. Your merchant account settings are the same, except for the information you enter in the IATS Vendor Currency Type and Name fields. To differentiate between accounts, you can include the currency type in the Name field, such as IATS account for Canadian dollars. 12. On the action bar, click Save. You return to Merchant Accounts. Configure a PayPal Payflow Pro merchant account Blackbaud NetCommunity supports PayPal as a gateway to a Payflow Pro account only. The program does not support PayPal as a credit card processor. 1. From Administration, click Merchant Accounts. The Merchant Accounts screen appears. 2. Select the Merchant Accounts tab. 3. On the action bar, click New Merchant Account. The New Merchant Account screen appears. 4. In the Gateway field, select the type of Payflow Pro account to set up. If we are your organization s Payflow Pro Partner, select Payflow Pro Blackbaud.
238 232. CHAPTER 4 If we are not your organization s Payflow Pro Partner, select Payflow Pro. 5. In the Name field, enter a unique name for the account, such as Payflow Pro account. 6. If you are not ready to make the account available for use on a donation part but want to set it up in Blackbaud NetCommunity, mark Merchant account is inactive. 7. If you selected Payflow Pro in the Gateway field, the Partner field appears. In this field, enter the name of your organization s Payflow Pro Partner. 8. When you set up a Payflow Pro account with PayPal, you receive a vendor login and password. In the Payflow Pro Login field, enter your vendor ID. 9. In the Payflow Pro Password field, enter your password. Regardless of the characters you enter, only bullets appear in this field. 10. In the Confirm Payflow Pro Password field, enter the password again. Regardless of the characters you enter, only bullets appear in this field. 11. In the Payflow Pro Currency Type field, select the currency of the country for which you use the account to process credit cards transactions. Note: To support multiple currencies, add a merchant account for each currency you process. Your merchant account settings are the same, except for the information you enter in the Payflow Pro Currency Type and Name fields. To differentiate between accounts, you can include the currency type in the Name field, such as Payflow Pro account for Canadian dollars. 12. PayPal provides the Address Verification Service (AVS) as fraud protection to verify customer billing addresses submitted through online payment transactions. In the AVS Level field, select whether to use AVS with the account and at what level. To perform no address verification, select None. To accept transactions only when both the street address and ZIP Code match, select Full. To accept transactions when either the street address or ZIP Code match, select Medium. To accept transactions when anything other than the street address or ZIP Code do not match, select Light. 13. PayPal provides a Card Security Code (CSC) check as fraud protection to verify the card security code, called the Card Verification Value (CVV2). The CSC appears only on the credit card itself, and not on receipts or statements. In the CSC Level field, select whether to use CSC checks with the account and at what level. To perform no CSC check, select None. To accept transactions only when the CSC matches, select Full. To decline transactions only when the CSC does not match, select Light. 14. In the Credit Cards Accepted frame, mark the checkboxes for the types of credit cards available for transactions on your Blackbaud NetCommunity website. You can select to accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB, or Diner s Club transactions. Make sure to select only the credit cards your Internet merchant account is set up to process. By default, an Internet merchant account processes Visa and MasterCard transactions. 15. When you mark a card type checkbox, the Processor to Use field is enabled. In this field, select the processor to handle transactions of that credit card type.
239 A DMINISTRATION. 233 Note: These processors have varying support for AVS and CSC. Before you activate your Blackbaud NetCommunity website, check with PayPal Payflow Pro for the latest information. American Express, for use with American Express credit cards only EDS Aurora FDMS Nashville FDMS South Nova PaymenTech - Salem Vital Global Payments - Central Global Payments - East 16. On the action bar, click Save. You return to Merchant Accounts. Configure a Verus merchant account 1. From Administration, click Merchant Accounts. The Merchant Accounts screen appears. 2. Select the Merchant Accounts tab. 3. On the action bar, click New Merchant Account. The New Merchant Account screen appears. 4. In the Gateway field, select Verus. The fields required to set up a Verus merchant account appear. 5. In the Name field, enter a unique name for the account, such as Verus account. 6. If you are not ready to make the account available for use on a donation part but want to set it up in Blackbaud NetCommunity, mark Merchant account is inactive. 7. In the Gateway Country field, select the country for which you use the account to process credit card transactions. 8. When you set up an account with Verus, you receive a vendor login ID and password. In the Verus Vendor Merchant Identification Login field, enter your vendor ID. 9. In the Verus Vendor Transaction Key field, enter your password from Verus. Regardless of the characters you enter, only bullets appear in this field. 10. In the Confirm Verus Vendor Transaction Key field, enter the password from Verus again. Regardless of the characters you enter, only bullets appear in this field. 11. In the Verus Vendor Currency Type field, select United States Dollars ($). Note: Verus supports transactions only in United States dollars. 12. On the action bar, click Save. You return to Merchant Accounts.
240 234. CHAPTER 4 Field Options Using Field Options, you can set default privacy settings for profile fields. Privacy settings determine which profile fields are visible to other members of the community. If a field is Public, all website users can view it. If a field is Private, only the individual website user can view it. Warning: We recommend only website administrators or users with Supervisor rights in Blackbaud NetCommunity access Field Options. Users can set privacy settings for their profile information in the Profile Display part. The user s settings override the default privacy settings in Field Options. For example, Home Phone may be marked Public By Default in Field Options, but users can make their phone numbers private on the Profile Display part. Set privacy defaults for profile fields 1. From Administration, click Field Options. The Field Options screen appears and lists the profile fields. 2. All fields are marked Public by Default. To make a profile field private by default, unmark its checkbox. 3. To save the settings, on the action bar, click Save. 4. To leave Field Options, select your next task in Blackbaud NetCommunity. System Options We recommend only website administrators or users with Supervisor rights in Blackbaud NetCommunity access System Options. System Options contains settings for your website and Blackbaud NetCommunity. Note: For more information about how to create web pages, see Pages on page 31. For more information about the User Login part, see User Login on page 112. In the Pages frame, you select web pages to set as defaults for the login screen if authorization of a login fails and a general site default page that can be selected in other areas of the program. To be available for selection here, these pages must already exist in Site Explorer. In the Raiser s Edge Options frame, map Blackbaud NetCommunity phone types to phone types in The Raiser s Edge. In the Attributes frame, select attributes from other Blackbaud programs to be available for selection when you create messages or any type of profile in Blackbaud NetCommunity. To personalize messages or profile pages, include attribute fields. In the Interests Attribute field, select the attribute used in The Raiser s Edge to track the interests of your constituents. When you use the User Interests Form part on a web page, users can enter their interests on the website, which you can download and store in The Raiser s Edge. You can use constituent interests to group them by lists and target mailings or particular web pages.
241 A DMINISTRATION. 235 Note: For more information about attributes in The Raiser s Edge, see the Attributes section under Constituent Records in the help file in The Raiser s Edge. The Countries frame contains a list of countries defined in The Raiser s Edge. You can select the countries to make available in areas of Blackbaud NetCommunity, such as the Donation and Profile Update pages. Set system options 1. From Administration, click System Options. The System Options screen appears. 2. In the General frame, enter information about your organization. a. In the Organization Name field, enter the name of your organization. Below the Organization Name field, your Organization ID number appears. b. In the Site URL field, enter the full domain name and address to your organization s Blackbaud NetCommunity website, such as The program uses the site URL for multiple purposes, including outgoing and links in The Raiser s Edge to pages on your website. If your organization points multiple domains to its website, select one to use for and links in The Raiser s Edge. Note: If you change the address in the Site URL field, only subsequent sent and subsequent links created in The Raiser s Edge use the new address. The Raiser s Edge does not automatically update existing links with the new address. c. In the Time Zone field, specify your organization s default time zone. For example, if your organization is located in New York, select America/New York (EST) GMT-5:00. Note: Blackbaud NetCommunity uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as its time standard, and time zones are expressed as offsets from the UTC. This enables the program to retain time and date information and display it accurately in multiple time zones. The time and dates the user sees on your site pages and in Blackbaud NetCommunity use the time zone specified on the User Profile Form part. If the user does not specify a time zone on the User Profile Form part, the time zone selected in the Time Zone field appears as the default. If you do not select a default time zone, the program automatically uses the date and time zone from the web server. 3. In the Pages frame, select information about your website page defaults. a. Select the text to appear in the title bar of the web pages. To display your organization s name in the title bar, mark Show Organization Name. To display the title you enter for a web page in page properties in Site Explorer, mark Show Page Display Name. For more information, see Edit web page properties on page 32.
242 236. CHAPTER 4 Note: If you do not mark Show Organization Name or Show Page Display Name, Blackbaud NetCommunity appears in the title bar of your web pages. b. In the Authorization Failed Page field, select an existing page to automatically appear when a user attempts to log in, but the authorization fails. To be available for selection, the page must already exist in Site Explorer. c. In the Home Page field, select an existing page to automatically appear as your website s Home page. d. In the Privacy Page field, select an existing page that includes your organization s privacy statement. In each you send, you must include a link to the page of your website that contains the privacy statement. For more information, see on page 163. Note: Blackbaud NetCommunity requires that your browser have cookies enabled. For best practice reasons, we recommend you note this in your privacy statement, in addition to any security issues. 4. In the Registration and Login Options frames, make your registration and login selections. a. In the Member Login Page field, select a page of your website to be the default login page. Selections available are existing web pages. For more information about how to create web pages, see Pages on page 31. For more information about the part, see User Login on page 112. b. In the Password Minimum Length field, enter the minimum number of characters to allow for passwords. c. To make passwords case sensitive, mark Password Case-Sensitive. This checkbox applies only to new members. 5. In the User Image Options frame, select the settings of the Image Library the website user accesses. For information about Image Library, see Image Library on page 38. a. To require approval of all images the user uploads to Image Library, mark Require approval for all images uploaded by users. By default, this checkbox is marked. Note: When Require approval for all images uploaded by users is marked, images the website user loads are saved as unapproved. Until an Administrator approves an image, it is visible only to the user who loaded it. To other users, an unapproved image appears as the standard Photo Not Available graphic. b. In the Maximum number of images allowed per user field, to limit the number of images a website user can load to the Image Library, enter a number. To enable the user to load an unlimited number of images, enter 0. c. In the Maximum image size field, to limit the file size, enter the number of kilobytes (KB) of an image a website user can load to the Image Library. To enable the user to load an image of any file size, enter 0. d. The Default image category field displays the category of the Image Library selected to automatically appear. To select another category as the default, click Select Category. On the Select Category screen, select the category to set as the default and click OK.
243 A DMINISTRATION To integrate the latest code tables from The Raiser s Edge, in the The Raiser s Edge Options frame, click Reload Code Tables. For example, you enter a new table in The Raiser s Edge. To immediate integrate the table and not wait for Blackbaud NetCommunity to pull the new table into the program, click this button. 7. Select the The Raiser s Edge phone type fields to map from the website profile to each Home, Business, Preferred Address, Organization, and Website/URL phone type field. You can select five additional phone type fields and captions. For example, you want what the website user enters in the Preferred field on the User Profile page to automatically appear as the phone type in The Raiser s Edge. In the Preferred Address field, select . Warning: To avoid delivery errors, do not change the selected phone type. If you must change an phone type in The Raiser s Edge after it is mapped in Blackbaud NetCommunity for the website profile, click Reload Code Tables in System Options. Before you send new , you must restart NetCommunity Windows Service. 8. In the Attributes frame, mark the checkboxes for the attributes in The Raiser s Edge to make available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Depending on the attributes you select Constituent, Educations, or Interests users on your website can enter data that you can download to The Raiser s Edge. For example, if the interest attribute used to signify constituent interests is named Likes & Interests in The Raiser s Edge, select Likes & Interests. When you use the User Interest Form part on a web page, users can enter their interests through the website, which you then download and store in The Raiser s Edge. Note: You can use one-per-record attributes with a type of Date, Text, Number, Currency, and Yes/No in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Table type attributes are available without being marked as one per record. Fuzzy Date and Constituent Name type attributes are not available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. 9. In the Countries frame, select the countries to make available in areas of Blackbaud NetCommunity, such as the Donation and Profile Update pages. 10. To save the settings, on the action bar, click Save. Configuration In Configuration, you can enter server information and make selections for your Blackbaud NetCommunity website and overall performance. With Configuration, you can easily adjust your server settings without manually editing the Web.config file. We recommend only Administrators or users with Supervisor rights in Blackbaud NetCommunity access Configuration. Configure the server and website 1. From Administration, click Configuration. The Configuration screen appears. Note: If Configuration is local to your web server, you can access the Configuration screen at 2. In the General frame, configure your organization s website.
244 238. CHAPTER 4 a. In the Line Break Tag field, select the HTML tag to use to define a line break in content you create in the HTML editor. You can select to use a <p>, <div>, or <br> tag. For example, if you upgrade from Blackbaud NetCommunity 4.0 or earlier and have styles applied to paragraph tags in your existing HTML content, you can modify the paragraph tag used to indicate a line break. b. Specify whether to require Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) for Client site pages that could contain sensitive data such as credit card information. To enable SSL on the Client site, mark Require SSL for pages with sensitive parts. When you mark this checkbox, the program uses https when you build web page URLs that contain a part that has secure content. These parts include the User Login, Donation Form, Membership Form, Event Registration Form, Fundraiser, Personal Page Manager, and Formatted Text and Image (Secured). c. To make SSL for Administration site pages required, mark Require SSL for all administration pages. When you mark this checkbox, the program uses https for all administration pages and enables SSL across the entire Administrative site. d. When the user logs into your website, Blackbaud NetCommunity refreshes, or updates, the roles the user has on your site. You can specify a period of time after a login in which the user can log into your site again without a role refresh. In the Update a user s membership roles field, enter the number of hours to lapse after a login before Blackbaud NetCommunity refreshes the user s roles when the user next logs in. If you schedule the Role Refresh interval in the Role Refresh frame, make sure you enter a membership role update interval greater than the Role Refresh interval. 3. In The Raiser s Edge frame, configure the web service Blackbaud NetCommunity uses to communicate with your database in The Raiser s Edge. a. In the URL field, enter the location of the web service. b. In the Database Number field, enter the number of the database for the web service from the registry. c. In the User and Password fields, enter the login and password required to connect to the web service. 4. Your organization s custom parts may use a custom service. In the Custom Service frame, configure the service for your custom parts. a. In the URL field, enter the location of the custom service. b. In the Database Number field, enter the number of the database for the custom service from the registry. c. In the User and Password fields, enter the login and password required to connect to the custom service. 5. In the Blackbaud Services frame, configure your services hosted by Blackbaud, such as NetCommunity Windows Service. a. In the Host Name field, the name of your Blackbaud host appears. Unless Blackbaud Support instructs you to do so, do not change the URL information.
245 A DMINISTRATION. 239 Warning: Unless instructed to do so by Blackbaud Support, do not change the information in the Host Name field. If you change this information, you may not be able to process donations or communicate with constituents. b. To access the hosted services via HTTPS, mark Connect to the Blackbaud Web Service Using https. Unless Blackbaud Support tells you otherwise, always mark this checkbox. c. In the User and Password fields, enter the login and password information as provided by your Blackbaud Account Manager. If you do not have this information, send an to or call In the Spell Check frame, configure how spell check is used in applicable parts, such as the HTML editor, on your website. a. In the Dictionary field, select the language for the spell check to use. b. To specify the words and formats the program should ignore during a spell check, mark the respective checkboxes. You can select to ignore words that contain only uppercase letters, the case of words, internet addresses, works that contain numbers, or HTML. c. In the Custom Dictionary field, enter commonly used special words or phrases for the spell check to ignore, such as your organization s name. d. In the Remove From Dictionary field, enter words or phrases to remove from the dictionary. 7. To minimize the need to repeatedly access the database and web services, the program can store recently accessed items in a cache. In the Cache frame, enter the duration items are stored. If the program does not retrieve the item from the cache within the set time limit, it is removed from the cache. Note: If you do not define the cache settings, the application cache uses the.net default of 20 minutes. a. In the Application (minutes) field, enter the duration, in minutes, to store any item that is placed in the cache while the program is running. If another cache configuration setting applies to an item, that setting overrides the value you enter here. b. In the EventItems (minutes) field, enter the duration, in minutes, to store event information the web service retrieves from The Raiser s Edge. c. In the Code Tables (minutes) field, enter the duration, in minutes, to store code tables and table entries the web service retrieves from The Raiser s Edge. d. In the NewsReader (minutes) field, enter the duration, in minutes, to store Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom content retrieved for the News Reader part. e. In the NewsFeed (minutes) field, enter the duration, in minutes, to store RSS content created by the Weblog part on your website. f. If your website uses more than one server, or if Blackbaud hosts Blackbaud NetCommunity for you, to ensure each server s cache is properly maintained, mark Enable database cache monitoring. When you mark this checkbox, the Interval (seconds) field is enabled. Enter the interval, in seconds, at which the monitor checks each cache. We recommend you enter an interval of 120 seconds while you develop your website and 600 seconds after the website is live. 8. In the frame, configure the service provided by the NetCommunity Windows Service.
246 240. CHAPTER 4 a. In the Frequency field, specify the interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service sends . To not use the NetCommunity Windows Service to send , select Never. To set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service sends , select Every [ ] (minutes) and enter the interval, in minutes. Note: When you set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service sends , the interval begins once the previous process run ends. For example, if you set an interval of every 90 minutes and the process itself takes 30 minutes, the process runs 120 minutes after the start of the previous run. To schedule the NetCommunity Windows Service to send once daily, select Daily and enter the time of day to run the process. b. In the Log Directory field, enter the location of the directory of the log that records the data. 9. In the List Acquisition and Refresh frame, configure how the NetCommunity Windows Service acquires and refreshes lists. a. In the Frequency field, enter the interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service acquires and refreshes the lists. To not use the NetCommunity Windows Service to acquire or refresh lists, select Never. To set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service acquires and refreshes lists, select Every [ ] (minutes) and enter the interval, in minutes. Note: When you set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service acquires and refreshes lists, the interval begins once the previous process run ends. For example, if you set an interval of every 90 minutes and the process itself takes 30 minutes, the process runs 120 minutes after the start of the previous run. To schedule the NetCommunity Windows Service to acquire and refresh lists once a day, select Daily at and enter the time of day to run the process. b. In the Log Directory field, enter the location of the directory of the log that records the list acquisition and refresh data. 10. In the Role Refresh frame, configure the role refresh settings of the NetCommunity Windows Service for enhanced performance. When you configure standard role refresh, the program caches the information rather than load it by a SQL call on every login. For more information about role refresh, see Role Refresh on page 228. Note: By default, Blackbaud NetCommunity refreshes member roles once every 24 hours after a member s last login. If another Blackbaud program does not accept the member as part of a download transaction from Blackbaud NetCommunity since the member s last login, there is no role to refresh. Once another Blackbaud program accepts the member as part of a download transaction, the role refreshes upon the next login and the 24-hour interval is set to that date and time. a. In the Frequency field, enter the interval to lapse between role refresh processes.
247 A DMINISTRATION. 241 To not use the NetCommunity Windows Service to automatically refresh roles, select Never. To set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service refreshes roles, select Every [ ] (hours) and enter the interval, in hours. Note: When you set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service refreshes roles, the interval begins once the previous process run ends. For example, if you set an interval of every 3 hours and the process itself takes 30 minutes, the process runs 3 hours and 30 minutes after the start of the previous run. To schedule the NetCommunity Windows Service to refresh roles once a day, select Daily at and enter the time of day to run the process. b. In the Log Directory field, enter the location of the directory of the log that records the role refresh data. c. In the Log Level field, select None, Simple, or Verbose as the level of detail to include in the log. 11. In the Fundraiser Synchronize frame, configure the synchronization of the Fundraiser part provided by the NetCommunity Windows Service. The synchronization process merges data from The Raiser s Edge with existing Fund solicitor information in Blackbaud NetCommunity. When you configure the process, you can set the frequency of the process. a. In the Frequency field, enter the interval, in hours, to lapse between synchronization processes. When the Synchronize checkbox is marked on the Fundraiser part, the process runs at the frequency entered here. By default, the process frequency is 12 hours. To not run the synchronization process, select Never. To set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service synchronizes the Fundraiser part, select Every [ ] (hours) and enter the interval, in hours. Note: When you set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service synchronizes the Fundraiser part, the interval begins once the previous process run ends. For example, if you set an interval of every 3 hours and the process itself takes 30 minutes, the process runs 3 hours and 30 minutes after the start of the previous run. To schedule the NetCommunity Windows Service to synchronize the Fundraiser part once a day, select Daily at and enter the time of day to run the process. b. In the Log Directory field, enter the location of the directory of the log that records the fundraiser synchronization data. 12. If you integrate Blackbaud NetCommunity with The Raiser s Edge 7.82 or higher, the The Raiser s Edge Integration Service frame appears. In this frame, configure how the NetCommunity Windows service sends information to The Raiser s Edge. When you configure the process, you can set the frequency of the process. a. In the Frequency field, enter the interval, in hours, to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows service sends information to The Raiser s Edge. To not send information to The Raiser s Edge, select Never. To set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service sends information, select Every [ ] (minutes) and enter the interval, in minutes.
248 242. CHAPTER 4 Note: When you set an interval to lapse before the NetCommunity Windows Service sends information to The Raiser s Edge, the interval begins once the previous process run ends. For example, if you set an interval of every 90 minutes and the process itself takes 30 minutes, the process runs 120 minutes after the start of the previous run. To schedule the NetCommunity Windows Service to send information to The Raiser s Edge once a day, select Daily at and enter the time of day to run the process. b. In the Log Directory field, enter the location of the directory of the log that records the interaction with The Raiser s Edge. 13. In the User Imports frame, set how often the program runs the process to import user information. For more information about the user import process, see User Imports on page 243. To not import user information into Blackbaud NetCommunity, select Never. To set an interval to lapse before the program runs an import process, select Every [ ] (hours) and enter the interval, in hours. Note: When you set an interval to lapse before the program runs the import process, the interval begins once the previous process run ends. For example, if you set an interval of every 3 hours and the process itself takes 30 minutes, the process runs 3 hours and 30 minutes after the start of the previous run. To schedule the program to run the import process once a day, select Daily at and enter the time of day to run the process. 14. To save the settings, on the action bar, click Save. Code Tables Code tables in Blackbaud NetCommunity are similar to those in other Blackbaud programs. In Code Tables, you can create a table for event categories and add table entries for each event category type. These code table entries appear in the Event Category field on the Event Calendar part. Create a code table 1. From Administration, click Code Tables. The Code Tables screen appears. 2. In the Name column, click Event Calendar Category. The Code Table Editor screen appears. 3. In the text field, enter the first category entry for the code table and click Add New Entry. The new entry appears in the grid. 4. To continue to add event categories, enter the category entry for the code table and click Add New Entry for each new category. 5. When all event categories are added, click Return. You return to the Code Tables screen.
249 A DMINISTRATION. 243 User Imports With User Imports, you can import user information, such as data exported from The Raiser s Edge, to create new users in Blackbaud NetCommunity. In User Imports, you select the file to import and select whether to schedule the import for a later date. Only Administrators or users with Supervisor rights in Blackbaud NetCommunity can access User Imports. Note: The import file must be a comma-separated values (*.csv) file, and its first row must contain the field names. To import the user information correctly, each record in the import file must contain the user s first and last name, address, and ID. You can also import user names and passwords for all users in the import file, or Blackbaud NetCommunity can automatically generate this information during the import. Create a user import 1. From Administration, click User Imports. The User Imports screen appears. 2. On the action bar, click New User Import. The Properties screen appears. 3. In the Name field, enter a name for the user import so Blackbaud NetCommunity users can quickly identify the information in User Imports. 4. In the Description field, enter any additional information to identify the user import, such as an explanation of the users imported. 5. Click Next. The User Import Wizard screen appears.
250 244. CHAPTER 4 6. Select the Upload File tab. 7. In the Load File frame, in the File field, enter the path to the *.csv file to import. To map to the location of the import file, click Browse and use the Choose File screen. Note: At a minimum, the imported *.csv file must contain the constituent s first and last name, address, and system record ID, and its first row must contain the field names. You can export a *.csv file of this constituent information from The Raiser s Edge. For information about how to export data from The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge Query and Export Guide or the Export section of the help file in The Raiser s Edge. 8. Click Upload. The Uploaded File Details frame and field mapping grid appear.
251 A DMINISTRATION. 245 Note: In the Uploaded File Details frame, the File Name field displays the selected import file. To import a different file, click Replace this file. The Load File frame appears. 9. In the field mapping grid, the Import Field column displays the fields required to import users into Blackbaud NetCommunity. For each import field, in the File Field column, select the field of the import file from which to import information. Note: When you upload an import file, the program automatically attempts to match field names in the import file with the fields required to import to users into Blackbaud NetCommunity. You can adjust the automatically mapped fields as necessary. a. In the Last Name and First Name fields, select the field names in the import file that contains the last and first name of each user. b. In the Address field, select the field name in the import file that contains the address for each user. c. In the Username field, select the field name in the import file that contains the user name for each user or, to automatically generate user names, select the format to use for the user names, such as <Last Name> <First Name>. If you select a user name format, specify how the user name appears. In the <Last Name> includes and <First Name> includes fields, select whether to use all characters in the name or only the first specific number of characters. In the Separate <First Name> and <Last Name> with field, select the character to separate the first and last names in the user name. You can select to display a space, a period, a dash, or an underscore, or you can select to display no separation. Next to the Username field, the Sample field displays how user names appear with the selected format. d. To prevent duplicate user names, mark Ensure unique usernames. When you mark this checkbox, the program adds a number to the end of any user name that already exists in Blackbaud NetCommunity or is included elsewhere in the import file. e. In the Password field, select the field name in the import file that contains the password for each user or, to automatically generate passwords, select <Autogenerate>. f. In the The Raiser s Edge System Record ID field, select the field name in the import file that contains the system record ID for each user.
252 246. CHAPTER Select the Preview Import tab or click Next. The Preview Import tab appears. Note: If you exit the User Import Wizard screen after you upload an import file but before you add the import to the queue, you can return to the user import from User Imports. On the User Imports screen, the Status column for the import is blank. For information about how to view a user import, see View the tabs of a user import on page In the Summary of Uploaded File frame, view the total number of records included in the import file and how many of those records are valid and how many contain exceptions. 12. In the Filter List By frame, enter the exception status of the records to view. You can select to view all valid records, all exceptions, or all with a specific exception status. To view all records in the import file, regardless of exception status, leave the Status field blank. For information about the exception status, see User Import Exception Reasons on page Click Go. In the grid, records in the import file that match the entered filter criteria appear. Make sure the fields are mapped correctly. In the Exception reason column, view the cause for any exceptions in your import file, such as This record is already linked to a NetCommunity user. For more information about user import exceptions and their causes, see User Import Exception Reasons on page 252.
253 A DMINISTRATION. 247 Note: The grid can display up to 50 records at a time. If you import more than 50 records, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 14. Select the Import File tab or click Next. The Import File tab appears. 15. In the Options for Processing Import frame, in the Process scheduling field, select when to process the user import. To add the user import to the queue immediately when you click Queue Import, mark Queue for processing. To add the user import to the queue at a later date when you click Queue Import, mark Queue for processing on or after and, in the field, click the calendar and select the date to add the process to the queue. 16. For Send , select whether to automatically send an to the new users added during the import. To not automatically send an to the new users, mark Do not send after processing import. To automatically send an to the new users, mark Send after processing import using the following template and, in the field, select the template on which to base the . To decide which template to use, consider the type of you intend to send. The selections that appear are categories that already exist in Templates and have a data source of NetCommunity Users. For more information about templates, see Templates on page 163. Note: Regardless of your selection for Send , when Blackbaud NetCommunity imports the user information, it automatically creates a NetCommunity user list that contains the new users added during the import. You can use this list to send future to these users. For information about lists, see Lists on page Click Queue Import. You return to User Imports. If, in the Options for Processing Import frame, you mark Queue for processing, Blackbaud NetCommunity imports the user information during the next scheduled user import process, as specified in Configuration.
254 248. CHAPTER 4 If, in the Options for Processing Import frame, you mark Queue for processing on or after, Blackbaud NetCommunity imports the user information on or after the selected date, in accordance with the user import process settings selected in Configuration. Note: For information about the user import process settings in Configuration, see Configuration on page 237. View the tabs of a user import 1. From Administration, click User Imports. The User Imports screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the user import to view. You can enter the import s name or status. For information about the import status, see User Import Status on page Click Go. In the grid, user imports that match the entered filter criteria appear. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 4. Next to the user import to view, click Click here to edit this User Import. The User Import Wizard screen appears. 5. If, on the User Imports screen, the Status column for the user import is blank or Queued, the User Import Wizard screen includes the Upload File, Preview Import, and Import File tabs. For information about how to complete these tabs, see Create a user import on page 243.
255 A DMINISTRATION. 249 Note: You cannot change a user import with a status of Queued. To adjust a user import with a status of Queued, such as to correct any exceptions, you must first cancel the user import. For information about how to cancel a user import, see Cancel a queued user import on page 249. If, on the User Imports screen, the Status column for the user import is Imported or Exceptions, the User Import Wizard screen includes the Status and Results tabs. On the Status tab, view details about the current status of the import, such as the date, time, and duration of the import; how many records the import contained and how many records imported successfully and how many did not; and whether Blackbaud NetCommunity sent to the imported users. If the user import contains exceptions, click Download Exceptions to create a *.csv file of the exceptions. The *.csv file includes a column to explain the reason for each exception. For more information about user import exceptions and their causes, see User Import Exception Reasons on page 252. On the Results tab, view the user information that imported correctly and any exceptions. If information does not import correctly, the Results tab displays the reason for the exception. Note: To view the properties of the user import, click Properties on the action bar. The user import Properties screen appears. You can adjust the name or description of the user import as required. 6. To return to User Imports, click Return on the action bar. Cancel a queued user import You cannot change a user import with a status of Queued. To adjust a user import with a status of Queued, such as to correct any exceptions, you must first cancel the user import. 1. From Administration, click User Imports. The User Imports screen appears.
256 250. CHAPTER 4 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the name of the user import to cancel, or in the Status field, select Queued. 3. Click Go. In the grid, user imports that match the entered filter criteria appear. 4. Next to the user import to cancel, click Click here to edit this User Import. The User Import Wizard screen appears. 5. Select the Import File tab. 6. Click Cancel Import. The user import is removed from the queue and the Queue Import button appears. 7. Adjust the user import as required. For information about how to create a user import, see Create a user import on page To return to User Imports, click Return on the action bar.
257 A DMINISTRATION. 251 Delete a user import 1. From Administration, click User Imports. The User Imports screen appears. 2. In the Filter List By frame, enter the criteria of the user import to delete. You can enter the import s name or status. For information about the import status, see User Import Status on page Click Go. In the grid, user imports that match the entered filter criteria appear. Note: The grid can display up to 50 results at a time. If you have more than 50 results, click Prev or Next to page through the results, or select the page number to view. 4. Next to the user import to view, click Click here to delete this User Import. A message appears to confirm the deletion of the user import. 5. Click OK. You return to User Imports. The grid no longer displays the user import. User Import Status After you create a user import in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you can view its current status in User Imports. On the User Imports screen, the Status column displays the status of each user import. In the Filter List By frame, you can also select the status of the user imports to view on the User Imports screen. Imported Blackbaud NetCommunity imported the user information and successfully added the new users. Queued The user import is in the queue to be imported. When you create a user import, you specify whether to import the users during the next scheduled import process or at a future date. Exceptions Blackbaud NetCommunity attempted to import the user information but failed, such as if all records contained errors, or the import file contained no valid records. No status If the Status column is blank for a user import, the import is created but not yet in the queue.
258 252. CHAPTER 4 User Import Exception Reasons After you create a user import in Blackbaud NetCommunity, you can view its exceptions, or records that do not import correctly, in User Imports. You can also view the reason for each exception. Before you add the import to the queue, you can view its exceptions on the Preview Import tab of the User Import Wizard screen. In the Summary of Uploaded File frame, the Records with exceptions field displays how many exceptions the import file contains. In the grid, the Exception reason column explains why each exception will not import. After you add the import to the queue, you can view its exceptions on the Status tab of the User Import Wizard screen. In the Status frame, the Exceptions field displays how many exceptions the import file contains. To view a *.csv file of the exceptions, click Download Exceptions. The *.csv file includes the user information that did not import and a column to explain the reason for each exception. Exceptions can occur for multiple reasons. Required field missing The import file does not contain one or more required fields. Invalid field value The address or system record ID in the import file is invalid or in an invalid format. This record is already linked to a NetCommunity user The constituent imported from The Raiser s Edge is already linked to a user in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Username is used The user name specified or generated in the user import already exists in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Before you add the user import to the queue, you can upload a corrected import file or adjust the field matching to resolve the exceptions. If you import a file that includes exceptions, Blackbaud NetCommunity imports only the valid records and ignores the exceptions.
259 CHAPTER5 Chapter Management In This Chapter Design and Management Process on page 254 Chapter Management: Process Overview on page 254 When you add chapter management into your Blackbaud NetCommunity website, you create subsites within your site. You can use chapter management to implement a variety of structured segmentation at organizations. For example, an alumni association can use chapter management to create web pages for individual alumni classes or the different colleges at a school (for example, College of Architecture). If your organization has committees with committee chairs, you can implement chapter management for committee use. Chapter management can also be used to create separate web pages for city, state, or regional chapters. Chapter management in Blackbaud NetCommunity is comprised of multiple pieces from the program that, together, complete the solution. The main piece, the Chapter Manager part, is contained within your Blackbaud NetCommunity site. However, the Chapter Manager part is structured to group its pages together in a separate, subsite organization. To begin, review the Design and Management Process on page 254.
260 254. CHAPTER 5 Design and Management Process This flow chart illustrates the design and management process for chapter management. Chapter Management: Process Overview Creating chapter management requires several steps in different areas of Blackbaud NetCommunity. Step 1 Designate individuals for your content manager, data manager, and member roles. See Chapter Management Roles on page 255. Step 2 Plan your Chapter Manager site and educate everyone involved about your plans. Step 3 The web designer creates the necessary parts, pages, templates, and needed for the Chapter Manager part type. For example, if the Chapter Page Elements you want to use for the Chapter Manager do not exist, the web designer creates them. See Website on page 29 for information about Pages on page 31, Parts on page 39, and Layouts on page 121. Also see Chapter Page Element Parts on page 258. Step 4 The Content Manager designs the Chapter Links in Blackbaud NetCommunity. See Chapter Links Part on page 257.
261 CHAPTER MANAGEMENT. 255 Step 5 The Content Manager designs the Chapter Manager in Blackbaud NetCommunity. See Design Chapter Manager on page 260. Step 6 Managers solicit potential members with an appeal. The includes information about your chapter and a link to the chapter site. See Manage Chapter Pages on page 258 and Step 2: Editor on page 261. Step 7 Members visit the chapter site. They learn about your chapter and how to become active members. Members also communicate with your managers and other members of your chapter. Step 8 A Raiser s Edge user downloads updated profile transactions on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Chapter members do not register for the chapter. Therefore, Blackbaud NetCommunity does not pass additional data to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge for processing. See Changes in The Raiser s Edge on page 269. Chapter Management Roles Three roles exist for users of a Chapter Manager: Content Manager, Data Manager, and Member. Content Managers and Data Managers are based on Blackbaud NetCommunity roles that you select in Roles. Members are based on a Raiser s Edge query. In The Raiser s Edge, members are grouped together in a query. In Blackbaud NetCommunity, you define security for the member query in Roles. As you create the Chapter Manager part, you select the roles to assign to the Content Manager, Data Manager, and Member. There is no user sign-up process for Chapter Manager; users are assigned to chapters based on roles. For information about selecting the roles for your Chapter Manager, see Add a Chapter on page 266. For information about Roles, see Roles on page 227. Content Manager Every Chapter Manager part has one or more Content Managers. Content Managers select a site web page template, customize the Chapter Page Element Parts on page 258, edit and update content (for example, news headlines, event calendars, and blogs), and send to members of the chapter. These messages can be for membership or event purposes. Typically, Content Managers are users of the Blackbaud NetCommunity administration area. Note: Content Managers and Data Managers are based on Blackbaud NetCommunity roles that you select in Roles on page 227. You can assign different rights to these positions or contain Content and Data Managers in single role with the rights of both roles. Data Manager Every Chapter Manager part has Data Managers. Using the manager Home page on your Blackbaud NetCommunity site, Data Managers can update a member s profile and process giving history information. Data Managers also manage membership and event data. Typically, Data Managers are your chapter managers (for example, a class president).
262 256. CHAPTER 5 Note: Content Managers and Data Managers are based on Blackbaud NetCommunity roles that you select in Roles on page 227. You can assign different rights to these positions or contain Content and Data Managers in single role with the rights of both roles. Member Members are the general users of the Chapter Manager on your site. Individuals in this group can be past donors to your regional office or alumni class members. Use security to limit this role. Generally, Members are your chapter site visitors. Note: Members are in a Raiser s Edge query. In Blackbaud NetCommunity, you assign rights for the members in Roles on page 227. Anonymous User Anonymous users can browse chapter site pages if you add a Menu on page 78 part that includes a link to the page that contains the chapter site search. The chapter site search is created in Step 6: Search Title on page 266 of the Chapter Manager part. Because it is the responsibility of a chapter manager to be involved with your site and communicate to peers by broadcasting from your site, the identity of the chapter site visitors is likely known to you. Note: Anonymous users might want to become members of your chapter site. Make sure to provide a way for these users to contact your organization about joining. For example, you can add a statement that reads Not a member of this chapter and would like to be? Send an to [email protected]. Pre-Design Work for Chapter Management Before creating a Chapter Manager, several key components must exist in Blackbaud NetCommunity. The web designer creates the Chapter Manager, components are selected and used in the part. Before creating the Chapter Manager part, make sure the following pieces exist for it: In The Raiser s Edge, create a query of your members. In Blackbaud NetCommunity, the query is used to assign rights for the member query role. For more information, see Chapter Management Roles on page 255. In Blackbaud NetCommunity, establish security for the Content Manager, Data Manager, and Member positions in Roles. For more information, see Roles on page 227. Create a Chapter Links part to add links on the website menu for managers and members to access a chapter site. A manager or member views only the links to chapters in which he is a member or manager. You should create only one Chapter Links part for your Chapter Manager part. For more information, see Chapter Links Part on page 257. Chapter Page Element part types are used by chapter managers to customize a chapter page on your site. Chapter Page Elements are combined with other parts to create pages that offer dynamic sections (Chapter Page Element parts) for chapter managers to customize and static sections (other parts) for your organization to create elements that cannot be edited by a manager. These pages are designed for members to communicate with other members and managers and for nonmembers to learn about your
263 CHAPTER MANAGEMENT. 257 chapter and hopefully become active members in your chapter. If you select more than one page, you offer managers a set of chapter pages to customize. For example, if your organization has regional chapters, you can create multiple web pages for each chapter. Each page contains one or more Chapter Page Elements to use for the customization of each regional chapter page. For more information, see Chapter Page Element Parts on page 258. Create a web page that contains a User Preferences Form part if one does not already exist. With this part, a website user can subscribe or unsubscribe from lists and opt out of from your organization. When you create a Chapter Manager, you create an template that managers use to generate and send . The requires you to create a link to a User Preferences Form. For more information, see User Preferences Form on page 110. Create additional web pages for your chapter site. For example, you can create a static web page that cannot be edited by a chapter manager for each local chapter in your organization. For more information about creating web pages, see Pages on page 31. Chapter Links Part Create a Chapter Links part to add links on the website home page for managers and members to click to access a chapter site. Managers and members view only the links to chapters in which they are members. For example, Mark is the Data Manager for the Atlanta chapter. He is a part of the Atlanta Data Manager role that is used for your chapter site. When he logs into your website, the Atlanta chapter link appears on the menu. You create only one Chapter Links part for your Chapter Manager part. For information about Chapter Manager, see Design Chapter Manager on page 260. Design Chapter Links For information about chapter management in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Design and Management Process on page 254. For information about the Chapter Manager part, see Design Chapter Manager on page From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Chapter Links. If you are creating a new part, you must first save part properties. For information about part properties, see Create a part on page 46. Note: The name, description, type, and security information defaults automatically to the Part Properties screen after you create the part type. To view this information, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Action column on the Parts screen. 3. In the Title field, enter a title for your link on your website. For example, enter Class of In the Link Text frame, mark the checkbox beside the Text field in which to enter text. a. If you mark the checkbox and enter text beside Prepend text to the chapter name, the text appears before the chapter name. For example, if you enter Class of and the chapter name in your Chapter Manager part is 1998, your chapter link appears as Class of 1998 on your site. b. If you mark the checkbox and enter text beside Append text to the chapter name, the text appears after the chapter name For example, if you enter chapter and the chapter name in your Chapter Manager part is Atlanta, your chapter link appears as Atlanta chapter on your site.
264 258. CHAPTER 5 5. In the Preview frame, view the text you entered in the previous step. Confirm the Link Text appears as you want it to on your Chapter Links part. 6. To save this content part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Chapter Page Element Parts Create Chapter Page Elements to add dynamic and customizable sections to a web page for chapter use. These web pages communicate the chapter s purpose and facilitate interaction among members. Members of the chapter visit the page to learn more about the manager s involvement with your chapter and to become involved in your organization. When you create a Chapter Manager part, you select the possible web pages with Chapter Page Elements to include on your site. If you select more than one page, you offer managers a set of chapter pages to customize. For example, if your organization has multiple regional chapters, you can create one or more web pages for each chapter. Each page contains one or more Chapter Page Elements to use for the customization of each regional chapter page. Note: For information about creating Chapter Page Element types, see Page Element Types on page 83. Web pages using Chapter Page Elements also contain static sections that are other parts in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Use these sections to create defaults for your organization that appear on every chapter page. For example, you can include your chapter mission statement on the chapter page. The mission statement is contained in a Formatted Text and Images part. Review the following graphic for a web page that uses Chapter Page Elements and other static parts. Chapter Page Element parts can be one of several element types. The page element types are Action, Directory, Event Calendar, News, News Reader, Photos, Rich Text, or Text. For information about creating Chapter Page Element types, see Page Element Types on page 83. Manage Chapter Pages When you add a Chapter Manager dart to a page on your website, chapter managers can manage chapter pages. The Home page dashboard provides a central location for chapter managers to monitor their pages.
265 CHAPTER MANAGEMENT. 259 The action bar on the Home page dashboard allows chapter managers to navigate between tasks, monitor and update data, edit chapter pages, send , and search for chapter members. Home - To monitor their pages and perform tasks, chapter managers click Home. From the Home page, chapter managers can select chapters to manage and click links to visit the chapter home page, design chapter pages, view and edit chapter members, or send . This page also displays statistics about the number of sent, received, and opened messages. Site Pages - To preview pages and change the layout and content, chapter managers click Site Pages. Chapter managers can select page templates, add pictures, edit text, or adjust settings such as whether members can add, edit, and delete events on an Event Calendar. The Site Pages page is available only to Content Managers. If a Content Manager is a member of more than one chapter site, the manager can access multiple chapter pages. - To generate messages and view statistics, chapter managers click . To view statistics but not recipients, chapter managers click Activity. The Activity screen displays overall statistics. A bar chart displays statistics for the message selected in the Select to view activity field. Chapter managers can click view to read the original message. To send messages to chapter members, chapter managers click New . From the New screen, chapter managers select templates and create the content. The Send To field displays the chapter name, but not individual recipients. Screen Item Sent Number Recipients Number Opened Total Sent Opted Out Invalid Opened Description The number of distinct messages that have been sent, not the number times those messages have been sent. For example, if two different messages are each sent to five addresses, the number sent is 2. How many times distinct messages have been received. In other words, the number of times messages have been sent, minus failed deliveries. For example, if two different messages are each sent to five addresses, the number of recipients is 10. But if two messages are delivered unsuccessfully, the number of recipients is 8. The number of recipients who opened messages. For example, if you two different messages are each sent to five addresses but only two are opened, the number opened is 2. The number of times the message in the Select to view activity field was sent. The number of times the message in the Select to view activity field was not delivered because the recipient requested not to receive the message. The number of times the message in the Select to view activity field was not delivered because of an invalid address. The number of times the message in the Select to view activity field was opened. Members - To search for chapter members, chapter managers click Members. A query created in The Raiser s Edge defines the members of a chapter. Chapter managers can search by criteria such as name, nickname, gender, and birth date. The Members page is available only to Data Managers. If a Data Manager is a member of more than one chapter site, the manager can access members of multiple chapters.
266 260. CHAPTER 5 Note: If the Content Manager and Data Manager are contained in the same role, the manager views both Site Pages and Members on the action bar. If your Content Manager and Data Manager are separate roles, the Content Manager views Site Pages and the Data Manager views Members. Design Chapter Manager To create and design a Chapter Manager, begin with Step 1: Add Chapter Site Pages on page 260 and follow the instructions for the remaining procedures. Note: For navigational purposes, make sure you have a link on your website for Content and Data Managers to use that directs the manager to the chapter site. You can add a link using the Chapter Links part, create a chapter search link for your menu, or add a Chapter Console Link in an Action Chapter Page Element. For more information about navigating chapter management, see Design and Management Process on page 254. Step 1: Add Chapter Site Pages In this step, you select roles for the Content Manager, Data Manager, and Member. Before creating a Chapter Manager part, you must create the queries for the member role in The Raiser s Edge. Then, add the security for the role in Blackbaud NetCommunity in Roles on page From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. If you are creating a new part, you must first save part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page 46. Note: After you create the part type, the name, description, type, and security information default automatically to the Part Properties screen. To view this, click Properties on the toolbar or in the Actions column on the Pages screen. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Actions column. The Edit Part screen appears for Chapter Manager and defaults to the Manager tab. 3. To add a chapter site page, click Add Page. A grid appears. a. In the Page column, select the existing page, with a Chapter Page Element, to display on your website. b. In the Display Name field, enter a page reference name that chapter managers can easily identify. This name does not appear on your site for public viewing. The name appears as a page option chapter managers use to select their chapter manager page. For example, enter Greenville Chapter - Red in the Display Name field for one page, and enter Greenville Chapter - Blue for a second page. When a manager selects to edit his chapter page, these two page options appear for the chapter manager to select from.
267 CHAPTER MANAGEMENT. 261 c. If this is the default page, select the option in the Home Page column. Each Chapter Manager part must have a default page. To remove the page from your site, click Remove in the Action column. Step 2: Editor 1. To create designs for chapter managers to use for sending , in the Designs frame, click Add . The new screen appears. 2. In the Name field, enter a name for the . The program uses the personal page owner s address for the From Address field and the owner s name for the Name field. 3. In the box, enter the content of the . To customize content, select fields in the Merge Fields field. To format the content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page To link to a User Preferences Form part, click the Insert Hyperlink button on the toolbar. In the Create Link to Special Page frame, select the User Preferences Form for the Chapter Manager part. If it does not exist, you must create the form in Parts. For more information about creating a link, see Create Page Link on page 25. For more information about creating a User Preferences Form part, see User Preferences Form on page 110.
268 262. CHAPTER 5 Warning: A link to a User Preferences Form part is required for each design you create for the Chapter Manager part. This way, members can unsubscribe to the . Step 3: Chapter Members 1. In the Directory Title field, enter a name for the directory. 2. In the Search Form frame, in the Split search fields into field, select the number of columns of search fields to appear in the criteria table. You can display up to five columns. To process a search while the user browses your Directory page, mark Load unfiltered results when this part is loaded. When you mark this checkbox, the Directory search processes before the user enters criteria and clicks Search on your website. 3. In the Results frame, set up how to display search results on your Directory page. a. In the Show navigation controls field, select where the navigation buttons will appear. When the Directory search returns results, the navigation buttons appear Above the results, Below the results, or Both above and below the results. b. The Directory search can return up to 500 results that match the criteria entered by a site user. In the Results per page field, select the maximum number of results to appear on a page when a site user searches the directory. You can display up to 50 results per page. c. In the No records found message field, enter the message to appear if no records meet the search criteria the user enters to search the Directory on your website. By default, the message No directory entries match your criteria appears.
269 CHAPTER MANAGEMENT Right-click and drag fields from the Profile Fields box on the left and drop them in the Search Form Fields box on the right. You can also select the field and click the right arrow to move it. Select fields the user can search by, such as First Name or Last Name. The attributes available in the Constituent Attributes tree view are selected in System Options on page 234 in Administration. On the website, multiple-value attribute fields, such as Organization type, become drop-down boxes with the various attributes available as selections. To arrange the order of fields in the list, click Up and Down. Note: The fields in the Search Form Fields box and the Listing Fields box do not have to match. 5. To select which fields appear when the search finds a match, right-click and drag fields from Profile Fields to Listing Fields. For example, you select to list the member s last name, first name, birth date, address, and whether or not they want to receive . In this case, the last name is the link. When results appear, the last name has a line underneath it and changes color when you move your mouse over it, indicating it is a link. When a website user clicks the last name link, the published profile information for that directory member appears. 6. To save the part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
270 264. CHAPTER 5 Step 4: Profile Editor If you include a profile editor for the Chapter Manager part, Data Managers can update a member s profile on your website. The updated profile information downloads to The Raiser s Edge. 1. To include a profile update form for Data Managers, mark Display Profile Update. Note: Review the table at the end of this procedure to learn about the features on your Chapter Manager part when you do not mark Display Profile Update and Display Giving History, mark both checkboxes, or mark one checkbox and not the other. 2. In the Section field, select the type of profile design to create. Your options include Bio, Preferred Address, Business, Phones and , Spouse, Constituent Attributes, Primary Alumni, and Education Attributes. Each Section field option includes fields from the corresponding area in The Raiser s Edge. For example, if you select Spouse, spouse relationship fields appear that are in The Raiser s Edge. When a user enters spouse information on your website, you can download the information directly to the spouse fields in The Raiser s Edge. If you select Constituent Attributes, the constituent attributes that appear on your User Profile Form can have multiple values. For example, if your Constituent Attribute is Mentor, a Mentor field appears with a drop-down arrow on the profile form on your website. The values from the list are the table entries set up for the attribute in The Raiser s Edge. For Mentor, the values can be Algebra, Painting, or Construction, for example.
271 CHAPTER MANAGEMENT. 265 Warning: For constituent attributes to have multiple table entries on the profile form on your website, you must first make them accessible from The Raiser s Edge. Click Administration, System Options on the navigation bar. In the Attributes frame, mark the constituent attribute checkbox to include in Blackbaud NetCommunity. For more information, see System Options on page In the Heading field, enter the text to appear at the top of your profile design. For example, you can enter My Biographical Page for your biographical profile. 4. Select the fields to appear on your profile design in the grid. For details about the grid, see Chart: Display Profile Update and Display Giving History on page 268. Step 5: Giving History Editor If you select to include Giving History in your Chapter Manager part, managers can create a Giving History list for individual members on the site. 1. To include giving history information, mark Display Giving History. Note: Review the table in Step 4: Profile Editor on page 264 to learn about the features on your chapter pages when you do not mark Display Profile Update and Display Giving History, mark both checkboxes, or mark one checkbox and not the other. 2. In the List Name field, enter the name for the Giving History for your website. 3. In the Message box, enter message information to appear below the Giving History name on your site. 4. In the Filtering Options frame, to select the filters for giving history information, click Modify. You can narrow results by Gift Types, Campaigns, Funds, and Appeals. 5. To include soft credit gifts in the giving history, mark Include Soft Credits. 6. In the Descriptive Text field, enter the text to display in the giving history to indicate a soft credit gift. For example, enter soft credit.
272 266. CHAPTER 5 Step 6: Search Title Anonymous users can browse chapter site pages if you add a Menu on page 78 part to your website that includes a link to the page containing the chapter site search (created in this step). Results for anonymous users contain a hyperlink list of chapter names on your website. The chapter site links direct the anonymous user to the chapter home page. If you prohibit anonymous rights to the home page in Roles on page 227, the anonymous user is directed automatically to the user sign-up page on your site. This way, you can identify your chapter site users by requiring anonymous users to sign up for your site if they want to browse your chapter pages. 1. In the Title field, enter the name of the chapter site search. The title you enter appears first on the chapter search page. This search is used by members or anonymous users to search for a chapter page. Also, members can view other chapter members on this screen. If you do not enter a name, Chapter Search appears as the title for the site search screen. 2. To save the part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Add a Chapter You can create a new chapter based on an existing chapter. To do this, in the chapter list grid, select the chapter to edit. In the Actions column, click Click here to copy this chapter. The Copy screen appears. In the Chapter name field, enter a new chapter name. To return to the Chapters tab, click Save and Close. 1. At the top of the Edit Part screen, select the Chapters tab. 2. On the action bar, click New Chapter. The Chapter Editor: New Chapter screen appears. 3. In the Chapter field, enter the name of your chapter site. For example, enter Atlanta. This field is limited to 40 characters. 4. In the Content Manager Roles frame, click Change to add a role for content managers. The Select Roles screen appears. In the Select column beside the roles to add, mark the checkbox beside the role for the Chapter Manager part and click OK. You return to the Chapter Editor: New Chapter screen. For more information about roles, see Roles on page Repeat Step 4 for the Data Manager Roles and the Member Roles frames. Only roles with a Raiser s Edge query selected in the Base role membership on a query field in Roles appear in the Member Roles frame. Before creating a Chapter Manager part, you must create queries for the member role in The Raiser s Edge. Then, add the security for the role in Blackbaud NetCommunity in Roles on page 227
273 CHAPTER MANAGEMENT. 267 Tip: A Content Manager is responsible for tasks such as selecting templates, customizing Chapter Page Elements, and updating content. A Data Manager is responsible for tasks such as updating a member s profile information and processing giving history information. A Member is a chapter site visitor. For more information, see Chapter Management Roles on page To return to the Chapters tab on the Edit Part screen, click Save and Close. 7. To preview the chapter s home page, in the Actions column, click Click here to view this chapter s home page. The designated Home Page appears. If the Content Manager for the chapter has edited the home page, his changes appear on the page. Tip: The chapter Home Page is selected on Step 1: Add Chapter Site Pages on page 260. To close the preview page, click the X in the upper right corner. 8. To save and close the Chapter Manager part, click Save and Close on the Edit Part screen. Edit a Chapter 1. At the top of the Edit Part screen, select the Chapters tab. 2. To search for an existing chapter, enter a partial name in the Chapter Name field. In the Selected Roles box, to search for a chapter that contains a specific role, mark the corresponding checkbox for the role. At the bottom of the chapter list grid, if you know the page number where the chapter is stored, select it in the Page field.
274 268. CHAPTER 5 Tip: If roles do not appear in the Selected Roles box, click the Select Roles link under the box. A Select Roles screen appears. Mark the checkbox for the roles you want to appear in the Selected Roles box. For information about roles, see Roles on page In the chapter list grid, select the chapter to edit. 4. In the Actions column, click Click here to edit this chapter. The Chapter Editor screen appears. 5. Make the changes for the Chapter name field or the Roles frames. Tip: A Content Manager is responsible for tasks such as selecting templates, customizing Chapter Page Elements, and updating content. A Data Manager is responsible for tasks such as updating a member s profile information and processing giving history information. A Member is a chapter site visitor. For more information, see Chapter Management Roles on page To return to the Chapters tab on the Edit Part screen, click Save and Close. 7. To save and close the Chapter Manager part, click Save and Close on the Edit Part screen. Chart: Display Profile Update and Display Giving History Review the following chart to learn about the features on your Chapter Manager part when you do not mark Display Profile Update and Display Giving History, mark both checkboxes, or mark one checkbox and not the other. Display Profile Update checkbox marked? Display Giving History checkbox marked? Feature No No Results from member search are not hyperlinked.
275 CHAPTER MANAGEMENT. 269 Display Profile Update checkbox marked? Display Giving History checkbox marked? Feature Yes Yes Results from member search are hyperlinked. When a member name is clicked, the member profile appears. A manager can update the profile. Also, the manager can access the member s giving history by clicking Giving History in the right corner on the profile page. Yes No Results from member search are hyperlinked. When the member name is clicked, the member profile appears. Managers can update the profile. No Yes Results from member search are hyperlinked. When the member name is clicked, the giving history for the member appears. Changes in The Raiser s Edge Chapter members do not register for the chapter. As explained in Chapter Management Roles on page 255, a user s constituent record must be in a Raiser s Edge query that is contained in a Blackbaud NetCommunity role. When creating the Chapter Manager part, the role must be selected as either the Content Manager, Data Manager, or Member role. These steps must be performed by your organization for a user to access the chapter site. Therefore, Blackbaud NetCommunity data does not pass to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge for downloading. The only exception occurs when a data manager updates a member s profile. When this happens, a profile transaction downloads the updated profile information to The Raiser s Edge. For more information, see User Profile Updates on page 345.
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279 CHAPTER6 Team Fundraising In This Chapter Design and Management Process on page 273 Team Fundraising: Process Overview on page 274 Using Team Fundraising, you can generate an interactive web page that drives volunteers, participants, donors, solicitors, and others to your site. Team Fundraising is used to bring awareness and help raise funds for a particular cause that typically centers around an event. For example, your organization assists the medical field with travels to countries to provide free aid and treatment. You find the medical volunteers, provide training, and raise support for expenses. For the first time, you are hosting a sailing race complete with captains, teams, and team members to benefit this. You want to use your website to generate as much energy and volunteer work and as many donations as possible. Using Team Fundraising, you can designate a Raiser s Edge fund for the event, allow solicitors to sign up as captains or team members, allow participants to customize web pages for site visitors, and create a donation page for visitors to make contributions. In addition, you can link events to Team Fundraising and generate welcome and forgotten password . Design and Management Process Team Fundraising contains numerous features. When you create this section of your site, you should be prepared to allocate extra time for planning and design. However, once you create and upload Team Fundraising to your website, it becomes a useful tool that generates awareness, new constituents, new donations, and new volunteers.
280 274. CHAPTER 6 This flow chart illustrates the design and management process for Team Fundraising. Team Fundraising: Process Overview Creating a Fundraiser part requires several steps in different areas of Blackbaud NetCommunity. Step 1: Designate individuals for your participant, supporter, The Raiser s Edge user, and Blackbaud NetCommunity web designer roles. See Team Fundraising Roles on page 275. Step 2: Plan your fundraiser and educate everyone involved about your plans. During the planning phase, determine the team and level hierarchies for your fundraiser. Step 3: The Blackbaud NetCommunity web designer creates necessary parts, pages, templates, and notifications needed for the Fundraiser part. For example, if the Fundraiser Page Elements you want to use for the Fundraiser do not exist, the web designer creates them. See Pages on page 31, Parts on page 39, Fundraiser Page Elements Parts on page 276, and on page 163. Step 4: The Blackbaud NetCommunity web designer creates and designs the Fundraiser in Blackbaud NetCommunity. See Design the Fundraiser Part on page 280. Step 5: Participants (solicitors) or individuals sign up on your website as team captains or team members. See Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282.
281 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 275 Step 6: Participants solicit peers via an appeal. The includes information about your organization, the fundraiser you are hosting, and a link to the participant s page on your site. See Messages on page 177 and Step 4: Create Designs on page 289. Step 7: Supporters, people who respond to the participant s , visit your website. They learn about your cause and your fundraiser. Supporters often become motivated to participate. A supporter can sign up as team captain of a new team or team member and can make a donation on your site. These people become constituents in your database. Step 8: A user downloads transactions to The Raiser s Edge. First, Sign-ups download to either link the participant to an existing constituent record in the database or a new constituent record is created for the participant. Next, Fundraiser transactions download to The Raiser s Edge to store solicitor and team member information. If the site user signed up for an event, event registrations are then downloaded. If a solicitor updates a record for an individual to which he is assigned, a profile transaction is downloaded. Lastly, donations are downloaded. For more information about downloading transactions to The Raiser s Edge, see Changes in The Raiser s Edge on page 308. Team Fundraising Roles Individuals in a fundraiser serve these four main roles: participant (or solicitor), supporter, The Raiser s Edge user, and Blackbaud NetCommunity web designer. Before proceeding with further planning and design, make sure you have individuals to fill these roles. Participant The participant is typically a solicitor and can be a team captain or team member. Additionally, the person can join individually (not as a part of a team), join an existing team, or create a new team establishing himself as captain. Responsibilities include sending to peers about the cause and fundraiser, directing them to your website, soliciting them for donations, and much more. When you create the Fundraiser part and the participant joins your site, many features appear on your site automatically. The participant has a Home Page dashboard used for monitoring team and individual goals. He can view the number of new donations, send an acknowledgement for each, view higher level team statistics (if they exist), and view statistics about who made a donation and who opened an . Supporter The supporter is typically contacted by a participant. The contact is made via an sent from the participant by Blackbaud NetCommunity. The contains a link to the participant page for each individual to make a contribution. After a contribution is made, you download supporters to The Raiser s Edge. This creates new constituents in your database. Additionally, supporters can search for and locate existing teams on your site. The Raiser s Edge User The Raiser s Edge user ensures several pieces of information exist in The Raiser s Edge before you create a Fundraiser part. The fund the Fundraiser uses must exist. The Raiser s Edge user can create teams for the Fundraiser on the Solicitors tab in the fund record. Create any constituent attributes you want to track for new participants and new supporters. For example, you may want to store T-shirt sizes for new participants. To link an event to the Fundraiser, this event should already exist in The Raiser s Edge. For example, to invite all donors from the Fundraiser to your Commodore s Ball, you need an event record in The Raiser s Edge. Lastly, any Raiser s Edge reports used to analyze Fundraiser results must be created.
282 276. CHAPTER 6 Blackbaud NetCommunity Web Designer The Blackbaud NetCommunity web designer designs and creates the Fundraiser part in the administration area of Blackbaud NetCommunity. He creates additional part types that work with the Fundraiser including Fundraiser Page Elements, Fundraiser Dashboard, and Report (Fundraiser). The designer also creates the template used by participants for the Fundraiser. Many other decisions and elements are needed for a successful Fundraiser. We recommend that the designer carefully reads and follows Design the Fundraiser Part on page 280. Pre-Design Work for Team Fundraising Before creating a Fundraiser, several key elements and parts should exist in Blackbaud NetCommunity. These elements are used as the web designer creates the Fundraiser part. Before creating the Fundraiser, make sure you have these existing elements and parts for your Fundraiser. A web page must exist that can display the Fundraiser part. For information about creating pages, see Parts on page 39. Fundraiser Page Element part types are used by participants to customize a personal web page on your site. Participants send supporters a link to this Fundraiser page, which is designed for supporters to learn more about your cause and to make donations. Depending on the purpose of the fundraiser, you can create more than one Fundraiser page to offer participants a choice. For example, if your school is hosting a jump rope fundraiser, you can create a Fundraiser page with a boy theme and a page with a girl theme. You can offer a choice of pages to participants. However, a participant can choose only one Fundraiser personal page. Fundraiser Page Elements combine with other parts to create pages that offer dynamic sections (Fundraiser Page Element parts) for participants to customize and static sections (other parts) for your organization to create elements that participants cannot edit. For more information about Fundraiser Page Element and how to create them, see Fundraiser Page Elements Parts on page 276. Note: At least one Fundraiser Page Element must exist before you can create a Fundraiser part. For a Fundraiser, you must create a welcome , a forgotten password , and an acknowledgement for donations. A new user can register for your Fundraiser and become a registrant of your Blackbaud NetCommunity site at the same time. Therefore, while you can design new for your Fundraiser as you create it, you might want to design before. For more information about how to design messages, see Step 4: Create Designs on page 289, Step 9: Configure s on page 300, or Messages on page 177. Fundraiser Page Elements Parts Create Fundraiser Page Elements to add sections to a web page that are dynamic and can be customized for a participant s (solicitor s) use. These web pages are personal pages for the participant. Supporters visit the page to learn more about your organization and the participant s involvement with your organization. When you create a Fundraiser part, you select one or more possible web pages with Fundraiser Page Elements to include on your site. If you select more than one of these pages, you offer participants a choice of personal pages. For example, if your school is hosting a jump rope fundraiser, you can create a Fundraiser page with a boy theme and another with a girl theme.
283 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 277 Web pages using Fundraiser Page Elements also contain static sections that are other parts in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Use these sections to create defaults to appear on every solicitor s personal page. For example, you can include your organization s mission statement on the web page. You can place this part next to a Fundraiser Page Element. If you select the web page when creating a Fundraiser, the part containing the mission appears on every solicitor s personal page. Fundraiser Page Element parts can be one of several element types including Action, Comments, Donor List, Photos, Profile, Rich Text, Team List, Text, or Thermometer. For information about creating Fundraiser Page Element types, see Page Element Types on page 83. This graphic demonstrates how a web page uses Fundraiser Page Elements and static parts. Note: To allow donations from Team Fundraising, we recommend that you create a part or element with a Donate button linking to the donation page. For more information, see Step 7: Donation Form on page 293. Manage Fundraiser Pages When you add a Fundraiser part to a page on your website, participants or solicitors can manage Fundraiser pages. The Home page dashboard provides a central location for them to manage these pages. The action bar on the Home page dashboard allows participants to navigate between tasks, monitor and update data, edit the Fundraiser page, send , maintain contacts, add and view offline donations, and manage the Fundraiser team.
284 278. CHAPTER 6 My Home - To manage the Fundraiser, participants or solicitors can click My Home. From the My Home page, participants can click links to design and visit their web pages, send , or view and enter offline gifts. Status bars on the page display the progress of the participant and team (and subteam, if one exists). This page also displays statistics about the number of visits a personal Fundraiser page receives, the date of the last visit, the number of messages a participant sends, and the number of have that are opened. My Activity - To view statistics about messages, participants or solicitors click My Activity. To view a list of messages, participants select s on the action bar of the My Activity page. For each message, details appear about the number of times it was sent, the recipients, and whether it was opened or forwarded. Participants can sort messages according to whether they were opened, unopened, forwarded, or delivered unsuccessfully. To view a list of contacts who received messages and offline donors, participants can select People on the action bar. For each contact, details appear about the number of messages received and whether they opened or forwarded messages. For each offline donor, details appear about when and how much they donated. Participants can sort contacts and offline donors according to a variety of criteria, including whether they opened messages, forwarded messages, were asked to donate, donated, or were thanked. From the My Activity page, participants can also click View to read the original messages. My Page - To preview Fundraiser pages and change the layout and content, participants or solicitors click My Page. Participants can select a page template, add pictures, edit text, or adjust settings such the color for a Thermometer page element. Participants can manage their personal Fundraiser pages from the My Page page, but team captains can manage the main Team Fundraiser page from the My [Team Name] page. Send - To generate messages, participants or solicitors click Send . Participants can select contacts from the address book or create contacts to add to the address book. After participants select the contacts, a preview screen displays the names, addresses, and greetings that will be used. From this screen, page owners can change greetings or click contact names or addresses to change contact information. Participants can select templates and create the content on the Send page. Team captains can also send team from the My [Team Name] page. messages sent from the team captain dashboard do not use a Blackbaud NetCommunity template and are generated on the fly by team captains. These recipients do not appear when team captains select People on the action bar of the My Activity page, but statistics for these messages appear when team captains select s. Send Thanks - To generate acknowledgement messages, participants or solicitors click Send Thanks. A grid displays donors who have not been thanked for contributions to the participant s Fundraiser page. Participants can change addresses and greetings in the grid. The changes are saved to the address book. To exclude individuals from an acknowledgement, participants can unmark the checkboxes beside the names. To remove individuals from the list, participants can mark the checkboxes in the Already Thanked column. Participants can select templates and create the content on the Send Thanks page. Once an acknowledgement is sent, the recipients are removed from the grid. Send Invoices - When Support Performance-based Fundraising is marked on the Step 2: Fundraiser Options screen, participants can raise donations based on per-unit performance such as miles walked in a walk-a-thon. To generate pledge invoices, participants or solicitors click Send Invoices. This button appears only when Activity Closed and Pledge Processing are marked on the Step 2: Fundraiser Options screen and a total is entered in the My Details frame on the My Home page. A grid on the Send Invoices page displays donors who made per-unit pledges. Participants can change addresses and greetings in the grid. The changes are saved to the address book. To exclude individuals from an invoice, participants can unmark the checkboxes beside the names. To remove individuals from the list, participants can mark the checkboxes in the Already Collected column. Participants can select templates and create the content on the Send Invoices page. Once an invoice is sent, the recipients are removed from the grid. For more information, see Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282.
285 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 279 Address Book - To store addresses and contact information for solicitations, reminders, and acknowledgements, participants or solicitors click Address Book. To add contacts, participants click New Contact. To use *.csv files to import addresses from programs such as Outlook or Eudora, participants click Import Contacts. Anyone who joins a team or makes a donation through a participant s Fundraiser page is also added to the address book. In addition, contact information added on the Send , Send Thanks, or Offline Donations pages is saved to the address book. The address book displays up to 10 contacts per page, and the number of contacts and number of pages appear below the grid. The action bar above the grid controls how contacts appear. To display all contacts, participants click ALL. If there are more than 10 contacts, participants can use the links below the grid to navigate to additional pages. To view contacts in alphabetic groups, participants click the letters in the action bar. Contacts are organized by last name and by organization name, which means contacts can appear twice and participants can search by last name or organization name. To select a contact, participants mark the checkbox beside the name. To select all contacts on a page, participants mark the checkbox beside the Name column. To select all contacts in the address book, participants mark the checkbox beside the Name column and then click the link that appears above the grid. To delete a contact, participants select the contact and click Delete on the action bar. Note: If a participant of a previous Fundraiser signs up for a Fundraiser, that participant s address book automatically imports to the new Fundraiser. This includes individuals added manually to the address book and those assigned to the participant (or Class Agent). When creating a Fundraiser, if you mark the Display Solicitor Assignments checkbox in Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282, the solicitor assignments appear in the address book. Individuals in this list integrate from The Raiser s Edge Solicitors tab in the fund record. If you show solicitor assignments, the View field appears in the address book. Using this field, users can select to view Personal Contacts or Assigned Constituents. When a solicitor (also called a Class Agent for higher education) visits the address book, the latest list of assigned solicitors from the fund record in The Raiser s Edge updates to the address book. Solicitors are assigned to constituents in The Raiser s Edge on the Relationships tab. For information about this process, see The Raiser s Edge Solicitors chapter in the Constituent Data Entry Guide. Tip: You can update the assigned solicitors from The Raiser s Edge with solicitor address books by synchronizing the fund for the Fundraiser. For more information, see Step 1: The Raiser s Edge Fund and Administrator Roles on page 280. Offline Donations - To enter cash or check donations, participants or solicitors click Offline Donations. When Allow Offline Donation Entry is marked on the Step 2: Fundraiser Options screen, an Enter Offline Gifts link appears on the My Home page and an Enter New Donation button appears on the Offline Donations page. Offline gifts count toward participant and team goals. A grid on the Offline Donations page displays offline donations. For each donation, details such as donor name, amount, and payment method appear. Participants can edit or delete donations from the grid, and they can sort according to whether they are pending, accepted, or rejected. When contact information is added on the Offline Donations page, it is saved to the address book. However, when participants change contact information on the Offline Donations page, the address book is not updated. Note: If an offline donation has a status of Accepted, participants cannot change it from the Offline Donations page. The Accepted status means a user in The Raiser s Edge downloaded the offline donation. To request a change in The Raiser s Edge, a call must be made to your office. For more information, see Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282 and Offline Donations for a Team Fundraiser on page 304.
286 280. CHAPTER 6 My [Team Name] - To manage Fundraiser teams, team captains click My [Team Name]. This button displays the participant s team name. It appears only for participants or solicitors who are designated as team captains. From the My [Team Name] page, team captains can click links to design and visit the main Team Fundraiser page, send to the team, or add team members. Status bars on the page display the progress of the team (and subteam, if one exists) and team members. The buttons beside the team members allow captains to resend Guest Registration s or remove team members, but team captains cannot remove members added through an event registration form. The My [Team Name] page also displays statistics about the number of visits the Fundraiser page receives and the date of the last visit. When Allow team captains to add new team members via their dashboards is marked on the Step 2: Fundraiser Options screen, the Add New [ ] Member link appears on the My [Team Name] page. This link directs team captains to the Add New Member screen, where they can enter a first name, last name, and address and click Add Member. If all three fields match an existing member of the Fundraiser, then team captains cannot add the member. If the name and address fields match an existing website user who is not a member of the Fundraiser, then the new member is linked to the user record. The Guest Registration takes the user directly to the Participant Login page instead of the New User Login page. Design the Fundraiser Part Team Fundraising requires the creation of several pieces from the program before you can create a Fundraiser, and it is important to understand all of the information leading up to this section. Warning: We strongly recommend that you read Team Fundraising: Process Overview on page 274 before you design the Fundraiser part. The following procedures explain each step of the Team Fundraiser creation process. Step 1: The Raiser s Edge Fund and Administrator Roles 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Fundraiser. The first screen displays Part 1 of 9.
287 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 281 If you are creating a new part, you must first save part properties. For information about part properties, see Create a part on page In The Raiser s Edge Fund field, click Select to select The Raiser s Edge fund to credit donations for this Fundraiser. The Fund Search screen appears. For information about how to use the search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. The Goal, Start Date, End Date, and Category fields default from the fund record. Note: After an individual signs up as a participant or a donation is received, you can no longer change The Raiser s Edge fund in The Raiser s Edge Fund field. 4. To synchronize the Fundraiser with data from The Raiser s Edge, mark Use Fundraiser Synchronize schedule. The data updates the next time your Blackbaud NetCommunity Service runs. You set the service frequency in Configuration in the Fundraiser Synchronize frame. For more information, see Configuration on page 237. If you plan to include assigned solicitors (see Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282) in your Fundraiser, you may need to periodically re-synchronize the fund you select in this step. Clicking Synchronize Now updates any changes made on the Solicitors tab in the fund record. This updates the list of assigned solicitors in the Address Book. A solicitor (or Class Agent) updates the list when he or she visits the Address Book. For more information, see the Address Book section in Manage Fundraiser Pages on page 277. For more information about Raiser s Edge funds, see The Raiser s Edge Campaigns, Funds, & Appeals Data Entry Guide.
288 282. CHAPTER 6 Tip: If you use The Raiser s Edge 7.83, you can edit the Blackbaud NetCommunity data on a gift record in The Raiser s Edge for a gift originally from Blackbaud NetCommunity. You can edit the gift amount, gift date, comments, and solicitor information from Blackbaud NetCommunity. When you synchronize the Fundraiser, changes made to the data in The Raiser s Edge appear in Blackbaud NetCommunity. If you edit solicitor information, you cannot distribute the gift to multiple solicitors. The gift can have only one solicitor. 5. In the Administrator Roles frame, mark the checkbox for each role that needs Administrator rights for participant dashboards. Users with Administrator rights can edit participant dashboards. To do this, a Blackbaud NetCommunity user with Supervisor rights must send the web page URL link from the user record (in Users) to the Administrator. The Administrator (or Supervisor) clicks the link to access the dashboard and make the necessary modifications. For information about the participant dashboard, see Manage Fundraiser Pages on page 277. For information about roles and users, see Security on page 223. Step 2: Fundraiser Options When completing Step 2, it is important to read Create Team Hierarchy in a Fundraiser Part on page On the Fundraiser options screen, you define join options for individuals and teams. 2. To create hierarchical teams with multiple levels for the Fundraiser, click Add Level in the Team Levels frame. A grid appears so you can create team levels. a. In the Display Name column, enter the name of the team. For example, enter Corporate Sponsor. b. To allow site users to join the level, mark Allow Join. You must mark at least one Allow Join checkbox in your existing rows. Note: Blackbaud NetCommunity does not support solicitors reporting to solicitors. c. To allow site users to create a team on this level, mark Allow Create. It is important to understand that unless you mark the Allow Create checkbox in the top row, you are permitting participants the right to create a team that is a sublevel of the previous row. For information about team hierarchy in Team Fundraising, see Create Team Hierarchy in a Fundraiser Part on page 301. d. In the Max Participants column, enter the maximum number of participants for the team. If there is no maximum number, leave the field blank.
289 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 283 If the maximum number of participants is met, the Join button is disabled for website users on the Team Fundraiser search page. In addition, the team does not appear in the Create team under field when a participant selects Create a new team. Also, if the maximum number of participants is met, the Add New [ ] Member link is disabled for participants on the team captain dashboard. Note: If the maximum number of participants is met, you can still add participants on the Solicitors tab on The Raiser s Edge fund record to increase the number of participants for a team. To update Blackbaud NetCommunity, synchronize The Raiser s Edge and the Fundraiser. For information about synchronizing data, see Step 1: The Raiser s Edge Fund and Administrator Roles on page 280. e. To remove the level from your site, click Remove in the Action column. f. Repeat steps a. through e. to add more team levels. Each new level represents a sublevel of the previous team level. You can add up to 10 team levels. For more information about team hierarchy in Team Fundraising, see Create Team Hierarchy in a Fundraiser Part on page To allow site users to join as individuals, mark Allow Join as Individual. This allows the user to participate in your organization s fundraiser without being a member of a team. 4. To allow participants to create unique teams that do not follow the team hierarchy defined in the Team Levels frame, mark Allow Independent Teams. When you mark this checkbox, participants can also create sublevel teams not defined in the Team Levels frame. 5. In the Minimum Goal field, enter the minimum amount a solicitor must raise for your cause. 6. In the Suggested Goal field, enter the goal for solicitors to raise for your cause. Suggested goal amounts add up to the total team goal amount. When a participant joins the Team Fundraiser, the Suggested Goal amount defaults in the Individual Goal field on the signup web page. 7. In the Constituent Code field, select a constituent code to add for anyone not already in your database who joins. Your website users do not view this information. You download the information to The Raiser s Edge. For information about how to select constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page 26. For more information about downloading information to The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge NetCommunity Page on page To display a progress status bar for the user to view during the Team Fundraiser registration, mark Display Progress Indicator. If the Fundraiser part does not include an event, a three-step progress bar appears at the top of each Team Fundraiser for the website user.
290 284. CHAPTER 6 Review the following information for registration details. a. Step 1: Register This is the registration page. If you mark the Require Waiver checkbox, waiver information is included on this page. If the user is a member of your website, this page does not appear. b. Step 2: Join Options The individual goal amount for a participant appears at the top of the second page. The amount defaults from the Suggested Goal field. Join options also appear. For example, Create a new team appears. c. Step 3: My Dashboard After the user completes the first two registration steps, the participant dashboard page appears. For information about this page, see Manage Fundraiser Pages on page 277. If the Fundraiser part includes an event, a seven-step progress bar appears at the top of each Team Fundraiser for the website user. For information about including events for the Fundraiser, see Step 8: Create Links to one or more Events on page 298. Review the following information for registration details. a. Step 1: Register This is the registration page. If you mark the Require Waiver checkbox, waiver information is included on this page. If the user is a member of your website, this page does not appear. b. Step 2: Join Options The individual goal amount for a participant appears at the top of the second page. The amount defaults from the Suggested Goal field. Join options also appear. For example, Create a new team appears. c. Step 3: Event Options If you include an event in this Fundraiser part, the Event Options page appears. If you mark the Exclude the first Event Info/Selection page from registration checkbox for the event, one Step 3: Event Options page appears. If you do not mark the checkbox, two Step 3: Event Options pages appear. For more information, see Step 8: Create Links to one or more Events on page 298. d. Step 4: [Participants/Unit Label] This page includes event details for the website user and any additional event registrants. For example, if included for the event, the user can view price information. In addition, the user selects event attributes on this page. The name you enter in the Participants/Unit Label field appears on the page in the progress indicator. It also appears as the page header name. For more information, see Step 8: Create Links to one or more Events on page 298. e. Step 5: Payment This page includes Billing Information and Payment Information for a user to submit. If the event is free, the Payment Information section does not appear on the page. f. Step 6: Confirmation A summary of the user s billing and payment information appears on this page. g. Step 7: My Dashboard After the user views the Step 6: Confirmation page, the participant dashboard page appears. For information about this page, see Manage Fundraiser Pages on page 277.
291 TEAM FUNDRAISING In the Participant Settings frame, to prevent participants from editing their individual goal on the Fundraiser Dashboard, do not mark Editable Goal. Marking this checkbox permits participants to change their goal on the dashboard. 10. To allow a participant to enter offline donations on the participant dashboard, mark Allow Offline Donation Entry. An Enter Offline Gifts link appears on the participant dashboard. The participant clicks the link to enter a cash or check donation. If you do not mark this checkbox, a View Offline Gifts link appears on the participant dashboard. Note: For information about offline donations and The Raiser s Edge, see Offline Donations for a Team Fundraiser on page In the Add New Member Settings frame, to include an Add New [ ] Member link on the team captain dashboard, mark Allow team captains to add new team members via their dashboards. This allows a team captain to add team members on the team captain dashboard. For more information, see Manage Fundraiser Pages on page 277. To include guest registrants as team members, mark Add non-anonymous attendees to registrant s team during event registration. For example, Lynn Adamson registers for Team Blue. When she registers, she includes her husband and son as guest registrants. If you mark this checkbox, her husband and son also become Team Blue members. 12. To include a waiver solicitors must agree to before participating, mark Require Waiver. a. In the Title field, enter a title for the waiver section on the web page. b. In the Agree Caption field, enter the text for the waiver acceptance checkbox. For example, enter I agree to the waiver policies. c. In the Statement box, enter your organization s waiver information.
292 286. CHAPTER To raise donations based on participant performance, mark Support Performance-based Fundraising. For example, if your Fundraiser is based on raising $1 for every mile a participant walks, mark this checkbox. If the Support Performance-based Fundraising checkbox is disabled for an existing Fundraiser part, a performance-based donation already exists for that Fundraiser. a. In the Unit Name field, enter a name for the object in which performance is based. Using the walk-a-thon example, you can enter Miles Walked. b. When the fundraiser is over, mark Activity Closed if you want to prevent participants from updating final performance-based values. c. To download pledges based on performance to The Raiser s Edge, mark the Pledge Processing checkbox. For more information about downloading donations, see Donations on page To provide solicitors with the ability to update profiles for constituents in The Raiser s Edge, mark the Display Solicitor Assignments checkbox. When a solicitor updates a profile on the Fundraiser, the transaction is processed as a profile transaction. For more information, see User Profile Updates on page 345. a. In the Section field, select the type of profile design you want to create. You can select Bio, Preferred Address, Business, Phones and , Spouse, Constituent Attributes, Primary Alumni, and Education Attributes.
293 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 287 Each Section field option includes fields from the corresponding area in The Raiser s Edge. For example, if you select Spouse, spouse fields from The Raiser s Edge appear. When a user enters spouse information on your website, you can download the information directly to the spouse fields in The Raiser s Edge. If you select Constituent Attributes, the constituent attributes that appear on your User Profile Form can have multiple values. For example, if your constituent attribute is Mentor, a Mentor field appears with a drop-down arrow on the profile form on your website. The values from the list are the table entries set up for the attribute in The Raiser s Edge. For Mentor, the values could be Algebra, Painting, or Construction. Tip: For constituent attributes to have multiple table entries on the profile form on your website, you must first make them accessible from The Raiser s Edge. On the navigation bar, click Administration, System Options. In the Attributes frame, mark the constituent attribute checkboxes to include in Blackbaud NetCommunity. For more information, see System Options on page 234. b. In the Heading field, enter the text to appear at the top of your profile design. For example, enter My Biographical Page for your biographical profile. c. Mark the checkboxes in the grid to include on your profile design. For more information about the grid, see Chart: Display Profile Update and Display Giving History on page To display a giving history for your solicitor, mark Display Giving History. The Fundraiser giving history can include soft credits. a. In the List Name field, enter the name for the giving-history list for your website. b. In the Message box, enter the message to appear below the giving-history name on your site. c. In the Filtering Options frame, click Modify to select the filters for your giving history. You can narrow your results by Gift Types, Campaigns, Funds, and Appeals. d. To include soft credit gifts in the giving history, mark Include Soft Credits. e. In the Descriptive Text field, enter the text to indicate a soft credit gift in your giving history. For example, enter soft credit.
294 288. CHAPTER In the Notifications frame, to create a notification for a solicitor, click Create New Notification. For information about how to create a notification, see Notifications on page 216. Note: A solicitor can select to receive notifications when he receives a new donation. A solicitor can also select to receive notifications when his team receives a new donation or a new participant signs up for the team. a. To edit an existing notification, click Edit in the Action column for the notification you want to change. b. To prevent solicitors from receiving a notification, mark the checkbox in the Active for this Part column for the notification. Step 3: Select Pages for use as Participant and Team Pages You must create at least one web page in Site Explorer that contains a Fundraiser Page Element part before you can make selections on this screen. For more information about the Fundraiser Page Element part, see Pre-Design Work for Team Fundraising on page In the Page column, select a web page from the drop-down list. Only pages that contain Fundraiser Page Elements appear in the list. If no pages appear, you must create them in Site Explorer. Note: Fundraiser Page Elements are sections for participants to customize. Participants send supporters messages directing them to these pages, which are designed for supporters to learn more about your cause and to make donations. Because you offer a choice for personal web page designs to participants, a participant can choose only one Fundraiser personal page. Pages using Fundraiser Page Elements contain dynamic sections for participants to customize and static sections for your organization to create sections that cannot be edited by a participant. For more information about the Fundraiser Page Element part type, see Fundraiser Page Elements Parts on page In the Display Name column, enter a page reference name for solicitors to easily identify. This name does not appear on your site for public viewing. The name appears as an option for solicitors to select their Fundraiser personal pages. For example, enter Blue in the Display Name column for one page, and Pink for a second page. When a solicitor edits the page, these two page options appear.
295 TEAM FUNDRAISING In the Page Type column, select Solicitor, Team, or Both to define who can use the page. 4. If this is the default personal web page, mark the checkbox in the Default column. Each Fundraiser part must have a default page. 5. To remove the page from your Fundraiser, click Remove in the Action column. 6. Click Add Page to add a row to the grid and add a web page. Depending on the purpose of your Fundraiser, you may add more than one page to offer participants a choice. For example, if your school is hosting a jump rope fundraiser, you can create a page with a boy theme and a page with a girl theme. Step 4: Create Designs 1. In the Designs frame, click Add to create designs for participants or team members to use to send personal appeal, acknowledgement, and guest registration . The new screen appears. 2. In the Name field, enter a name for the template. The program uses the personal page owner s address in the From Address field and the owner s name in the Name field. 3. In the box, enter the content of the template. To customize content, select fields from the Merge Fields drop-down field. To direct recipients to the donation page, from the Merge Fields drop-down field select the Sender Fields, Donation Page Hyperlink merge field for the Appeal/Thank You, Appeal, or Thank You template. To direct recipients to the Team Fundraiser registration page, from the Merge Fields drop-down field select the Sender Fields, Registration Page Hyperlink for the Guest Registration template. To direct recipients to the pledge payment page, from the Merge Fields drop-down field select the Special Fields, Pledge Payment Link for the Invoice template.
296 290. CHAPTER 6 4. To format the content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page To save the template and return to Step 4: Create Designs screen, click Save and Close. 6. A grid appears on the screen with the new template in the Display Name column. In the Type column, select the type for the new template. Appeal/Thank You To combine the appeal and acknowledgement content in one , select Appeal/Thank You. For example, the can read Welcome to my Walk-a-Thon page! Please visit my page to join my team and make a donation to a great cause! Thank you for your participation. A member receives this when upon joining a team. Warning: The Appeal and Thank You templates are required for the Fundraiser part. To create one template for both types, select Appeal/Thank You. To create an individual for both types, create two templates. Select Appeal for the appeal template and Thank You for the acknowledgement template. Appeal To allow a participant to send a personal appeal without acknowledgement information, select Appeal. content for this template type may only contain Welcome or Please visit my page information. Thank You To allow a participant to send an acknowledgement after someone makes a donation for his team, select Thank You. content for this template type may only contain acknowledgement information. Invoice To allow a participant to send pledge invoices, select Invoice. content for this template type should include a link to the pledge payment page. Warning: The Invoice template is only available for the Fundraiser part when Support Performance-based Fundraising is marked on the Step 2: Fundraiser Options screen. Guest Registration This template is used when a participant adds a new member for the team on the participant dashboard. Warning: The Guest Registration template is required for the Fundraiser part. You cannot create more than one Guest Registration template. When a participant clicks the Add New [ ] Member link on the participant dashboard, the Add New Member screen appears. The participant completes the screen and clicks the Add Member button. The new member then receives an using this template. For more information, see Manage Fundraiser Pages on page 277. The Guest Registration template is also used if the Automatically add guest participants to team during event registration checkbox is marked and a registrant includes guest registrants. For more information, see Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282. Step 5: Search Page Form Options 1. On this screen, you can define the search form title. Site visitors use the search form to search for a participant page. In addition, site visitors can view team members and join a team on this form.
297 TEAM FUNDRAISING Under Search Page Form Options, in the Title field, enter the name of your site search screen. If you do not enter a name, Search for Participants appears as the title for your site search screen. Step 6: User Login Form In this procedure, you create a login for your Fundraiser. These login steps are very similar to creating a User Login part. However, the Fundraiser login remains a feature of the Fundraiser part. To edit this login, edit the Fundraiser part. 1. In the Captions and Properties frame, enter a title for the user login form and text for the hyperlink that directs users to the login form. To include forms for new registrations, forgotten passwords, forgotten user IDs, and join options, enter a title in the Form Title column and a name in the Hyperlink column, and mark Enabled. Login and Join Options are required for a Team Fundraiser. Therefore, you cannot unmark Enable in these rows. Note: If a user registers for the first time using the Fundraiser login, the user is registered for your entire Blackbaud NetCommunity site at the same time. Also, when a user logs into your Fundraiser, the user is logged into your Blackbaud NetCommunity site. We recommend that you disable new registrations only if you import Raiser s Edge constituents into Blackbaud NetCommunity. Imported users are registered automatically so they do not need to register a second time via the User Login part. If you disable new registrations, the Add New [ ] Member link not available for the team captain dashboard. For more information about the link, see Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282.
298 292. CHAPTER 6 Note: If you need to edit your Fundraiser login, make sure to edit the Fundraiser part. Fundraiser logins are not located in a User Login part. 2. In the Constituent Code field, select the constituent code to assign to users who use this form to sign up on your website. For more information about how to select constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page In the Additional Fields frame, select the biographical information fields to include on the new user registration form. a. In the Additional Fields grid, mark the checkbox in the Include column for each field to appear on the form. To make the fields required, mark the checkboxes in the Required column. If the Include checkbox is marked, Address block and Gender are automatically required. b. To include attribute fields on your registration form, mark the checkbox in the Include column for each attribute field to appear on the form. To make the attributes required, mark the checkboxes in the Required column. Note: If you know an attribute exists in The Raiser s Edge but do not see it, check System Options on page 234 to make sure the attribute is available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. These are constituent attributes pulled from The Raiser s Edge. If you need a new attribute for your part, create it in The Raiser s Edge. For example, you can use a constituent attribute to track T-shirt sizes for participants. To record this information, create a T-shirt size attribute. For information about attributes, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide.
299 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 293 Note: When you download sign-up transactions for provisional users using the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, data from Additional Fields are not available in the sign-up transaction. After the sign-up transaction has processed to The Raiser s Edge, data from these fields are available in the User Profile Updates transactions. Current users joining the Fundraiser who are logged into the site already (via another User Login part), are prompted to complete any fields marked as Include. Any roles assigned to your Fundraiser are merged with the existing roles assigned to the user. For more information about roles, see Roles on page In the Role Assignment frame, mark the checkbox in the Member column for roles you want to assign users signing up through the Fundraiser part. In this step, you assign roles for new users of your site who have not yet been approved using the NetCommunity page. Select these roles to target content specifically for unapproved users. For more information about security, see Security on page 223. Step 7: Donation Form On this screen, you can define options for online donations given through a Fundraiser part. If you plan to allow donations from a Fundraiser, we recommend that you create a part or element with a Donate button that links to the donation page. After you create a Fundraiser part and add it to a web page, a web page named [Fundraiser Part Title] - Donate is generated automatically using the settings you define on this screen. After you create the part, you must update the Donate button link so it directs users to the [Fundraiser Part Title] - Donate page. 1. In the Constituent Code field, select the constituent code to assign to new donors who are not already constituents in your database. Donors do not view this information. You download constituent information to The Raiser s Edge. For more information about selecting constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page 26.
300 294. CHAPTER 6 2. In the Button Text field, you can enter text that appears on the Donate button or use the default value, Donate Now. The button appears at the end of your donation page for the Fundraiser. 3. In the Payment Methods frame, mark the payment types donors can use to make contributions. A credit card is automatically included as a payment method for donors. Other payment methods are Direct Debit and Pledge (Bill me later). 4. In the Donor Options frame, mark Allow Corporate gifts to provide the option for a company to make a donation. When you mark this checkbox, the This donation is on behalf of a company checkbox appears on your website for a representative from a company to mark. a. To allow donors to give anonymously, mark Allow Anonymous gifts. When you mark this, the I prefer to make this donation anonymously checkbox appears on the donor page. b. To allow donors to enter comments on your site, mark the Allow Comments checkbox. If you mark this checkbox, comments download to the Attributes tab on a gift record in The Raiser s Edge. c. If you mark Allow Matching gifts, the My company will match my gift checkbox appears on the page. Site visitors can mark My company will match my gift and enter the company name in the Company field. If you use MatchFinder Online, a Look it up link appears next to the checkbox. Visitors click the link to access MatchFinder Online and search for the company. MatchFinder Online contains information about matching gift companies, such as the minimum and maximum gift details and match ratio. Data from MatchFinder Online integrates with The Raiser s Edge. For information about MatchFinder Online purchasing options, send an to [email protected].
301 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 295 For information about downloading matching gift information to The Raiser s Edge, see Download donations - single transaction process on page 354. For information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide. 5. In the Recurring Gifts frame, mark Allow Recurring gifts to allow donors to contribute regular, recurring gifts to your organization. To allow donors to define the frequency of the recurring gift, select General. A Frequency field appears on your website so donors can select to make a contribution every week, month, quarter, or year. Once the website user selects a frequency, start and end date fields appear on the web page. Note: If a constituent donates a recurring gift and selects a start date that is not today s date, the transaction downloads to The Raiser s Edge. However, the transaction is not sent to your bank merchant when the donor submits the recurring gift. The merchant receives the transaction from batch output you send to your bank for processing. For more information about bank merchants, see Merchant Accounts on page 229. To define the recurring gift frequency for donors, select Specific. The Custom Frequency frame appears. a. In the first field, select Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Annually as the frequency. In the On field, select the day of the week on which you want the recurring gift donated. b. To add the frequency to the donation page, click Add Frequency. c. After you click Add Frequency, the Allow Donor to enter Ending Date option appears. To allow donors to enter the end date for the recurring gift, mark this checkbox. To add multiple frequency options to the donor web page, repeat steps a. through c. 6. In the Tribute Gifts frame, mark Allow Tribute gifts to create a tribute section on the web page. Note: Options in the Tribute Gifts frame are for organizations that use Honor/Memorial Tracking for The Raiser s Edge. If you do not use Honor/Memorial Tracking, do not use these options. a. To remove the Description field from the tribute section on the web page, mark Hide Tribute Description field. b. If you do not mark the Hide Tribute Description field checkbox, in the Description Text field, enter text to appear at the beginning of the Tribute Information section on the page. For example, enter This gift is made in honor of someone special. c. To allow the donor to select the tribute type, select General. Mark the checkbox for each tribute type to include in the tribute section. The tribute types listed are entries from the Tribute Types table in The Raiser s Edge. d. To apply all gifts to a specific tribute, select Specific. To select an honor or memorial individual from The Raiser s Edge, click Honor/Memorial. A search screen appears so you can search for the individual. In the Tribute field, select the tribute type and description to use. Information in this field defaults from the Honor/Memorial tab in The Raiser s Edge. The options are a combination of the data from the Tribute type and Description fields.
302 296. CHAPTER 6 Note: When you include tribute information on the donor page, the Mail a letter on my behalf checkbox appears automatically on the page. When a donor marks this checkbox, name and address fields appear for the donor to enter his or her information. You can use this information in a tribute letter to the honor or memorial. 7. To select giving levels for participants, click Add Giving Level in the Giving Levels frame. a. In the Display Name field, enter the name of the giving level as you want it to appear on the website. b. In the Amount field, enter the gift amount for which the giving level applies. You can enter the start amount or both the start and end amounts. c. To include an Other option with a blank $ field on the Donation Form on your website, mark Allow Other amount. 8. To select an appeal for your gift, click Add Source in the Sources frame. Including this information provides a way for your organization to track how donors learn about donating to your organization via the website. a. To include an appeal, click Add Appeal in the Appeal column. The Appeal Search screen appears so you can select an appeal. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. b. In the Display Name field, enter the name of the appeal, as you want it to appear on the website. By default, the text entered in the Appeal Name field in The Raiser s Edge appears as the Display Name. c. If the user does not select an appeal, and this is the appeal in which you want the gift to apply, mark the checkbox in the Transaction Default column. For each additional appeal you want to make available on your Fundraiser, click Add Source. Another row appears in the grid so you can repeat these steps. If you add more than one appeal, this creates a list of appeals for participants to select from. 9. In the Required Fields frame, mark the checkbox for each donor field you want to make required on the donation form. To ensure you download complete constituent information into The Raiser s Edge, we recommend that you make all of these fields required.
303 TEAM FUNDRAISING In the Attributes frame, you can select the gift attribute fields to appear on the donation form. Mark the checkbox in the Include column for each attribute field to include. To make the attributes required, mark the checkbox in the Required column. Note: When you download a gift to The Raiser s Edge, the program may automatically add some gift attributes to the gift record. These attributes include NetCommunity Comments, NetCommunity Corporate Donation Contact, NetCommunity Source, NetCommunity Source ID, NetCommunity Page, and NetCommunity Page ID. You do not view these gift attributes in the Attributes frame or on the NetCommunity page. Once the gift is downloaded to The Raiser s Edge, you can view the information on the gift record. The program pulls gift attributes from The Raiser s Edge. If you need a new attribute for your part, create it in The Raiser s Edge. For information about attributes, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide. Note: If you know an attribute exists in The Raiser s Edge but do not see it, check System Options on page 234 to make sure the attribute is available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. 11. In the Merchant Account frame, select the merchant account you want to use to process credit cards. For example, select your IATS account. Merchant accounts are set up in Administration. For more information, see Merchant Accounts on page 229.
304 298. CHAPTER 6 Step 8: Create Links to one or more Events 1. In the Fund from The Raiser s Edge frame, in the Fund field, click Select to select the Raiser s Edge fund to which to credit registration fees that you collect. 2. In the Giving Options frame, you can mark Allow Matching gifts to add a My company will match my gift checkbox to the page. Site visitors can mark My company will match my gift and enter the company name in a Company field. If you use MatchFinder Online, a Look it up link appears next to the checkbox. Visitors click the link to access MatchFinder Online and search for the company. MatchFinder Online contains information about matching gift companies, such as the minimum and maximum gift details and match ratio. Data from MatchFinder Online integrates with The Raisers Edge. For information about MatchFinder Online purchasing options, send an to [email protected]. For information about downloading matching gift information to The Raiser s Edge, see Download event registrations - single transaction process on page 375. For information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide. 3. In the Captions frame, for each button or label listed, specify the text to appear on the event registration form. Enter the text in the field next to each screen item in the grid.
305 TEAM FUNDRAISING In the Registration Options frame, select whether to display the event information and selection as two pages. If you include a second page, the website user selects the events for which he wants to register on one page and enters registration quantity and pricing information on another page. To allow the website user to select both events and registration options on one page, mark Exclude the first Event Info/Selection page from registration. 5. To include an event registration on your web page, click Add Event in the Events frame. The Event Search screen appears so you can select for an event from The Raiser s Edge. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 24. The event you select automatically defaults data in the format of an Event Registration Form part type. For more information about Event Registration Forms, see Event Registration Form on page 64. Note: When a Fundraiser is linked to an event, you can establish automatic registrations for a family. For more information, see Event Registration for Families on page 300. a. In the Attributes frame, mark the checkbox beside the participant attribute you want to appear in the Display column. To make the attributes required, mark the checkbox in the Required column. To change the text of the attribute on your registration page, enter the text to display in the Caption field. One-per-record attributes with a type of Date, Text, Number, Currency, and Yes/No can be used in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Table type attributes are available without being marked as one-per-record. Fuzzy Date and Constituent Name type attributes are not available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. b. In the Page Link frame, to add a link to another web page, click Link. The Create Page Link screen appears. For information about how to create a page link, see Create Page Link on page In the Merchant Account field, select the existing merchant account you want to use for credit card transactions. For more information about merchant accounts, see Merchant Accounts on page 229.
306 300. CHAPTER 6 Note: If your site contains a Fundraiser Dashboard part, a Go to my dashboard button appears automatically on the event registration page for your Fundraiser. When a participant clicks the button, she is directed to her Fundraiser dashboard. Step 9: Configure s 1. On this screen, you create Welcome, Forgotten Password/User ID, and Donation Acknowledgement messages. For information about how to create an , see Messages on page Click Create Welcome to create an to send to team members after they register on your site. For information about how to create an message, see Messages on page Click Create Forgotten Password/User ID to create an to send to team members who forget their passwords or user ID. For information about how to create an message, see Messages on page Click Create Donation Acknowledgement to create an to send to donors after they make donations on a Team Fundraiser page. The Acknowledgement screen appears. For more information about generating an acknowledgement , see Design an acknowledgement for a transaction on page 201. Note: After you create and save the in this step, tasks appear as buttons on the action bar. To edit an , click a button for that To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Event Registration for Families When you use The Raiser s Edge Event Management, you can establish automatic registrations for a family only if: Note: Refer to the information in this section for Step 8: Create Links to one or more Events on page 298. The Fundraiser is linked to an event in The Raiser s Edge. For more information, see Step 8: Create Links to one or more Events on page 298.
307 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 301 The default Personal Page you select contains a link to the Join page on the Fundraiser part. For more information see Step 3: Select Pages for use as Participant and Team Pages on page 288 and Fundraiser Page Elements Parts on page 276. You have created a Welcome (that most likely contains registration fields). With these existing conditions, a family member, for example, a father, can register himself as a solicitor and additionally register guests, for example, his spouse or entire family. The solicitor receives a Welcome containing event registration information and registration links for each guest. Next, the solicitor forwards the Welcome to each guest. After the guest clicks the link in the and signs up for the Fundraiser, the registration is valid. The guest is not asked to register for the event because Blackbaud NetCommunity knows the guest was previously registered. After a successful registration and sign-up, the guest receives the Welcome . Guests are added automatically to the solicitor s Address Book. In The Raiser s Edge, the solicitor is downloaded as a participant on the event record, and the spouse or family members appear as guests. Create Team Hierarchy in a Fundraiser Part In this section, we demonstrate Team Fundraising hierarchy using an example in which participants can create and join teams under one of three corporate sponsors. Each corporate sponsor is at the highest level (Level 1). Participants cannot join or create teams at that level. Teams and participants are at the second level (Level 2). Participants can join and create teams at this level. Note: Refer to the information in this section for Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282. In this section, we demonstrate Team Fundraising hierarchy using an example in which participants can create and join teams under one of three corporate sponsors. Each corporate sponsor is at the highest level (Level 1). Participants cannot join or create teams at that level. Teams and participants are at the second level (Level 2). Participants can join and create teams at this level. In The Raiser s Edge, corporate sponsors, a team, and a participant were added on the Solicitors tab in the fund record. Based on data from The Raiser s Edge in this example, team hierarchy on the Fundraiser site will be: Level 1 Company A Company B Company C Level 2 Team #1 Janet Smith
308 302. CHAPTER 6 Team Fundraising participants can sign up on your Fundraiser site, or you can add team levels and participants on the Solicitors tab in the fund record. Note: Solicitors are assigned to constituents in The Raiser s Edge on the Relationships tab. For information about this process, see The Raiser s Edge Solicitors chapter in the Constituent Data Entry Guide. After you add team levels for participants in Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282, in the Team Levels grid, Corporate Sponsor is added in the first row of the Display Name column. Participants cannot join or create teams at this level. In the second row of the Display Name column, Team is added. Participants can join and create teams at this level. Based on the Blackbaud NetCommunity data in this example, team hierarchy on the Fundraiser site will be: Level 1 Level 2 Corporate Sponsor Team Participants can define unique teams and sublevel teams that do not follow the team hierarchy defined in the Team Levels grid. To allow this, mark the Allow Independent Teams checkbox in Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282. When registering, if a participant selects to join an existing team, the search results grid appears under the participant search field. These search results depict the team hierarchy created in Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282.
309 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 303 In the above graphic, Janet Smith is a member of Team #1. Both Janet and Team #1 are under corporate sponsor, Company A. Joseph Greene joined through the Fundraiser site as an individual participant. He is not on a team. Individual participants do not fall under a corporate sponsor, for example, participants do not fall under a Level 1 hierarchy. After downloading Fundraiser information from the NetCommunity page to The Raiser s Edge, Joseph Greene will appear on the Solicitors tab in the fund record. A current user on this screen who wants to join an existing team can join Team #1. While your use of Team Fundraising may vary from this example, the search results grid defaults the following information on your Fundraiser site. Name Level 1 Level 2 Participant name (can be an individual name or a group team name) Displays highest level team name the participant belongs to Displays team name the participant belongs to The column hierarchy continues to the right of the page for as many team levels as you create. Add Help Content for Team Fundraisers After you complete and save the Fundraiser part, you can reopen the part to add custom text to help users understand how to use certain features in Team Fundraising. For example, you can create help text that explains the statistics on the My Activity page of the Home Page dashboard. Add helplets for a team fundraiser 1. Open a saved Fundraiser part. The Helplets frame appears above Step In the Screen field, select the form to create help text for. For example, you can create help text for the login and user registration forms, the search screen, and all the pages found in the solicitor s Home Page dashboard. 3. In the box, enter the text to appear on the form. To format the content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page Once you create help text for the first form, you can select another form type in the Screen field. Changes are saved automatically for the first form, and an asterisk appears next to the form name to indicate it has saved help content. 5. To save the part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
310 304. CHAPTER 6 Offline Donations for a Team Fundraiser If a donation is not received online for a Team Fundraiser, the gift is called an offline donation. For example, a cash or check gift is an offline donation. Offline donations can be added for a Team Fundraiser in Blackbaud NetCommunity in two ways. If you mark Allow Offline Donation Entry in Step 2: Fundraiser Options on page 282, a participant clicks the Enter Offline Gifts link on the participant dashboard page to add the offline donation. If you do not mark this checkbox, a View Offline Gifts link appears on the participant dashboard. Participants click the link to view offline gifts only. Offline gifts cannot be added from the View Offline Gifts link. The Raiser s Edge user enters the offline donation for the Team Fundraiser in The Raiser s Edge. When The Raiser s Edge user enters an offline donation in The Raiser s Edge for a Fundraiser, Team Fundraising reflects the gift in the Fundraiser Dashboard, Report (Fundraiser), and other applicable areas of Team Fundraising such as a Donor List Fundraiser Page Element part. When an offline gift has these conditions in The Raiser s Edge, the gift is included in Blackbaud NetCommunity. The Raiser s Edge gift fund must match the Team Fundraising fund. The Raiser s Edge gift type must be Cash or Pledge. The Raiser s Edge gift must have one or more Team Fundraising solicitors associated with it. The Raiser s Edge gift does not have a NetCommunity Page gift attribute. This attribute downloads from Blackbaud NetCommunity. The Raiser s Edge gift can have a NetCommunity Comments gift attribute. The comment appears on the Donor List for a Fundraiser Page Element. The Raiser s Edge gift can be marked Anonymous. When you edit an offline gift amount in The Raiser s Edge, the updated gift amount appears on the Blackbaud NetCommunity website. To view the updated amount, the amount must have been edited in the Solicitors field on the gift record in The Raiser s Edge. Note: For offline pledges entered through The Raiser s Edge, the pledge amount appears until a payment is applied to the pledge. After a payment is applied, the pledge payments display on the Fundraiser, not the original pledge amount. In addition, the Fundraiser includes online payments for online pledges; it does not include payments entered in The Raiser s Edge for online pledges. When you download donations, offline donations download to The Raiser s Edge as Pledge gift records with one installment. When your organization receives the cash or check payment, the data entry person can create a Cash payment for the pledge in The Raiser s Edge. For information about downloading donations, see Donations on page 352. For information about gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide. Fundraiser Dashboard Part You can add a Fundraiser Dashboard part to quickly display current information about the progress of a Fundraiser part. You can also create dashboards that link to Fundraiser summary reports.
311 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 305 We recommend you decide which website users can view Fundraiser Dashboard information. For example, do you want everyone to view the dashboards or just board members? After you decide, add the part to a page with appropriate security rights for the role in which the users belong. For information about security, see Security on page 223. You can add these panels to the Fundraiser Dashboard: Overall Progress Summary The Overall Progress Summary provides a comprehensive summary of donations received from the Fundraiser to date. This panel includes the total amount raised, the total number and amount of online and offline donations, the average donation amount, the largest single donor and donation amount, the person credited with the largest donation, and the total personal page hits. You can click Aggregate Goal or Fund Goal to display in the bar graph the amount raised compared to the total aggregate or fund goal. Online Event Registrations The Online Event Registrations panel displays the number of individual, couple, and family registrants for the Fundraiser event and the total amount of entry fees for each type of registrant. Top Teams The Top Teams panel ranks teams by the top or bottom amount of money raised, s sent, or page hits. The panel lists each team s fundraising goal, the amount raised, the number of page hits, and the number of s sent. Users can filter the dashboard by the number of teams and whether to show the top or bottom performing teams. They can also sort the team list by money raised, s sent, or page hits. Top Participants The Top Participants panel ranks individual participants by the top or bottom amount of money raised, s sent, or page hits. The panel lists each individual s fundraising goal, the amount raised, the number of page hits, and the number of s sent. Users can filter the dashboard by the number of participants and whether to show the top or bottom performers. They can also sort the participant list by money raised, s sent, or page hits. Top s The Top s panel ranks fundraising s by the top or bottom amount of money raised. The panel lists the participant s fundraising goal, the amount raised from the , and the number of recipients. Users can filter the dashboard by the number of s and whether to show the top or bottom performers. Online/Offline Gift Summary The Online/Offline Gifts Summary panel displays the total amount of Fundraiser donations received online and offline. The panel also includes a pie chart which compares the percentage of online and offline gifts. Detailed Gift Summary The Detailed Gift Summary panel lists the total amounts received for the Fundraiser in online and offline gifts. It also includes the amounts of pending, accepted, and rejected online and offline gifts. The panel also includes a pie chart which compares the percentage of pending, accepted, and rejected online and offline gifts. Activity The Activity panel displays the total number of appeal, thank you, and team s sent for the Fundraiser. Design a Fundraiser Dashboard 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Actions column. The Edit Part screen appears for Fundraiser Dashboard. If you are creating a new part, you must first save part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Source field, select the data source for the dashboard. Select an individual Fundraiser or select Fundraiser Report to link the dashboard to a Fundraiser summary report.
312 306. CHAPTER 6 Note: If you are creating a dashboard for a Fundraiser summary report, we recommend that you name the dashboard Fundraiser Report Dashboard or something similar so you will know which dashboard to select in the Linked Fundraiser Dashboard Page field on the Fundraiser Report part. Also, we recommend that dashboards created for linking to Fundraiser reports be placed on a standalone web page that can be navigated to only from the Fundraiser Report part. When a user clicks the hyperlink for the individual fundraiser reports, that web page appears displaying the dashboard for the selected report. For more information about Fundraiser reports, see Fundraiser Reports on page In the Panels list, mark the checkbox for each panel to include in the dashboard. For more information about the types of panels, see Fundraiser Dashboard Part on page In the Links box, you can mark Enable View Activity Log Link to add a link in the Top Participants and Top s panels to the solicitor s Activity Log. You can also mark Enable View Link to add a link in the Top s panel users can click to view the In the Color box, you can select colors for the thermometer fill and the chart skin. 7. To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Fundraiser Reports Using the Report (Fundraiser) part, you can create summary or custom reports for your website about the progress of multiple Fundraiser parts. Using the Summary Report type, you can create a standard report displaying information graphically in a 3-D bar graph chart, textually in table format, or both. The Fundraiser Summary section displays summary statistics for multiple Fundraisers including the fundraiser goal, participant goal, total amount raised, total number of fundraisers, total teams, total participants, and total donations. If you include the View Details button, website users can view a page that contains individual reports for each Fundraiser included in the report. If you select a Fundraiser dashboard in the Linked Fundraiser Dashboard Page field, the headings for the individual reports are hyperlinks the user can click to view a dashboard about the selected Fundraiser. Using the Custom Report type, you can customize the report s content and appearance using the HTML editor and merge fields.
313 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 307 You can include the same summary statistics as the Summary Report as well as additional details about donations, top fundraisers, top teams and top participants. Design Summary Fundraiser Reports 1. From Web site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Actions column. The Edit Part screen appears for Report (Fundraiser). 3. If you are creating a new part, you must first save part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Type of Report field, select Summary Report. Several options appear below on the screen. 5. In the Fundraiser(s) box, mark the checkbox for each Fundraiser whose information you want to include in the report. 6. In the Report Options frame, select the format of the report. Show Chart mark this option to add a 3-D bar graph chart to the report displaying the Fundraiser Goal, Participant Goal, and Total Raised. Show Table mark this option to add a textual table of information to the report. 7. In the Linked Fundraiser Dashboard Page field, you can select a Fundraiser dashboard to link to the report. When a user views the report in detail, the headings for the individual Fundraiser reports are hyperlinks the user can click to view the dashboard selected in this field. We recommend that dashboards created for linking to Fundraiser reports be placed on a standalone web page that can be navigated to only from the Fundraiser Report part. When a user clicks the hyperlink for the individual fundraiser reports, that web page appears displaying the dashboard for the selected report. Note: It is important to select the correct dashboard in the Linked Fundraiser Dashboard Page field. If you are creating a report for only one Fundraiser, select the dashboard created for the same Fundraiser part. If you are creating a report that includes multiple Fundraisers, select a dashboard with Fundraiser Report selected in the Source field. Otherwise, the linked dashboard may display information that does not match the Fundraisers selected for the report. We recommend that you name your dashboards so you can easily identify which one you should use. For more information about creating a dashboards, see Design a Fundraiser Dashboard on page In the Report Caption Options frame, select the information to include and enter captions for labels on the report. In the Report Caption column, mark the checkbox for each type of information to include in the report.
314 308. CHAPTER 6 Note: If you marked Show Table or Show Table and Show Chart, all options are enabled for you to select from. If you marked only Show Chart, the Total Fundraisers, Total Teams, Total Participants, and Total Donations options are disabled because they do not appear in the chart view. If you add a View Details button, users can click this to view a page that contains individual reports for each Fundraiser included in the summary report. If you selected a dashboard in the Linked Fundraiser Dashboard field, the headings for the individual reports are hyperlinks the user can click to view a dashboard about the selected Fundraiser. Once in the detailed view, users can click Hide Details to view the summary report again. In the Report Caption Text column, a default caption appears for each type of information. You can use the default or enter a different caption in the field. 9. To customize the size and color scheme for the bar graph section, mark Customize Chart. This enables the formatting fields in the frame. 10. In the height and width fields, specify the size of the chart in pixels. 11. Select the colors to use for the bar graph elements, background, and font. Mark Use System Colors to select system defined colors in the fields on the left. or Mark Use Custom Colors to enter RGB color values on the right. Note: You can customize the table section and its elements using Stylesheets. 12. To save your report part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Design Custom Fundraiser Reports 1. From Web site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Actions column. The Edit Part screen appears for Report (Fundraiser). 3. If you are creating a new part, you must first save part properties. For more information about part properties, see Create a part on page In the Type of Report field, select Custom Report. Additional options appear below on the screen. 5. In the Fundraiser(s) box, mark the checkbox for each Fundraiser whose information you want to include in the report. 6. In the Custom Report Options box, use the HTML editor to enter and format the report content s appearance and layout. Add merge fields to customize the Fundraiser information that appears on the report. For example, to include the number of online donations, drag and drop the Donations.Number of Online Donations merge field. For more information about using the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page To save your part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Changes in The Raiser s Edge These are issues to be aware of after you download Fundraiser part transactions to The Raiser s Edge:
315 TEAM FUNDRAISING. 309 If you move a solicitor to another team in The Raiser s Edge, the next time the solicitor logs into the Fundraiser part on your site, the solicitor is automatically a part of the new team. To properly credit a solicitor with a donation using the Fundraiser part, Fundraiser participant information is downloaded to The Raiser s Edge before the donation from the part. Donations do not appear until the Fundraiser is downloaded. For more information about downloading donations, see Donations on page 352. If a team captain does not exist for a donation, a solicitor is not associated with the donation. For example, if a solicitor is not selected using the Promote to Captain menu option in The Raiser s Edge for a team donation, a solicitor is not credited with the donation. For more information about solicitors and captains in The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge Campaigns, Funds, & Appeals Data Entry Guide. For information about downloading Fundraiser information to The Raiser s Edge, see Fundraisers on page 352.
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317 CHAPTER7 Personal Pages In This Chapter Design and Management Process on page 312 Personal Pages: Process Overview on page 312 Personal pages are personalized pages that supporters can set up on your website to share information about themselves and about your organization s mission. These pages can be used for a variety of purposes. For example, a membership organization can provide personal pages to supporters so they can recruit their family and friends. As another example, a hospital can provide care pages to a patient or a patient s family to share information about the patient s status and recovery. Using the Personal Page Manager part, you create web templates that provide the tools page owners use to create pages. Personal pages can contain several features including blogs, news readers, photo galleries, report abuse actions, comment boards, and simple or rich text.
318 312. CHAPTER 7 Design and Management Process This flow chart illustrates the design and management process for personal pages. Personal Pages: Process Overview Creating personal pages requires several steps in different areas of Blackbaud NetCommunity: Step 1: The web designer creates Personal Page Elements in Parts. For information, see Create Personal Page Elements on page 313. Step 2: The web designer creates web pages containing Personal Page Elements in Site Explorer. For more information about creating web pages, see Create a new web page on page 31. Step 3: The web designer creates the Personal Page Manager part to define the web pages, options, and settings available to personal page owners when they create personalized pages. For more information, see Design the Personal Page Manager Part on page 315. Step 4: The web designer adds the Personal Page Manager part to a page on the website. Step 5: A website user signs up to be a personal page owner. New page owners use the Home page dashboard to create and manage content for personal pages. For information, see Manage Personal Pages on page 314.
319 P ERSONAL PAGES. 313 Step 6: The Raiser s Edge user downloads personal page requests from Blackbaud NetCommunity to The Raiser s Edge. For information, see Personal Pages on page 352. Step 7: Website users visit the personal pages to read content, post comments, and give donations. Create Personal Page Elements The first step to create personal pages is to create Personal Page Elements. Think of these as mini-parts that can be used only on the web page templates you provide to personal page owners. You can create the following element types for personal pages: Action, Comments, News, News Reader, Page Links, Personal Notes, Photos, Profile, Rich Text, or Text. For information about creating specific page element types, see Page Element Types on page 83. For more information about using Personal Page Elements, see Create Web Pages on page 313. Note: While personal pages support online donations and tributes, they do not include fundraising tools such as goals and thermometers. Create Web Pages The next step is to create the web pages used for personal pages. You will need: A web page on your site where you will place the Personal Page Manager part. At least one web page that contains Personal Page Elements. These pages are templates that provide the tools page owners use to create their pages. You can create more than one web page template if you want to offer page owners templates with different layouts and features. Web pages using Personal Page Elements can also contain static sections for other parts in Blackbaud NetCommunity. Use these sections for content or features to appear on every personal page. For example, you can create a part for your organization s mission statement and add it to your web page templates so the mission statement appears on every personal page. This graphic demonstrates how a web page uses Personal Page Elements with static parts. For more information about creating web pages, see Pages on page 31.
320 314. CHAPTER 7 Note: If you allow donations from personal pages, we recommend that you create a part or element with a Donate button linking to the donation page. For more information, see Step 6: Donation Form (Optional) on page 320. Manage Personal Pages When you add a Personal Page Manager part to a page on your website, personal page owners can create and manage pages. The Home page dashboard provides a central location for personal page owners to manage their pages. The action bar on the Home page dashboard allows page owners to navigate between tasks, monitor and update data, edit personal pages, send , and maintain contacts. My Home - To manage their pages, personal page owners click My Home. From the My Home page, page owners can click links to design and visit their web pages or to send . This page also displays statistics about the number of visits a personal page receives, the date of the last visit, the number of messages a page owner sends, and the number of messages that are opened. My Activity - To view statistics about messages, personal page owners click My Activity. To view a list of sent messages, page owners select s on the action bar of the My Activity page. For each message, details appear about the number of times it was sent, the recipients, and whether it was opened or forwarded. Page owners can sort messages according to whether they were opened, unopened, forwarded, or delivered unsuccessfully. To view a list of contacts who received messages, page owners select People on the action bar. For each contact, details appear about how many messages were received and whether they opened or forwarded the messages. Page owners can sort contacts according to whether they have opened or forwarded messages. From the My Activity page, page owners can also click View to read the original messages. My Page(s) - To preview their pages and change the layout and content, personal page owners click My Page(s). Page owners can select page templates, add pictures, edit text, or adjust settings such as whether to display navigation buttons with a slideshow. If the Personal Page Manager part allows page owners to create multiple personal pages, they can create additional pages from the My Page(s) page. When a page owner has multiple pages, one must be designated as the home page for search results and link to the owner s personal page. If the Personal Page Manager uses a page with Page Links, the personal page owner must make his pages public for them to appear as links. Send - To generate messages, personal page owners click Send . Page owners can select contacts from the address book or create contacts to add to the address book. After page owners select the contacts, a preview screen displays the names, addresses, and greetings that will be used. From this screen, page owners can change greetings or click contact names or addresses to change contact information. Personal page owners select templates and create the content on the Send page. Address Book - To store addresses and contact information, personal page owners click Address Book. To add contacts, page owners click New Contact. To use a *.csv file to import addresses from programs such as Outlook or Eudora, page owners click Import Contacts. When page owners add contacts on the Send page, they are saved to the address book. The address book displays up to 10 contacts per page, and the number of contacts and number of pages appear below the grid. The action bar above the grid controls how contacts appear. To display all contacts, click ALL. If there are more than 10 contacts, page owners can use the links below the grid to navigate to additional pages. To view contacts in alphabetic groups, page owners can click the letters on the action bar. Contacts are organized
321 P ERSONAL PAGES. 315 by last name and organization name, which means contacts can appear twice and page owners can search by last name or the organization name. To select a contact, mark the checkbox beside the name. To select all contacts on a page, mark the checkbox beside the Name column. To select all contacts in the address book, mark the checkbox beside the Name column and click the link that appears above the grid. To delete a contact, select it and click Delete on the action bar. Design the Personal Page Manager Part The Personal Page Manager part is a series of forms you use to select the web pages, options, and settings available to personal page owners when they create a personal page. Once you set up the Personal Page Manager part, you add the part to a page on your website. These procedures explain each step of the Personal Page Manager process: Step 1: Personal Page Options and Administrator Roles on page 315 Step 2: New Community User Options on page 316 Step 3: Select Pages for use as Personal Pages on page 318 Step 4: Create Designs on page 319 Step 5: Search Page Form Options on page 319 Step 6: Donation Form (Optional) on page 320 Step 7: Configure s on page 326 Step 1: Personal Page Options and Administrator Roles On this screen, you define options available to users when they create a personal page and decide which roles have administrative rights over personal pages. 1. From Web Site, click Parts. The Parts screen appears. 2. To edit an existing part, click Edit in the Action column. The Edit Part screen appears for Personal Page Manager. The first screen is Step 1: Personal Page Options and Administrator Roles. If you are creating a new part, you must first save part properties. For information about part properties, see Create a part on page 46.
322 316. CHAPTER 7 3. In the Confirmation Prompt field, enter the message that appears when a website user signs up to create a personal page. 4. In the Constituent Code field, you can select the constituent code assigned to personal page owners when you download NetCommunity sign-ups to The Raiser s Edge. For information about constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page You can mark Waiver to require site users to agree to a waiver before they can create a personal page. In the box, enter the waiver s text. 6. In the Administrator Roles frame, mark the checkbox for each role that needs administrative rights for personal page dashboards. Users with Administrator rights can edit personal page dashboards. To do this, a Blackbaud NetCommunity user with Supervisor rights must send the web page URL link from the user record (in Users) to the Administrator user. The Administrator or Supervisor clicks the link to access the dashboard and make modifications. For information about the personal page dashboard, see Manage Personal Pages on page 314. For information about roles and users, see Security on page 223. Step 2: New Community User Options On this screen, you set up the user login forms for personal pages. 1. In the Captions and Properties frame, you can define titles for forms that appear when users sign up to create personal pages. The user login form is required, but you can also add forms for new user registrations, forgotten passwords, and forgotten user IDs. If a user is a member of your website, the site recognizes the user and skips the login page. a. In the Form Title column, enter titles for the user login, new user registration, forgotten password, or forgotten user ID forms. b. In the Hyperlink column, enter text for the hyperlinks that direct users to the user login, new user registration, or forgotten password/user ID forms.
323 P ERSONAL PAGES. 317 c. In the Enabled column, mark the types of forms to add to the user login form. You can add forms for new user registrations, forgotten passwords, and forgotten user IDs. Note: When a user signs up through the login on a Personal Page Manager part type, the user automatically becomes a member of the rest of your website community. 2. In the Constituent Code field, select the constituent code to assign to users who use this registration form to sign up for your website. For information about constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page In the Additional Fields frame, select the biographical information fields to include on the new user registration form. a. In the Additional Fields grid, mark the checkbox in the Include column for each field to appear on the form. To make fields required, mark the checkboxes in the Required column. If the Include checkboxes are marked, Address block and Gender are automatically required. If you mark Maiden name, Class of, and Birth date as required, the program uses these fields as search criteria for the automatic matching process in transactions on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. For example, if you mark Maiden name as required and Angela Myers Johnson signs in, the download transaction checks maiden name before it makes an automatic match and defaults her name in the RE Constituent column on the transaction screen. b. To include attribute fields on your registration form, mark the checkbox in the Include column for each attribute field to appear on the form. To make the attributes required, mark the checkboxes in the Required column. These are constituent attributes pulled from The Raiser s Edge. If you need a new attribute, create it in The Raiser s Edge. For example, you can use a constituent attribute to track T-shirt sizes for participants. To track this information, create a T-shirt size attribute. For information about attributes, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide. Note: If you know an attribute exists in The Raiser s Edge, but do not see it, check System Options on page 234 to make sure the attribute is available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. 4. In the Role Assignment frame, mark the checkbox in the Member column for each role to assign to users who sign up through this User Login part. For information about roles, see Roles on page 227.
324 318. CHAPTER 7 Step 3: Select Pages for use as Personal Pages On this screen, you make web pages available to personal page owners as templates for their personal pages. You must create at least one web page in Site Explorer that contains a Personal Page Element part before you can make selections on this screen. For information about the Personal Page Element part, see Create Personal Page Elements on page In the Page column, select a page from the drop-down list of web pages. Only pages with Personal Page Elements appear in the list. If no pages appear, you must create these in Site Explorer. 2. In the Display Name field, enter a descriptive name to help personal page owners select the web page template to use. The display name appears as an option for page owners in the Theme field of the My Page(s) page on the Home page dashboard. 3. To designate a page as the default, mark the checkbox in the Default column. Each Personal Page part must have a default page. 4. Click Add Page to add rows to the grid and continue adding web pages. 5. In the Maximum Number of Pages field, select the maximum number of personal pages users can create. If you allow users to create more than one page and select a Personal Page Element using Page Links in the Page field, the user s personal pages appear as a list of links on the page. For more information about Page links, see Design Page Links for Page Elements on page To remove a page from the grid, click Remove.
325 P ERSONAL PAGES. 319 Step 4: Create Designs On this screen, you create templates personal page owners can use to send messages about their page. 1. In the Designs frame, click Add . The new template screen appears. 2. In the Name field, enter a name for the template. The program uses the personal page owner s address for the From Address field and the owner s name for the Name field. 3. In the text box at the bottom, enter the content of the . You can select fields from the Merge Fields drop-down so page owners can customize their content. 4. Use the HTML editor to format the content s appearance and layout. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page Click Save and Close to save the template and return to the Step 4: Create Designs screen. The new template appears in the grid. Step 5: Search Page Form Options 1. On this screen, you can define the search form title. Site visitors use the search form to search for a personal page. 2. In the Title field, enter the name for the site search form. If you do not enter a name, Search for Page Owners is the default title used.
326 320. CHAPTER 7 Step 6: Donation Form (Optional) On this screen, you can define options for online donations given through personal pages. If you plan to allow donations from personal pages, we recommend that you create a part or element with a Donate button linking to the donation page. After you create a Personal Page Manager part and add it to a web page, a web page named [Personal Page Manager] PPM - Donate is generated automatically using the settings you define on this screen. After you create the part, you must update the Donate button link so it directs users to the [Personal Page Manager] PPM - Donate page. 1. To allow online donations from personal pages, mark Support Online Donations. Marking this checkbox enables other options on this screen. 2. In the Constituent Code field, select the constituent code to assign to new donors who are not already constituents in your Raiser s Edge database. Donors do not view this information. You download constituent information to The Raiser s Edge. For more information about selecting constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page In the Button Text field, you can enter text that appears on the Donate button or use the default value, Donate Now. 4. In the Payment Methods frame, mark the payment types donors can use to make contributions. A credit card is automatically included as a payment method for donors. Other payment methods are Direct Debit and Pledge (Bill me later). 5. In the Donor Options frame, mark Allow Corporate gifts to provide the option for a company to make a donation. When you mark this checkbox, the This donation is on behalf of a company checkbox appears on your website for a representative from a company to mark. a. To allow donors to give anonymously, mark Allow Anonymous gifts. When you mark this, the I prefer to make this donation anonymously checkbox appears on the donor page. b. To allow donors to enter comments on your site, mark Allow Comments. If you mark this checkbox, comments download to the Attributes tab on a gift record in The Raiser s Edge.
327 P ERSONAL PAGES. 321 c. If you mark Allow Matching gifts, the My company will match my gift checkbox appears on the page. Site visitors can mark My company will match my gift and enter the company name in the Company field. If you use MatchFinder Online, a Look it up link appears next to the checkbox. Visitors click the link to access MatchFinder Online and search for the company. MatchFinder Online contains information about matching gift companies, such as the minimum and maximum gift details and match ratio. Data from MatchFinder Online integrates with The Raiser s Edge. For information about MatchFinder Online purchasing options, send an to [email protected]. For information about downloading matching gift information to The Raiser s Edge, see Download donations - single transaction process on page 354. For information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide. 6. In the Recurring Gifts frame, mark Allow Recurring gifts to allow donors to contribute regular, recurring gifts to your organization. To allow donors to define the frequency of the recurring gift, select General. A Frequency field appears on your website so donors can select to make a contribution every week, month, quarter, or year. Once the website user selects a frequency, start and end date fields appear on the web page. Note: If a constituent donates a recurring gift and selects a start date that is not today s date, the transaction downloads to The Raiser s Edge. However, the transaction is not sent to your bank merchant when the donor submits the recurring gift. The merchant receives the transaction from the Raiser s Edge batch output you send to your bank for processing. For more information about bank merchants, see Merchant Accounts on page 229. To define the recurring gift frequency for donors, select Specific. The Custom Frequency frame appears. a. In the first field, select Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Annually as the frequency. In the On field, select the day of the week on which you want the recurring gift donated. b. To add the frequency to the donation page, click Add Frequency. c. After you click Add Frequency, the Allow Donor to enter Ending Date option appears. To allow donors to enter the end date for the recurring gift, mark this checkbox. To add multiple frequency options to the donor web page, repeat steps a. through c.
328 322. CHAPTER 7 Note: Options in the Tribute Gifts frame are for organizations that use Honor/Memorial Tracking for The Raiser s Edge. If you do not use Honor/Memorial Tracking, do not use these options. 7. In the Tribute Gifts frame, mark Allow Tribute gifts to create a tribute section on the web page. a. To remove the Description field from the tribute section on the web page, mark Hide Tribute Description field. b. If you do not mark the Hide Tribute Description field checkbox, in the Description Text field, enter text to appear at the beginning of the Tribute Information section on the page. For example, enter This gift is made in honor of someone special. c. To allow the donor to select the tribute type, select General. Mark the checkbox for each tribute type to include in the tribute section. The tribute types listed are entries from the Tribute Types table in The Raiser s Edge. To allow page owners to select the tribute types available on their personal pages, mark Allow page owner personalization. Page owners can choose from the tribute types you marked to include. d. To apply all gifts to a specific tribute, select Specific. To select an honor or memorial individual from The Raiser s Edge, click Honor/Memorial. A search screen appears to search for the individual. In the Tribute field, select the tribute type and description to use. Information in this field defaults from the Honor/Memorial tab in the The Raiser s Edge. The options are a combination of the data from the Tribute type and Description fields.
329 P ERSONAL PAGES. 323 Note: When you include tribute information on the donor page, the Mail a letter on my behalf checkbox appears automatically on the page. When a donor marks this checkbox, name and address fields appear for the donor to enter his or her information. You can use this information in a tribute letter to the honor or memorial. 8. In the Designations frame, select which fund designations are available to donors when they make a gift. a. In the Display Name column, enter a name for the designation to appear on the personal page to donors. By default, the text entered in the Fund Name field in The Raiser s Edge appears as the display name. b. In the Fund column, click Select to access the Fund Search screen and select the fund. For information about how to use the Search screen, see Search Screen on page 23. c. Mark the checkbox in the Transaction Default column for the designation to use as the default if the donor does not select a designation. d. To add multiple designations, click Add Designation to add additional rows to the grid. Adding multiple designations creates a list of funds on the personal page for donors to select from. e. To allow users to write in a fund other than the ones provided in the previous step, mark Allow Other designation. f. To include in the list funds the donor contributed to previously, mark Include Donor s prior gift designations. If you mark this option, funds from the donor s last 50 gifts are included in the list. g. If multiple designations are included in the Designations frame, the Support Multiple designations checkbox appears. Mark this option to allow users to donate to multiple funds. When you mark this checkbox, the Add to Cart button is included on the Donation Form of your website. Users select the multiple funds they want to donate to using a process similar to purchasing items from an online store.
330 324. CHAPTER 7 9. In the Giving Levels frame, you can select suggested giving levels donors view on the personal page. Click Add Giving Level to add a giving level to the grid. In the Display Name column, enter a name for the giving level to appear on the personal page. In the Amount column, enter the suggested amount. If you mark Allow Other amount, donors can enter an amount other than the suggested amounts. 10. In the Sources frame, you have the option to add a How did you hear about our site? field to the donation form. Click Add Source to add a source to the grid. In the Display Name column, enter a name for the source to appear on the personal page. In the Appeal column, select the appeal. You can mark the checkbox in the Transaction Default column for the appeal to use as the default if the donor does not select an appeal. 11. In the Required Fields frame, mark the checkbox for each donor field you want to make required on the donation form. To ensure you download complete constituent information into The Raiser s Edge, we recommend that you make all of these fields required.
331 P ERSONAL PAGES In the Attributes frame, you can select the gift attribute fields to appear on the donation form. Mark the checkbox in the Display column for each attribute field to include. To make the attributes required, mark the checkbox in the Required column. In the Caption column, you can use the default caption or enter a different caption. The program pulls gift attributes from The Raiser s Edge. If you need a new attribute for your part, create it in The Raiser s Edge. For information about attributes, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide. Note: If you know an attribute exists in The Raiser s Edge, but do not see it, check System Options on page 234 to make sure the attribute is available in Blackbaud NetCommunity. 13. In the Navigation frame, select the page the user is directed to after making a donation. 14. In the Merchant Account frame, you can select the merchant account you want to use to process credit cards. For example, select your IATS account.
332 326. CHAPTER 7 Note: Merchant accounts are set up in Administration. For more information, see Merchant Accounts on page 229. Step 7: Configure s On this screen, you create Welcome, Forgotten Password/User ID, and Donation Acknowledgement messages. For information about how to create an , see Messages on page Click Create Welcome to create an to send to personal page owners who create a new page. 2. Click Create Forgotten Password/User ID to create an to send to page owners who forget their passwords or user ID. 3. Click Create Donation Acknowledgement to create an to send to donors after they make a donation on a personal page. Note: When you edit a saved Personal Page Manager part, the Welcome, Forgotten Password/User ID, and Donation Acknowledgement tasks appear as buttons on the action bar. To edit an , click the button for that type. 4. To save your Personal Page Manager, click Save and Close. You return to Parts. Add Help Content for Personal Pages After you complete and save the Personal Page Manager part, you can reopen the part to add custom text to help users understand how to use certain features in personal pages. For example, you can create help text that explains the statistics on the My Activity page of the Home Page dashboard.
333 P ERSONAL PAGES. 327 Add helplets for personal pages 1. Open a saved Personal Page Manager part. The Helplets frame appears above Step 1: Personal Page Options and Administrator Roles. 2. In the Screen field, select the form to create help text for. For example, you can create help text for the login and user registration forms, the search screen, and all the pages found in the page owner s Home Page dashboard. 3. In the box, enter the text to appear on the form. To format the content s appearance and layout, use the HTML editor. For more information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor on page Once you create help text for the first form, you can select another form type in the Screen field. Changes are saved automatically for the first form, and an asterisk appears next to the form name to indicate it has saved help content. 5. To save the part, click Save and Close. You return to Parts.
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335 CHAPTER8 The Raiser s Edge NetCommunity Page In This Chapter NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329 NetCommunity Transactions Overview on page 335 NetCommunity Transactions in The Raiser s Edge on page 337 Information entered by website users downloads to transactions on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. On the NetCommunity page, you approve or reject transactions. Approved transactions process website user information to records in The Raiser s Edge. With Blackbaud NetCommunity, additional fields appear in The Raiser s Edge Export. The fields are located in the Blackbaud NetCommunity Page Stats node. You can use these fields to export information about your website from The Raiser s Edge. If you have Advanced Reporting, you can run more detailed reports to analyze and improve your website and solicitations. For more information about how to view website statistics, see Web Traffic Reports on page 120. NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge In The Raiser s Edge, the NetCommunity page contains an Options section for various transaction types. Before you download transactions from Blackbaud NetCommunity to The Raiser s Edge, you should establish transaction options for the Blackbaud NetCommunity web service, currencies, class note processing, new constituents, linked user , matching gift, transaction assignments, and advocacy information. To access these options in The Raiser s Edge, click NetCommunity on the Raiser s Edge bar. The NetCommunity page appears. From the top right corner of the page, click Options. The NetCommunity Options screen appears.
336 330. CHAPTER 8 Note: If the NetCommunity server was recently rebooted, or if the web.config file was recently modified, it may take a moment for the NetCommunity page to appear in The Raiser s Edge. On the NetCommunity Options screen, you can establish and configure many options for the integration between The Raiser s Edge and Blackbaud NetCommunity. Warning: For security reasons, when a Raiser s Edge user accesses transactions on the NetCommunity page, you cannot make changes to Options. If you attempt to open Options, a screen appears notifying you which users are in transactions. You cannot change options until all users exit transactions. In addition, if a user in The Raiser s Edge is editing options, a second user can only access Options in read only mode. When Options are read only, the OK and Cancel buttons are not available. Service URL on page 330 Currency Configuration on page 330 Class Note Processing on page 331 New Constituents on page 331 Matching Gifts on page 332 Linked User on page 333 Constituent Matching on page 333 Transaction Assignments on page 334 Advocacy on page 335 Service URL To establish the location of your Blackbaud NetCommunity web service, use Service URL. The Raiser s Edge uses the web service to download transactions from Blackbaud NetCommunity. Establish options for the web service URL 1. On the NetCommunity Options screen, select Service URL from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the options for web service URL appear. 2. In the URL field, enter the URL for your Blackbaud NetCommunity web service. Typically, the format of the URL is 3. To test the connection between The Raiser s Edge and Blackbaud NetCommunity, click Test Connection. If a connection exists, a successful connection message appears. If the connection is unsuccessful, make sure you entered the correct URL. To verify the URL, you can copy the URL entered in the URL field and paste it into a web browser. 4. To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK. Currency Configuration To establish the countries and currencies to use with transactions from Blackbaud NetCommunity, use Currency Configuration.
337 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 331 Establish options for the currency configuration 1. On the NetCommunity Options screen, select Currency Configuration from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the options for currencies appear. 2. For each Currency, select a corresponding Country. Note: The exchange rates for currencies are stored in Configuration in The Raiser s Edge. For more information about exchange rates in Configuration, see the Configuration & Security Guide for The Raiser s Edge. 3. To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK. Class Note Processing To establish how to manage information entered by website users through the Class Notes part on your website, use Class Note Processing. Note: The constituent code selected in the New Constituents option downloads to the Bio 2 tab of the constituent record. However, the constituent code does not duplicate if it already exists on the tab. Establish options for class note processing 1. On the NetCommunity Options screen, select Class Note Processing from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the options for class notes appear. 2. To enable class note updating, mark Enable class note update processing. When you mark this checkbox, data that website users enter through a Class Notes part on your website download to a Notepad in The Raiser s Edge. 3. In the Notepad Type field, select the type of note for which you want to store the data from the Class Notes part. For example, when you select Biographical, class notes data downloads to the Notes tab on a constituent record. 4. To create a new Notepad for each class notes update, mark Create a new notepad for every change. 5. To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK. New Constituents To establish the constituent code to assign to new constituents from Blackbaud NetCommunity, use New Constituents. For more information about constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page 26. In New Constituents, you can also create or select an existing Raiser s Edge default set of values for new records. When you load a default set into a record, the values you entered for the set can automatically default into the fields on the record. For example, if most of your constituents are from the same city and state, you can create an Address default set with entries in the applicable address fields. Establish options for new constituents 1. On the NetCommunity Options screen, select New Constituents from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the options for sign-up information appear.
338 332. CHAPTER 8 2. In the Constituent Code applied for all new constituents field, select a constituent code to assign to any downloaded constituent not already in your database in The Raiser s Edge. For more information about constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page In the Default Set applied to all new individuals field, select a default set of values for new individual records. To create a new default set for new individual records from Blackbaud NetCommunity, click the Add New link. The New Default Set screen appears so you can select values for the individual record default set. Note: The Default Set applied to all new individuals and Default Set applied to all new organizations fields appear if you integrate with The Raiser s Edge For information about Raiser s Edge default sets, see The Raiser s Edge Program Basics Guide. 4. In the Default Set applied to all new organizations field, select a default set of values for new organization records. To create a new default set for new organization records from Blackbaud NetCommunity, click the Add New link. The New Default Set screen appears so you can select values for the organization record default set. 5. To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK. Matching Gifts To establish how to manage matching gift information from Blackbaud NetCommunity, use Matching Gifts. Establish options for matching gifts 1. On the NetCommunity Options screen, select Matching Gifts from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the options for matching gift information appear. 2. In the Constituent Code field, select a constituent code to assign to any new organization not already in your database in The Raiser s Edge. For more information about selecting constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page In the Relationship Code field, select a relationship code to assign to any new organization not already in your database in The Raiser s Edge. The relationship code defines the nature of the association the organization has to the constituent (typically, the donor). For example, assign the code Employer for matching gift companies. 4. To automatically create matching gift pledges for companies with a relationship to a donor, mark Constituent business relationships. Tip: In addition, the [Organization constituent] matches gifts from [individual constituent] checkbox on the General 2 tab on the relationship record must also be marked in The Raiser s Edge to automatically create a matching gift pledge. For more information, see The Raiser s Edge Constituent Data Entry Guide. 5. To automatically create matching gift pledges for companies with a relationship to a donor s spouse, mark Spouse s business relationships.
339 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK. Linked User To select a Blackbaud NetCommunity template for which NetCommunity Users is selected in the Data Source field, use Linked User . When you establish this option, the Send Linked User button enables on the Sign-up Requests Transactions screen when the website user is auto-matched to a record in The Raiser s Edge that is linked to a Blackbaud NetCommunity user. To send a user an from the Sign-up Requests Transactions screen, you can click Send Linked User . Establish options for linked user 1. On the NetCommunity Options screen, select Linked User from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the option for a linked template appears. 2. In the Template field, select the template specified for NetCommunity Users. This must be an template with NetCommunity Users selected in the Data Source field. For more information about templates, see Templates on page To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK. Constituent Matching The Constituent Matching option determines the automatic search method to download sign-up requests, donations, event registrations, membership, and advocacies. You can select to search by exact match or for records in The Raiser s Edge that are marked inactive or deceased. Establish options for constituent matching 1. On the NetCommunity Options screen, select Constituent Matching from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the options for assigning NetCommunity page user rights appears. 2. Mark the checkbox beside each field you want to search by. For example, to search by last name and nickname, mark Last Name and Nickname. Note: To help eliminate results that include duplicate records, we recommend you mark multiple search fields. 3. To search by exact criteria, mark Exact Match. For example, you want to search for William Adamson s record. If you mark this checkbox and search for Will Adamson, the program does not return his record because the search looks for an exact match for William Adamson. If you unmark the checkbox, the program initiates a begins with search which returns the record. We recommend you use this checkbox to narrow a large list of results. 4. To include inactive constituents in The Raiser s Edge in your search, mark Include Inactive. 5. To include deceased constituents in The Raiser s Edge in your search, mark Include Deceased. 6. To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK.
340 334. CHAPTER 8 Transaction Assignments To establish filters and security for new transactions as they default in the download grid, use Transaction Assignments. Assignments are established by selecting a security group in The Raiser s Edge, a filter type, and criteria in a series of steps for a transaction type. You can select to enable or disable the assignments for the current downloads. In addition, use Transaction Assignments to manage transactions not assigned for processing. Note: You can apply Transaction Assignments to Sign-up Requests, User Profile Updates, Donations, Volunteer Requests, Event Registration, Membership, and Advocacy Action transaction types. Establish options for transaction assignments 1. On the NetCommunity Options screen, select Transaction Assignments from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the options for assigning NetCommunity page user rights appears. 2. In the Transaction Type to manage field, select the type of download transaction for which you want to assign filters and security. For example, select Profile Updates or Donations. 3. To enable assignments for current downloads, mark Enable Assignments. If you do not want to assign filters and security for the transaction, do not mark this checkbox. 4. On the Assignment Filters tab, in the Security Group field, select the security group in The Raiser s Edge for which you want to apply to the transaction type. For example, you can select your revenue data entry group for Donations. To enable options on this tab, you must mark Enable Assignments. a. In the Filter Type field, select the filter for which you want to limit transactions. For example, select Donor Last Name Starts With. Note: Options in the Filter Type field vary depending on the transaction type you select in the Transaction Type to manage field. For example, the filter options for Donations are Fund, Gift Type, or Donor Last Name Starts With. The filter option for Sign-up Requests is Donor Last Name Starts With. b. In the Criteria box, select specific criteria to filter transactions by based on your selection in the Filter Type field. For example, if, in the Filter Type field, you select Donor Last Name Starts With, A through Z appears in the Criteria box. If you select Fund for an applicable transaction type, your funds in The Raiser s Edge appear in the box. Note: To select multiple criteria in this box, press SHIFT or CTRL on your keyboard. With the key pressed, click the additional criteria you need with your mouse. c. After you complete Steps 1-3, click Add. The filter you created appears in the grid at the bottom. To remove individual filters, click Remove. To remove all filters for the transaction type, click Clear All Filters. 5. To manage transactions that are not assigned, select the Transaction Properties tab.
341 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 335 Note: Options on the Transaction Properties tab apply to the transaction type you selected in the Transaction Type to manage field. 6. In the Unassigned Transactions frame, click the drop down to select the security group in The Raiser s Edge for which you want to apply unassigned transactions. An unassigned transaction refers to a transaction that is not considered for processing based on the filter and security criteria you select in the Transaction Assignments option. For example, a gift from Robert Zier is downloaded to Donations. The Transaction Assignments filters for Donations uses Donor Last Name Starts With. However, the letter Z is not assigned to a security group for processing. Robert Zier s gift is processed by the security group you select in this field. For users in The Raiser s Edge not in the security group you select in the Specify the default security group... field, to default unassigned transactions to its own tab, mark Show unassigned transaction tab. When you mark this checkbox, the Make transactions read-only checkbox enables. To default unassigned transactions to its own read-only tab, mark this checkbox. 7. To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK. Advocacy If you use Blackbaud NetAdvocacy, to establish how to manage advocacy information from Blackbaud NetCommunity, use Advocacy. Establish options for advocacy information 1. If you use Blackbaud NetAdvocacy, on the NetCommunity Options screen, select Advocacy from the tree view on the left. On the rights, the options for advocacy information appears. 2. In the Constituent Code field, select a constituent code to assign to any downloaded constituent not already in your database in The Raiser s Edge. For more information about constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page To save your options and return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click OK. NetCommunity Transactions Overview The NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge contains multiple sections for various transaction types. To access the page in The Raiser s Edge, click NetCommunity on the Raiser s Edge bar. The NetCommunity page appears. If the NetCommunity server was recently rebooted or the web.config file was recently modified, it may take a moment for the page to appear. Note: To include the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, you must install certain NetCommunity files for the workstation. You can install the files on as many workstations as needed. For more information, see the Blackbaud NetCommunity Installation and Upgrade Guide. A View field exists on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. In this field, you can select to view All Transaction Categories, Unaccepted Transactions Only, or Unaccepted Transactions with Counts. If you select Unaccepted Transactions with Counts, a status appears for the download that informs you how many new transactions exist. An Options link also exists on the Netcommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Before you process data from Blackbaud NetCommunity to The Raiser s Edge, you should establish options for transactions. For more information, see NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329.
342 336. CHAPTER 8 Warning: If a Raiser s Edge user is in Options on the NetCommunity page, you cannot access the rest of the page until the user exits Options. Required Fields in The Raiser s Edge In certain situations, required fields in The Raiser s Edge are considered when downloading transactions from Blackbaud NetCommunity. Other times, they are not considered. Be aware of these situations. When you process transactions for sign-ups, donations, volunteer requests, and event registrations in bulk by marking the Select All checkbox, required fields are not considered. A new constituent record is created without required data. Note: This example assumes you did not mark Bypass required fields on the Options tab on a bulk process screen. For example, The Raiser s Edge requires that all constituent records contain the attribute Retirement Date with the corresponding date. Bill Smith makes a donation on your website and does not include his retirement date information. When you download donations, a constituent record for Bill Smith is created in The Raiser s Edge. When you link or create records for sign-ups, profile updates, donations, volunteer requests, event registrations, memberships, and advocacies, a record is first linked or created using the first name (if available), last name, address, and constituent code. After you search for a constituent record in the database and click Link Constituent (for existing records) or Create New (to create a new record), the transaction refreshes. From this point, required fields in The Raiser s Edge apply when you download transactions. For example, The Raiser s Edge requires constituent records contain the attribute Retirement Date with the corresponding date. Bill Smith makes a donation on your website and does not include his retirement date. When you open a transaction and search for a record in the database, required fields are not considered when you click Link Constituent or Create New. After this step is complete, required fields in The Raiser s Edge apply when you process the transaction to The Raiser s Edge. Because Bill did not enter the information on your site, you can open his constituent record and manually add the Retirement Date attribute. Process Order for Transaction Types The Fundraiser, Personal Page, and Volunteer Request transaction types require a process order for downloading new users. For example, you cannot process volunteer information for a new user in the Volunteer Requests download. First, you must process the new user in Sign-up Requests. For details about transaction process order for Fundraisers, Personal Pages, and Volunteer Requests transaction types, review the information in this section. Fundraisers You must process Fundraiser transactions in the following order. If the participant is a new user, process the transaction for the user in Sign-up Requests. If the user made a donation, process the Fundraiser transaction before you process the Donation transaction. Additionally, if the user submits an event registration, process the Fundraiser transaction before you process the Event Registration transaction.
343 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 337 Donation and Event Registration transactions do not appear in the download until Sign-up Requests and Fundraiser transactions are processed. Personal Pages When you process volunteer request transactions, if the page owner is a new user, you must first process the transaction for the user in Sign-Up Requests. Personal Page transactions do not appear in the download until Sign-Up Request transactions are processed. Volunteer Requests You must process Volunteer Request transactions in the following order. If the volunteer is a new user, process the transaction for the user in Sign-Up Requests. If the volunteer is an existing user and a User Profile Update transaction exists for the volunteer, process the User Profile Update transaction before you process the Volunteer Request transaction. Volunteer Request transactions do not appear in the download until new user sign-up transactions are processed. Volunteer Request transactions for existing users do appear if a User Profile Update transaction is not processed. However, you should process the User Profile Update before you process the Volunteer Request. NetCommunity Transactions in The Raiser s Edge After you understand the NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329 and the NetCommunity Transactions Overview on page 335 sections, you can begin processing Blackbaud NetCommunity transactions in The Raiser s Edge. Note: You should periodically check the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge for transactions from the website. To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. Sign-Up Requests Before you process Sign-Up Requests, you should select options in NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329. Specifically, you can apply Transaction Assignments on page 334 to Sign-Up Requests. Review that section before proceeding with this section. There are two main ways to process Sign-up Requests single and bulk. We do not recommend combining steps between these two processes. For example, do not use the Process Transaction button on the action bar if you are going to download transactions using the bulk process. Read this section entirely to learn about the information available for both processes. Single You can select each row individually to match the user with an existing Raiser s Edge record or add the user as a new record in the database. Bulk You can select all users and process every transaction at once. If you select to process all transactions at once, you may need to clean up data in The Raiser s Edge after processing completes.
344 338. CHAPTER 8 Download sign-up requests single transaction process When you use the single transaction process, you select each row individually to match the user with an existing Raiser s Edge record or add the user as a new record in the database. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Sign-up Requests. The Sign-up Requests Transactions screen appears. 2. On the Sign-up Requests Transactions tab, select the row to process by clicking in the Sign-up Information column. The Constituent Linking frame appears on the right and opens to the Record Linking tab. Tip: This tab is called Assigned Sign-up Requests Transactions when transaction assignments are enabled. If transaction assignments do not apply to a transaction, an Unassigned tab appears. Follow the same steps in this procedure to process transactions on that tab. For information about transaction assignments, see Transaction Assignments on page 334. The Transaction Date/Status column on the Sign-up Requests Transactions tab defaults the date the user submitted the transaction on your website. The checked out status also appears in the column. When a Raiser s Edge user is processing the transaction, Checked out by and Checked out on information displays. If a Raiser s Edge user is not processing the transaction, Not Checked Out displays. 3. In the Constituent Linking frame on the right, data from Blackbaud NetCommunity appears in the Transaction Data box. If your Constituent Matching options match a Raiser s Edge record, Raiser s Edge data appears in the Linked Constituent box and the Auto-matched indicator appears. To open the Raiser s Edge record for the user, click Open Constituent.
345 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 339 Tip: If duplicate records are found {Duplicates Found} appears in the Linked Constituent column. The search method is based on the settings in the Constituent Matching option. For more information, see Constituent Matching on page 333. If you are sure the website user is the matched Raiser s Edge constituent and do not need to change the transaction, proceed to the Transaction Constituent Code step. If the records in the Constituent Linking frame match and you want to review or make changes to the transaction, click Find Constituent above the Transaction Data box. A screen appears to view additional data the user submitted on your site. If the Linked Constituent box is blank, you must link the website user with an existing Raiser s Edge record or create a new record for the user. For more information, see the next step. Note: You can send a user an from Sign-up Requests. For example, you may want to send a forgotten user ID to a user who attempts to register again. When the website user is auto-matched to a Raiser s Edge record that is linked to a Blackbaud NetCommunity user, the Send Linked User button appears. When you click this button, the template selected in the Linked User option appears for you to send the . For more information about the option, see Linked User on page 333. For more information about templates, see Templates on page To search for an existing Raiser s Edge constituent, click Find Constituent.
346 340. CHAPTER 8 Tip: If the Linked Constituent box does not have an indicator or if Auto-matched appears above the box, the Find Constituent button appears. If Linked appears above the box, the Edit Profile button appears. A NetCommunity Transaction screen appears. a. If the user entered information in the applicable section on the sign-up form, the Biographical, Preferred Address, Primary Business, and Constituent Attributes tabs appear. On these tabs, mark any fields in the Search Field column in which you want to process a Raiser s Edge search. The fields that default with a checkbox in the Search Field column are the fields selected in the Constituent Matching option. Note: We recommend you use only the most useful criteria fields to search for a record. Adding too many criteria information may actually prevent you from locating a record. To unmark all fields at once, click Clear Search Criteria. b. To include inactive Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display inactive constituents. c. To include deceased Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display deceased constituents.
347 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 341 d. To search by exact criteria, mark Exact match only. For example, you search for Will Adamson s record. If you mark the checkbox and search for William Adamson, the program does not return his record because the search looks for an exact match for Will Adamson. If you unmark the checkbox, the program initiates a begins with search which returns the record. We recommend using this checkbox to narrow a large list of results. e. To begin the search, click Find Now. Results appear in the grid at the bottom of the screen. Results in this grid cannot exceed 100 records. Records with Has no valid address marked in The Raiser s Edge are included in the search results. f. If a a record matches, select the row and click Link Constituent, Choose Selected Constituent.
348 342. CHAPTER 8 Tip: If an template is selected in the Linked User option, the Send Linked User button appears. When you click this, the template appears to send an . For example, you may want to send a forgotten user ID to a user who attempts to register again. If you do not want to send an , click Close. For more information about the option, see Linked User on page 333. For more information about templates, see Templates on page 163. Note: If you changed any data the user entered in the New Value column, a message appears notifying you the download transaction has changed. To add the changed data to The Raiser s Edge, click Yes. If you do not want to add the data to The Raiser s Edge, click No. If an existing record does not match the sign-up request, click Link Constituent, Create New Constituent. For information about creating new constituents, see the next step. 5. To create a new record in The Raiser s Edge, click Create New, Create Constituent in the Constituent Linking frame. Linked appears above the Linked Constituent box to indicate a record has been created in The Raiser s Edge for the user. a. To edit data the website user entered, click Create New, Create New and Edit. A screen appears to compare existing Raiser s Edge data with the user sign-up request information. If the user entered information in the applicable section of the sign-up form, the Biographical, Preferred Address, Primary Business, and Constituent Attributes tabs appear. You can process each tab individually or all at one time. b. For each field to update on the Raiser s Edge record, mark Process. If you unmark Process for a field, the data does not download to The Raiser s Edge.
349 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 343 c. Information provided by the user during the sign-up appears in the New Value column. To edit data a user entered, make changes in the appropriate row in this column. Tip: New table entries appear in bold. If you have appropriate rights, you can create a new Raiser s Edge table entry from this screen, or you can click in the row of the New Value column to select an existing table entry. To keep data consistent, it is important to try to use existing table entries. d. Select the remaining applicable transaction options for the tab. Once you are done, click Save and Close. The screen closes and you return to the Constituent Linking frame. Linked appears above the Linked Constituent box. 6. In the Transaction Constituent Code frame, the constituent code selected on the part defaults in the field. You can change or remove the constituent code for the transaction in this field. If you select the same constituent code in the New Constituents option, the constituent code does not duplicate on the Bio 2 tab in the constituent record. If the constituent codes are different, both codes download to the new constituent record. For more information about the option, see New Constituents on page 331. For more information about selecting constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page 26.
350 344. CHAPTER 8 7. To view origin information for the sign-up, select the Details tab. In the NetCommunity Details frame, information appears such as the NetCommunity User and the NetCommunity Page from which the transaction was made on the website. In the Transaction Details frame, information appears such as The Raiser s Edge user that downloaded the transaction to the NetCommunity page and The Raiser s Edge user currently using the transaction. 8. To process the selected sign-up, click Process Transaction on the action bar. To save your information, but not process the transaction, click Process Transaction, Save Changes. You can process the transaction at another time. 9. Repeat this procedure to individually process any sign-up requests on this screen that remain. Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 10. When you finish, click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Download sign-up requests bulk process When you use bulk process, you select to download all sign ups to the The Raiser s Edge and process every transaction at once. If you select to process everything at once, you need to clean up data in The Raiser s Edge after processing completes. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Sign-up Requests. The Sign-up Requests Transactions screen appears.
351 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 345 Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 2. To process every transaction on the screen, mark Select All. When you mark this, every row appears with a checkbox. Unmark the checkbox next to any names you do not want to process to The Raiser s Edge. 3. Click Bulk Processing. The Process User Sign-up Requests screen appears. 4. On the Processing tab, review bulk properties such as Transactions Selected and Successfully Checked Out. 5. On the Options tab, you select options for Unlinked Records and Transaction Profile Data in the bulk process. a. In the Unlinked Records frame, to attempt constituent matching based on Constituent Matching options, mark Attempt auto-match to an existing record. For more information, see Constituent Matching on page 333. b. To create new Raiser s Edge records for the website users, mark Create new Raiser s Edge record automatically. c. To ignore Raiser s Edge required fields, mark Bypass required fields. For more information, see Required Fields in The Raiser s Edge on page 336. d. In the Transaction Profile Data frame, select if you want to Accept Profile Information or Reject Profile Information from the website user. If you accept the profile information, the data defaults to the constituent record in The Raiser s Edge. 6. When you finish, on the Process tab, click Process Now. Bulk processing begins. 7. When the process is complete, click Close on the Process New User Sign-ups screen. You return to the User Sign-up Requests screen. 8. Click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. User Profile Updates You can update constituent records in The Raiser s Edge with changes website users make to online profiles. For example, an alumnus may let you know through the website of an address change or graduate degree information. Note: The User Profile Updates download also includes profile updates from a User Education Profile Form part. You can only process updates for website users that have been previously matched to a Raiser s Edge record on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. If The Raiser s Edge record has been deleted, the transaction is invalid and you must reject the profile update. Before you process profile updates, you should select options in NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329. Specifically, you can apply Transaction Assignments on page 334 to profile updates. Review that section before proceeding with this section. Download user profile updates and user education profile updates 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click User Profile Updates. The User Profile Updates Transactions screen appears.
352 346. CHAPTER 8 2. On the User Profile Updates tab, select the row to process by clicking in the Online User Information column. Depending on the profile information the user updated, a variety of tabs appear on the right. Tip: This tab is called Assigned User Profile Updates when transaction assignments are enabled. If transaction assignments do not apply to a transaction, an Unassigned tab appears. Follow the same steps in this procedure to process transactions on that tab. For information about transaction assignments, see Transaction Assignments on page 334. The Transaction Date/Status column on the Assigned User Profile Updates tab defaults the date the user submitted the transaction on your website. The checked out status also appears in the column. When a Raiser s Edge user is processing the transaction, Checked out by and Checked out on information displays. If a Raiser s Edge user is not processing the transaction, Not Checked Out displays. 3. If the user updated information in the applicable section on the profile form, the Profile Information tab on the right can include the Primary Business, Biographical, Education, Preferred Address, Spouse, Constituent Attributes, and Notes tabs. Beginning with the first tab, mark Process for each field you want to update on the Raiser s Edge record. If you unmark Process for a field, the data in Raiser s Edge remains the same. Tip: To process every field on the tab, mark Select All. When you mark this, every row appears with a checkbox in the Process column.
353 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 347 Several tabs include process options for downloading the information to The Raiser s Edge. For more information, see Process Tabs for Profile Updates on page Information provided by the user appears in the New Value column. The existing Raiser s Edge data appears in the Raiser s Edge column. To edit any data a user entered, make changes in the appropriate row in the New Value column. Tip: New table entries appear in bold. If you have appropriate rights, you can create a new Raiser s Edge table entry from this screen, or you can click in the row of the New Value column to select an existing table entry. To keep data consistent, it is important to try to use existing table entries. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the remaining tabs. Warning: If you click Process Transaction, Apply Selected Updates, every field marked Process on the tabs are processed at the same time. For more information about this button, see the Process Transaction step. 6. To view origin information for the profile update, select the Details tab. In the NetCommunity Details frame, information appears such as the NetCommunity User and the NetCommunity Page from which the transaction was made on the website. In the Transaction Details frame, information appears such as The Raiser s Edge user that downloaded the transaction to the NetCommunity page and The Raiser s Edge user currently using the transaction. 7. To process the information, click Process Transaction.
354 348. CHAPTER 8 To partially process a transaction, click Process Transaction, Apply Selected Updates. A partially processed transaction includes the changes for which you have marked Process. If another profile update for the user downloads to User Profile Updates, data can be overwritten by the second profile update. 8. Repeat this procedure to process any profile updates on the User Profile Updates Transactions screen that remain. Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 9. You can delete any transaction you do not want to process. To delete a transaction, select the row and click Delete Transaction. A message appears asking if you want to delete it. Click Yes. 10. When you finish, click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Process Tabs for Profile Updates If the user updated information in the applicable section on the profile form, the Profile Information tab on the right can include the Primary Business, Biographical, Education, Preferred Address, Spouse, Constituent Attributes, and Notes tabs. Several tabs include processing options for downloading the information to The Raiser s Edge. This section includes information about these options for the Primary Business, Education, Preferred Address, and Notes tabs.
355 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 349 Note: Refer to the information in this section for step 3 in Download user profile updates and user education profile updates on page 345. Primary Business Tab On the Primary Business tab, select if you want to Update the primary business with the downloaded information or Add the downloaded information as a new organization relationship for this constituent. If you update the information, you can mark the checkbox to Update shared organization name. If you add the information as an organization relationship, you can Make this new organization the primary business.
356 350. CHAPTER 8 Education Tab On the Education tab, mark the Make Primary checkbox. When you mark an education record as primary in The Raiser s Edge, you are designating the record as the main or most recent education record for the constituent.
357 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 351 Preferred Address Tab On the Preferred Address tab, select if you want to Update the preferred address with the downloaded information or Add the downloaded information as a new address for this constituent. If you add the information as a new address, you can Make this new address the preferred address. In the Previous address type field, select an address type for the old address in the Changed From column. If the Update Shared Address? checkbox appears, the user has a shared address in The Raiser s Edge. To update shared address information, mark the checkbox. Notes Tab On the Notes tab, to edit information a user entered (on the Personal Notes part), click Edit. A Notepad Details screen appears for you to edit the personal note.
358 352. CHAPTER 8 Fundraisers If you move a solicitor to another team in The Raiser s Edge, the next time the solicitor logs into your Fundraiser part type on your website, the solicitor sees she is on a different team. To properly credit a solicitor with a donation using the Fundraiser part, Fundraiser participant information must be downloaded to The Raiser s Edge before the donation information from the part is downloaded. Download fundraisers 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Fundraisers. The Fundraisers screen appears. 2. In the Fund column, the fund name for the Fundraiser part appears. Review the number of new and changed teams and solicitors in the Activity column. 3. Double-click the row of information you need (or click the Process Update button). A team and solicitor tree view appears for the fund. 4. View the team and solicitor changes. 5. To accept these changes, click OK. You return to the Fundraisers screen. 6. Click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Personal Pages You can download personal page requests from Blackbaud NetCommunity to The Raiser s Edge. The download process adds a new phone type to the personal page owner s constituent record with a link to the personal page. Use this process as an approval system to manage who is allowed to have a personal page. You can reject a personal page request by deleting the request from the process screen. Rejecting a request deletes the personal page from Blackbaud NetCommunity automatically. Download personal pages 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Personal Pages. The Personal Page Requests screen appears. The grid lists each request ready to process. 2. Mark the checkbox in the Process Now column for each personal page request you want to download. 3. If you want to reject a personal page request, select that request in the grid and click Delete Row. A message screen appears asking if you want to delete. Click Yes. Rejecting a request also deletes the personal page from Blackbaud NetCommunity. 4. Click OK. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Donations Before you process donations, you should select options in NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329. Specifically, you can apply Transaction Assignments on page 334 to donations. Review that section before proceeding with this section. If you are about to process donations for a Fundraiser part, you should first process Fundraiser transactions. Then, download the donations. For more information about Fundraiser transactions, see Fundraisers on page 352.
359 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 353 There are two main ways to process Donations single and bulk. We do not recommend combining steps between these two processes. For example, do not use the Process Transaction button on the action bar if you are going to download transactions using the bulk process. Read this section entirely to learn about the information available for both processes. Single You can select each row individually to match the donor with an existing Raiser s Edge record or add the donor as a new record in the database. Bulk You can select all donors and process every donation at once. If you select to process all donations at once, you may need to clean up data in The Raiser s Edge after processing completes. When you process transactions, you must make more decisions beyond using the single or bulk process. For example, you may want to create a batch in The Raiser s Edge to specifically use for donations from Blackbaud NetCommunity. Or, you may want to create the batch in the Donations transaction. Review the following diagram for an example of one way to process donations. Before you begin regularly processing transactions, a best practice decision should be made for your organization. Assign a batch for transactions Donation transactions create a gift batch in The Raiser s Edge. You can select to create a new gift batch or use an existing gift batch to process donations. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Donations. The Donations Transactions screen appears. You can also assign a batch for Event Registrations on page 374. Follow the steps in this procedure to select a batch for Event Registrations. 2. From the menu bar, select Tools, Transaction Options. The Transaction Options screen appears. 3. In the Batch Number frame, to assign the batch the next available number in the program, select Use next available batch number. If you process transactions individually, the Use next available batch number option creates a new batch for every individual transaction row. 4. To download the gifts to an existing batch in The Raiser s Edge, select Add records to an existing batch. Click the binoculars to select the existing batch. If the batch includes a default set, the values apply to the gifts you include in the existing batch. You cannot select an existing batch that has already been committed.
360 354. CHAPTER 8 5. To load a default set of values from an existing batch for a new batch, select Load fields and default values from an existing batch. Click the binoculars to select the existing batch from which to load the default set. Because you are selecting a default set for a new batch, you can select from a previously committed batch. Warning: When you select a default set, only the Defaults tab General values from The Raiser s Edge Batch load for Blackbaud NetCommunity transactions. Split Gift, Schedule, and Honor/Memorial values do not load for transactions. 6. To return to the Donations Transactions screen, click OK. To confirm the correct batch number is assigned to the transaction, view Current Batch Number in the lower left corner of the screen. Process attributes For the Donations on page 352 and Event Registrations on page 374 transaction types, you can open an attribute screen to view, edit, and process attributes the user selected on your website. On this screen, you can prevent invalid attributes from downloading to a record in The Raiser s Edge. 1. On the transactions screen, select the Transaction Information tab. 2. In the Gift Attributes box, press F7 on your keyboard. An attributes screen appears. Attributes the user selected appear in the Values column. For Event Registrations, in the Event Participation Information box, press F7 to view participant attributes. For more information, see Download event registrations - single transaction process on page If the user entered an attribute you do not want to download to The Raiser s Edge, unmark the Process checkbox. 4. To edit an invalid attribute, edit the attribute information in the Values column. Warning: If the attribute is a table, you must select an existing attribute in the Values column to process the data to The Raiser s Edge. 5. After you confirm the attributes on the screen are the ones to process to a Raiser s Edge record, click Save and Close. Download donations - single transaction process When you use the single transaction process, you select each row individually to match the donor with an existing Raiser s Edge record or add the donor as a new record in the database. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Donations. The Donations Transactions screen appears. Note: Donation transactions create a gift batch in The Raiser s Edge. From Tools, Transaction Options, you can select batch options before you process a donation. The batch screen does not appear until you process the donation. For more information, see Step 14 in this procedure and Assign a batch for transactions on page On the Donations tab, select the row to process by clicking in the Donor Information column. The Constituent Linking frame appears on the right and defaults to the Record Linking tab.
361 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 355 Tip: This tab is called Assigned Donations when transaction assignments are enabled. If transaction assignments do not apply to a transaction, an Unassigned tab appears. Follow the same steps in this procedure to process transactions on that tab. For information about transaction assignments, see Transaction Assignments on page 334. The Gift Information column displays the donation amount, the gift date, fund, and source (or appeal). If you support multiple currency types, review the following. If a gift amount has been converted to your local currency, the converted amount displays in ( ) in the Gift Information column. Exchange rates are established in Raiser s Edge Configuration. For more information, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide. To map currency types for Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Currency Configuration on page 330. Blackbaud NetCommunity Administration, add an IATS merchant account for each currency type. For more information about merchant accounts, see Merchant Accounts on page 229. The Transaction Date/Status column on the Donations tab defaults the date the user submitted the donation on your website. The checked out status also appears in the column. When a Raiser s Edge user is processing the transaction, Checked out by and Checked out on information displays. If a Raiser s Edge user is not processing the transaction, Not Checked Out displays. 3. In the Constituent Linking frame on the right, data from Blackbaud NetCommunity appears in the Transaction Data box. If your Constituent Matching options match a Raiser s Edge record, Raiser s Edge data appears in the Linked Constituent box and the Auto-matched indicator appears. To open the Raiser s Edge record for the user, click Open Constituent.
362 356. CHAPTER 8 Tip: If duplicate records are found {Duplicates Found} appears in the RE Constituent column. The search method is based on the settings in the Constituent Matching option. For more information, see Constituent Matching on page 333. If you are sure the website user is the matched Raiser s Edge constituent and do not need to change the transaction, proceed to the Transaction Constituent Code step. If the records in the Constituent Linking frame match and you want to review or make changes to the transaction, click Find Constituent above the Transaction Data box. A screen appears to view additional data the user submitted on your site. If the Linked Constituent box is blank, you must link the website user with an existing Raiser s Edge record or create a new record for the user. For more information, see the next step. 4. To search for an existing Raiser s Edge constituent, click Find Constituent. Tip: If the Linked Constituent box does not have an indicator or if Auto-matched appears above the box, the Find Constituent button appears. If Linked appears above the box, the Edit Profile button appears. A NetCommunity Transaction screen appears.
363 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 357 a. If the user entered information in the applicable section on the donation form, the Biographical, Preferred Address, and Primary Business tabs appear. On these tabs, mark any fields in the Search Field column in which you want to process a Raiser s Edge search. The fields that default with a checkbox in the Search Field column are the fields selected in the Constituent Matching option. Note: We recommend you use only the most useful criteria fields to search for a record. Adding too many criteria information may actually prevent you from locating a record. To unmark all fields at once, click Clear Search Criteria. b. To include inactive Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display inactive constituents. c. To include deceased Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display deceased constituents. d. To search by exact criteria, mark Exact match only. For example, you search for Will Adamson s record. If you mark the checkbox and search for William Adamson, the program does not return his record because the search looks for an exact match for Will Adamson. If you unmark the checkbox, the program initiates a begins with search which returns the record. We recommend using this checkbox to narrow a large list of results. e. To begin the search, click Find Now. Results appear in the grid at the bottom of the screen. Results in this grid cannot exceed 100 records. Records with Has no valid address marked in The Raiser s Edge are included in the search results.
364 358. CHAPTER 8 f. If a a record matches, select the row and click Link Constituent, Choose Selected Constituent. Note: If you changed any data the user entered in the New Value column, a message appears notifying you the download transaction has changed. To add the changed data to The Raiser s Edge, click Yes. If you do not want to add the data to The Raiser s Edge, click No. If an existing record does not match the donor, click Link Constituent, Create New Constituent. For information about creating new constituents, see the next step. 5. To create a new record in The Raiser s Edge, click Create New, Create Constituent in the Constituent Linking frame. Linked appears above the Linked Constituent box. A record has been created in The Raiser s Edge for the user. a. To edit data the website user entered, click Create New, Create New and Edit. A screen appears to compare existing Raiser s Edge data with the donor information. If the user entered information in the applicable section of the donation form, the Biographical, Preferred Address, and Primary Business tabs appear. You can process each tab individually or all at one time. b. For each field to update on the Raiser s Edge record, mark Process. If you unmark Process for a field, the data does not download to The Raiser s Edge.
365 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 359 c. Information provided by the user during the donation appears in the New Value column. To edit data a user entered, make changes in the appropriate row in this column. Tip: New table entries appear in bold. If you have appropriate rights, you can create a new Raiser s Edge table entry from this screen, or you can click in the row of the New Value column to select an existing table entry. To keep data consistent, it is important to try to use existing table entries. d. Select the remaining applicable transaction options for the tab. Once you are done, click Save and Close. The screen closes and you return to the Constituent Linking frame. Linked appears above the Linked Constituent box. 6. In the Transaction Constituent Code frame, the constituent code selected on the Donation Form part defaults in the field. You can change or remove the constituent code for the transaction in this field. If you select the same constituent code in the New Constituents option, the constituent code does not duplicate on the Bio 2 tab in the constituent record. If the constituent codes are different, both codes download to the new constituent record. For more information about the New Constituents option, see New Constituents on page 331. For more information about selecting constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page 26.
366 360. CHAPTER 8 7. In the Organization Linking frame, in the Transaction Data box, view organization information for a corporate gift. Note: The Organization Linking frame appears only if the donation is a corporate gift. a. To search for an existing Raiser s Edge organization record, click Find Organization. b. To create a new organization record in The Raiser s Edge, click Create New. An Auto-matched indicator appears above the Linked Organization box. A record has been created in The Raiser s Edge for the organization. c. To link the new record, click Open Linked. The organization record appears in The Raiser s Edge. On the Raiser s Edge toolbar, click Save and Close. You return to the Organization Linking frame. Linked appears above the Linked Organization box. 8. In the Tribute Linking frame, in the Transaction Data box, view tribute information if the donation was made in honor or memory of another person.
367 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 361 Note: The Tribute Linking frame must meet several conditions to appear. Your organization must use The Raiser s Edge Honor/Memorial Tracking and you must select to include tributes on the Donation Form part. Lastly, the website user must submit tribute information on your site for the frame to appear. a. To search for an existing Raiser s Edge tribute, click Find Tribute. The Link Tribute Information screen appears. The Tribute Information from Transaction, Linked Tribute Information, and Acknowledgee data defaults from the website. b. In the Honor/Memorial field, click the binoculars to search for an existing Raiser s Edge honor/memorial record. c. In the Tribute field, select a tribute type from The Raiser s Edge. d. In the Acknowledgee box, to link the acknowledgee to a Raiser s Edge relationship record, press F7. A screen appears for you to link to an existing record in The Raiser s Edge. If the acknowledgee does not have an existing record, return to the Link Tribute Information screen. When you click OK on this screen, a new relationship record is created for the acknowledgee. After you link the acknowledgee to a Raiser s Edge record, acknowledgee information appears in the Linked Record box. e. To return to the Tribute Linking frame, click OK. Tribute data from The Raiser s Edge appears in the Linked Tribute box. Linked appears above the box.
368 362. CHAPTER 8 f. To create a new tribute record in The Raiser s Edge, click Create New Tribute. Linked appears above the Linked Tribute box. A record has been created in The Raiser s Edge for the tribute. 9. In the Fund Linking frame, in the Transaction Data box, view the fund information for the donation. If there is a match for the fund the user entered on your website, a link is established to the Raiser s Edge fund in the Linked Funds box.
369 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 363 If the Transaction Data column lists multiple funds, the donor made a split gift. To view split gift details, click Find Funds. A Gift Fund Details screen appears with Fund, Description, and Amount information. a. If the fund is not matched, click Find Funds to search for an existing Raiser s Edge fund. The Gift Fund Details screen appears. b. In the Fund column, press F7 on your keyboard. The Open screen appears. c. Search for the fund to link to the transaction. If the fund does not exist, click Add New to create a new fund record in The Raiser s Edge. d. To return to the Fund Linking frame, click OK. Fund data from The Raiser s Edge appears in the Linked Funds box and a Linked indicator appears above the box. 10. If the donation is a direct debit transaction, the Bank Linking frame appears. In the Transaction Data box, view the bank information for the donation. If there is a match for the bank the donor entered, a link is established to the Raiser s Edge bank in the Linked Bank box and a Linked indicator appears above the box. Tip: Bank information downloads to the Relationship tab on the constituent record. a. If the bank is not matched, click Find Bank to search for an existing Raiser s Edge bank. The search screen appears. b. Search for the bank to link to the direct debit. If the bank does not exist, click Add New to create a new bank in The Raiser s Edge.
370 364. CHAPTER 8 c. To return to the Bank Linking frame, click OK. Bank data from The Raiser s Edge appears in the Linked Bank box. Linked appears above the box. 11. In the Matching Gift Linking frame, in the Transaction Data box, view matching gift information for the donation. The program attempts to link the matching gift company name with an existing Raiser s Edge organization record. Due to potential data entry inconsistencies, make sure the correct company is in the Transaction Data box.
371 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 365 a. Depending on how you add matching gifts to The Raiser s Edge, do one of the following to process the matching gift data from the website. If the user did not enter a company, and if you are aware the user works for one, select a matching gift company. Click Manage Matching Gifts. On the Matching Gift Pledges screen, click Add. If the company does not have an organization record in your Raiser s Edge database, create one. If the donor entered a company name but you do not use MatchFinder Online, search to see if the company has a record in The Raiser s Edge. Click Manage Matching Gifts. The Matching Gift Pledges screen appears. To select a Matching Gift Company from your Raiser s Edge database, click the ellipsis. If the company does not have an organization record in your database, create one.
372 366. CHAPTER 8 Enter the Pledge amount. After the organization is associated with a Raiser s Edge record, the Add this company as an organization relationship for checkbox enables. Mark this to add the company as a relationship record for the donor. To include additional matching gifts, in the Additional Matching Gift Pledges frame, click Add. If a donor enters a company and you use MatchFinder Online, check if the company has a record in The Raiser s Edge. Click Manage Matching Gifts. The Matching Gift Pledges screen appears with additional features. To select the Matching Gift Company from your Raiser s Edge database, click the ellipsis. If the company does not have an organization record in your database, create one. To access MatchFinder Online and review the company s matching information, click Lookup. Enter the Pledge amount. After the organization is
373 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 367 associated with a Raiser s Edge record, you can select to Update this company with details from MatchFinder Online. To add the company as a relationship record for the donor in The Raiser s Edge, mark Add this company as an organization relationship for. To view the company s matching details from MatchFinder Online, click Details. To include additional matching gifts, in the Additional Matching Gift Pledges frame, click Add. b. To return to the Matching Gift Linking frame, click OK. Linked appears above the Linked Matching Gifts box. If you created a new record, an organization record has been created in The Raiser s Edge for the matching gift. For more information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see the The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide. 12. To view gift attribute information, select the Transaction Information tab. In the Gift Attributes frame, view attributes. For information about processing attributes, see Process attributes on page 354.
374 368. CHAPTER 8 Tip: If this tab does not appear, the user did not select attributes on the donation page. When you download a gift to The Raiser s Edge from Blackbaud NetCommunity, some gift attributes may add automatically to the gift record. These attributes include NetCommunity Comments, NetCommunity Corporate Donation Contact, NetCommunity Source, NetCommunity Source ID, NetCommunity Page, and NetCommunity Page ID. You do not view these gift attributes on the Transaction Information tab. Once the gift is downloaded to The Raiser s Edge, you can view the information on the gift record. 13. To view origin information for the donation, select the Details tab. In the NetCommunity Details frame, information appears such as the NetCommunity User and the NetCommunity Page from which the transaction was made on the website. In the Transaction Details frame, information appears such as The Raiser s Edge user that downloaded the transaction to the NetCommunity page and The Raiser s Edge user currently using the transaction. 14. To download the donation, click Process Transaction. To save your information but not process the transaction, click Process Transaction, Save Changes. You can process the transaction at another time. The message Batch # [ ] was created. Do you want to open the batch now? appears. Note: The batch number is determined by the selection from the Tools, Transaction Options menu. In Transaction Options, you can select to create a new batch or use an existing batch for donations. For more information, see Assign a batch for transactions on page To view the gift in batch, click Yes. The batch screen appears. After you view the gift, to close the batch, click Close. You must commit a batch to process gifts to The Raiser s Edge records. For more information, see the The Raiser s Edge Batch Guide. If you do not want to view the gift in the batch, click No.
375 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE You return to the Donations Transactions screen. To confirm the donation was included in the correct batch, view the Current Batch Number indicator in the lower left corner on the Donations Transactions screen. 17. Repeat this procedure to process other individual transactions on the Donations Transactions screen. Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 18. You can delete a donation you do not want to process. To delete a transaction, select the row and click Delete Transaction. A message appears asking if you want to delete it. Click Yes. Download donations - bulk process When you use bulk process, you select to download all donors as new records in The Raiser s Edge and process every donation at once. If you select to process everything at once, you may need to clean up data in The Raiser s Edge after processing completes. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Donations. The Donations Transactions screen appears. Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 2. To process every transaction on the screen, mark Select All. When you mark this, a checkbox appears for every row. Unmark the checkbox next to any names you do not want to process to The Raiser s Edge.
376 370. CHAPTER 8 To delete donations you do not want to process, mark the box beside the rows you do not want to process. Click Delete Selected. A message appears asking if you are sure you want to delete the donations. Click Yes. 3. Click Bulk Processing. The Process Online Donations screen appears. 4. On the Processing tab, review bulk properties such as Transactions Selected and Successfully Checked Out. 5. On the Options tab, you select options for Batch Number, Unlinked Records, and Transaction Profile Data in the bulk process. a. In the Batch Number frame, select how to process the bulk donations to Raiser s Edge Batch. To create a new batch that uses the next available batch number in The Raiser s Edge, select Use the next available batch number. Note: These batch options also appear from the Tools, Transaction Options menu. For more information, see Assign a batch for transactions on page 353. To download the gifts to an existing batch in The Raiser s Edge, select Add records to an existing batch. Click the binoculars to select the existing batch. If the batch includes a default set, the values apply to the gifts you include in the existing batch. You cannot select an existing batch that has already been committed. To load a default set of values from an existing batch for a new batch, select Load fields and default values from an existing batch. In the field below, click the binoculars to select the existing batch from which to load the default set. Because you are selecting a default set for a new batch, you can select from a previously committed batch. b. In the Unlinked Records frame, to attempt constituent matching based on the options in Constituent Matching, mark Attempt auto-match to an existing record. For more information, see Constituent Matching on page 333. c. To create a new Raiser s Edge record for the donor, mark Create new Raiser s Edge record automatically. d. To ignore Raiser s Edge required fields, mark Bypass required fields. For more information, see Required Fields in The Raiser s Edge on page 336. e. In the Transaction Profile Data frame, select if you want to Accept Profile Information or Reject Profile Information from the donor. If you accept the profile information, the data defaults to the constituent record in The Raiser s Edge. 6. When you finish, on the Process tab, click Process Now. Bulk processing begins. 7. When the process completes, the message Batch # [ ] was created. Do you want to open the batch now? appears. 8. Click Yes. The batch screen appears. 9. On the toolbar, click Commit. The Commit Gift Batch screen appears. 10. Click Commit Now. A summary screen appears. 11. To close the batch, click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, and gift information is updated in The Raiser s Edge. For more information about the Commit Gift Batch screen, see The Raiser s Edge Batch Guide. 12. Click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge.
377 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 371 Volunteer Requests Volunteer Requests downloads information from the Volunteer Opportunity part on your website to The Raiser s Edge. Volunteer transaction data downloads to the Volunteer tab on a constituent record (if you use The Raiser s Edge Volunteer Management). Before you process volunteer registrations, you should select options in NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329. Specifically, you can apply Transaction Assignments on page 334 to volunteer registrations. Review that section before proceeding with this section. There are two main ways to process Volunteer Requests single and bulk. We do not recommend combining steps between these two processes. For example, do not use the Process Transaction button on the action bar if you are going to download transactions using the bulk process. Read this section entirely to learn about the information available for both processes. Single You can select each row individually to match the user with an existing Raiser s Edge record or add the user as a new record in the database. Bulk You can select all users and process every transaction at once. If you select to process all transactions at once, you may need to clean up data in The Raiser s Edge after processing completes. Download volunteers single transaction process When you use the single transaction process, you select each row individually to process volunteer registrations to The Raiser s Edge. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Volunteer Requests. The Volunteer Requests Transactions screen appears. 2. On the Volunteer Requests Transactions tab, select the row to process by clicking in the Volunteer Information column. Volunteer tabs appear on the right. Tip: This tab is called Assigned Volunteer Requests Transactions when transaction assignments are enabled. If transaction assignments do not apply to a transaction, an Unassigned tab appears. Follow the same steps in this procedure to process transactions on that tab. For information about transaction assignments, see Transaction Assignments on page 334. The Transaction Date/Status column on the Volunteer Requests Transactions tab defaults the date the user submitted the request on your website. The checked out status also appears in the column. When a Raiser s Edge user is processing the transaction, Checked out by and Checked out on information displays. If a Raiser s Edge user is not processing the transaction, Not Checked Out displays.
378 372. CHAPTER 8 3. On the Volunteer Information tab, review, edit (in the Transaction Value column), and process the volunteer data on the General tab. If the user submitted applicable information on the volunteer page, the Courses and Training, Special Needs, Job Assignments, and Checklist tabs also appear. For information about including these tabs on the volunteer form on your website, see Volunteer Opportunity on page 115. For information about volunteers in The Raiser s Edge, see The Raiser s Edge Volunteer Management Guide. 4. In the Volunteer Type field, the volunteer type selected on the part defaults in the field. You can change or remove the type for the transaction in this field. 5. In the Constituent Code field, the constituent code selected on the part defaults in the field. You can change or remove the constituent code for the transaction in this field. For more information about selecting constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page 26.
379 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE To view a summary of the job request, click the Requested Job Information tab. Information on this tab includes information such as the Name, Category, and Description of the job request. 7. To view origin information for the volunteer, select the Details tab. In the NetCommunity Details frame, information appears such as the NetCommunity User and the NetCommunity Page from which the transaction was made on the website. In the Transaction Details frame, information appears such as The Raiser s Edge user that downloaded the transaction to the NetCommunity page and The Raiser s Edge user currently using the transaction. 8. To process the selected volunteer registrations, click Process Transaction on the action bar. To partially process a transaction, click Process Transaction, Apply Selected Updates. A partially processed transaction includes the changes for which you have marked Process. If another registration for the volunteer downloads to Volunteer Requests, data can be overwritten by the second registration. 9. Repeat this procedure to individually process the remaining volunteer requests on this screen.
380 374. CHAPTER 8 Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 10. When you finish, click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Download volunteer requests bulk process When you use bulk process, you select to process every volunteer registration at once. If you select to process everything at once, you need to clean up data in The Raiser s Edge after processing completes. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Volunteer Requests. The Volunteer Requests Transactions screen appears. Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 2. To process every transaction on the screen, mark Select All. When you mark this, every row appears with a checkbox. Unmark the checkbox next to any names you do not want to process to The Raiser s Edge. 3. Click Bulk Processing. The Process Online Volunteer Requests screen appears. 4. On the Processing tab, review bulk properties such as Transactions Selected and Successfully Checked Out. 5. When you finish, click Process Now. Bulk processing begins. 6. When the process is complete, click Close on the Process Online Volunteer Requests screen. You return to the Volunteer Requests Transactions screen. 7. Click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Event Registrations Before you process event registrations, you should select options in NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329. Specifically, you can apply Transaction Assignments on page 334 to event registrations. Review that section before proceeding with this section. When a constituent, member, or alumnus(a) registers for an event on the website you download the information from Blackbaud NetCommunity to The Raiser s Edge. A transaction for The Raiser s Edge updates event and participant records. Event registrations with a gift, such as an event fee, create a batch in The Raiser s Edge. You can select to create a new batch or use an existing batch to process gifts. For more information, see Assign a batch for transactions on page 353. There are two main ways to process Event Registrations single and bulk. We do not recommend combining steps between these two processes. For example, do not use the Process Transaction button on the action bar if you are going to download transactions using the bulk process. Read this section entirely to learn about the information available for both processes. Single You can select each row individually to match the registrant with an existing Raiser s Edge record or add the registrant as a new record in the database. Bulk You can select all registrants and process every transaction at once. If you select to process all registrants at once, you may need to clean up data in The Raiser s Edge after processing completes.
381 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 375 When you process transactions, you must make decisions beyond using the single or bulk process. For example, you may want to create a batch in The Raiser s Edge to specifically use for event registration donations from Blackbaud NetCommunity. Or, you may want to create the batch in the Event Registrations transaction. Review the following diagram for an example of one way to process event registration donations. Before you begin regularly processing transactions, a best practice decision should be made for your organization. Download event registrations - single transaction process When you use the single transaction process, you select each row individually to match the registrant with an existing Raiser s Edge record or add the registrant as a new record in the database. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Event Registrations. The Event Registrations Transactions screen appears. Note: Event Registration transactions create a gift batch in The Raiser s Edge. From Tools, Transaction Options, you can select batch options before you process a registration. The batch screen does not appear until you process the registration. For more information, see Step 10 in this procedure and Assign a batch for transactions on page On the Event Registrations Transactions tab, select the row to process by clicking in the Donor Information column. The Constituent Linking frame appears on the right and defaults to the Record Linking tab.
382 376. CHAPTER 8 Tip: This tab is called Assigned Event Registrations Transactions when transaction assignments are enabled. If transaction assignments do not apply to a transaction, an Unassigned tab appears. Follow the same steps in this procedure to process transactions on that tab. For information about transaction assignments, see Transaction Assignments on page 334. The Gift Information column displays the donation amount, the gift date, fund, and source (or appeal). If you support multiple currency types, review the following. If a gift amount has been converted to your local currency, the converted amount displays in ( ) in the Gift Information column. Exchange rates are established in Raiser s Edge Configuration. For more information, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide. To map currency types for Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Currency Configuration on page 330. Blackbaud NetCommunity Administration, add an IATS merchant account for each currency type. For more information about merchant accounts, see Merchant Accounts on page 229. The Transaction Date/Status column on the Event Registrations Transactions tab defaults the date the user submitted the donation on your website. The checked out status also appears in the column. When a Raiser s Edge user is processing the transaction, Checked out by and Checked out on information displays. If a Raiser s Edge user is not processing the transaction, Not Checked Out displays. 3. In the Constituent Linking frame on the right, data from Blackbaud NetCommunity appears in the Transaction Data box. If your Constituent Matching options match a Raiser s Edge record, Raiser s Edge data appears in the Linked Constituent box and the Auto-matched indicator appears. To open the Raiser s Edge record for the user, click Open Constituent.
383 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 377 Tip: If duplicate records are found {Duplicates Found} appears in the RE Constituent column. The search method is based on the settings in the Constituent Matching option. For more information, see Constituent Matching on page 333. If you are sure the website user is the matched Raiser s Edge constituent and do not need to change the transaction, proceed to Transaction Constituent Code step. If the records in the Constituent Linking frame match and you want to review or make changes to the transaction, click Find Constituent above the Transaction Data box. A screen appears to view additional data the user submitted on your site. If the Linked Constituent box is blank, you must link the website user with an existing Raiser s Edge record or create a new record for the user. 4. To search for an existing Raiser s Edge constituent, click Find Constituent. Tip: If the Linked Constituent box does not have an indicator or if Auto-matched appears above the box, the Find Constituent button appears. If Linked appears above the box, the Edit Profile button appears. A NetCommunity Transaction screen appears. a. If the user entered information in the applicable section on the event registration form, the Biographical, Preferred Address, and Primary Business tabs appear. On these tabs, mark any fields in the Search Field column in which you want to process a Raiser s Edge search. The fields that default with a checkbox in the Search Field column are the fields selected in the Constituent Matching option.
384 378. CHAPTER 8 Note: We recommend you use only the most useful criteria fields to search for a record. Adding too many criteria information may actually prevent you from locating a record. To unmark all fields at once, click Clear Search Criteria. b. To include inactive Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display inactive constituents. c. To include deceased Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display deceased constituents. d. To search by exact criteria, mark Exact match only. For example, you search for Will Adamson s record. If you mark the checkbox and search for William Adamson, the program does not return his record because the search looks for an exact match for Will Adamson. If you unmark the checkbox, the program initiates a begins with search which returns the record. We recommend using this checkbox to narrow a large list of results. e. To begin the search, click Find Now. Results appear in the grid at the bottom of the screen. Results in this grid cannot exceed 100 records. Records with Has no valid address marked in The Raiser s Edge are included in the search results.
385 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 379 f. If a a record matches, select the row and click Link Constituent, Choose Selected Constituent. Note: If you changed any data the user entered in the New Value column, a message appears notifying you the download transaction has changed. To add the changed data to The Raiser s Edge, click Yes. If you do not want to add the data to The Raiser s Edge, click No. If an existing record does not match the donor, click Link Constituent, Create New Constituent. For information about creating new constituents, see the next step. 5. To create a new record in The Raiser s Edge, click Create New, Create Constituent in the Constituent Linking frame. Linked appears above the Linked Constituent box. A record has been created in The Raiser s Edge for the user. a. To edit data the website user entered, click Create New, Create New and Edit. A screen appears to compare existing Raiser s Edge data with the donor information. If the user entered information in the applicable section of the event registration form, the Biographical, Preferred Address, and Primary Business tabs appear. You can process each tab individually or all at one time. b. For each field to update on the Raiser s Edge record, mark Process. If you unmark Process for a field, the data does not download to The Raiser s Edge.
386 380. CHAPTER 8 c. Information provided by the user during the donation appears in the New Value column. To edit data a user entered, make changes in the appropriate row in this column. Tip: New table entries appear in bold. If you have appropriate rights, you can create a new Raiser s Edge table entry from this screen, or you can click in the row of the New Value column to select an existing table entry. To keep data consistent, it is important to try to use existing table entries. d. Select the remaining applicable transaction options for the tab. Once you are done, click Save and Close. The screen closes and you return to the Constituent Linking frame. Linked appears above the Linked Constituent box. 6. In the Transaction Constituent Code frame, the constituent code selected on the part defaults in the field. You can change or remove the constituent code for the transaction in this field. If you select the same constituent code in the New Constituents option, the constituent code does not duplicate on the Bio 2 tab in the constituent record. If the constituent codes are different, both codes download to the new constituent record. For more information about the New Constituents option, see New Constituents on page 331. For more information about selecting constituent codes in Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Constituent Codes on page 26.
387 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE In the Matching Gift Linking frame, in the Transaction Data box, view matching gift information for the donation. The program attempts to link the matching gift company name with an existing Raiser s Edge organization record. Due to potential data entry inconsistencies, make sure the correct company is in the Transaction Data box. a. Depending on how you add matching gifts to The Raiser s Edge, do one of the following to process the matching gift data from the website. If the user did not enter a company, and if you are aware the user works for one, select a matching gift company. Click Manage Matching Gifts. On the Matching Gift Pledges screen, click Add.
388 382. CHAPTER 8 If the company does not have an organization record in your Raiser s Edge database, create one. If the donor entered a company name but you do not use MatchFinder Online, search to see if the company has a record in The Raiser s Edge. Click Manage Matching Gifts. The Matching Gift Pledges screen appears. To select a Matching Gift Company from your Raiser s Edge database, click the ellipsis. If the company does not have an organization record in your database, create one. Enter the Pledge amount. After the organization is associated with a Raiser s Edge record, the Add this company as an organization relationship for checkbox enables. Mark this to add the company as a relationship record for the donor. To include additional matching gifts, in the Additional Matching Gift Pledges frame, click Add. If a donor enters a company and you use MatchFinder Online, check if the company has a record in The Raiser s Edge. Click Manage Matching Gifts. The Matching Gift Pledges screen appears with additional features. To select the Matching Gift Company from your Raiser s Edge database, click the ellipsis. If the company does not have an organization record in your database, create one. To access MatchFinder Online and review the company s matching information, click Lookup. Enter the Pledge amount. After the organization is
389 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 383 associated with a Raiser s Edge record, you can select to Update this company with details from MatchFinder Online. To add the company as a relationship record for the donor in The Raiser s Edge, mark Add this company as an organization relationship for. To view the company s matching details from MatchFinder Online, click Details. To include additional matching gifts, in the Additional Matching Gift Pledges frame, click Add. b. To return to the Matching Gift Linking frame, click OK. Linked appears above the Linked Matching Gifts box. If you created a new record, an organization record has been created in The Raiser s Edge for the matching gift. For more information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see the The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide.
390 384. CHAPTER 8 8. To view event attribute information, select the Transaction Information tab. In the Gift Attributes frame, view attributes. In the Participant Information frame, view the event for which the participant registered and participant attributes. For information about processing attributes, see Process attributes on page 354. When you download an event registration to The Raiser s Edge from Blackbaud NetCommunity, the Online registrant? participant attribute adds automatically to the participant record. You do not view this attribute on the Transaction Information tab. Once the event registration is downloaded to The Raiser s Edge, you can view the information on the participant record. Online registrant? appears in the Category column, Yes appears in the Description column, and NetCommunity appears in the Comments column.
391 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE To view origin information for the event registration, select the Details tab. In the NetCommunity Details frame, information appears such as the NetCommunity User and the NetCommunity Page from which the transaction was made on the website. In the Transaction Details frame, information appears such as The Raiser s Edge user that downloaded the transaction to the NetCommunity page and The Raiser s Edge user currently using the transaction. 10. To process the registration, click Process Transaction. To save your information but not process the transaction, click Process Transaction, Save Changes. You can process the transaction at another time. The message Batch # [ ] was created. Do you want to open the batch now? appears. Note: The batch number is determined by the selection from the Tools, Transaction Options menu. In Transaction Options, you can select to create a new batch or use an existing batch for donations. For more information, see Assign a batch for transactions on page To view the gift in batch, click Yes. The batch screen appears. After you view the gift, to close the batch, click Close. You must commit a batch to process gifts to The Raiser s Edge records. For information, see the The Raiser s Edge Batch Guide. If you do not want to view the gift in the batch, click No.
392 386. CHAPTER You return to the Event Registrations Transactions screen. To confirm the gift was included in the correct batch, view the Current Batch Number indicator in the lower left corner on the Event Registrations Transactions screen. 13. Repeat this procedure to process other individual transactions on the Event Registrations Transactions screen. Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 14. You can delete a registration you do not want to process. To delete a registration, select the row and click Delete Transaction. A message appears asking if you want to delete it. Click Yes. Download event registrations - bulk process When you use bulk process, you select to download all registrants as new records in The Raiser s Edge and process every registration at once. If you select to process everything at once, you need to clean up data in The Raiser s Edge after processing completes. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Event Registrations. The Event Registrations Transactions screen appears. Tip: To make sure you have the latest information from the website, click Refresh. 2. To process every transaction on the screen, mark Select All. When you mark this, a checkbox appears for every row. Unmark the checkbox next to any names you do not want to process to The Raiser s Edge.
393 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 387 To delete registrations you do not want to process, mark the box beside the rows you do not want to process. Click Delete Selected. A message appears asking if you are sure you want to delete the registrations. Click Yes. 3. Click Bulk Processing. The Process Online Event Registrations screen appears. 4. On the Processing tab, review bulk properties such as Transactions Selected and Successfully Checked Out. 5. On the Options tab, you select options for Batch Number, Unlinked Records, and Transaction Profile Data in the bulk process. a. In the Batch Number frame, select how to process the bulk donations to Raiser s Edge Batch. To create a new batch that uses the next available batch number in The Raiser s Edge, select Use the next available batch number. Note: These batch options also appear from the Tools, Transaction Options menu. For more information, see Assign a batch for transactions on page 353. To download the gifts to an existing batch in The Raiser s Edge, select Add records to an existing batch. Click the binoculars to select the existing batch. If the batch includes a default set, the values apply to the gifts you include in the existing batch. You cannot select an existing batch that has already been committed. To load a default set of values from an existing batch for a new batch, select Load fields and default values from an existing batch. In the field below, click the binoculars to select the existing batch from which to load the default set. Because you are selecting a default set for a new batch, you can select from a previously committed batch. b. To create a query of participants in this bulk process, mark Create participant query. We recommend creating a query of processed transactions for your records. The query appears in The Raiser s Edge Query. c. In the Unlinked Records frame, to attempt constituent matching based on the options in Constituent Matching, mark Attempt auto-match to an existing record. For more information, see Constituent Matching on page 333. d. To create a new Raiser s Edge record for the donor, mark Create new Raiser s Edge record automatically. e. To ignore Raiser s Edge required fields, mark Bypass required fields. For more information, see Required Fields in The Raiser s Edge on page 336. f. In the Transaction Profile Data frame, select if you want to Accept Profile Information or Reject Profile Information from the donor. If you accept the profile information, the data defaults to the constituent record in The Raiser s Edge. 6. When you finish, on the Process tab, click Process Now. Bulk processing begins. 7. When the process completes, the message Batch # [ ] was created. Do you want to open the batch now? appears. Note: You can assign a batch number to the bulk process. For more information, see Assign a batch for transactions on page Click Yes. The batch screen appears.
394 388. CHAPTER 8 9. On the toolbar, click Commit. The Commit Gift Batch screen appears. 10. Click Commit Now. A summary screen appears. 11. To close the batch, click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Information is updated in The Raiser s Edge. For more information about the Commit Gift Batch screen, see The Raiser s Edge Batch Guide. 12. Click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Polls You can store responses to a poll on your website as an attribute on the Attributes tab of a constituent record in The Raiser s Edge. Download poll responses 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Polls. The Poll Updates screen appears. 2. In the Poll field, select the poll to process. In the Poll Summary frame, poll questions and response percentages appear. In the middle of the screen, a line states This poll is associated with the following attribute:. If this is the first time you are downloading this poll s responses, you must create a new attribute for it in The Raiser s Edge and link it. You cannot select an existing attribute. Once the poll results have been downloaded and an attribute defined, the next time you download poll results, the associated attribute appears in this line and you cannot make changes. For example, it may say Survey. Once this download process is complete, you can find a constituent s response to this particular poll by looking for the Category of Survey on the Attributes tab of the constituent record. 3. At the bottom of the screen, check the Poll Details frame. a. If there are no new responses for the selected poll, it says No new response. You can either proceed to the last step in this procedure or select another poll in the Poll field to check results. b. If there is a new response to the selected poll, it says so in the Poll Details frame. To process the response, click Process. A message appears telling you the number of new responses processed. 4. Click OK. You return to the Poll Updates screen. 5. Click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. The poll response appears on the Attributes tab of the respondent s constituent record. Class Notes Alumni add notes to their class notes page on your website to keep in touch with one another and update classmates on their lives. When alumni add information to a class notes page and it is approved, you are notified in Class Notes on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. You can download this information to a notepad in The Raiser s Edge. For example, an alumnus mentions in his class notes he got a new dog. If you store class note updates, you create a note on the Notes tab of his constituent record. Keeping track of constituent class notes is another way to know your donors better. Before downloading class notes, you should select download options for class notes in Class Note Processing on page 331. Review that section before proceeding with this procedure.
395 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 389 Download class note updates If you mark the Require Approval checkbox when creating the Class Notes part, users with edit rights must approve class notes on the web page before they can be viewed or downloaded. 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Class Notes. The Class Notes screen appears. 2. Review the processing information. For example, if you have a new class note, 1 class note update(s) processed appears. Because class notes are approved in Blackbaud NetCommunity, class note information downloads to The Raiser s Edge automatically. No further action is required to download the class note. Class notes are stored on the Notes tab of a constituent record. Advocacy Actions Before you process advocacy transactions, you should select options in NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329. Specifically, you can apply Transaction Assignments on page 334 to advocacy transactions. Review that section before proceeding with this section. With Blackbaud NetAdvocacy, you can download advocacy action data to The Raiser s Edge. This data includes alerts, information, and attributes (if there is a source ). The number of actions that process to The Raiser s Edge constituent record equals the number of recipients. For example, if John Smith sends an advocacy to Senator James Mahan and Senator Marianne Jones, two action records are added to John Smith s constituent record. These action records in The Raiser s Edge contain the Message ID number and Delivery method created when a user sends an advocacy alert. Examples of a delivery method includes mail, , or fax. Both direct action alert and tell-a-friend download to The Raiser s Edge. For information about advocacy data field mapping, see Advocacy Actions Field Mapping on page 391. Download advocacies 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Advocacy Actions. The Advocacy Actions screen appears. 2. Names appear in a grid with the checkbox marked in the Process Now column. Unmark the checkbox next to any names you do not want to process in The Raiser s Edge. 3. The RE Constituent column lists Raiser s Edge constituent information. The Advocate information column includes information from the website. If the advocate was logged into the website when the advocacy was submitted, his constituent record information appears in the RE Constituent column. If information does not appear, you must manually link the data in the Advocate information column to the data in the RE Constituent column by finding the existing constituent record in The Raiser s Edge or creating a new record for a new constituent. Tip: If duplicate records are found {Duplicates Found} appears in the RE Constituent column. The search method is based on the settings in the Constituent Matching option. For more information, see Constituent Matching on page If there is no constituent information in the RE Constituent column, press F7 on your keyboard in the RE Constituent column. A transaction screen appears. a. If the user entered the applicable section on the membership form, the Biographical and Preferred Address tabs appear. On these tabs, mark any fields in the Search Field column in which you want to process a Raiser s Edge search.
396 390. CHAPTER 8 The fields that default with a checkbox in the Search Field column are the fields selected in the Constituent Matching option. Note: We recommend you use only the most useful criteria fields to search for a record. Adding too many criteria information may actually prevent you from locating a record. To unmark all fields at once, click Clear Search Criteria. b. To include inactive Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display inactive constituents. c. To include deceased Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display deceased constituents. d. To search by exact criteria, mark Exact match only. For example, you search for Will Adamson s record. If you mark the checkbox and search for William Adamson, the program does not return his record because the search looks for an exact match for Will Adamson. If you unmark the checkbox, the program initiates a begins with search which returns the record. We recommend using this checkbox to narrow a large list of results. e. To begin the search, click Find Now. Results appear in the grid at the bottom of the screen. Results in this grid cannot exceed 100 records. Records with Has no valid address marked in The Raiser s Edge are included in the search results. f. If a record matches, select the row and click Link Constituent, Choose Selected Constituent. Note: If you changed any data the user entered in the New Value column, a message appears notifying you the download transaction has changed. To add the changed data to The Raiser s Edge, click Yes. If you do not want to add the data to The Raiser s Edge, click No. g. If an existing record does not match the advocate, click Link Constituent, Create New Constituent. h. For each field you want to update on the Raiser s Edge record, mark Process. If you unmark Process for a field, the data does not process to The Raiser s Edge. i. Information provided by the user during the advocacy action appears in the New Value column. To edit data a user entered, make changes in the appropriate row in this column. Tip: New table entries appear in bold. If you have appropriate rights, you can create a new Raiser s Edge table entry from this screen, or you can click in the row of the New Value column to select an existing table entry. To keep data consistent, it is important to try to use existing table entries. j. Select the remaining applicable transaction options for the tab. Once you are done, click Save and Close. The screen closes and you return to the RE Constituent column. 5. In the Action taken column, review the details of the sent by the website user. The column contains information about the such as the alert title, date, and subject. 6. In the Recipients column, you can view the name and number of recipients. For example, you may view your state senator s name or town council member names in this column. Blackbaud NetAdvocacy recipient names are stored in the action record Recipient Name field.
397 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE Next, you can assign an issue to the advocate using the Issue column on the Advocacy Transactions screen. In the Issue column, click the drop-down arrow and select the issue associated with the advocate. Options available in the Issue column depend on information entered in the Issue table in The Raiser s Edge. The options are also tied to the alert ID in Capwiz, so when an issue is selected, all records with the same alert ID are automatically associated with the same issue. However, you can manually change any issue. For more information about the Issue table, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide. 8. To create an action query of the processed action transactions, mark the Create a query of action records added checkbox. We recommend creating a query of processed transactions for your records. The query appears in The Raiser s Edge Query. 9. Click OK. 10. Click Close. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. Advocacy Actions Field Mapping Review the following table for information about advocacy data in The Raiser s Edge action records. This table applies to action records created after processing advocacy data from Capwiz and Blackbaud NetCommunity to The Raiser s Edge. Capwiz data Advocacy date Advocacy time Alert title Issue Action type Name Message ID Message title Message ID subject Action record field Action date Start time Alert title Issue Delivery method Recipient name Message ID Not stored in The Raiser s Edge Not stored in The Raiser s Edge NetCommunity Source ID action attribute (if there is a source ) NetCommunity Source action attribute (if there is a source and if the has a subject) Memberships Before you process membership transactions, you should select options in NetCommunity Options in The Raiser s Edge on page 329. Specifically, you can apply Transaction Assignments on page 334 to membership transactions. Review that section before proceeding with this section. If you include the Membership form on your website and allow members to join and renew their memberships online, you must process the online transactions on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. When you process membership transactions, a gift batch is created in The Raiser s Edge, and a membership record is created or updated. You can manually override Raiser s Edge transactions and you must manually link any unresolved donors and gift of membership recipients to Raiser s Edge records. If a membership category is deleted before the batch is created, you can select a new category during the download/update database process.
398 392. CHAPTER 8 Warning: Membership transactions require more interaction and thought than other transactions. You may need to think about certain transactions and manually make adjustments to the membership record during the download process, according to your organization s policies. Download memberships 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Memberships. The Process Membership Transaction screen appears. 2. Names appear in a grid with the checkbox marked in the Process Now column. Unmark the checkbox next to any names you do not want to process in The Raiser s Edge. 3. The RE Constituent column lists Raiser s Edge constituent information. The Donor information column includes information from the website. If the member was logged into the website when the membership transaction was submitted, his constituent record information appears in the RE Constituent column. If information does not appear, you must manually link what is in the Donor information column to what is in the RE Constituent column by finding the existing constituent record in The Raiser s Edge or creating a new record for a new constituent. Tip: If duplicate records are found {Duplicates Found} appears in the RE Constituent column. The search method is based on the settings in the Constituent Matching option. For more information, see Constituent Matching on page If there is no constituent information in the RE Constituent column, press F7 on your keyboard in the RE Constituent column. A transaction screen appears. a. If the user entered the applicable section on the membership form, the Biographical and Preferred Address tabs appear. On these tabs, mark any fields in the Search Field column in which you want to process a Raiser s Edge search. The fields that default with a checkbox in the Search Field column are the fields selected in the Constituent Matching option. Note: We recommend you use only the most useful criteria fields to search for a record. Adding too many criteria information may actually prevent you from locating a record. To unmark all fields at once, click Clear Search Criteria. b. To include inactive Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display inactive constituents. c. To include deceased Raiser s Edge records in your search, mark Display deceased constituents. d. To search by exact criteria, mark Exact match only. For example, you search for Will Adamson s record. If you mark the checkbox and search for William Adamson, the program does not return his record because the search looks for an exact match for Will Adamson. If you unmark the checkbox, the program initiates a begins with search which returns the record. We recommend using this checkbox to narrow a large list of results. e. To begin the search, click Find Now. Results appear in the grid at the bottom of the screen. Results in this grid cannot exceed 100 records. Records with Has no valid address marked in The Raiser s Edge are included in the search results.
399 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 393 f. If a record matches, select the row and click Link Constituent, Choose Selected Constituent. Note: If you changed any data the user entered in the New Value column, a message appears notifying you the download transaction has changed. To add the changed data to The Raiser s Edge, click Yes. If you do not want to add the data to The Raiser s Edge, click No. g. If an existing record does not match the member, click Link Constituent, Create New Constituent. h. For each field you want to update on the Raiser s Edge record, mark Process. If you unmark Process for a field, the data does not process to The Raiser s Edge. i. Information provided by the user during the membership form appears in the New Value column. To edit data a user entered, make changes in the appropriate row in this column. Tip: New table entries appear in bold. If you have appropriate rights, you can create a new Raiser s Edge table entry from this screen, or you can click in the row of the New Value column to select an existing table entry. To keep data consistent, it is important to try to use existing table entries. j. Select the remaining applicable transaction options for the tab. Once you are done, click Save and Close. The screen closes and you return to the RE Constituent column. 5. The RE Membership Recipient column lists gift of membership information in The Raiser s Edge. You must manually link the individual in the Membership Recipient column to a new or existing constituent record in The Raiser s Edge. To do so, click in the RE Membership Recipient column and press F7. You link and create records for this column using the same steps explained in this procedure for the RE Constituent column. For more information, see step 4. Tip: To open a Raiser s Edge record for a membership recipient, click Open Recipient. Records can only open for the rows with a name in the RE Membership Recipient column. The Membership Recipient column shows gift of membership information entered by the user on your website. 6. The RE Membership column shows the membership transaction type that took place on the website. For example, join or renew. a. If the column is blank, you must manually link to information on the membership record. Even if information appears in the RE Membership column, you may still need to manually adjust information on the membership record. For example, Blackbaud NetCommunity has no way of knowing that a switch from one category to another is an upgrade or downgrade. You must manually select the appropriate membership transaction type. To do so, click in the RE Membership column and press F7. The Link Membership Information screen appears b. Make any necessary changes to the membership, according to your organization s policies for membership transactions. For example, select to add the transaction as a renewal or a new membership and click Yes.
400 394. CHAPTER 8 Think about the information in the Membership Request column and what it means to your organization. For example, a join in the Membership Request column may actually be a renewal. Blackbaud NetCommunity does not know that a member who clicks Join on the website already has a record in your Raiser s Edge database and would actually be considered a renewal by your organization. To view the membership record, click View Membership. In the bottom frame, expiration or lifetime membership information defaults from The Raiser s Edge, based on the membership category and business rules. c. Click OK. You return to the Membership Transactions screen. d. To return to the transaction screen, click Save and Close. 7. Review the information in the Gift column. This column displays the donation amount, the gift date and time, and fund. If you support multiple currency types, review the following information. If a gift amount has been converted to your local currency, the converted amount displays in ( ) in the Gift column. The Currency column displays the currency type of the donated gift. Exchange rates are established in Raiser s Edge Configuration. For more information, see The Raiser s Edge Configuration & Security Guide. To map currency types for Blackbaud NetCommunity, see Currency Configuration on page 330. In Blackbaud NetCommunity Administration, add an IATS merchant account for each currency type. For more information about merchant accounts, see Merchant Accounts on page In the Matching Gift column, press F7. The Matching Gift Pledges screen appears. If the donor did not enter a company in the Matching Gifts section on your website, the Matching Gift Pledges frame appears. You can select a matching gift company if you are aware the donor works for one. To do this, click Add. If the company does not have an organization record in your Raiser s Edge database, you must create one. If the donor entered a company name, but you do not use MatchFinder Online, the Add this matching pledge frame appears on the screen. Click the ellipsis button to select the Matching Gift Company from the Raiser s Edge database. If the company does not have an organization record in your database, you must create one. Enter the Pledge amount. After the organization is associated with a Raiser s Edge record, the Add this company as an organization relationship for checkbox enables. Mark this to add the company as a relationship record for the donor. To include additional matching gifts, click Add in the Additional Matching Gift Pledges frame. Note: Blackbaud NetCommunity attempts to link the matching gift company name with an existing Raiser s Edge organization record. Due to potential data entry inconsistencies, make sure the correct company is in the Matching Gift Company field. If a donor enters a company and you use MatchFinder Online, the Add this matching pledge frame appears on the screen with additional features. Click the ellipsis button to select the Matching Gift Company from the Raiser s Edge database. If the company does not have an organization record in your database, you must create one. To access MatchFinder Online and review the company s matching information, click Lookup. Enter the Pledge amount. After the organization is associated with a Raiser s Edge record, you can select to Update this company
401 T HE RAISER S EDGE NETCOMMUNITY PAGE. 395 with details from MatchFinder Online. You can also add the company as a relationship record for the donor in The Raiser s Edge by marking Add this company as an organization relationship for. To view the company s matching details from MatchFinder Online, click Details. To include additional matching gifts, click Add in the Additional Matching Gift Pledges frame. Tip: If the Details button is disabled, the donor did not use MatchFinder Online to select a matching company. You can enable the button by clicking Lookup to add a matching gift from MatchFinder Online. To close the Match Gift Pledges screen, click OK. You return to the transactions screen. For more information about matching gifts in The Raiser s Edge, see the The Raiser s Edge Gift Records Guide. 9. At the bottom of the screen, mark the Create query of memberships added or renewed checkbox. We recommend creating a query of processed membership transactions for your records. The query appears in The Raiser s Edge Query. 10. Click OK. A message appears telling you the donation batch is being created. When the batch is created, the membership transactions are created in the records. Even if the batch is never committed or is deleted, the membership transactions exist. The batch contains the gifts linked to the membership. You must commit the batch to process the gifts. 11. A message appears telling you the batch number and asks if you want to open the batch. To open the batch and view it now, click Yes. If you click No, you can view the batch later in The Raiser s Edge Batch. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge. For more information about the batch screen, see The Raiser s Edge Batch Guide. Surveys You can download survey responses from Blackbaud NetCommunity to The Raiser s Edge. Only responses from Raiser s Edge constituents who logged into the website are downloaded. The Surveys link appears on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge only if you have survey responses ready to download. You can create constituent queries in The Raiser s Edge to view or report on survey responses. For more information about creating surveys, see Survey on page 105. Download survey responses 1. From the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge, click Surveys. A message screen appears displaying the number of survey responses that downloaded. If you clicked Clear Responses on a Survey Part, an additional transaction appears in the transaction and is included in the total download count. When the download processes, prior responses to the cleared survey are deleted from constituent records. For more information about clearing responses, see Survey on page Click OK. You return to the NetCommunity page in The Raiser s Edge.
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403 I NDEX. 397 Index A acknowledgement create the default 36 acknowledgement report tab view after sending acknowledgement 41 action design page elements types 55 action bar 5 administration explained 1 field options 12 security 1 users 2 administrator, see Blackbaud NetCommunity User advocacy actions field mapping 63 download 61 set options 7 anonymous newsletter subscription 20 design 20 explained 12 anonymous user role 4 appeal create 47 create message 50 search for duplicate addresses 54 testing s 50 attributes donations 26 Authorize.net configure for merchant accounts 7 B BeanStream configure for merchant accounts 8 blacklisted accounts 44 bounce errors 44 buttons 5 C campaigns, 46 change user ID/password design 21 explained 12 learn about 20 chapter links design 5 explained 12 chapter management dashboard 6 design chapter manager part 8 explained 1 integration with The Raiser s Edge 17 manage home page features 6 pre-design 4 roles 3 chapter management roles anonymous user 4 content manager 3 data manager 3 explained 3 member 4 chapter manager design add chapter 14 add chapter site pages 8 edit chapter 15 editor 9 giving history editor 13 members 10 profile editor 12 search title 14 design part 8 explained 12 chapter page element explained 12 chapter page element parts, design 6 chapter site, manage home page features 6 class note processing 3 class notes download 61 explained 12 code tables 20 comments design page elements types 57 configuration 15 configuring servers and Web sites 15 constituent code field 26 constituent code field 26 constituents set options for matching 5 setting options 3 content manager 3 content manager role 3 copy template from existing template 8 create list 10 CSS menu design 51 currency configuration 3 current membership page, design 45
404 398. INDEX D dashboard team fundraising 52 data entry user 3 data manager role 3 design chapter links 5 chapter manager part 8 chapter page element parts 6 fundraiser dashboard 53 fundraiser page element parts 24 fundraiser part 28 fundraiser roles 23 personal page manager configure 16 donation form new community user options 6 pages for use as personal pages 8 personal page options 5 search page form options 9 design tab view for template 6 detail gift summary 53 directory design 22 design page elements types 58 explained 12 learn about 22 discussion group design 24 explained 13 learn about 24 manage 25 documents design 26 explained 13 learn about 26 donation form design 27 explained 13 learn about 27 personal page manager, design 10 donations download in bulk 41 download single transaction 26 gift batches in The Raiser s Edge 25 process attributes 26 donor list design page elements types 59 download class notes 61 donations in bulk 41 donations single transaction 26 education profile updates 17 event registrations in bulk 58 event registrations single transaction 47 fundraisers 24 memberships 64 personal pages 24 poll responses 60 sign-up requests in bulk 16 sign-up requests single transaction 10 survey responses 67 user profile updates 17 volunteer requests in bulk 46 volunteer requests single transaction 43 duplicate search in appeals 54 E edit user profiles 3 education profile updates download 17 element parts, chapter page 6 acknowledgement 35 activity 53 appeals appeal 46 bounce error 44 campaigns 46 exclusion list 49 explained 1 invalid accounts 44 newsletter 28 preferences form learn about 82 results report 51 search for duplicate addresses in appeals 54 seed list 48 targeted lists 47 testing appeals 50 activity report 32 calendar explained 13 forwarding form explained 13 preferences form design 82 report learn about 31 reports design 32 explained 13 revenue summary 31 event calendar design 33 design page elements types 60 learn about 32 event calendar group
405 I NDEX. 399 design 35 explained 13 learn about 35 event calendar highlights design 35 explained 14 learn about 35 event registration form design 36 explained 14 learn about 36 event registrations download in bulk 58 download single transaction 47 events code tables 20 exclusion list 49 export fields 1 F field options 12 filter list by 5 formatted text and images design 43 explained 14 learn about 42 formatted text and images (secured) explained 14 frame explained 14 fundraiser download 24 explained 14 integration 56 pre-design work 24 roles 23 fundraiser dashboard 52 design 53 explained 14 fundraiser page element explained 14 fundraiser page element parts, design 24 fundraiser reports design custom 56 design summary 55 explained 14 learn about 54 fundraising, team 21 G general procedures 5 giving history explained 15 guess pass page, design 48 H home page chapter management 6 HTML editor 6 hyperlink insert 25 I IATS configure for merchant accounts 9 image inserting 24 saving 10 update 11 uploading 10 Image Library explained 2, 10 import users 21 insert image 24 integrate with Raiser s Edge, The 1 integration fundraiser 56 integration tasks overview 2 invalid accounts 44 issue report tab view after sending newsletter 33 J job board design 44 explained 15 learn about 43 L layouts create 93 design 94 edit properties 94 explained 3 learn about 93 linked user options 5 linking pages 25 list create 10 list messages tab view for list 13 list templates tab view for list 13 lists
406 400. INDEX M excluding s 49 seed 48 targeted 47 Macromedia Flash File explained 15 manage home page features 6 manage personal pages 4 matching gifts setting options 4 member role 4 membership form explained 15 learn about 45 membership page, current design 45 memberships download 64 process transactions in Raiser s Edge, The 63 menu explained 15 learn about 50 menu part type definitions design 50 merchant accounts 7 configure for Authorize.net 7 configure for BeanStream 8 configure for IATS 9 configure for PayPal 9, 11 message report tab view after sending message 20 messages copy 25 create message 16 explained 15 view tabs 20 messages tab view for template 6 N navigation bar 4 navigation button design 52 explained 15 learn about 52 news design page elements types 61 news reader design 54 design page elements types 62 explained 15 learn about 54 newsletter create newsletter 28 explained 28 subscribing anonymously 20 notes personal 69 notifications create 55 delete 60 overview 54 view tabs 58 O online event registration 53 online/offline gift summary 53 options, parts 11 organizing pages 3 overall progress summary 53 P page elements types action 55 comments 57 directory 58 donor list 59 event calendar 60 news 61 news reader 62 overview 55 personal notes 63 photos 64 profile 66 rich text 67 team list 67 text 68 thermometer 69 page links design page elements types 63 page overview report 92 page rank report 92 page view summary 92 pages create 3 edit properties 4 edit web page design 5 explained 3 linking 25 Site Explorer 3 part type elements stylesheets 98 part types 12 participant role 23 parts create 18 edit 19
407 I NDEX. 401 explained 3 PayPal configure for merchant accounts 9, 11 personal notes design 69 design page elements types 63 explained 15 learn about 69 personal page element explained 15 personal page elements 3 personal page manager adding helplets 16 design configure new community user options 6 pages for use as personal pages 8 personal page options 5 search page form options 9 explained 16 homepage dashboard 4 learn about 1 managing personal pages 4 process overview 2 personal pages download 24 photos design page elements types 64 plug-in options advocacy 7 class note processing 3 constituent matching 5 currency configuration 3 linked user 5 matching gifts 4 new constituents 3 service URL 2 transaction assignments 6 poll explained 16 poll responses download 60 pre-design chapter management 4 team fundraising 24 privacy defaults, set 12 profile design page elements types 66 profile display design 72 explained 16 learn about 71 properties tab view for list 13 view for template 6 Q queries in searches 24 quick search part design 74 explained 16 learn about 73 R Raiser s Edge, The changes from chapter management 17 Raiser s Edge, The role 23 refresh roles 6 renew page, design 46 report results 51 report ( ) design 32 learn about 31 report (Fundraiser) design custom 56 design summary 55 learn about 54 report (web traffic) design 92 learn about 92 required fields for The Raiser s Edge 8 restore user profiles 5 rich text design page elements types 67 role anonymous user 4 chapter management 1, 3 content manager 3 create role-based security groups 6 explained 5 fundraiser 23 member 4 participant 23 Raiser s Edge, The 23 team fundraising 23 Web designer, for Blackbaud NetCommunity 24 role refresh 6 S save image 10 search part design 75 explained 16 learn about 74 search screen 24 searching 24 security 1
408 402. INDEX security groups 6 seed list 48 sent acknowledgements view tabs 41 sent messages view 20 sent newsletter view tabs 33 servers configuring 15 set field options 12 sign-up requests download in bulk 16 download single transaction 10 Site Explorer 3 explained 2 site usage report 92 slideshow design 76 explained 16 learn about 76 stylesheets create 96 design 97 edit properties 96 explained 3, 95 part type elements 98 subscribing anonymously to newsletters 20 survey design 78 explained 16 learn about 77 surveys download responses 67 system options 12 T targeted content design 79 explained 16 learn about 79 targeted lists 47 team fundraising configure 48 create designs 37 dashboards 52 design fundraiser part 28 donation form 41 explained 21 fundraiser options 30 integration 56 link to Blackbaud Enterprise fund and Administrator roles 28 matching gifts create links to events 46 pre-design 24 role participant 23 Raiser s Edge user 23 supporter 23 Web designer, for Blackbaud NetCommunity 24 roles 23 search page form options 38 select pages for use as participant and team pages 36 user login form 39 team list design page elements types 67 templates create 7 design 8, 2 edit properties 8 explained 2, 1 Site Explorer 3 view message 7 view properties 6 testing s 50 text design page elements types 68 thermometer design page elements types 69 toggle betwwen websites 5 toolbar 4 top s 53 top participants 53 top teams 53 transaction assignments 6 transaction page, design 48 U uploading images 10 user education profile form design 80 explained 17 learn about 80 user preferences form explained 17 user interests form explained 17 user login design 84 explained 17 learn about 84 user photos form explained 17 user profile form design 86 explained 18 learn about 86 user profile updates
409 I NDEX. 403 download 17 users 2 create user profiles 2 delete 2 development user 2 edit records 3 explained 1 import 21 restoring records 5 view user information 4 learn about 90 Website Overview 2 V view user information 4 view list tab view for list 13 visit summary 92 visitor summary 92 volunteer opportunity design 88 explained 18 learn about 87 volunteer requests download in bulk 46 download single transaction 43 W Web designer role 24 web page layouts create 93 design 94 edit properties 94 explained 3 learn about 93 web page templates 8 create 7 edit properties 8 Site Explorer 3 web pages create 3 edit designs 5 edit properties 4 explained 3 templates 2 web service URL 2 Web sites configuring 15 web traffic report design 92 explained 18 learn about 92 weblog design 90 explained 18
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