DIY TeamRaiser and RE Connector

Kim Mott 2

Hi All-


We recently started using a DIY TeamRaiser for grassroots type fundraising. It's set up so that people who are running events in the community can set up their own team page for their specific event. So, we have a general TeamRaiser with multiple teams that are actually for all different events. Does anyone know of a way for each of these event (team) pages to be coded in such a way so that they pull an appeal, fund, etc that is specified for their event through the RE connector. Right now we have it set up so that all of these events are pulling with the fund, appeal, etc. that is specified on the general TeamRaiser, but we'd like to get more specific. Is this possible?

Brian Mucha

Yes! This has been troubling us for years as well, and I finally (just a few weeks ago) put in a request to try and have the datasync/XRef system customized to deal with it.


Turns out that isn't possible, but the support developer I spoke with had a solution. I haven't started building this yet, but the concept is not too complicated. There's Javascript and CS involved.


First, add a dropdownlist registration question asking which cause the participant wants to fundraise for. That designation will be a part of their registration record, and can be retrieved using an S-Tag.


Now the cool part of the idea, which is to use a donation form on the Teamraiser that has the gift designation picker. That picker should include all the options your participants can select as their cause. The picker is hidden using CSS, so that the donor can't access it.


Include a Javascript on the donation form that uses embedded S-Tags to get the fundraiser's participant ID for that donation, and using that ID retrieve the answer to the designation question from registration. Once you have the designation value, you can set the selection in the invisible gift designation picker in that same script. That should only take a second or so.


From that point the donation proceeds normaly and is coded accordingly.


Pretty neat right? It never occured to me that the gift designation picker would even work in a teamraiser, so this approach never dawned on me.


We are rebuilding our DIY teamraisers in just a couple of months, and I will post my solution if you want to wait.


Edit: I haven't thought enough about how (or if) this would work for teams yet. Maybe you get the captain's answer if you know the Team Id. Not sure yet.

 

Tanna Lewis

Brian Mucha:

Yes! This has been troubling us for years as well, and I finally (just a few weeks ago) put in a request to try and have the datasync/XRef system customized to deal with it.


Turns out that isn't possible, but the support developer I spoke with had a solution. I haven't started building this yet, but the concept is not too complicated. There's Javascript and CS involved.


First, add a dropdownlist registration question asking which cause the participant wants to fundraise for. That designation will be a part of their registration record, and can be retrieved using an S-Tag.


Now the cool part of the idea, which is to use a donation form on the Teamraiser that has the gift designation picker. That picker should include all the options your participants can select as their cause. The picker is hidden using CSS, so that the donor can't access it.


Include a Javascript on the donation form that uses embedded S-Tags to get the fundraiser's participant ID for that donation, and using that ID retrieve the answer to the designation question from registration. Once you have the designation value, you can set the selection in the invisible gift designation picker in that same script. That should only take a second or so.


From that point the donation proceeds normaly and is coded accordingly.


Pretty neat right? It never occured to me that the gift designation picker would even work in a teamraiser, so this approach never dawned on me.


We are rebuilding our DIY teamraisers in just a couple of months, and I will post my solution if you want to wait.


Edit: I haven't thought enough about how (or if) this would work for teams yet. Maybe you get the captain's answer if you know the Team Id. Not sure yet.

 

Awesome, Brian (gentleman & scholar) - can't wait to see your finished solution!!!  As always, THANK YOU!