Question: how to add an event/participant specific printable pdf form to a personal page

bchin

I'm looking to basically provide potential supporters with the option to mail in donations using a form that resides in a link on a participant home page. This form prepopulates the participant and event info for easy reference and would automatically pull in info like "Event name", "participant name", "participant constituent ID" and "team name" for events in Teamraiser.

Convio site has so far pointed to S tage, if yes, which ones? If anyone has done this and can offer insight I'd greatly appreciate it.

Below is a link to an ACS event, http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/MakingStridesAgainstBreastCancer/MSABCFY10NewEngland?pg=entry&fr_id=19912

When you click on any of the participant's page, scroll to the bottom, this link If you are unable to donate online, please print a donation form to mail in your contribution takes you to a donation form prepopulates event and participant specific information I am looking to get.

Thank you.

Belinda

Shana Masterson

When I contacted Convio a couple of months ago about this same thing (referring to the ACS form), I was told that this was a custom built item that we would need to pay for if we were interested.  I'm curious to see if there is another way of doing this as well.

Thanks!

Shana

bchin

Shana Masterson:

When I contacted Convio a couple of months ago about this same thing (referring to the ACS form), I was told that this was a custom built item that we would need to pay for if we were interested.  I'm curious to see if there is another way of doing this as well.

Thanks!

Shana

Thanks Shana! I appreciate it!

Noah Cooper

bchin :

Thanks Shana! I appreciate it!

If you have someone internally with Adobe Acrobat experience, you could do essentially the same thing as in the ACS example by creating a custom PDF form and passing in the fields you want to pre-populate with URL arguments, as described at http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/10/20/using-url-requests-in-pdf-forms/.

All of the fields you referenced would be available as S-Tags on the personal page, so you could add something like this to the footer of each personal page

http://www.foo.org/form.pdf?event=]&participant=]%20]&cons_id=]&team=]

bchin

Noah Cooper:

If you have someone internally with Adobe Acrobat experience, you could do essentially the same thing as in the ACS example by creating a custom PDF form and passing in the fields you want to pre-populate with URL arguments, as described at http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/10/20/using-url-requests-in-pdf-forms/.

All of the fields you referenced would be available as S-Tags on the personal page, so you could add something like this to the footer of each personal page

http://www.foo.org/form.pdf?event=]&participant=]%20]&cons_id=]&team=]

Thank you, this is most helpful I'm awaiting Adobe Writer, then will launch a nice experiment!

Belinda

Shana Masterson

bchin :

Thank you, this is most helpful I'm awaiting Adobe Writer, then will launch a nice experiment!

Belinda

Belinda,

Post back and let us know how it goes!

Thanks!

Shana

bchin

Shana Masterson:

Belinda,

Post back and let us know how it goes!

Thanks!

Shana

Will do Shana!

Noah Cooper

Noah Cooper:

If you have someone internally with Adobe Acrobat experience, you could do essentially the same thing as in the ACS example by creating a custom PDF form and passing in the fields you want to pre-populate with URL arguments, as described at http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/10/20/using-url-requests-in-pdf-forms/.

All of the fields you referenced would be available as S-Tags on the personal page, so you could add something like this to the footer of each personal page

http://www.foo.org/form.pdf?event=]&participant=]%20]&cons_id=]&team=]

Here is an example form that includes the fields referenced here:

Event

Participant

Cons ID

Team

Upload this to your Convio-powered site via FTP, then link to it as

TeamRaiserForm.pdf?event=]]]&participant=] ]]]&cons_id=]&team=]]]

(I added the T1 tag to url-encode each of the values, except cons_id since it should never be anything but numeric.)

Kevin Bunt

Noah Cooper:

Here is an example form that includes the fields referenced here:

Event

Participant

Cons ID

Team

Upload this to your Convio-powered site via FTP, then link to it as

TeamRaiserForm.pdf?event=]]]&participant=] ]]]&cons_id=]&team=]]]

(I added the T1 tag to url-encode each of the values, except cons_id since it should never be anything but numeric.)

Hi Noah, awesome help on this one! Great solution. Excellent lesson in T-tag as well.

Thanks!

Kevin

Hilary Engelbrecht 2

@Noah Cooper
this is such an old post - but I'm revisiting adding offline Printable Forms and the t-tags don't show up. The PDF referenced is an XFA so I can't open in adobe and see how those form fields are configured. Any change you still have this information?

Philip Nawrocki

@Hilary Engelbrecht Noah left BB a few years ago.
The big part here is having someone know how to create the .pdf so you can pass the parameters to it via a link.

I haven't done it, but looking at the reference article, it doesn't seem too bad to set up.

Thanks,

Phil