Can a tell-a-friend be set up for a donation form?

Jeremy Chernikoff

or any suggestions for an alternaive to linking to the form directly?

Adrian Cotter

Hey Jeremy,

I don't think you can create a tellafriend specific to a donation form, but you could either have a tellafriend link in the wrapper or on a confirmation page or something.

Creating the link would be something like this -- the one thing I don't entirely know is how it works on the secure server. It would probably be something like:

<a href="TellAFriend?page=]">Tell a friend that other page</a>

But if that did not work you could do the whole link as well:

<A href="http://subdomain.yoursite.org/site/TellAFriend

?page=http://subdomain.yoursite.org/donationurl">Tell a friend about another page</A>

Adrian

Matt Burghdoff 2

Tell a friend in the wrapper doesn't really work unless the person types the url address in their editable section.  Nothing comes through as the forward sent out to the email.

What you might want to consider doing is setting up a vanity URL (or URL Alias if you're running CMS) to point to the donation page.  Then you can have something much simpler like www.yourdomain.org/donate to use in print or email materials.  Just be careful which domain you set it up in if you are running both CMS and CRM.

Matt Burghdoff 2

Matt Burghdoff:

Tell a friend in the wrapper doesn't really work unless the person types the url address in their editable section.  Nothing comes through as the forward sent out to the email.

What you might want to consider doing is setting up a vanity URL (or URL Alias if you're running CMS) to point to the donation page.  Then you can have something much simpler like www.yourdomain.org/donate to use in print or email materials.  Just be careful which domain you set it up in if you are running both CMS and CRM.

One other thing I thought about after sleeping on it, you can always create your own version of Tell a Friend on a webpage using html code.  For instance, you have one donation page that you really want people to be able to forward on.  In whichever spot you want the Tell a Friend, put the following code (modified for your site):

<a href="mailto:?subject=I loved this site&body=Go to samplepage.com and donate a LOT of money ">Tell a friend</a>