Custom Advocacy Target List Automation

DaveWomack

I want to create a custom target list made up of individuals I specify (specifically school superintendents across the state of FL). As this information is not within Convio's database, I'll have to input them manually.

My question is this:

Can I create an advocacy alert wherein the constituents who fill out the form will NOT have to select the appropriate superintendent, but instead it will be automated based on their geographical location?

In other words, can Convio populate the target based on the constittuent's address?

If not, I will have to make it a two-step operation where the constituent selects the recipient on the second page, right?

Thanks for your help!

Dave

Andrew Hedden

Hi Dave,

No thoughts come to mind of how to accomplish this with current product functionality. So since these are going to be addressed as custom targets the constituent will have to select the target to send the alert to.

-Andrew

Eric Helmuth

Andrew :

Hi Dave,

No thoughts come to mind of how to accomplish this with current product functionality. So since these are going to be addressed as custom targets the constituent will have to select the target to send the alert to.

-Andrew

Any chance this functionality has been added in a recent release? I have the same need -- would like to have constituents in about 25 states write messages to their state alcohol beverage control boards, for which we have obtained public email addresses. However, without being able to tie these to constituents' geographic information, it seems we either need to create separate alerts for each state or do the two-step process and ask them to choose a state.

Noah Cooper

Eric Helmuth:

Any chance this functionality has been added in a recent release? I have the same need -- would like to have constituents in about 25 states write messages to their state alcohol beverage control boards, for which we have obtained public email addresses. However, without being able to tie these to constituents' geographic information, it seems we either need to create separate alerts for each state or do the two-step process and ask them to choose a state.

It would require writing some code, but you could do this with the Advocacy API and a mapping file in, for example, CSV or XML format. You could take the ZIP provided by the constituent, look it up in the aforementioned mapping file, then send the message to the appropriate target.

Eric Helmuth

Noah Cooper:

It would require writing some code, but you could do this with the Advocacy API and a mapping file in, for example, CSV or XML format. You could take the ZIP provided by the constituent, look it up in the aforementioned mapping file, then send the message to the appropriate target.

Hadn't thought of that. Thanks, Noah.

Michelle Shefter

Eric Helmuth:

Hadn't thought of that. Thanks, Noah.

Another less elegant approach would be to do a single alert per state. Each alert would only target the official in that state and you'd restrict participation in the alert to only constituents in that state.