Targeting Participant Center CSS

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michael greiner 2
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Is there a method that can be used in order to change styles within the participant center??


Thank you,


Michael
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  • Brian Mucha
    Brian Mucha ✭
    Ancient Membership Facilitator 4 Name Dropper Photogenic
    Yes, the current Particiant Center is an iFrame, so you have to customize the styles there, rather than in the wrapper.


    Each PC2 config has a section for this under step 2. Configure Options. Look down to Related Actions. There you'll see:


    Related Actions

    Edit Custom Styles

    Edit Custom IE Styles

    Edit Custom JavaScript


    PS - The new non-iFrame version of the Part Center is in early adopter - yay! - so this will be a bit different in a few months.


    BPM
  • Elizabeth Makayed 2
    Elizabeth Makayed 2 ✭
    Ancient Membership Facilitator 1 Name Dropper Photogenic
    If you are a developer and want to make CSS and/or HTML changes to your participant center you can also do it via FTP. This is a more geeky approach. :-)

    Each participant center is located within a specific folder on an FTP.


    I would recommend doing customizations cautiously using this approach.

    * Find a participant center that's not in use by going to Fundraising > Teamraiser > Participant Centers.

    * Update it to the latest version provided by Luminate.

    * Create a copy of that participant center, define the folder name for your new center here.

    * Log into your Luminate FTP, locate a folder created in the previous step.

    * Apply the PC to a test Teamraiser event.

    * Customize the code to your heart's content (but remember to version it with something like Git, just in case)

    * Once the customized code is tested apply the new PC to your Teamraiser event.


    Hope this is helpful.
  • Brian Mucha
    Brian Mucha ✭
    Ancient Membership Facilitator 4 Name Dropper Photogenic
    I believe that creating a copy this way removes that PC from the normal Blackbaud update process. And if you edit an existing one directly, the next update you perform would overwrite your changes. So you give up Blackbaud bug fixes, which really is no different that if you just wrote your own. (I can't recall any bug fix that did anything really noticable.)


    The current PCs are written with the YUI library, which was interesting to work in - but kind of a slog. I wonder what the new one is going to be like. Have you seen it yet, Elizabeth?


    BPM

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