Step challenges and apps within TeamRaiser

I've just recently worked with a TeamRaiser customer on building a Strava integration. It's not live to the public yet, but here's how it works, and what I think is the best solution for storing this data in Luminate Online. (I'll note that this is a very complex integration that will definitely require a developer with knowledge of the Luminate Online API to implement.)


Luminate has a feature called Custom Interactions, which lets you store any arbitrary data on a constituent record you might want to store. Under Setup -> Interactions Management, you can create new interaction types. You could create the following types for an integration with Strava:


* Strava Activity

* Strava Weekly Summary

* Strava Monthly Summary

* Strava Annual Summary


With the Strava API, you can populate these interactions like so:


1) Every time an activity is logged, record a Strava Activity interaction with a subject like "year=2020 activity_id=1234", and in the body include a JSON object with the detail, such as the activity name, distance, elevation, time, and photo(s).

2) Additionally, every time an activity is logged, record Strava Weekly Summary, a Strava Monthly Summary, and a Strava Annual Summary interactions with subjects like "year=2020 week=2020-04-20", "year=2020 month=4", and "year=2020" respectively, and in the body, store a JSON object with the total distance and elevation.


Once you have the data recorded, you can then display it back on TeamRaiser pages. For example, with the Strava Activity interactions, you can now display a feed of a participant's activities on their personal page. With the weekly, monthly, and annual summaries, you can display a list of all participants' totals in the form of a leaderboard.


Reading and writing Custom Interactions involves using the logInteraction (http://open.convio.com/api/#constituent_api.logInteraction_method.html), updateInteraction (http://open.convio.com/api/#constituent_api.updateInteraction_method.html), getUserInteractions (http://open.convio.com/api/#constituent_api.getUserInteractions_method.html), and listInteractions (http://open.convio.com/api/#constituent_api.listInteractions_method.html) API methods.


I'll also note that here I've referred to Strava, but the same solution could work for any other fitness tracking platform that has a comparable API.

Just circling back with an update on what I ended up with - may be useful for the nonprofit-on-a-tight-budget!  To avoid any cost at all, I just did a bit of a hack to simply use Strava's embed codes.

Strava Club - for event-wide leaderboard (weekly stats)  

You can set up a Strava Club free and display its leaderboard on your homepage (or wherever) using the embed code on the Club page.

Then you can just ask your participants to join the event's Strava Club and have some friendly distance-based competition accordingly.

Here's a link to our Courage Classic Club, for example - https://www.strava.com/clubs/courageclassic - and a screenshot of Strava's options for embedding Club stats (click on pics to expand/clarify):


I haven't yet embedded the leaderboard on our homepage, so can't screenshot it, but you get the idea!

Strava user activity feed - to visually support distance goals on personal pages

You can add the basic skeleton of the user activity feed embed code for personal pages, and then either use the TR survey or an LO survey to have users submit their necessary IDs, and pull those ids into the skeleton with s-tags. If you use an LO survey, you have to link the question responses to custom constituent profile fields to pull through the s-tags, but the benefit is that you can control the survey questions/display easier than with the TR survey, and you can also assign groups easily (and show content and badges accordingly).

Here's a live example: http://support.childrenscoloradofoundation.org/site/TR/?px=1246282&pg=personal&fr_id=1660 + a screenshot of the distance and Strava embed area of the personal page.



Example of fleshing out the Strava feed embed code skeleton with s-tags:

[[?x[[E48:[[S334:fr_id]]-[[S334:px]]:cons.custom_string20]]x::xx::::<center><iframe height='200' width='280' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='yes' src='https://www.strava.com/athletes/[[E48:[[S334:fr_id]]-[[S334:px]]:cons.custom_string20]]/activity-summary/[[E48:[[S334:fr_id]]-[[S334:px]]:cons.custom_string21]]'></iframe><iframe height='200' width='280' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='yes' src='https://www.strava.com/athletes/[[E48:[[S334:fr_id]]-[[S334:px]]:cons.custom_string20]]/latest-rides/[[E48:[[S334:fr_id]]-[[S334:px]]:cons.custom_string21]]'></iframe></center>]]


Screenshot excerpt of the (unfortunately password-protected, but I'll still link it) survey form where we collect the IDs from the user:


Distance goals and thermometer

You can also have users submit a distance goal on the survey (as shown in the image above), and then give them a way to go back in and manually update their progress, either on the same survey or a secondary one.  Then you can build thermometers based on what they've submitted on the survey(s).

Along with the one on the personal pages which is pictured above, here's an example of the thermometer I am surfacing in the Participant Center:



Badges

I haven't built any out yet because I am not adding anything we won't be able to use for more than this one COVID-crazy year, so waiting a bit longer to fully clarify how we'll integrate virtual aspects for future years, but you can see how with all this great data of goals and progress and survey groups, etc., it will be easy to add badges like "Added a distance goal" "Met half of distance goal" or "Met distance goal" etc.


Soooo, def not as elegant or automated/user-friendly as Noah's amazing-sounding option, but fits the current need, on the cheap!


EDIT/P.S.: These images look super blurry in the body of the post for some reason. If you are straining to see any detail, note that you can click on each to expand. Nice and clear then!