What interesting arguments can I add to my Donation Form URLs?

Do you know if there is a code where I can pre-select a specific donation level, but leave the remaining donations levels visible?

There is no code for this because there is built-in functionality.  If you edit the donation form and then edit the donation level element, e.g. "Standard Donation Level", there is an option to have a "Pre-Selected level".  Using that functionality you can accomplish what you described.

Noah Cooper:

Yes, using &set.DonationLevel=. See http://help.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Admin_Passing_Hidden_Inputs_in_Donation_Form_Fields#list_of_url_setters.

Neither of these methods is quite working for me. I want to pre-select "Other amount" and pre-fill a value. When I use "set.DonationLevel=" along with "set.Value=", the correct level is selected, but the amount is not pre-filled - it remains blank.

 

On the other hand, using "DONATION_LEVEL_ID_SELECTED" and "PREFILL_AMOUNT" does select the correct level and prefill the amount, while hiding the other levels - but when I use this method, no matter what amount I enter, I'm not given the option to select a premium, though I should be offered one.

 

This is my form: https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Donation2?df_id=1720&1720.donation=form1

 

With first set of arguments, amount does not prefill: https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Donation2?df_id=1720&1720.donation=form1&set.DonationLevel=2245&PREFILL_AMOUNT=193

With second set of arguments, no premium shows up: https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Donation2?df_id=1720&1720.donation=form1&DONATION_LEVEL_ID_SELECTED=2245&PREFILL_AMOUNT=193

 

Is there a way to pre-fill a user-entered amount by URL *and* allow users to choose a premium?

Noah Cooper:

There is an SDP, DON2_BEAN_URL_PROPERTIES_EXCLUDED, which contains a list of parameters that an organization does not wish to allow to be set via URL setter. By default, this SDP is set to "Value", meaning set.Value cannot be used. I removed "Value", so it should work for you now.  

Thanks for the quick response, Noah! The set.Value parameter is working now, but I'm still having an issue with premiums. This link sets the amount to $150, which has a premium associated with it, but no premium is shown:

 

https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Donation2?df_id=1720&1720.donation=form1&set.DonationLevel=2245&set.Value=15000

 

If I click on the fixed $150 level, I see a premium appear. Click back to the "other" field which is pre-populated with the exact same value, and there's no premium. Any idea why this would happen?

Noah Cooper:

Jo, 



I'd open a Support ticket about this if you haven't already. This looks like a bug being caused by the inclusion of the jQuery library in the page wrapper -- the donation form itself loads its own version of the jQuery library and in the process destroys the global jQuery object. The parseCurrency function which is used to check the value of the user-entered amount field tries to call jQuery.trim, and that fails due to jQuery not being defined. (You'll see all this if you open the console.)

Ah - thanks, Noah. I already have a support ticket on the jQuery issue, but it hasn't been resolved yet - and until now, it hasn't caused any problems. I'll follow up on that now.

Mike Infranco:

We're looking into using this feature -- very cool.

 

I wonder if there is a way to pre-populate name, email address, address, etc.?

 

Mike

 

When we tried PURLs, we used the document that Noah mentioned (http://help.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Admin_Passing_Hidden_Inputs_in_Donation_Form_Fields#list_of_url_setters.) and they worked great for passing on name, address, etc.

Jesse Kelsey:

Hi All,

 

Is this feature still buggy, or does it require a change to the "DON2_BEAN_URL_PROPERTIES_EXCLUDED" SDP? We need to select a donation level, set the amount, and set optional repeat.

 

I'm working on a donation widget right now, and am able to use set.DonationLevel and set.OptionalRepeat , but not set.Value, like this: https://giving.childrensnational.org/site/Donation2?df_id=6301&6301.donation=form1&set.DonationLevel=10984&set.OptionalRepeat=TRUE&set.Value=1000

 

Using the other method to choose the level/amount works, but not with set.OptionalRepeat=TRUE. Also, this method throws off the formatting of the donation levels (hides most of the levels). Here's the example: https://giving.childrensnational.org/site/Donation2?df_id=6301&6301.donation=form1&DONATION_LEVEL_ID_SELECTED=10984&PREFILL_AMOUNT=$10.00

 

Thanks!

 

-Jesse Kelsey

jesse@donordigital.com

Donordigital

 

Jesse,

 

Yes, the SDP DON2_BEAN_URL_PROPERTIES_EXCLUDED still controls which URL setters can be used on a given organization's site, and Value is still included in that SDP by default, meaning it cannot be used unless an organization has changed that SDP/had Blackbaud Support change it for them. On chfdc, DON2_BEAN_URL_PROPERTIES_EXCLUDED does indeed include Value. Removing that will allow set.Value to be used.

Esther Pomeleo-Fowler:

There are a few arguments you can to the end of your Donation Form link which you may find useful:

To display only a specific donation level:

&DONATION_LEVEL_ID_SELECTED=xxxx

• where "xxxx" is the dl_id (donation level identification number)

To display only the User Entered level and have it autofilled with an amount:

&DONATION_LEVEL_ID_SELECTED=xxxx&PREFILL_AMOUNT=yyy

• where "xxxx" is the dl_id and "yyy" is the amount you want prefilled. No decimals are required if the amount is a whole dollar. The dollar sign should not be included.

To select a designee is a bit trickier:

&set.SingleDesignee=xxxx

• where "xxxx" is the designee number. The designee number can be found by viewing the source of the published donation form.

 

This is all pretty old, so I was wondering if there is anything to update here.


With this info, I'm able to link to the specific giving levels, but I still can't get my Donor Entered level to populate the $ amount. Here's what I'm testing: http://support.bestfriends.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1742&mfc_pref=T&1742.donation=form1&set.DonationLevel=2638&set.Value=3700


I see there are mentions of some SDPs, but I'm not finding those. Or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? I would also like to know/learn if it's possible to let the user determine the set.Value amount? Basically, what I'm trying to figure out is if our current donation widget will still work.
http://bestfriends.org/ -- directly below the slider you can select a level or enter your own amount. The submission URL is this https://secure.bestfriends.org/page/contribute/hpdonate?default_amt=[amt] and whatever is entered populates on the form.