Maximum number of designations

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Simone Worsdale
Simone Worsdale
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Does anyone know the maximum number of designations you can list on an Online Express donation form?



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  • Amy Mitchell
    Amy Mitchell
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    Do you mean funds? Tributes?
  • Jen Claudy
    Jen Claudy
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    Assuming you mean Funds, since the list of Funds appears under the header Designations on your Donation Page.  I just made a copy of one, and added every Fund we have in our database, including those marked Inactive.  It allowed me to save the page with 78 Funds listed.



    There is possibly no limit at all, although I would think that more than 10 would be a bit much for a donor to sift through to choose one (we have 13 currently on our main Donation Page).  Keep in mind that on your published Page, the drop down box shows the list and depending on the length of the list and the height of the donor's screen (particularly on a mobile device), it could get cumbersome enough to cause the donor to back out of the whole transaction.



    If you really need to offer more than 15 Funds, I would suggest multiple Donation Pages and a Web Page (not part of OLX) that shows a button for each Donation Page with each Page listing a group/category of Funds.  So the donor chooses a category, goes to that Page and selects a Designation/Fund from that shorter list.
  • Joelle Diepenbrock
    Joelle Diepenbrock
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    Jen Claudy:

    Assuming you mean Funds, since the list of Funds appears under the header Designations on your Donation Page.  I just made a copy of one, and added every Fund we have in our database, including those marked Inactive.  It allowed me to save the page with 78 Funds listed.


    There is possibly no limit at all, although I would think that more than 10 would be a bit much for a donor to sift through to choose one (we have 13 currently on our main Donation Page).  Keep in mind that on your published Page, the drop down box shows the list and depending on the length of the list and the height of the donor's screen (particularly on a mobile device), it could get cumbersome enough to cause the donor to back out of the whole transaction.


    If you really need to offer more than 15 Funds, I would suggest multiple Donation Pages and a Web Page (not part of OLX) that shows a button for each Donation Page with each Page listing a group/category of Funds.  So the donor chooses a category, goes to that Page and selects a Designation/Fund from that shorter list.

    We're looking at this exact setup, since we have such a large number funds in four distinct categories.  It would be great if OLX offered the ability to put more than one designation list in the same form, with a drop-down or toggle to select the fund category using basic conditional logic.  It's cumbersome to force the donor to click through multiple links on the website just to find the appropriate donate page, but having all our funds in a single drop-down list is just too overwhelming.  frown  If anyone knows of a better solution, I'm interested!

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