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Peter Nelson commented on More Flexible Roles & Permissions Needed to Avoid Security Risks 2012-12-13 08:40:31 -0800 · Flag
This pretty much hits the nail on the head with respect to much needed improvement within Nation Builder. There is a huge need for more granular control over User/Group privileges and if not page level access, then page type access by these users/groups.

Donald Darnell tagged Peter Nelson's Search by permission level with Answered 2013-02-12 07:39:49 -0800

Search by permission level

Seems that in the Advanced Search criteria there is no way to search for all people assigned to specific permission levels. Is there? Clearly it would be handy to have lists of everyone you have assigned at each permission level NB permits (ie., intern, leader, staff, etc.)

Official response from Gavin DeSchutter completed

Interns, leaders, staffers, or admins are not searchable fields in the "Advanced Search" tab. You can, however, see a full list of people with control panel permissions under the "People" > "Point People" tab (https://yournationslug.nationbuilder.com/admin/signups/permissions).


C.J. MinsterCheng responded to Formatting contribution rules with completed 2012-10-25 13:45:40 -0700

Is there a way to use HTML formatting of the Contribution Rules entered when setting up the payment processing fields for a bank account like Democracy Engine? For example, I can't seem to insert carriage returns or line breaks and am not immediately seeing any HTML options to format what gets entered here.

Formatting contribution rules

Is there a way to use HTML formatting of the Contribution Rules entered when setting up the payment processing fields for a bank account like Democracy Engine? For example, I can't seem to insert carriage returns or line breaks and am not immediately seeing any HTML options to format what gets entered here.

Official response from C.J. MinsterCheng completed

To edit the HTML formatting of the Contribution Rules, you'll need to edit the donation page's theme, rather than using code to pull the rules in from the Bank Account Settings page. If you haven't worked within the theme portion of your website, be sure to review the custom theme how-to video in our theme documentation.  

We generally don't recommend customizing a donation page, as malformed edits can break the security of the donation page and cause problems with accepting donations. If you're comfortable moving forward with changes, here is how to do it:

To utilize HTML formatting, delete the code in line 245 of the donation page's theme,

That is the line of code that pules in the contribution rules from the bank account settings page.

Replace it with the content you want to be shown in this area, including paragraph marks <p> and line breaks <br>. Properly configured HTML will be inserted in blue and plain text that will be seen on your site will be white in the theme editor.


Peter Nelson tagged Donation page type missing with Answered 2012-10-15 18:27:06 -0700

Donation page type missing

We have setup Democracy Engine linked to our bank account and I am now trying to create a donation page per your online instructions.
The problem is, when I create a New Page, I do NOT have any page type = donation page! 
Can you please explain why my donation page type is missing and how to get this started?
I also wanted to created a Membership sign page with paid membership levels but am prevented from doing that until I have a Donation page in place.

Official response from Gavin DeSchutter completed

This issue occured because the donor add-on wasn't turned on. If this occurs, contact support at help@nationbuilder.com and they can assist you with resolving this matter.


Julie Niemi tagged Peter Nelson's Add URL links to Images with Website 2013-05-01 13:54:20 -0700

Add URL links to Images

When placing an image on a page, it would be useful to add a field that allows us to type in a URL link that the user will navigate to when clicking on the image map. Should support both internal links within the given NationBuilder site and external URL links as well. 


Dan Trimble tagged Peter Nelson's Printing FAQs with Useful 2012-12-13 15:27:57 -0800

Printing FAQs

How about adding a print button to FAQ pages that allows the browser user to quickly and easily print a nicely formatted version of the FAQ?


Peter Nelson published FileMaker template for imports in Suggestions 2012-09-17 10:38:12 -0700

FileMaker template for imports

Wondering if anyone has put together a basic (preferably cross-plaform) runtime FileMaker database template that has NationBuilder fields already created in a table as part of the database schema? If so, this would be nice to share. If not, perhaps that's something that could be forthcoming?