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Import an attended list?
I have a list of people who attended an event. Is there a way we can import them and have them be marked as attended a specific event?
scss in multiple files
I'm working on a custom theme and I'm accumulating a large amount of code in theme.scss. I'd like to break it out into several files. I'd also like to do that with some of the template code. I've tried to use @import "myfile.scss"; in theme.scss. It didn't work.
Email Blast
Is it possible to make it so when sending an email blast in the To line of the email it just displays the email address and not the contacts full name?
Walk Lists
Walk lists are showing homes with "units" after the address as a different street. For example: 29 4th St NE 4 is showing as a different street than 29 4th St NE - so for one housing unit I can get as many pages as there are units in the house. Also happen for Unit A and Unit B - then they are out of order and I am losign hundreds of potential contacts.
Dedupe from Search results
My search result shows me records I see are dupes.
Let me mark the records and merge them before continuing what I was doing.
How to post a PDF for download
We want to post campaign posters and handouts for supporters to download and print. The obvious way to do this is to upload the PDFs to the page on which we want to offer them, and cover them with local hyperlinks. Yet the PDFs have twice disappeared from the Files list for that page.
The upload succeeded: I was briefly able to download a PDF from the Files list itself. But the link on the page returns a 404.
Is there another way to do this?
Stephen
londonersonbikes.org
Secure Basic Page?
I need to have a secure basic page. How do I acheive that?
http://www.actionnc.org/fbapp <<< not secure
https://www.actionnc.org/fbapp <<< untrusted
https://actionnc.nationbuilder.com/fbapp <<< secure, but redirects and resolves to the not secure page
Is it possible to have a secure (https) page that is not a donate page?
JavaScript onclick?
Sorry if this is a noob question -- I'm new to JavaScript. Tonight I was creating a NationBuilder page with a couple of embedded images that I wanted to enlarge when the user clicked on them. Seems like a perfect job for JavaScript.
I see on NB's page that you're supposed to put JavaScript in the template, not in the html editor. But, AFAIK, I need an onclick event in the <img> element in order to to trigger JavaScript, and that element isn't available in the template since the content is all pulled in as page.basic.content. Am I missing something?
What you want to use is a jQuery light box plugin. There are tons of different varieties of those scripts, just search Google and choose the one you like the best. They are usually triggered by a class in the img tag, not an onClick event.
The the jQuery needs to go in a template, and depending on how extensive the HTML is for the page, you may want to put all the content in the template of the page as well, instead of the content editor. For example if you are trying to create an image gallery, I'd build that all within the template of the page. If the page will be mainly text with a couple images, you should probably do that in the content editor.
Can I disable the social media share features (tweet, facebook like) on select pages?
Following the recommendation in another post, I've created a action chain so that a sign-up is directed to a survey form to collect additional info (http://nationbuilder.com/how_do_i_collect_detailed_data_from_people). The problem here is that we don't want this shared because the only people that should be filling out the survey are those who completed the prior sign-up. Can we just turn-off the tweet face feature at the top and the like feature at the bottom for these select pages?
Could you explain the new security model?
I just discovered this under Permissions:
You are currently using the "functional" security model. Switch to "data" security model. (currently in beta)
Could you tell us what this does?
Can a redirect be the front page of a nation?
Can you set a redirect page as the front page? Will doing so cause any problem for NationBuilder? Will it simply work as expected?
are there forums
Not currently, but it's in the development queue. In the meantime, you might try using the suggestion box page to see if it fits your needs.
Are some styles missing from the default page?
For instance:
.submit_link_huge
Is clearly present on the final scss file, but I don't see it in any of the default or current style sheets.
Suggest to a Friend option
Hi,
Is there a way to set up a box or page that says "suggest us to your friends," in which our supporters will put in the email addresses of their friends. We would then follow up with an email, saying "You're friend, such and such, thought you would like our site. Let us know if you'd like to keep receiving emails from us."
Thanks.
Displaying total supporters
How can we show on the front page of our live site the total number of our supporters?
Stephen Taylor
londonersonbikes.org
Include an iframe in blog post content without embed.ly
I'd like to embed this page as an iframe in my blog post content, but I want it to show up before the flip in the generic 'blog' page, ie showing the N most recent posts.
If someone clicks through, I can show them the iframe by editing the template for that particular blog post - but for the most recent blog posts page, the iframe needs to come out of post.blog_post.content but the HTML editor consumes it.
I thought about editing the overall blog template to look at the tag of each post, and use a special tag to know to show the extended version in the list, but I can't think of where I'd put the URL of the iframe I want to show, unless I hijack another tag and use the tag.name field to hold it.
I think it'd be really nice to be able to tell the editor to not strip the iframe, and to just trust me when I tell it I know what I'm doing.