The import page shows that last 20 imports under the header "Previous imports."

Where can you you see previous imports beyond that?

Can NationBuilder provide a boilerplate privacy policy and/or TOS for use on our nations? At least as a starting point to developing one customized for our nation?

Is there a wildcard character for search?

I want to be able to search "field is not empty," "field is empty," and search emails addresses "%@coca-cola.com" (any email @domain.com)

Thanks! 

I'm trying to slow down the speed of the slideshow. I'm looking in the stylesheet under #slides  .features_pagination but none of the code there seems to have anything to do with the speed of the slideshow. I made some pics with text and people want more time to read them. Thanks

Hi NB Community!  

Our team has been very pleased with the overall functionality, tools, and networking capabilities of NationBuilder throughout our campaign.  However, as an experienced system administrator, I have some concerns about the limitations on security and permissions. In reviewing our online campaign plan, the team asked:

Short of conducting full background checks on every volunteer, how can we limit access to their individual responsibility or assigned activity on the system??

After reviewing the system and Community blog, we learned -- with the current permission schema, we can not modify the existing Roles.  Therefore, NB Admins are faced with the choice between effective security and workload management.  

Our team chose to limit the number of staffer accounts, in favor of overall system security -- but in return, must manage most of the data activities offline &/or do the work ourselves.  Not ideal, considering all the features and capabilities we'd like to use in NB with a host of available volunteers.

Since I'm sure this affects more than our camp, I'd like to share our perspective on NB permissions and offer some suggestions for future development ~

Our Situation:  Large campaigns (probably any size, actually) rely on many volunteer workers ("staffers) of different skillsets to do specific data management tasks, like simple data-entry, deduping, defining lists/reports, organizing volunteers/call banks, updating news feeds.  Most of these volunteer staffers are unfamiliar to our team, but we really need & depend upon their help. With the current permission schema, this tradeoff can be very risky:

• Unexpected 'explorers,' 'meddlers,' or outright dishonest staffers (God forbid!) could cause serious damage to the campaign and/or candidate by inadvertently or intentionally misusing the system tools.
• There is no available user access or activity log for an Admin to use & determine who might have misused the system and hold them accountable, if desired.
• In Texas, the Candidate can be held liable for misuse of the voter registration data with severe penalties (imagine the potential for ID theft in one export...)

While the database can be backed up & recovered without public awareness or impact, security issues in other areas may be visible to the public or will be scrutinized by government auditors -- potentially destroying a campaign or candidate.

Problem Scenario:  In order to allow a volunteer to perform a number of low-risk data management activities, such as data entry, defining maps, updating addresses, deduping records, creating a call list, etc., they will also have full permission to perform other undesired, high-risk activities, such as:

• Tampering with any web page--like altering the Candidate's Biography with false information or simply deleting the page,
• Broadcasting unauthorized and/or false messages to thousands of people instantly,
• Exporting & selling or distributing the voter data file that has been updated with additional personal information, emails, cell phone numbers, and private correspondence gathered throughout the campaign,
• Altering financial records by modifying donor amounts, or adding false donations & inflating the supposed financial status

Any one of these could become a media blitz and campaign nightmare.  We just can not afford to take these risks with our community's data or candidate's reputation, so we have chosen to limit our staffers to ensure security -- which is causing a great logistical strain on our campaign project tasks & timelines. 

Desired Scenario:  Ideally, we would like to assign access/permissions by Roles or Groups, which are defined by how we organize certain volunteer activities/responsibilities or even by the individuatl tools/features used in NB.  For example:

• Only our qualified & *paid* web designers on our Communications Team would have authority to create or change pages, themes, etc.
• Only Finance Committee members would have authority to view, add/update the campaign financial records or responding to new donations.  
• Broadcasting tools would be assigned to specific Communication Team members 
• etc...

We really do enjoy the NB and would love to see more development on the security features, so we can take full advantage of the productivity tools!  Thanks!!

Donations have a note field, along with Check Number, Official time, tracking code, etc.

Is there anyway to populate that note field from the donation form? Like, if you wanted to do "donation in honor of" or "special instructions."

How do you, from a forward public facing form, submit data to that note field? 

My search result shows me records I see are dupes.

Let me mark the records and merge them before continuing what I was doing. 

It is common practice to make a Donate button stand out by giving it a different color on a web site.  Is there an easy way to customize the color on just one of the supporter nav buttons?

I have supporters signing up that don't give their home address.  I'd like to make this required.  Also, how can I sort existing supporters that do not have an address to send them a mass message to enter  their home address. 

Does Nationbuilder host e-mail accounts (i.e. so that key staff could have e-mail addresses just for the Nation)?  Does it require the add-on of a Custom E-mail Server?  If we purchase that add-on, are custom e-mail addresses included, or do we still use our personal e-mail accounts?

For the feedback page, I don't want to even allow the option for comments to be posted on the site.  What's the best way to do this?

Hi guys, my web designer is having a difficult time finding files and we're wondering if there is a way to deal with our many files that through the dashboard? Such as a file manager, ftp, or something easier to parse than constantly going back and forth through the dashboard?

How might I include, in addition to the unsubscribe link, a path for people to change their personal information in NationBuilder at the foot of an email?

Is there any way to include something in the right column on just a single page, but not on other pages?

Hi NB folks!

I'd like to find out if it is possible for me to display a map from people who have been tagged with a certain tag externally on the site.

For example: http://snap.nationbuilder.com/admin/signups/map?geocode_accuracy=5&tag_id=11

This map has 3 people who are tagged with "Shared Story" and when you click on the bubble, you see their profile. Can I get this map, with the tag selected, to display publicly?

Thanks!

NB has fantastic tools for communicating with and keeping track of volunteers, but I have yet to find a place to record information on, for example, special skills, community associations/memberships/positions, and other information which a volunteer coordinator might know, but is not necessarily suitable for collecting through a survey.  Generally this information might fit better as notes than as tags, though it would still be nice to be able to search/filter on it.  Does this exist on NB?  If so, how is it accessed, and how can I search on it?

I've noticed that there is no white space or padding between the header of my site and the sidebar/featured content sliders anymore, they are adjacent now and there used to be about an inch of space.  I've looked through the themes I've customized and am not sure what I did.  Any idea on how I can add some space between the header and whats below it?

Is there a way to update, for example, the City, Country, and/or Employer for a list of people in an NB database?  

You provide this great Batch Update function under Lists, but it seems to be limited to some key fields and tags.