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. 

In some nations, especially in the context of political campaigns, there are some people who need to be handled with special care. It would be great to be able to flag these individuals with a VIP status that would be visible in the icons that show up beside someone's name. For example, it could be a yellow star.

To abstract this one step further, perhaps this could be implemented as as custom tag-icon mapping, similar to how NB lets you customize contact types, methods and statuses. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XING

XING (named openBC/Open Business Club until 17 November 2006) is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals. The company claims that it is used by people from over 200 countries. Available languages include Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish and Turkish. By displaying how each member is connected to any other member, it visualizes the small-world phenomenon.

... would improve the navigation. Include the 8 items that appear on the main community page. 

Hi,

When I do an advanced search for occupation (or any such field), it would be good if it auto completed as I typed so that an intern who doesn't know the exact spelling of that field will see all available options.

EG: When searching for 'child care - private' if you miss a space it won't show up. But with auto look up, if I type 'child care' it will show all available options.

So I was helping someone think through how to find some already entered records and one of the solutions was to create a list of people entered between certain days. But the advanced search doesn't have that functionality built in. 

I was able to solve the problem manually using the keen built-in sort order in the "listing" view (recently added), but for decently sized batches that's going to be a pain in the ass. 

Is there a way to add to the advanced search the "search by date added" range functionality?

One extremely important feature for canvassing is to be able to include all the people in a given household in a walk or call list. For example, if you're going door-to-door you want everyone in the household listed in case they are the ones answering the door. By household I mean everyone at the same exact address (including apt # so don't use lat/lng).

Ideally there are two areas where householding should be used. When printing a walk list (or call list) an option to "include others in household" should be added. If selected, all others in household should be added but ideally there should be some indicator that they are "secondary" to the primary targets. Boldface perhaps.

The second place would be during searches. There could be a button that takes an existing search result and "households it" adding all others in the same addresses. There could be another checkbox during the search - maybe next to the green search button - to make that happen at search time.

I consider both of these crucial for real door-to-door realities.

Thanks...

For some of us, we have a large list of people in our voter database (150,000+). To add all of them to the shopping cart and then to remove certain tags from them is time-consuming (on our end) and resource-consuming (on your end). It takes forever if it works at all frankly.

Better would be an additional search field under Tags where we can list tags to exclude from the search.

In advanced search, under Contact History, contact type is not a filter option. 

For example, I would like to be able to search for all the people we doorknocked last week.

It would be nice if the function for searching age allowed you to just input the ages rather than the DOB. 

It would be nice if a donation page with a goal would (or, better yet, had a check box so it could) aggregate the activity on subpages into its total.  Allows for a general campaign with sub-groups / sub-goals.

Thanks

For those of us using NationBuilder for volunteer coordination, we'll have lots of events that users may attend regularly, occasionally, once, or not at all. Only being able to use Advanced Search to tell if someone has or has not ever attended an event doesn't allow us to separate the three first (and most valuable) of those groups.

I'd love to see the ability to search by frequency of attendence. If this could be parsed by date as well it would be even more valuable.

Your competitors allow you to use pretty much any supporter field that you want into an email blast, while NationBuilder only allows a small number of them. Especially with custom fields, adding supporter fields to emails can be very useful.

Some folks want to brand their blog, so it would be great if the blog could be titled on the blog page, not just in the nav tab, the way other pages get titles.

For instance, if I want to update a value for a custom field for an entire list, I would like to be able to do so without doing it by exporting the list and re-importing it with those new values filled in.

The "easy" way to embed content by pasting links is actually more difficult to use than the embed code.

Some sites aren't recognized by NationBuilder to embed by link.  Which is annoying.  Other sites, like LiveStream, only one particular link to the page will work (not the one out of the embed code, not the one from the livestream channel page) which is tedious.

Otherwise how would event hosts notify attendees if something has changed about the event?

It would be useful to have a template element that would drop an arbitrary tag on a user who selects that form element. I'm thinking specifically of a checkbox that, if checked, would assign the associated tag to the given user. To prevent abuse, you probably want an "allowed tags" field on the back side of the page.

Surveys are only appropriate for some applications - a 14 page survey is going to induce a lot more fatigue than 14 checkboxes ("I like  [ ] Donuts [ ] Muffins [ ] Bagels etc."), this page  – http://www.markerstudio.com/marketing/2011/10/how-many-fields-should-you-have-in-your-form/ notwithstanding.

The gap between intern and leader in terms of permissions is proving to be difficult as we want people who are signed up to post guest blogs. As an intern you can't post anything, but as a leader you can edit all pages. I would suggest a happy medium of being able to select the types of pages the intern level can publish.

During my stint as the webmaster for EFF, there were a lot of civic uprisings across the globe that were organized with Twitter or Facebook.  Many dissidents were jailed because they were able to be easily monitored by repressive governments via unencrypted HTTP traffic. 

We started a campaign to get those and other sites with a massive user base to offer a version of their site using HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS). 

We were successful in getting Twitter, Facebook and many organizations to jump on the HSTS bandwagon (even Google!). We created a browser plugin, HTTPS-Everywhere which, when present in your browser, automatically grabs the HTTPS version of a site if it is available. 

Using HTTPS is safer than using HTTP. We trust HTTPS to encrypt all of our financial transactions, but use of HTTPS doesn't have to be limited to just those times you have your credit card in your hand.

I would like to be able to make my entire site HTTPS-secure, as well as all of the sites I create.  I think this feature may not have obvious value to most users who are safe and secure in a country like ours. However, not all of the world nor perhaps all of NationBuilder's users are protected by our First Amendment.