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.

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This has been much in demand and discussed in the FAQ, and we've heard various promises about its implementation.

An API to push external signups to would be essential to us. Given how keen NationBuilder has been to have everything filed as an official feature request, here you go! :-)

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A feature that's surprisingly missing is the ability to specify specific/custom fields of information for forms like the Volunteer form, and the ability to configure which fields are required and the labels/text associated with each field.

I believe it would be very useful to have a block-style calendar for displaying events. Something like this would be ideal and easy to stylize: 

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We'd love  a feature where someone can plug in their zip code and send a form or custom letter to their local legislators.

Need to show slightly more information when deduping.  Apparently dedupe doesn't check address fields, though that would often be decisive.  Please show, with no extra clicks, some more information about the main and possible dupe people if it is non-blank in the database.  Seeing that the possible dupe entries both live at 917 Main St. is pretty decisive, but I can't see that without a half dozen clicks (must click through to both entries separately, currently).  Similarly if both entries have provided the same phone number, that's pretty decisive as well.

Right now, when you go to create a new page "include in top nav" is checked as a default. This is cumbersome for bigger campaigns who have staff drafting and publishing blog posts but have a nice Veracity Media designed theme where the top nav is essentially "set". If one of these staff forgets to uncheck "include in the top nav" this creates a problem. I would definitely suggest unchecking it as a default.

Additionally, I would suggest adding a site-wide feature called "lock top nav" which let's administrators keep others control panel users from publishing new pages to the top nav.

deally we would like the option where it is a button on the first donate page -- like this one -- you see you can just click the button then do monthly/quarterly/yearly:

I want to create filters for email blasts (because they are dynamic as opposed to lists that are static). It would be great to have an option to select "not tagged as" in the advanced search.

It would be nice to have a feature where you can click a link and add a Nationbuilder event to a Google calendar.

A liquid variable that returned an array of all individuals belonging to a class of membership within the CRM would enable the creation of a membership directory. The array might include a link to the public profile for each individual returned, allowing members to display and keep updated their contact information. Theoretically, it could be set up on a members only page, allowing for the creation of a members only membership directory.

I have a LOT of old saved lists which I would like to clean up.  I see how to delete them one at a time, but this is quite time consuming.

For organizations trying to transfer their databases over to NationBuilder from other platforms this would be a very useful tool. Many databases have extra note fields that organizations populate with important info. When it comes time to move to NationBuilder there is nowhere to put this info other than the background note field, which is usually the first to go. For additional notes you are out of luck.

Being able to import note columns as a new private note would eliminate this issue, and since private notes are unlimited in NB you could import as many different note fields as you'd like.

We are working with several campaigns, and permission levels are  becoming an issue.

I would like the ability to have granular permission control over features and fields, as well as the ability to create more user types, so that we can allow/restrict access where needed.

Right now, even interns have the ability to import and export data, which will greatly limit the number of people that the candidates allow to access to the system.

Navigating between pages time consuming and we don't really have a single-shot view of the nation's layout. This can get confusing on larger sites where the user may not always remember where subpages are located. Having a resource tree on the left side of the page for the site layout would speed editing greatly and make editing the site structure a less daunting task.

Connect to LinkedIn and provide tracking and posting capalities for LinkedIn connections.

It would be great if there was a real forum on this site.

It would be nice to be able to clone a page. It would be useful in keeping the same format for other pages