When I add information to someone's profile in the "Background" section, and then export that profile, the information I entered appears in a field called "Note" in the CSV.
Is there a way I can add a field to a form which would allow a supporter to enter their own background information (i.e. a short bio, special skills, etc) upon registration and have it populate the "Note" field automatically?
Many thanks.
When someone is logged into your nation, they can update their bio information by clicking the "account settings" link in the footer of the page.
You can also add a link to a supporter's account settings page in any page. Note that a person has to be logged in for these links to work.
Adding a link to a supporter's Account Settings on a page template
This is code that can be placed in a page template:
<a href="{{ request.current_signup.settings_url }}">Your call to action blurb, like: Set your fundraising goal!</a>
Please note: this code won't work if it is placed in the content editor pane. It must be placed under that page's Template tab.
Adding a link to a supporter's Account Settings on an email blast or auto-response
If you want to take new signups to their own account settings page to set up their fundraising goal with a targeted email blast or an auto-response, below are instructions:
<a href="{{ settings.site.full_url }}forms/signups/{{recipient.id}}/edit">Your call to action blurb, like: Set your fundraising goal!</a>
This is an example of what can be added into the body of an email. The code will need to be placed using the HTML button in the content editor pane.
Additional information on having people use their profile page as a personal fundraising page can be found in this FAQ: http://nationbuilder.com/how_can_i_set_up_personal_fundraising_pages
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It’s unlikely that we’ll be allowing users to log in to their profiles in the near future, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that, if it works, it will continue to do so.
And I’ll submit it as a feature request as well, as custom forms are something we could really benefit from.
Thanks again – you’ve given me a glimmer of hope! :)
That being said, it is possible to hack the form and submit into the bio field using the id “signup_bio” – the background section is id “signup_note” — you may want to test to see if the system will allow you to submit to it. Because these are hacks we do not generally support them, and can’t guarantee they will continue to work as new updates are made to these forms.
If you consider this to be a valuable feature, we recommend you submit it as a feature request in our suggestions page here: http://nationbuilder.com/suggest
Thanks.
We don’t allow supporters to log in to their profiles, so we need to capture that information at the point of registration. Can the “Background” section, which populates the “note” field in the CSV be populated with data entered in the registration form?