This section briefly describes each part type available in Parts.
Alumni Class Notes (Deprecated) – The Alumni Class Notes part will be replaced with the more powerful Personal Notes part in an upcoming release. While this part continues to function for now, we recommend that you use the Personal Notes part instead. The Personal Notes part includes all the functionality of the Alumni Class Notes part. In addition, with personal notes, you can select the note topics to display and you can give site users the ability to search and manage their personal notes. You can have multiple Personal Notes parts on your website while you can have only one Alumni Class Notes part. For more information about the Personal Notes part, see Personal Notes.
Anonymous Newsletter Subscription – With the Anonymous Newsletter Subscription part, website visitors can subscribe to a newsletter without becoming a registered user on your website. Because the subscriber does not create a user account, no sign-up transaction or constituent record is created in The Raiser's Edge.
Change User ID/Password – With the Change User ID/Password part, website users can change their user IDs and passwords in the program without affecting the user IDs and passwords for integrated Blackbaud programs.
Chapter Links Part – With the Chapter Links part, you can add links on the website home page, which managers and members can click to access a chapter site. Managers and members only view the links to chapters when they are members. We recommend you create only one Chapter Links for your Chapter Manager part.
Chapter Management – With the Chapter Manager part, you can include “subsites” within your website. You can use a Chapter Manager part to create separate web pages for local or regional chapters. For example, an alumni association can use the part to create web pages for individual alumni classes or the different colleges established at one school, such as the College of Architecture. Your website contains the Chapter Manager part. However, the Chapter Manager part groups its pages together in a separate subsite organization.
Chapter Page Element Types – With the Chapter Page Element part, you can add sections to a dynamic web page that can be customized for a chapter manager’s use. These web pages are personal pages for the manager. Individuals who support the manager visit the page to learn more about the manager’s involvement with your chapter and to make donations. Web pages that use Chapter Page Element parts also contain static sections that are other parts. Use these sections to create defaults for your organization that you want on every chapter manager’s personal page.
Content Comparison – With the Content Comparison part, you can measure the effectiveness of appeals to your website users. For example, you can create Formatted Text and Images parts to promote an event or to solicit donations. The Content Comparison part displays these parts at random to your website users and tracks the click-through rate from each part to a target page with an event registration form or donation form. The comparison continues until the Content Comparison part determines the most effective Formatted Text and Images part. Then it displays only that part.
Directory – With the Directory part, website users can browse constituent information from your database. For example, you create and save a query for the Class of 2000 in The Raiser's Edge. You use this query to create a directory on the website. You can include the fields website visitors can use as a search tool, such as First Name and Gender. You can also select the fields to appear on your web page if the user’s search finds results. For example, you can select to display First Name, Last name, Address Line 1, City, and State for your Directory page results.
Discussion Group – With the Discussion Group part, you can create an electronic bulletin board for interactive discussion by your website users. For example, you can create a Reunion 2010 Discussion Group for your alumni to participate in discussions, such as to plan events and arrange to meet with old friends. On this electronic bulletin board, website users can submit new topics or add responses to an existing topic. Your organization can create multiple Discussion Group parts to post on your website. Users with manager rights can approve and delete topics.
Documents – With the Documents part, you can easily upload documents of any type to your website and share the information. For example, you can upload a Microsoft Word document (*.doc file type) of your board meeting minutes. You can include a message to appear on the website page to provide details about the information the document contains. For your board meeting minutes Word document, you can include “Board Meeting minutes from 05/05/2007. If you have questions or comments, please call the office.” Users with manager rights can approve and delete uploaded documents.
Donation Form – With the Donation Form part, website users can donate to your organization through your website. When you create a Donation Form part, you select the fund and giving levels for your web donations. When you select a Donation Form part on a web page, a donation form appears and uses the selected fund and giving level information. The Donation Form part also contains an Acknowledgement screen. On this screen, you can create a standard email to send to donors who use the donation form.
eCards – With the eCards part, website users can send personalized eCards your organization provides to others. An eCard is an email message that contains content from a selected template or a link to a web page that contains the template content. On your website, users select the template to base the eCard on and personalize the content for the recipient. eCards can promote your organization and drive new visitors to your website to help build your online community.
Email Forwarding Form – With the Email Forwarding Form part, website users can establish an email address that never changes. With this part, users can sign up and create a lifelong email address that is forwarded to an address they select. If their address changes, they can change the forwarding address and other users never know and do not need to keep up with changes.
Email Reports – With the Report (Email) part, you can create reports about email sent through the program.
Event Calendar – With the Event Calendar part, you can add calendars to your website. The Event Calendar part can:
| • | Act as a standalone calendar. For example, the academic departments at your school manage their own calendars on your website. Each department can create and maintain a separate Event Calendar part for its calendar. |
| • | Work as a sub-calendar that feeds events to a larger organizational calendar. For example, your website has a main calendar that lists events for all areas of the school. With an Event Calendar Group part, each departmental calendar can feed events from its Event Calendar part into the main calendar for the school. |
Event Calendar Group – With the Event Calendar Group part, you can create a top-level calendar that receives events from smaller sub-calendars created with Event Calendar parts. For example, the academic departments, athletic department, and alumni association at your school each maintain a calendar on your website. Your website has a main calendar that includes events for all areas of the school. The departments and alumni association use Event Calendar parts to create their own calendars. You can then create an Event Calendar group for the main school calendar and assign the department and alumni calendars as sub-calendars of that group.
Event Calendar Highlights – With the Event Calendar Highlights part, you can display short descriptions of upcoming or prior events on any web page. The display includes the event name, date, and time and may also include a link to the event calendar where the user can view more details about the event. You can select the calendars that feed into the highlights and when to include events.
Event Registration Form (Classic) – With the Event Registration Form (Legacy) part, website users can register for events online. This information links directly to information in The Raiser's Edge.
Flash Player – With the Flash Player part, you can display dynamic, multimedia content on your website with Flash technology. Flash files can support audio and video to allow interaction with web pages. You can use the Flash Player part to add animation or integrate video into your website.
Form Display – With the Form Display part, you can create a landing page to display the online forms you create in Forms. With these online forms, you can collect various data from your website users. On this part, you select the forms to include on the web page, enter display names for the forms, and set the display order. You also configure user login options for the web page.
Formatted Text and Images – With the Formatted Text and Images part, you can include text and images from Image library on your web pages. To write general text information for your website, select this for your content. The URL begins with “http” when site users access web pages that use this part.
Formatted Text and Images (Secured) – The Formatted Text and Images (Secured) part is the same as the Formatted Text and Images part with the additional ability to secure the page’s content using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). When the secured part is on a page, the page’s URL starts with “https”. To design a Formatted Text and Images (Secured) part type, follow the same steps as the Formatted Text and Images part.
Frame – With the Frame part, you can store a live web page from another website on your site. This part is helpful when you migrate from one website to a new one. For example, you can store pages from your organization’s old website in a frame for your new website.
Team Fundraising – With the Fundraiser part, you can generate an interactive set of web pages that drives volunteers, participants, donors, solicitors, and others to your site. This part brings awareness to a particular cause and typically centers around an event. Using a Fundraiser part, you can designate a recipient fund for the fundraiser, allow solicitors and visitors to sign up as captains or team members, select customizable parts for participants to select when they design personal pages, and link a donation page where visitors contribute. In addition, you can link events to your fundraiser and generate welcome, acknowledgement, and forgotten password email. The Fundraiser part contains many more features. To prepare, plan, and take advantage of all features available for your organization, it is important you review the information about the fundraiser.
Fundraiser Dashboard – With the Fundraiser Dashboard part, you can display current information about the progress of a fundraiser on your website. The dashboard contains a series of graphs to display information such as donation totals, best performing participants and teams, a breakdown of online and offline gifts, event pricing and totals, and email activity.
Fundraiser Page Element Types – With the Fundraiser Page Element part, you can add sections to a Fundraiser part that are customizable for a participant’s or solicitor’s use. These web pages are personal pages for the participant. Supporters visit the page to learn more about your organization and the participant’s involvement with the organization. When you create a Fundraiser part, you select the Fundraiser Page Element parts to include on your site. When you select multiple Fundraiser Page Element part, you can offer participants a personal page of their preference.
Fundraiser Reports – With the Report (Fundraiser) part, you can create a summary report about the progress of multiple fundraisers. The report displays information graphically in a 3-D bar graph chart, textually in table format, or both.
Giving Search – Create a Giving Search part to provide an online fund search for donors. Donors use the search to find a fund and make a donation. When the search results appear, a donor clicks the fund to navigate to the donation page. When you create the Giving Search part, you can select a query of funds from The Raiser's Edge so donors do not search all funds in your database.
Giving Search – Create a Giving Search part to provide an online designation search for donors. Donors use the search to find a designation and make a donation. When the search results appear, a donor clicks the designation to navigate to the donation page. When you create the Giving Search part, you can select a query of designations from The Raiser's Edge so donors do not search all designations in your database.
Job Board – With the Job Board part, you can create an area on your website so users can post and search job postings. When you create this part, you customize the name, captions, and messages for the Job Board. Users with manager rights can approve and delete postings.
Language Selector – The Language Selector part displays a Language drop down field on your website. A website user selects a language preference from the field on the web page. After the user selects the language, the page renders localized text. You enter the localized text for the language on the part’s Language tab.
LinkedIn Group Join – With the LinkedIn Group Join part, you can invite website users to join your LinkedIn groups. After users join a group, the part displays an option to view the group on LinkedIn. This provides a way to promote, market, and increase membership to your organization’s official LinkedIn groups.
Membership Form – With the Membership Form part, you can design a membership web page and solicit for new members on your website. When you design the membership page, you decide the membership categories to advertise online. You can create links to renew existing memberships, allow gifts of membership, and customize the confirmation message for your web users.
Menu (Deprecated) – The Menu (Deprecated) part was replaced in version 6.10 with the more powerful Menu part. The Menu (Deprecated) part type appears in Parts only if you have saved Menu (Deprecated) parts. While the deprecated part continues to operate for backwards compatibility on your website, you can no longer create or copy Menu (Deprecated) parts. The Menu part includes all the functionality of the Menu (Deprecated) part. In addition, the Menu part supports standards for Website Accessibility (WAI) and includes a number of standard style options without the use of CSS. It also includes an import tool to help upgrade your Menu (Deprecated) parts. For more information, see Menu.
Menu – With the Menu part, you can create a menu for your website. When you visit Blackbaud’s website and hover over the Products menu, a popup menu appears. The popup menu includes menu items such as Internet Solutions and Fundraising. You can create a similar menu for your website using Menu. You select standard CSS style options, such as Border color and Font color, easily in a Menu part. You do not have to create custom CSS for Menu menus, but you can create custom styles if necessary.
My Friends – With a My Friends part, website users who visit a Personal Page, a Fundraiser Page, or a Profile Display page can view the online relationships of the member or group associated with the page. For example, you can design My Friends parts for a Profile Display page to display the friends and groups of a user networking member. When a website user visits that member’s profile page, a “Friends” and “Groups” panels appear to display the profile images of the member’s online relationships. You can also design My Friends parts to display the friends and groups shared between the user who visits the page and the user associated with the page.
Navigation Buttons – With the Navigation Button part, you can create or edit a navigation bar. Buttons on a navigation bar honor security. For example, if you have a Board Members Only page, only website users logged in as a Board Member can view a button on the navigation bar used to access this page.
News Reader – With the News Reader part, you can display Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom content on your website. These are XML-based formats used to distribute web information. For example, if your organization is health-related, you can create a web page for health tips and include a News Reader part that includes news headline feeds from other health-related websites. The News Reader part and RSS or Atom content provide a way to automatically include these headlines on your website.
The program supports RSS versions 0.9, 1.0, and 2.0 and Atom version .3.
Page Sharing – To allow website users to easily notify others about content on a web page create a Page Sharing part. Using this part, website users can use social networking web services such as Digg or delicious to share your content and help promote your website.
Payment – With the Payment part, you can process multiple transactions with a single charge. For example, website users can pay for donations, event registrations, and memberships at the same time. You can add a payment page to the Donation Form, Event Registration Form, and Membership Form parts. The Payment part displays all outstanding transactions for website users. From the Payment part, you can also design a confirmation screen and acknowledgement email.
Payment Summary – With the Payment Summary part, website users can view useful information about payment pages that you create with the Payment part. The summary can display the number of transactions and the total cost. It can also provide a link to the payment page. When you add summary with a link to a page template, website users can access payment pages from any web pages that uses the template. You can use merge fields to display different text according to whether the page contains any transactions.
Payment 2.0 – With the Payment 2.0 part, you can process multiple transactions with a single charge. For example, website users can pay for donations, and event registrations at the same time. The Payment 2.0 part creates a shopping cart, and you can route transactions to it from any part that accepts payments. When users leave the website without paying, their transactions remain in the shopping cart. From the Payment 2.0 part, you can also design a confirmation screen and acknowledgement email.
Payment Summary 2.0 — Payment Summary 2.0 part works with Payment 2.0 parts to provide website users a summary view of their payments. The payment summary can display the number of items on a payment page and the total cost for the items. It can also provide a link to view the payment page and pay for transactions. You can also include a summary grid that lists the items added to the cart and provides a brief description of each. When you add a link and place the summary on a page template, a website user can access the payment page from any web page that uses that template.
Personal Notes – With the Personal Notes part, you can display contents from the Notes tab of a constituent record on your site. You can display all note types or a select group of note types. Using this part, a site user searches notes for himself or other constituents. In addition, the user can manage his personal notes, such as to add, edit, or delete a personal note on his record. A user cannot change a note for another constituent.
Personal Pages– With the Personal Page Manager part, you can create templates so website users can create personal pages. Personal pages are personalized pages supporters can set up on your website to help communicate information about your organization’s mission. Personal pages can contain several features, including weblogs, news readers, photo galleries, report abuse actions, comment boards, and simple or rich text.
Personal Page Element Types – With the Personal Page Element part, you can add dynamic sections to a web page that is customizable for individual use. These web pages become personal pages for any website user to whom you grant rights. Individuals who create personal pages using Personal Page Element parts have multiple reasons for the page. For example, someone who is ill would like to create a care page for family and friends to visit. When someone has a personal page on your site, other people who support or know the individual visit the personal page to learn more about his or her relationship with your organization.
Poll – Use the Poll part to create a simple poll or survey. A poll may ask a trivia question or who users predict to win a race. After the website user submits an answer, the program calculates the poll results and displays them on the site.
Profile Display – With the Profile Display part, you can create a read-only user profile that displays biographical, address, and contact information. You select the fields to include in the profile. The profile can display information for only the logged-in user, or it can link to a directory so it displays information for any person selected in the directory.
Profile Form – With the Profile Form part, website users can enter biographical information on your website Profile page. To track current information and solicit the user for a donation, you can download the information the user enters to The Raiser's Edge. For example, Jane Compton is a member of the Class of 1988. When she visits your website, she navigates to your Profile page and enters her full name, current address, and spouse information. You can download the information she enters on your website directly to The Raiser's Edge.
Quick Search – With the Quick Search part, you can search other parts on your website: Formatted Text and Images, Formatted Text and Images (Secured), Discussion Group, Event Calendar, Job Board, and Weblogs. When you add a Quick Search part to your web page, a text box with a search button appears so site users can search for information on your website. You must select a page where search results appear. To use the Quick Search part, you must have Microsoft’s Full-Text Search on your web server.
Scrolling Donor Display – Use the Scrolling Donor Display part to recognize donors on your website. The part includes a scrolling list of donors (sometimes referred to as a donor wall) for a Fundraiser. You can customize the list by options such as the scrolling direction, play and pause buttons, and gift types to include.
Search – With the Search part, you can search other parts on your website: Formatted Text and Images, Formatted Text and Images (Secured), Discussion Group, Event Calendar, Job Board, and Weblogs. When you add a Search part to your web page, a field name, text box, and search button appear so site users can search for information on your website. Search results appear automatically below your Search part on the web page. To use a Search part on your website, you must have Microsoft’s Full-Text Search on your web server.
Note: The primary difference between the Quick Search and Search parts is the way results appear on your site. With a Quick Search part, you select a web page for results to appear on. With a Search part, results appear automatically below your Search part. You can add a Quick Search part to a web page template. However, we recommend you not add a Search part to a template.
Slideshow – With the Slideshow part, you can create a slideshow presentation of graphics on your website.
Suggested Content – With the Suggested Content part, you can create recommendations for website users to visit other areas of your website. The part uses tags and user interests to determine the content to recommend. It displays links and summaries for the suggested content, and it updates recommendations as you update the website.
Survey – With the Survey part, you can create an online survey for your website visitors. You can add several types of survey questions in multiple formats and download constituent survey responses to The Raiser’s Edge.
Tag Display – With the Tag Display part, you can improve overall site navigation by including tags. Tags are keywords or phrases that identify the information on a page. When a user clicks a tag, a search results page appears. The results include links to all pages with the selected tag so that the user can access related content on your site.
Targeted Content– With the Targeted Content part, you can display specific information on a web page depending on who reads it. Roles define who sees the part.
Transaction Manager – With the Transaction Manager part, you can create and display a giving history for your organization’s donors. You can include pending transactions from your website along with offline gifts. You can enter criteria to filter gifts in the giving history, or you can filter gifts with a query from The Raiser's Edge. In addition, you can customize the appearance and content in the transaction manager.
Unformatted Text - Use the Unformatted Text part to embed HTML text or scripts on a page. For example, you can paste in the embed code provided by YouTube to display a video. You can also use this part to enable Google Analytics E-Commerce tracking features.
User Education Profile Form – With the User Education Profile part, website users can update their education information online. You select the fields of information to appear on the display and on the update form.
Note: If you use Alumni Tracking for The Raiser’s Edge, use the Education Profile Form.
User Email Preferences Form – With the User Email Preferences Form part, you can add a subscription page on your website. With this form, a user can subscribe to or unsubscribe from newsletters or select a checkbox to opt out of all email from your organization. If you set “Everyone” security for the part, nonmembers and members who are not logged in can access this subscription form.
User Interests Form – With the User Interest Form part, you can create a web page that captures a website user’s interests. You can download the information about website users to The Raiser's Edge. You can use this information to raise funds and create awareness for your organization. For example, if many website users select Wine Tasting on your User Interests Form web page, you can host a wine-tasting event in your community.
User Link Module – With a User Link Module part, website users can perform user networking actions from a Personal Page, a Fundraiser Page, or a Profile Display for an individual or a user networking group. On these pages, members view only the links for their applicable actions. For example, Mark is a team captain for a fundraiser and is also a user networking group owner. When Mark logs into his Fundraiser page, links to user networking group owner tasks appear, in addition to user networking member tasks.
User Login – With the User Login part, you can control the areas users access on your website. When a user logs in, the user login determines the roles the user is in and the features the user has security rights to access. You can create separate login parts for any subsite you create, such as a subsite for chapters.
You can add forms to the user login for new user registrations, forgotten passwords, and forgotten user IDs. You can also create email to send to users to acknowledge their registration or to provide a forgotten password or user ID.
User Networking Manager – With the User Networking Manager part, you can create and design a socially interactive site that drives users to your organization’s website to manage online relationships. When you design the User Networking Manager part, you can configure the user networking accounts so website users can send messages, make friends or groups with like-minded users, and upload photos to online accounts.
User Photos Form – With the User Photos Form part, you can allow website users to select photos from Image library to publish on their profile pages. For example, you can enable alumni to include photos in their website profiles.
Volunteer Opportunity – If you use Volunteer Management for The Raiser’s Edge, you can use the Volunteer Opportunity part to display a list of jobs on your website. A website user can learn about your volunteer jobs, sign up for a job, and enter data relative to the job. For example, the volunteer can provide emergency contact information, special skills, and needs and inform you of medical needs.
Volunteer transactions appear on the NetCommunity page in The Raiser’s Edge. When you download a volunteer transaction, the data appears on the Volunteer tab of the website user’s constituent record. The Raiser’s Edge automatically creates a job assignment for the user. For more information, see Volunteer Requests.
Weblog – With the Weblog part, you can create an area on your website to collect or share information that pertains to your organization. This ranges from your organization’s news to appeals sent to your alumni to links to other related websites. Program and website users who have security rights can update a Weblog part.
Web Traffic Reports – With the Report (Web Traffic) part, you can create reports with statistics about your website’s traffic.