VolunteerSignup Pages

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On this page:

• Creating a new volunteer signup
• To use a container or not?
• The “Volunteer Signup Container” Content Block
• The “Volunteer Signup Form” Content Block
• NationBuilder Settings for Volunteer Signups
  • User Settings
  • Configuration Settings
  • SMS Settings

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Creating a new volunteer signup

From the CloudCannon dashbaord, click “Signup” to view all existing volunteersignup pages. To create a new page, you could click the orange “Add” button in the top right corner.

You can also duplicate an existing signup. To do this, right click the top-right corner of an existing signup page you want to copy, and select “clone item”.

To use a container or not?

The “Container” content block will allow you to add a background color or image to a section of your page. To do this, click “Add Content Block” in the left panel, and select “Container”. You can then set the background color and image of the container, along with some margins and padding. You can then add more content blocks inside this container under “Inner Components”

If you would like your content on a white background, you should be able to add content blocks directly to the page without nesting them inside a container. The components will respect the maximum width of the page content. There may be some special circumstances where you would want to use a container even if the background color is white. For example, if you want to customize the padding, or set the width to be extra wide or extra narrow.

The “Volunteer Signup Container” Content Block

The “Volunteer Signup Container” functions exactly like the “Container” content block, but it is specifically designed to hold the content for a volunteersignup form. Inner blocks created for other page types are omitted from the “inner components” options for simplicity.

The “Volunteer Signup Form” Content Block

The “Volunteer Signup Form” content block is used to place a signup form on the page. Settings in this component allow you to change some of the copy that displays before and after the user has signed up.

NationBuilder Settings for Volunteer Signups

Click the gear icon in the bottom right corner to open the NationBuilder Settings drawer. These settings will allow you to change how you view the page in CloudCannon, but you will need to also adjust these settings in NationBuilder when you create the live page.

User Settings

These toggle buttons change the view of the page to replicate whether the user is logged in. “Sorta logged in” refers to when the user has not actually logged in with their credentials, but NationBuilder can detect the user based on other factors.

For volunteer signups, set the profile to “Volunteer” to see the page as it would look after the user has submitted the form.

Configuration Settings

The “Ask for Phone” and “Ask for address inputs will adjust which form fields will display in the form. Updating these settings is for display purposes only, you will need to adjust these settings in NationBuilder under “Volunteer Settings -> Basics”.

Set some values for the “Tag” inputs to view how the form will look with some volunteer roles. This is for testing and review purposes only, as the actual values will be set in NationBuilder under “Volunteer Settings -> Roles”

SMS Settings

displays the text “Text ___ to sign” below the submit button. This replicates what would display in NationBuilder if a text keyword is added to the form. This setting is adjusted in NationBuilder under “Volunteer Settings -> Text Keywords”. Leave blank to omit.