Add Parameters to Hosted URLs

If you are unable to place a donation form on your organization's website, you can add parameters for designation and appeal to the form's Blackbaud-hosted URL, after you find the IDs.

Note: You can add only one designation and appeal to a URL.

1. In Online Giving, select All donation forms under Related links.

2. Select the form.

3. Select Publish.

   • For a Standard Form, select Launch form from its URL. Next, select Copy URL.

   • For an Optimized Form, select Hosted URL. Next, select Copy URL.

4. From an HTML or text editor, add parameters to the URL.

   • For a designation, add &desid=ID to the end of the URL. Replace "ID" with the designation's ID. For example,

     https://www.bb.com/donor-form?svcid=renxt&formId=8aa3b1c7-e4ad-4ee5-adff-e40efa81aae8&envid=t-Z-FEhKwLvkGVGjTCcbBMEA&zone=usa&desid=48923

     Tip: To display the designation's name on a donation form, add &desname=Name after &desid=ID. Replace "Name" with the appropriate name for the designation. For example, https://www.bb.com/donor-form?svcid=renxt&formId=8aa3b1c7-e4ad-4ee5-adff-e40efa81aae8&envid=t-Z-FEhKwLvkGVGjTCcbBMEA&zone=usa&desid=48923&desname=2023 General Fund. The designation name isn't associated with the gift, but it lets you to use donor-friendly names when your designations have a naming convention, such as 2023-GenFund. Additionally, if the name you use has spaces those are automatically replaced with %20 when you use the URL.

   • For an appeal, add appealid=ID to the end of the URL. Replace "ID" with the appeal's ID. For example, https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/adaptive-donor-form?formId=86a0c128-4364-460a-baff-5bddb1c7f3b5&envid=t-Z-FEhKwLvkGVGjTCcbBMEA&zone=usa&appealid=5