Constituencies

In The Raiser's Edge, constituencies define the affiliations that constituents have with your organization.

In Blackbaud NetCommunity, several part types include Constituency fields where you can select constituencies to associate with website users who submit data. For example, you can assign a constituency of Friend for users who donate on your website or a constituency of Event Participant for users who register for events. When you download data from these parts, the constituencies are added to the constituent records of website users on the Constituencies tab in The Raiser's Edge.

Note: The constituencies available in the Constituency fields are determined by the Constituencies code table in The Raiser's Edge. You can edit the entries in this code table from the Code Tables page in Administration. For information about how to manage constituencies, see the The Raiser's Edge help file.

Review the following information for details about the Constituency fields on various part types.

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User Login — The code applies to new and existing constituent records and is specific to each User Login part. For example, you can create separate login parts for subsites you create, such as multiple chapters. The constituency for a login part may be Atlanta Member.

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Donation Form — The constituency applies to new and existing constituents.

This is the same for the donation steps in a Personal Page Manager part.

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Event Registration Form — The constituency applies to new and existing event registrants.

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Personal Page Manager — This part contains two Constituency fields. The first field, located on the Step 1: Personal Page Options and Administrator Roles screen, downloads automatically to new and existing records in The Raiser's Edge. This constituency is typically used if you consider the personal page user constituency to be different than a regular Blackbaud NetCommunity user constituency.

The second Constituency field, located on the Step 2: User Login Form screen for a Personal Page Manager, applies to users who sign up using the personal page registration.