Choose whether to view Campaign/Fund/Appeal Description or ID

I'd like to be able to choose whether to view the ID or the Description of a Campaign, Fund and Appeal. Also, I'd like to have the ability to filter the active and inactive ones within the list. If you're choosing the campaign, fund or appeal to view you really know yourself if it's active or inactive so what is the purpose if the Active filter?

  • Karen Stuhlfeier
  • Mar 30 2017
  • Reviewed: Voting Open
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  • Karen Johnson commented
    07 Oct 20:10

    As an administrator and not a fundraiser, this is very much needed. The description does nothing for me . . . we are driven by the ID for Appeals . . .

  • Diana Bronsema commented
    17 Sep 14:04

    Seeing ID over description is completely necessary. My donation processing team only uses the IDs, not the descriptions. Not being able to see the ID or search by it is very annoying and makes things near impossible.

  • Dariel Dixon commented
    27 May 15:16

    This is so necessary. Many users are trained to use IDs because it makes the process simpler, and often times we have records with similar descriptions. Using IDs allows users to go directly to the record they are looking for.

  • JoAnn Strommen commented
    21 May 14:37

    Need to be able to work with ID's. Especially with large displays in web view, descriptions are too lengthy in many cases.

  • Karen Diener commented
    21 May 12:07

    This idea was posted A LONG TIME AGO Blackbaud! For many users, this prevents them from being able to easily adopt webview, because naming conventions for IDs and Descriptions are usually established carefully and cannot be easily changed. This needs to be part of webview and prioritized OVER new bells and whistles.

  • Guest commented
    20 May 23:56

    !OVERSIZED WEB VIEW INTERFACE! | SIZE DOWN

    What do you all think about the oversized web view interface? As a database manager, I find it hard to catch the finer details when everything is zoomed in and spaced out. For data work, we need a more compact view to scan things line by line.

    Blackbaud can you add a toggle or display setting to adjust the interface size for better visibility and detail? VOTE, Vote, vote!

  • Robyn Swiderski commented
    20 May 22:33

    Our gift processing team knows the appeal ID and can quickly code gifts this way. Seeing only the appeal description is much more cumbersome for us and slows down our gift processing. Please consider allowing us to use the APPEAL ID.

  • Guest commented
    18 Mar 13:48

    our gift processing department exclusively use appeal and fund codes. The names are of no use to us at all. Would really appreciate a setting to be able to choose which we want to display, both in the Giving tile on the Constituent and on the Gift record itself

  • Jerica Price commented
    March 08, 2021 21:46

    Mary Ewing, I second your note about the descriptions being useless. I my organization, the IDs are the user-friendly identifier. The option to view the IDs rather than Descriptions needs to be available.

  • Mary Ewing commented
    August 10, 2020 23:01

    In our organization, Appeal IDs have always been used to create analyses of appeal successes based on number of responses and donations received in response to each appeal. The IDs are far less cumbersome than the general descriptions which, in our case, are too lengthy and difficult to query on. The descriptions are basically useless except to understand the focus should it vary.

    If there's one thing that's most annoying about NXT it's the use of Appeal, Fund and Campaign descriptions rather than IDs.

  • Dave Curtis commented
    June 08, 2017 13:16

    Our staff is much more fluent in identifying appeals by ID rather than description. Allowing for this option would save us regular reference back to the database, or a card we have created, to identify the description.

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