We have 137 parishes that our donors can donate to, each one is a designation (fund). We are able to do this in Luminate, we would like this same functionality in NXT. And also be able to name the designation, not just pull the fund description from the database (Luminate allows this).
Optimized form is meant to be a donor-friendly form, optimized for the donor experience. A dropdown of more than 10 funds is never donor friendly. We DO offer ways around this:
1. We offer a Website Component for Designation Search, where you can add your 137 funds and allow donors to select one that then "passes in" the designation into the donation form (optimized or standard.)
2. You can also build your own fund selection experience and pass in the fund ID and name to the donation forms for the donor to complete their payment. More info on how to do this can be found here: https://webfiles-sc1.blackbaud.com/files/support/helpfiles/tcs/content/donfm-link-params-tutorial.html
3. Our Standard Form does allow up to 1K funds to be added.
I am going to open this for voting to gauge interest, but I do not foresee us ever opening up the optimized form to this many funds within the donation form itself. I recommend you try any of the above options to get the same result!