Author Topic: PCP bugs - Contribution button/text doesn't appear - and two other issues (Read 3359 times)

bcobin · January 16, 2009, 01:00:28 pm

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1. As states in the title - the Contribute button doesn't appear and the text (e.g. "Contribute Now") isn't stored. No button? Big problem!

2. Another small point: the uploaded picture is scaled without aspect ratio being taken into account. ("Fun House" effects...)

3. It seems that the only two ways to create a contribution page are by contributing, or by visiting another contribution page. Is this correct? There should be a way to have a link anywhere in the site where a visitor could just create their own fundraising page - or am I missing something?

Overall, very excited to use this - let's hope we're almost there! Thanks!

Dave Greenberg · January 16, 2009, 04:04:14 pm

RE: #1
Hmm - are you testing on the "sandbox" or

I logged into the sandbox and can see that a number of folks have created new PCP's. All of them have the contribution button showing (and most have customized the default text - so I can tell that saving a value is working). For example:

http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/pcp/info?reset=1&id=3

RE: #2 The "scaling" was a first (poor) attempt to set limits on image size. The current code (on sandbox now) enforces a maximum size on the upload ("Maximum size is 360 x 360 pixels") and does not do scaling.

RE: #3 You can include a link to create a PCP anywhere on your site. The link format is:
http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/campaign?action=add&reset=1&pageId=1

... where pageId is the ID of the online contribution page that is being promoted by the supporter (i.e. the linked main campaign). So, like links to you contribution and event pages, you can put this anywhere.

Note that we had originally automatically included the "Create your own fundraising page" link on the initial page of Online Contribution pages which had PCP enabled. However, folks pointed out that this might "distract" someone who had come to make a contribution from actually doing that. If you "disagree" - you can always include a "Create a personal fundraising page" link within the introductory text of your contrib page.

bcobin · January 16, 2009, 05:32:11 pm

Quote from: Dave Greenberg on January 16, 2009, 04:04:14 pm

RE: #1
Hmm - are you testing on the "sandbox" or

No - I'm testing on a fresh 2.2.alpha1 install. I'm enclosing screenshots here of the Firebug output of my install and that of the sandbox - you'll clearly see the difference.

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I logged into the sandbox and can see that a number of folks have created new PCP's. All of them have the contribution button showing (and most have customized the default text - so I can tell that saving a value is working). For example:

http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/pcp/info?reset=1&id=3

Sure - the sandbox is OK. It looks like there's clearly a difference between what's running on the sandbox and the alpha1 release (hey, that's why it's called "alpha!")

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RE: #2 The "scaling" was a first (poor) attempt to set limits on image size. The current code (on sandbox now) enforces a maximum size on the upload ("Maximum size is 360 x 360 pixels") and does not do scaling.

Cool. So I guess what's running on the sandbox is different from the "release!"

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RE: #3 You can include a link to create a PCP anywhere on your site. The link format is:
http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/campaign?action=add&reset=1&pageId=1

... where pageId is the ID of the online contribution page that is being promoted by the supporter (i.e. the linked main campaign). So, like links to you contribution and event pages, you can put this anywhere.

Note that we had originally automatically included the "Create your own fundraising page" link on the initial page of Online Contribution pages which had PCP enabled. However, folks pointed out that this might "distract" someone who had come to make a contribution from actually doing that. If you "disagree" - you can always include a "Create a personal fundraising page" link within the introductory text of your contrib page.

Thanks - I actually stopped poking around when I hit the button thing - looking forward very much to using this - great work, and thanks for the quick reply!

bcobin · January 17, 2009, 09:17:30 pm

This is strange... today, it works. Button appears and everything. Been working on the main site and I don't know what changed - perhaps the site just needed to reinitialize.

The contribution always connects to the "Live" page, so the process generates a security error at validation, but one could work around that. Very exciting - will be diving in further - thanks for some great work!

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