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I have been reviewing a lot of use cases for CiviContribute lately, and the one thing that did not make sense to me was why there is not a field in when setting up contribution pages for source code. Contribution records allow for source codes per contribution, so it seemed a logical feature that contribution pages have a source code field.

I understand that CiviCRM allows people to search for contributions by contribution page, but if an organization is exporting contribution info to import into another system they will want a source code for where that contribution came from. This seems like a small feature which can be added in the next release of CiviCRM and there may be code that an organization/developer/firm has already developed which can do this.

Check:

http://civicrm.org/node/562

which attempts to address this question a wee bit. I suspect we'll introduce a campaign object that stores this data in a future release (would be great for trellon to sponsor / work on this module)

note that contribution does have  a source field that can be used to store a source code.

lobo

We are looking at options for doing this for a client now. I will let you know if we run into any issues. If we are successful, we definitely will contribute the code back to the project.

Will do. I will set up that page and the redirect field page now. Thanks for the advise.