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Hi,

I've set up CiviCRM and everything is working fine, except a little problem with CiviContribute. I've created several contribution pages for collecting donations to different funds. I also have some offline data in a csv file that I want to import into the system. However, in step 2 "Matching fields", there's no field for specifying which fund each donation goes to.

I also checked the search criteria on the "find contributions" page. It seems the field closest to what I need is "contribution page", which is the name of the page for collecting contributions. However, this field is not exposed to the importing interface. Can anyone give me a hint how to do what I want? Thanks!

Thanks. What I did was putting every fund under the built-in "donation" type. But I now think new types for each fund is a better idea.

There are probably several ways to accomplish this - although most (all?) will require some additional coding / use of CiviCRM API's and "hooks".

Relatively simple approach is to extend the core Contribution record with a custom field which indicates the project. Then you could expose that field on a single Online Contribution page and allow users to select it. You could also pass that custom field value into the page via URL (let's say from CMS pages which describe the projects in detail).

Depending on where / how you want to display the progress bars, you'll probably need to do a custom CMS page that uses the CiviCRM APIs to aggregate totals - grouped by the custom "project" field. There are 2 existing progress bar implementations in the codebase - one for the Personal Campaign Pages feature, and one in the flash CiviContribute widget. However I don't think either of them is quite what you need - but they could provide examples.

You might also want to explore the Personal Campaign pages feature and see if you could re-purpose / tweak that for your project-centric fund-raising.