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Hi, and thanks:

i've been at this for days, and i'm so frustrated, i'm ready to kill something


I am trying to make a CiviCRM website for a political candidate, and i am looking to add 2 things to my drupal/civiCRM site:

I am looking to make a page with 2 forms: a newsletter sign up, and a volunteer sign up page... and i'm trying to integrate those 2 forms also into civiContribution, and into civiEvents as well.

I have made 2 groups, a "volunteer" group and a "newsletter" group, so the contact information can be collected, etc... I also have 2 profiles set up with the forms ready to go, each of the profiles set up to dump the contact information into the respective groups...

I can't set it up so that there is a a profile where people can select whether or not they can be defined into a group (ie: join the "newsletter" group, thus subscribe)


there is so much information about "volunteer sign up forms" and "newsletters" but nothing about taking these critical web elements, and turning them into a web page in drupal....

what on earth do i do?!??!

I am looking to make a page with 2 forms: a newsletter sign up, and a volunteer sign up page... and i'm trying to integrate those 2 forms also into civiContribution, and into civiEvents as well.

I have made 2 groups, a "volunteer" group and a "newsletter" group, so the contact information can be collected, etc... I also have 2 profiles set up with the forms ready to go, each of the profiles set up to dump the contact information into the respective groups...

I can't set it up so that there is a a profile where people can select whether or not they can be defined into a group (ie: join the "newsletter" group, thus subscribe)

there is so much information about "volunteer sign up forms" and "newsletters" but nothing about taking these critical web elements, and turning them into a web page in drupal....

If you have two CiviCRM Profiles that include the fields you want for both functions, you can embed them in any Online Contribution Page using the "Include Profiles" configuration option from "Configure Contribution Page". You can also embed one or both in the Online Registration configuration for any Event (Configure Event >> Online Registration >> Include Profiles).

If you want to link to them as separate forms, just take the "link" displayed at the bottom of each Profile's Settings page and add it as a Drupal menu option and / or links in Drupal content pages. You can also include them for New User Registration (from the Profile Settings page - Used For = User Registration.

I think most of this is covered in the Collecting and Exposing Data chapter of the online book "Understanding CiviCRM" - http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/CapturingExposing

I responded on IRC:
[14:01] <dgg> zafar: to add newsletter subscription to online contrib pages you need to create a "Newsletter" group w/ public visibility. Then include the "Groups" field in a Profile. Then include that Profile in your online contribution page.
[14:02] <dgg> more info in the user guide
[14:02] <dgg> http://book.civicrm.org/user/email/setup
[14:02] <dgg> and http://book.civicrm.org/user/contributions/setup

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