Lists
Lists are Donorfy's way of producing a query, enabling you to find answers to your questions about transactions, create mailing lists, find out how fundraising pages are performing, or which organisations fulfil the criteria for an opportunity ask, create campaign segments and more....
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Lists Overview
Lists provide a way to view the information about constituents and financials within your database. The Lists within Donorfy cover the following areas: Constituent List Activity List Campaign List Fundraising Page List Connection List Constituent...
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Introducing Background Lists
Background Lists is a newly added option to retrieve data from your Donorfy. It uses all of the same functionality as Lists but it compiles it differently and runs it in the background of Donorfy which makes it a swifter option when working with l...
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Creating a new List
Lists give you a way to view the information in your database. When you create a List you need to ask yourself what you want a List of - such as: I need a list of people who are tagged with "volunteer" - that would be a Constituent List I need to...
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List Tags - Categorising and Organising your Lists
You can create Tags for your lists so that they can be categorised and organised. Creating List Tags These tags are set up as follows: Open Settings > Configuration > Tags & Tag Categories Click on the option Tags for organising Lists You will ...
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Using Dynamic Date Filters with Lists
When adding a filter to a list using a date field Donorfy allows you set up a filter that is dynamically applied based on the current date. For example, suppose you wanted to list all donations received today you could create a filter using the fi...
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Downloading a List
All Lists in Donorfy can be quickly and easily downloaded so that you can either create a mailing, use in a report, undertake further analysis, etc... You can choose which columns are included in your download by: Choosing the columns you using t...
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Creating a Report from a List
You can create a report from a list or a search in Donorfy by clicking on the Prepare Report button - highlighted in the screenshot yellow below. If your list is displayed as a Grid (by pressing the button highlighted in green below) you can choos...
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Archiving All Constituents on a List
If you would like to mass archive constituents, then this can be done via a Constituent List. Firstly to be able to use this function you will need either be an Administrator or a Standard User with the 'Can archive constituents from list' permis...
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List Management
This article covers deleting and copying a list. Deleting a List From time to time it may be necessary to delete a list or a number of lists that are no longer required. To do this, you will need to open the List that you would like to delete. ...
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Understanding Transaction Lists
Transaction Lists are useful for giving you information about the financial income within your Donorfy, but to make use of them you should understand what they're showing you. In Donorfy, a Transaction is made up of two 'halves' - the Payment (e.g...
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Constituent Giving Stats available within Lists
Constituent Lists and Campaign Lists contain a number of fields relating to the financial contributions that have been made. When you create a List you'll want to know what the various fields mean so that can (a) use the ones you want to filter yo...
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Constituent List
A Constituent List allows you to ask questions of your Donorfy based on a Constituent's Profile, such as contact details, Tags, comms purposes and financial summary data and is used as the basis for syncing data to MailChimp. To create your Const...
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Constituent Tag Lists
Constituent Tag Lists allow you to create a list which filters and/or outputs using the details of tags that have been added to constituents. The details can include tag start & end date, extra fields, etc. you may have set up for a tag. A Constit...
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Connection Lists
Connection Lists can help you find and understand the links between your constituents and uses the ‘hard’ connections that have been added to constituent profiles. Connections are reciprocal, so the connection is shown on the profile of each const...
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Change Log List
The change log list allows you to look for changes made to the data in your Donorfy using a range of filters including Who made the change When the change was made What was changed Which constituent the data was associated with You must be an ...
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Lists - FAQs
My Lists are not showing all Lists If you find that the number of Lists being displayed to you is not what was expected - i.e it's only showing Constituent Lists or Activity Lists, then you will need to de-select the List Types that were previousl...
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Error message - Error retrieving data:SyntaxErrod: Enexpected token < in JSON at position 0
You've created your List and tweaked it to be just how you want filters wise and the correct data view columns, clicked that preview button and the following appears in a grey pop out box: Error retrieving data:SyntaxErrod: Enexpected token < i...
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Custom List Views
This feature is only available on the Professional Plan to those organisation who also have an OwnAzure subscription. Why create a custom list view? Donorfy comes with standard list views, so that when you create a new list you can base it on tho...
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