Using petitions effectively
CiviCRM Petition allows you to gather data online. You can use the data simply as survey data, or you can use it to demonstrate support for your cause in the form of a petition. CiviCRM Petition allows you to store, enrich, and leverage the data you hold and that alone gives it a huge advantage over external petitioning applications. This recipe shows you how to set up a petition.
How to do it…
We will need to set up some custom fields to hold our petition question and put this into a profile. We will also need to create another profile to hold details of the person completing the petition. We then combine these two profiles to create the petition itself.
- Navigate to Campaigns | New Campaign and set the title to
Stop the Supermarket. - Navigate to People | Permissions and add the CiviCRM Petition permission for anonymous and authenticated users.
- Navigate to Administer Customize Data and Screens | Profiles and create a new profile. Name it
Petition contact. - Add...
