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TravisM replied on September 26, 2008 19:25 to the discussion "New Feature: Online Donations" in Art of Mission:

Hey yeah! Looks like things are good in the pipes now :)

It recorded, sent me a copy of the receipt (to which I replied to, earlier), and went into the right fund too! Good work, thanks!

You want me to send back the PayPal test?

TravisM replied on September 26, 2008 16:30 to the discussion "New Feature: Online Donations" in Art of Mission:

Hey, had another donor donate, he's also one of our users. I guess this time when he donated it gave him the "2008 Krakow" as the fund, which is good, but once it processed PayPal marked it as "2003-2004 Travis".

And it didn't record the information... here's the custom field output from PayPal:

mode=done;donor_id=14357;organization_id=10076;fund_id=10114

TravisM replied on September 23, 2008 19:31 to the discussion "New Feature: Online Donations" in Art of Mission:

Hey no trouble at all :) I know it's in beta, and stuff happens, I work in IT so I've got plenty of patience... well for the most part (we all have our days)

TravisM replied on September 23, 2008 19:10 to the discussion "New Feature: Online Donations" in Art of Mission:

Yeah, it probably seems like I don't have a life :) But I do, and my work schedule is super flexible...

Anyway - I had a donor register and donate via PayPal today, and while her registration info came through, the donation info has not... is there a time delay? I see in the PayPal transaction details:

Custom:
mode=done;donor_id=14597;organization_id=10076;fund_id=

Not sure if it got cut off on the display, or truncated in transaction...

TravisM shared an idea in Art of Mission on September 23, 2008 07:26:

Feature requests...

Lovin' it! Of course a few more questions... now that I've gone and inputted every donation, all our donors, etc...

1. Feature request, would it be possible to get some "web widget" code for the fund thermometers? So we could easily place the thermo's on other sites?

2. Would be nice to have the ability to "mass change" or have multiple selection capability for donors, especially when tagging - at least the ability to apply a tag to multiple donors.

No hurry on anything, I love it, it's the first online solution to donation management that works exactly as I have been picturing.

TravisM replied on September 23, 2008 07:18 to the discussion "Fanatical Support" in Art of Mission:

I'm lovin' it as well, it's sleek, simple, does what we need, awesome.

A comment on the discussion "New Feature: Online Donations" in Art of Mission:

Awesome, that's perfect, thanks! – TravisM, on September 22, 2008 17:16

TravisM replied on September 22, 2008 03:59 to the discussion "New Feature: Online Donations" in Art of Mission:

Hey Ryan,

Is there anyway to set the default fund that people donate to? Right now it simply defaults to the first fund in the list... and actually I would prefer to have an option of which funds are even "alive" for donations... make sense?

thanks!

TravisM replied on September 16, 2008 23:44 to the discussion "New Feature: Online Donations" in Art of Mission:

I am very excited about this feature! My only question is, will people be able to donate w/o having to sign up for an account?

TravisM replied on August 29, 2008 17:34 to the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate:

I've jumped off the blogger bandwagon and imported all my comments (haloscan and ID), moved my blog to my own domain and am now using WordPress... so that's why I'm not using either haloscan nor ID right now.

TravisM replied on June 11, 2008 21:42 to the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate:

Well, that's ok, I'll have to just keep on chugging through and find my own solution. If I can just get the haloscan link to show on my old posts, than I'll be a happy camper. I'll start bugging haloscan on their side... although that's been far less responsive than ID... Thanks for all the trouble.

TravisM replied on June 11, 2008 17:37 to the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate:

Okay jsut sent it in. Thanks!

TravisM replied on June 10, 2008 21:56 to the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate:

I"m fairly certain I have ID set to show on only new posts (I installed it as a widget after the template install wasn't working for me... I'm wondering if the haloscan code is interferring) and have set my comment settings to "New posts do not have comments". Durring the installation I chose "Display ID comments on: All new posts"

Main page (an Index page) links for haloscan and ID are working as I want: http://foodforfish.blogspot.com (the last post on there at the moment has haloscan comments, and it works).

http://foodforfish.blogspot.com/2008_... this is May's archive/index page, haloscan comments work.

http://foodforfish.blogspot.com/2008/... this is an old post (from May) that should have 3 haloscan comments but instead is showoing ID's comments (of which there are none naturally).

Hope that helps.

As for the Haloscan exporter, I have 1,323 comments... It says it exports in CAIF format?? When I click to download it the file downloaded is in XML. I can send a file if you wish...

TravisM replied on June 10, 2008 18:52 to the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate:

Well my solution only went so far... :( If I goto a post's page in my archives, the haloscan links don't show, and ID does instead, thus not giving access to my old comments on the post pages, on index pages it works fine... any ideas? Also, if I sent the file Haloscan produces on export would it be of any value to send it to ID? Thanks!

TravisM replied on June 09, 2008 23:39 to the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate:

First if you turn off the coments for a post does your Haloscan comment link disapear? If so, than everything is setup for this tweak to work. If not, you'll need to do some HTML editing in your layout/template to make this work.

If the comment off/on feature is working correctly than follow this:

1. Go into blogger, settings, comments, and set your "comments default for new posts" to "New comments do not have comments"

2. Now log into ID, install ID to blogger using the Widget install, not the Template/Layout install.

3. That should do it.

Basically it's a hybrid setup, all old posts continue to show your haloscan link, while all new ones will use your ID, thus allowing, from this point forward, all of the ID features (such as comments on the same page as the post, and links that go to the post).

I hope that makes sense. If your Haloscan code isn't working properly, you can try removing all references to it, and reinstalling it per Haloscan's instructions...

But the ultimate solution would be for ID to allow haloscan importing! :)

TravisM replied on June 09, 2008 23:22 to the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate:

No problem... http://foodforfish.blogspot.com

TravisM replied on June 09, 2008 22:25 to the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate:

I have the same issue, but have developed an interim solution... I am using blogger so I installed the Intense Debate widget for just my new posts (turned off comments on all new posts, since I had haloscan installed in such a way that turning on/off coments would show/hide the haloscan comment link)... but as soon as I can import my haloscan comments I'll turn on ID for all.

TravisM started following the problem "How to remove Haloscan from my blog without loosing my comments?" in IntenseDebate.