Create Do It Yourself Online Forms

You can use DIY forms to interact with your website visitors. These forms allow you to receive donations, register people for events, sell memberships, register new volunteers, or just keep in touch with your constituents by allowing them to sign up for email communications. If you need to create more, you must delete existing pages before you can create additional ones.

Note: You can create and edit up to five DIY forms without a DIY forms subscription, but you must have an active subscription to publish any DIY forms. To view your subscription information, click My Organization under the Manage tab and then click Subscriptions. For information about activating the module, contact your Blackbaud representative.

Before you create a DIY form, it is best that you have at least one email template in communication. This template is used to send confirmation emails to visitors when they fill out the form and to your organization when a submission is received. For more information about how to create an email template in communication, refer to Create an Email Template.

You can create specific email templates for any forms you intend to use to tailor the email content for each situation. For example, if you plan to publish a volunteer registration page, you can create a volunteer confirmation email template with the appropriate language, volunteer instructions, and contact information.

You can change your confirmation email template selection after you create the DIY form. For information about how to change the confirmation email template for an existing form, refer to Edit Do It Yourself Online Form Configuration Settings.