Accessing your Site

You will access the pages corresponding to the DonorPoint objects you create via URLs, like in any website. The URL for a DonorPoint object can be seen on the Sharing tab for that object.

Redirect URLs

RedirectURLs are DonorPoint’s ‘tiny URL’ capability. For example the URL https://brurl.co/DonorPointDemo will take you to the DonorPoint demo catalog.

RedirectURLs can link to any URL, and when you create a page or item DonorPoint automatically creates the RedirectURL to the page corresponding to that object. For example, the RedirectURL for a Community page leads to that Community page. The RedirectURLs pointing to a DonorPoint object can be viewed on the Sharing tab of the object editor. These RedirectURLs get created with random text strings, and you can edit these to be more readable.

Note - DonorPoint RedirectURLs are unique across all accounts. DonorPoint will prevent you changing the name of a RedirectURL to one that already exists.

Most of the time you will only interact with RedirectURLs to change their name. You can add parameters to RedirectURLs to customize them for different uses. DonorPoint uses this feature when you create workplace-specific versions of Pages. The organization’s id is added as a parameter to a unique RedirectURL pointing to that page. You can use parameters to do things like pre-defining values for the page, like predefining custom property values or contact values, or populating your own merge tags.

Lifecycle

Like the objects they link to, RedirectURLs have active/inactive status and optional start and end times. That allows you to ‘turn RedirectURLs on and off’ during your campaigns. When turning off a RedirectURL, you can set an error URL where constituents will be directed to if they hit that inactive link.

RedirectURLs can be archived. Accessing an archived RedirectURL will result in navigating to the RedirectURL’s error page, oryour account error page, or if neither are defined the default DonorPoint error page.

Be careful! You can archive an object that is used by other objects. That will cause issues if you edit the containing object, which will not longer be able to ‘see’ the archived component. DonorPoint will alert you that an object is used by other objects to help you avoid these issues.