Yes, if you need a link that you are not able to customize through your Link Manager (located at Settings on your Dashboard) feel free to contact us for help.
Category Content: Internal
What kinds of links can I make?
Your Link Manager under Settings on your Dashboard allows you to customize links by:
- Type (Volunteer, Family, Missions)
- Category (of goods or service)
- Location
- Public/Private
- Keyword
You can also choose to receive the links as text, URLs or preconfigured buttons. You may format the buttons by color and style as well as entering text inside the button (e.g. “Volunteer Now!”)
What is a Link?
Links show the needs you post. Each link may be customized to show any type of need, no matter how narrow or broad, within or outside of your organization. Your links can be attached to buttons, menu items, pictures, or text on your website or sent out via email in messages, Word documents or newsletters.
What are the Best Practices for displaying needs to ensure they get met?
Can I add a shift to a recurring need?
On your Open/Partially Filled, Filled or Expired Needs, each Recurring need will show an Add Shifts button on the right. Click that button to load in additional times for a volunteer need that day. Each shift added will appear as a separate need on your Open/Partially Filled Needs report.
Can I duplicate a need to make it easier to repost?
Yes. There are two ways to duplicate a need:
- After you post a need, the screen that follows will ask you whether you would like to Duplicate that need. If you select that option, a new need posting form will appear with all of the information you just completed prefilled so you can modify as necessary and quickly post the new need.
- On your Open/Partially Filled, Filled or Expired Needs reports you can look up a need that has already been posted and click the Duplicate button next to that need. When you click Duplicate, the need posting form will be prefilled with the same details as the prior need so you can modify as necessary and post the new need. You cannot duplicate a Recurring need because of the complexity of replicating the specific occurrences which may or may not have been altered by the Key Contact.
Can I create my own categories when posting a need?
You can only create your own categories only if you are using our Events module. Otherwise, you can select from the wide variety of categories and sub-categories for each type of possible need that Meet The Need has refined over many years. Standardizing categories and sub-categories and keeping them consistent is important for aligning both the posting and searching of needs.
Can I change the category or sub-Category of a need that I have already posted?
We do not currently allow for the category or sub-category of a previously posted need to be changed. We suggest making the need Inactive on your Open/Partially Filled, Filled or Expired Needs reports and reposting it with the correct category or sub-category.
How do I add a recurring need as biweekly?
After creating a Recurring need on a specific day of the week, delete every other occurrence of that need.
Why can I only post a recurring need for up to 6 months?
We restrict the maximum duration of a recurring need to 6 months in order to keep the list of needs listed on Meet The Need current. Allowing needs (especially recurring needs where one need can equate to many occurrences) to be posted more than 6 months out has resulted in needs appearing in search results that are longer relevant. To maintain those recurring needs on an ongoing basis, Key Contacts may continue to add occurrences each week as prior occurrences roll off (because the dates have passed).