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Commons Project: Grassroots Mobile

Grassroots Mobile Survey is an Open Source Commons solution created to provide offline field survey capacity to global Nonprofits using Salesforce.

Virtual Community Innovation: Wrapping up the first virtual sprint of the year!

 

"Can I just say, this has sparked a passion in me and I’m going to attend EVERY sprint going forward" - Virtual Sprinter

 

WOW, what a MASSIVE start to 2024! We were thrilled to gather our Nonprofit and Education community virtually for two days of brainstorming, creating impactful solutions, and fun networking to build community solutions for common challenges affecting Nonprofits and Schools.

 

120+ attendees from 15 countries came together virtually, bringing their skills and passion to the table. From Japan to Australia, to India, the global dedication to this event was truly remarkable! Thank you to all who stayed up late, woke up early, and spent time away from your day job and family to spend time sharing your skills.

 

Ready to dive in? Read the full recap here: https://sfdo-community-sprints.github.io/docs/sprints/2024-02-0607-Sprint

 

Projects included in the recap:

@Commons Project: Data Generation

@CumulusCI (CCI)

@Commons Project: DLRS

@Commons Project: Grassroots Mobile

@Commons Project: Memberships

@Commons Project: NP SF How-to Series

@Commons Project: Salesforce Indicators

@Commons: Sprinty's Community Resources

@Commons Project: Sticky Selectron

@Commons Project: Summit Events App

@Commons Project: Transfer Equivalency

 

WOO! @Cori O'Brien @Kristiane Kindle

FYI @Nonprofit and Education MindShare @Salesforce.org MVPs

#SFDOsprint

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  1. 22 feb 2024, 17:11

    @Prachit Kanwar if you look in the group sidebar of this sprint you can see the list of upcoming events, both planned and some that are on the horizon but not confirmed yet.

     

    You can see "Global Virtual Sprint (Time zone TBD), September 11th & 12th, 2024" but dates may be subject to change, so no reg yet but keep an eye out for more! :)

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Can this survey tool capture GPS coordinates automatically? 

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  1. 14 set 2023, 11:31

    @Emily Hinck - Hi Emily - At this time, we do not have that feature. We have been discussing it and where that would land on our roadmap but we are focusing on features that work offline first.

     

    We'd love to hear more about your use case though! It helps the project if we understand more ways folks are looking to use it. 

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I was able to install it but when I reached 'yarn start' that when I get some issues.

 

Error starting yarn.

 

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I hope you could help me.

 

Thanks!

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Calling all nonprofit and education-focused Salesforce end-users, admins, developers, and Partners — Registration for the Commons Lunch & Show-n-Tell is now open! 🎊

 

If you’ll be in or around SFO for  #DF23 next month, please join us for a special Commons solution show-n-tell lunch on Wednesday, September 13th from Noon - 4 pm (or as your schedule permits). Instead of hosting a Sprint, the Commons team is hosting this special event at Salesforce West to create space for our Nonprofit and Education community to come together, have a rest, fuel up, network, and learn a bit more about Commons solutions you can use to solve common technology challenges today.

 

Register today - Space is limited 😊

https://commonscommunitylunchshowntell.splashthat.com/

 

▶ What is The Commons?

The Commons program is a community-based approach to innovation on the Salesforce platform for Nonprofits and Schools that powers meaningful contributions. We bring the community together to identify, prioritize, and build solutions for common technology challenges facing nonprofits and schools. We provide resources to those that want to solve technology challenges, helping them create and share solutions allowing everyone to then benefit from their work. This makes it easier for nonprofits and schools to maximize their investment in Salesforce.

 

#DF23

#SFDOsprintCalling all nonprofit and education-focused Salesforce end-users, admins, developers, and Partners — Registration for the Commons Lunch & Show-n-Tell is now open! 🎊 If you’ll be in or around SFO for

 

@Nonprofit Hub

@Education Hub

@Salesforce.org MVPs

@Nonprofit and Education MindShare

@Salesforce.org Nonprofit Events

@Nonprofits at Dreamforce

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i got the error like" Unexpected error occurred while retrieving your contact record. contact your Administrator" . Could any one able to help me?.

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  1. 11 ago 2023, 10:53

    Please check your messages. 

     

    Again, we have not fully tested this with the new SF integration licenses and you may need to swap to a full lic set up per the instructions as an Integration User.

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We’re kicking off a new year with the annual Commons contributor survey.

 

This anonymous survey is intended to give you space to share your feedback and experience in the Salesforce.org Commons program over the past year (2022). This community is yours — your feedback is critical to ensure the spaces we create work for you. Your responses help us understand the impact the Commons has on you and the community, what’s working well and what needs improvement, and how we can continue to support and engage with contributors like you.

We’re kicking off a new year with the annual Commons contributor survey. This anonymous survey is intended to give you space to share your feedback and experience in the Salesforce.

If you’ve participated in the Commons by attending a Community Sprint, attending a Mini-Sprint, or volunteering your time on a project team in the past year in the past year (2022), please take 5-10 minutes to complete the survey by Friday, January 21st.

 

Thank you for the time, energy, and skills you’ve contributed to the Commons and community-led projects whether this was your first year or your 10th. You continue to inspire me every day, and I’m looking forward to engaging in 2023.

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Congratulations to the Salesforce.org Commons @Commons Project: Grassroots Mobile team for the launch of their highly anticipated solution that enables nonprofits of any size to use our technology to collect data from anywhere, even if they don’t have internet.

This solution is truly a labor of love. @Trish Perkins, founder, and CEO of WorldsTouch, brought the idea to The Commons 2 years ago. She partnered with @Dar Veverka, Solution Architect at Idealist Consulting, @Shun Kosaka, Solution Architect at Accenture, and other members of The Commons community to bring that idea to life. This is an amazing example of what happens when our community comes together. Read more on our blog. check out the FAQ, and try GRMS today.

 

Congratulations Trish, Dar, Shun, and the rest of the GRMS Team!

 

Congratulations to the Salesforce.

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I am so excited to see this app go live for non profits! We are an international non-profit provided full literacy and girls education resources to under-resourced countries around the world. For this app to work, do you need to have Heroku installed with a paid plan? This solution looks like a great option for our field office staff in 9 countries with limited bandwidth. Thanks!

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  1. 19 dic 2022, 22:32

    @Rochelle Foster the good news is that though Heroku Free plan is no longer available, the Eco plan is all that's needed for GRMS, and it's an accessible $5 USD per month, or $60 USD per year. https://www.heroku.com/pricing.

     

    Let us know if you set that up or if you have any questions we can answer. 

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I have a great use case for the Grassroots Mobile Survey tool:  home inspections.  

 

The inspection setup is done using PMM, with a Service Delivery record for each home inspection.  The standard Service Delivery has a custom child object, Service Delivery Detail, that contains one record per step in the inspection.  The details are generated automatically based on the Service Delivery type, which selects a Service Delivery template of SD Detail records.  For example, an inspection of a three-bedroom home needs SD details for each bedroom plus the number of other rooms in the building.  For each room, the template includes multiple items like curtains, ceiling, floor covering, etc.

 

And photos.  A single inspection may include 200 photos.  Because of storage limits on the Salesforce Platform, these are stored in SharePoint.

 

My questions are:

  • Is it possible to store photos in a survey field?
  • Is it feasible to have 200+ questions in a survey?
  • Can the survey questions be generated automatically (based on the Service Delivery templates described above)?
  • How easily can the back-end (Salesforce automation) split the survey results into multiple records in the Service Delivery Detail object?
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  1. 13 dic 2022, 14:24

    Hi Charles -

    Answers!

    • Is it possible to store photos in a survey field?
      • Attaching files and pulling them back into SF is one of our next 3 features to work on for our roadmap.
    • Is it feasible to have 200+ questions in a survey?
      • Have not tested that many but it should be possible. @Shun Kosaka - any reason this would be a limitation?
    • Can the survey questions be generated automatically (based on the Service Delivery templates described above)?
      • The surveys are by record types on the Field Survey custom object. The surveyor would need to select the correct survey. The survey would not be dynamically assembled based on number of bedrooms, rooms, etc. 
    • How easily can the back-end (Salesforce automation) split the survey results into multiple records in the Service Delivery Detail object?
      • This should be possible as long as you can separate out characteristics to tell flow where to put them. 

    So some yes and some no on your questions. 

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