Sharing & Alerts
Help with sharing bills and bill sheets; using widgets, scorecards and stakeholder pages; exporting data and creating reports; and with setting alerts.
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- Getting Started
Legislator Export Tool ★
An explanation of how to export a spreadsheet with legislator information for a state.
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- Intermediate
How to Use Scorecards on the Mobile App ★
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BillTrack50 - The Basics ★
A run through of the most fundamental functions of BillTrack50.
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How to Create and Share Widgets ★
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How to Create and Add Bills to a Scorecard ★
A demonstration of how to create a scorecard and then upload bills into it.
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How to Create and Share a Map Widget ★
A demonstration of how to create and publish a map widget on your website.
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How to Create and Share a Bill Widget ★
A demonstration of how to create and publish a bill widget on your website.
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How to Set Up Alerts ★
An explanation of how you can get alerts when changes happen to the bills in your bill sheet.
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- Intermediate
The Custom Report Builder ★
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How to Make a Scorecard ★
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How to Create and Use a Stakeholder Page ★
An explanation of stakeholder page basics.
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How to Set Up Alerts ★
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How to Use Mobile Stakeholder Pages ★
An explanation of how to share stakeholder pages with you members via the mobile app.
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Alerts Dashboard
An overview of the alerts dashboard, where you can see a summary of recent activity for the bills in your bill sheets.
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- Getting Started
BillTrack50 Paid Features
A run through of the features you get with a BillTrack50 subscription - bill searching, bill tracking, sharing, and legislator scorecards.
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- Getting Started
How to Ensure You Receive Alert Emails
Instructions for whitelisting BillTrack50 emails so that alert emails don't go to spam.
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- Advanced
Scoring Missed Votes on a Scorecard
An explanation of the options for setting points for absent or abstained votes on a scorecard.
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- Advanced
How to Edit the Font on Your Bill List or Bill Map Widget
An explanation of how to change the font family and font size on a bill list or bill map widget.
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- Intermediate
How to Add Widgets and Stakeholder Pages to a Squarespace Website
An explanation of how to add a widget or stakeholder page to a website using a website creation service such as Squarespace.
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- Intermediate
How to Add Categories to a Scorecard
A demonstration of how to organize the bills on your scorecard into categories.
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- Getting Started
How to Set Up Event Schedule Alerts for Upcoming Hearings
An explanation of how to get email alerts for upcoming hearings and how to use the Event Schedule page.
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- Advanced
Setting up your Bills - Key Features
An explanation of key features from the Legislation tab - naming bills, scoring sponsors, putting links in comments and scoring individual votes.
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What do the Different Scores Mean?
An explanation of how the various scores are calculated.
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How to Export Content to Other Applications
An explanation of the various ways to export information from the system to use in other applications such as MS Excel.
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How to Make a Scorecard
A step by step guide to creating a scorecard.
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How to Add a Logo to a Stakeholder Page or Scorecard
A demonstration of how to add logos to your stakeholder pages and scorecards.
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How to Score Different Votes in your Scorecard
A demonstration of how to set different scores for different types of votes in your scorecard.
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How to Color Code Your Widget to Support or Oppose Bills
A demonstration of how to set up a bill widget to display whether you support or oppose specific bills.
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How to Create a One-State Widget from an All State Bill Sheet
A demonstration of how to set up a bill widget for one state if your bill sheet has bills from multiple states.
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- Getting Started
How to Use a Stakeholder Page
A demonstration of how to set up and use a stakeholder page.
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- Getting Started
How to Get Daily Alert Emails for Regulations
A demonstration of how to set up daily email alerts for regulation sheets.
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How to Add an Event Schedule to your Calendar
A demonstration of how to see legislative events on your own calendar.
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- Getting Started
How to Use the Alerts Page
An explanation of the alerts page which lists changes to your bills over the past week.
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How To Sort Important Bills to the Top of the Page
A demonstration of how to highlight bills that were especially important by "pinning" them to the top of the page.
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- Advanced
Scorecards Webinar
A detailed walkthrough of everything you need to know about legislative scorecards.
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4 Common Alert Mistakes
A conversation about how to opt in for alerts, how to set your own alerts, how to keep up with alerts, and afternoon alerts.
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- Intermediate
The Custom Report Builder
An explanation how to create a custom PDF report.
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- Advanced
Afternoon Alerts
An explanation of how to get a second alerts email in the afternoon.
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Export the Full Voting Record and Sponsored Bill List for a Legislator
An explanation of the export function for votes and bill sponsorships.
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Forwarding BillTrack50 alerts to a Slack Channel
An explanation of how to use Slack for bill alerts.
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Color Coding a Bill Map by Average Bill Rating
How to use the Position column on your bill sheet to color code your map widget.
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- Getting Started
Examples of sharing tools used by our customers
A list of links to how our clever customers are using widgets, stakeholder pages and scorecards.
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