Maps overview
Learn more about maps – a tool for visualizing your people by their location, including generating downloadable or printable house visit lists with street maps, or defining areas of the map for analysis or to cut turf.
How maps work
View and assess your project’s contacts by location on a map. View all your people on a map Start by clicking the Maps link on the navigation panel. Clicking this link takes you to Broadstripes’ Maps page. By default, you’ll see the location of every...
Working with shapes
Understanding map shapes and shape groups Shapes A shape is a user-defined area of the Broadstripes map (for instance a voting ward, neighborhood, or school district). Any people in your project who are located within a shape you’ve drawn are considered a part...
Data tools overview
Intro Many things influence the nature of a labor or community organizing campaign — the industry of the workers, the culture of the community, the goals of the campaign, and so on. Broadstripes has been built for maximum flexibility, to allow you to capture and work...Organizing tools overview
Overview Broadstripes was built primarily to help labor organizers find and use information effectively during campaigns. One of its strengths is the built-in tools within Broadstripes that collect and organize information specific to labor organizing: Assessment...
Assessment codes
Overview An essential piece of any organizing campaign is figuring out where the workers stand in relation to the campaign’s goals. This is usually done using a numeric assessment scale, with 1 indicating strong support, and the highest number in the scale...
Leadership roles
Overview An important part of many kinds of organizing is the identification of leaders within the bargaining unit or worker group. Leadership is usually defined by roles. Labor organizing (internal or external) often uses “Committee” and “Key...
Built-in data
Intro Broadstripes comes with a number of built-in information fields already included. This means that you can set up your project and add information to it easily and quickly. This is a complete guide to all of Broadstripes’ built-in fields and their intended...
Custom fields
Overview Data that is permanently relevant about the worker (such as “Shift” and “Issues of Concern”) – but can’t logically be mapped to one of Broadstripes’ built-in fields – is best captured in a custom field. How is a custom field different...
Add a new person
If you are entering a new person or new organization in Broadstripes, click Person or Organization from the CREATE A NEW section of the toolbar on the left-hand side of your window as shown below. Create a new record for a person or org by using the links in the...Broadstripes help videos now available
Getting started (+video)
Getting started – Product tour Are you new to Broadstripes? We’re here to help! This video will walk you through some of the most common tasks for new users including: Viewing your homepage Searching for a worker or shop by name Adding a new worker or shop...
Register your account
Welcome to Broadstripes! Getting started with Broadstripes is simple. It all begins when your Broadstripes administrator creates your account and emails you an invitation to join. You’ll follow the link in that email to set a password and log in to the app....
Log in (and reset a password)
Log in as a Broadstripes user You’ll need to have been invited to Broadstripes and completed registering your account before you can log in to the app for the first time. If you haven’t received an invitation to join Broadstripes, ask your administrator to...
Tour your homepage
Quickly find people by name or workplace.
Use the Quick Search
Quick search Much of the work you do in Broadstripes will begin with a search. Whether you’re trying to pull up the record of one specific person, or all the people at a certain work location, it’s simple with Quick Search. Click the Quick Search link in...
Search for a person
To search by a worker’s name simply place the cursor in the search box at the top of the screen, just to the right of the Broadstripes logo, and begin typing the name of someone you’d like to find.
Search for people by their workplace
Intro Sometimes you want to search for a single person by name; at other times, you may want to see a group of people all at once. A common case is when you want to see everyone who works in a particular shop or department. For this example, we’ll search for...
Add flexible contact info columns to a layout
Overview Broadstripes’ layouts let you customize the contents of the search results panel. With flexible contact info columns, you can can decide on the fly which contact info you want displayed and what type of contact data you don’t want to see. You can also...