Useful fields and questions

All these questions are available to all groups using the the XRUK network

When you use these questions in your forms/events the data you collect will be added to subscribers record.

You can also create your own questions in a form or event, but these will just be held within the 'action' itself (this is more suited to temporary information e.g. to ask people what shifts they could cover when stewarding for an action with options of 12-2pm,2-4pm, 4-6pm)

If you need help on this, please book time on our Training Request Form, or contact the Action Network Data Team.

Commonly used questions

If you have an idea for a question that could be useful system-wide then get in touch. If you feel like you need the freedom to create your own questions, read more here

QUESTIONS

A shortlist of most useful questions. These are questions that can be added to forms or events.

• GDPR_UK - For use on UK forms, it add "GDPR_Policy_V3" to the field 'GDPR_consent'. Essential for every form and should be set as 'required'.
  
  

• Which Region - Drop down menu of options of every nation or region and an 'other/nomad' category too. This adds the chosen option to a field called 'Region'. Apologies for this question and field being just called 'Region' and not NationRegion.
  
  

• Mattermost Handle - This is a free text field of the same name, for someone to enter their mattermost handle.
  
  

• Event Attended - This is a free text field that you could use on forms you set up for helping you with data entry of paper sign up sheets. Data added to the field 'event_attended'.
  
  

• Local XR Group 2024 dropdown - Useful for UK, Action Support or other UK-wide lists, to pick up information on the person's local group. Note: nothing happens when they fill this in, there is no coding that automatically subscribes them to that LG email list. It's just for information only.
  
  

• Principles and Values - This give a link to the P&Vs on the website and asked for use to tick if they agree with them. Then it tags their activist record with 'P&Vs_agreed'.
  
  

CUSTOM FIELDS

A shortlist of most useful custom fields. You can view the data in custom fields via reports or by looking at an individual activist record.

• WestminsterConstituency, WestminsterMemberOfParliament, WestminsterParty - these contain a person's UK Parliamentary constituency, the name of their MP and their MP's party. These fields are based on the person's postcode, so are only available where people have given us their postcode.
  
  This data is maintained by the Action Network Data Team and updated periodically. It was last updated in February 2025 and contains the results of the 2024 general election. These fields are not available for anyone who signed up after February 2025.
  
  If you would like these fields to be updated, or if you would like data from the Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish parliaments to be added, please contact the Action Network Data Team.
  
  

• Region - this data is added via a project to the whole user database in relation to what LG a person was signed up to and also collected via user input, in particular on volunteer role forms.
  
  

• Local XR Group - this data comes from user input via the dropdown question (listed above).
  
  

• dt_subscribed_child_groups - this field gives you a list of the actual email lists within our XRUK network that the person is subscribed to (this is not 'LIVE' data, but gets updated regularly).

Contact the Action Network Data Team if you are looking for a question to use on your form that you can't find.