BBIS Donation form development & debug tools and setup

Joe Huang
Joe Huang
Fifth Anniversary Facilitator 1
in Blackbaud CRM Developer Discussions

Hello Everyone,

I wonder how people do development and debug for both classic and advanced donation forms in BBIS.

When we have barebone form set up, we want to add additional styles and customized behaviors, is there any specific IDE, frameworks, or tools that can make development and debugging process more easy and real-time.

For now, I put additional js and css files in the server directory and reference them in the unformatted parts in the BBIS form set up. it is annoying to manually refresh the from to see updates reflected.

I wonder if any peers can share their setup and workflow to make this process easy and realtime like e.g. using Live Server in vscode.

I am also developing in the app server directly with BBIS ruining, looking for some suggestion to have sort of local and static form reserved instance for faster loading and development process.

Much appreciated.

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  • Carrie Davis
    Carrie Davis
    Third Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Facilitator 1

    @Joe Huang
    I think for the out of the box donation form, what you are doing sounds like it is probably the best way to go…I can't think of a way to connect to the out of the box forms to do debugging.

    When I'm creating custom framework parts I am able to debug through visual studio with BBIS running on my local computer. There are instructions of how to connect to a process to debug through Visual Studio here:

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