What is a "Campaign" in Sumac? What is the difference between a solicitation and a campaign?
In
Sumac, a Campaign is typically used to represent a fundraising
effort. For example, a series of appeals for donations you plan to send by paper mail or email.
We found that some users consider a campaign to consist of several solicitations, while others reverse this and refer to a solicitation containing several campaigns. So we made Sumac neutral on this issue: from Sumac’s perspective, a solicitation and a campaign are exactly the same thing.
Sumac generally uses the term "Campaign" to refer to these kinds of things. But when you define a Campaign in Sumac, you can indicate that it is of type campaign or solicitation, and use whichever terminology you are most comfortable with.
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