Field and canvassing help

Get the doors in your district onto your phone.

This is the whole path, start to finish: pick your district, split it into a walking route, knock the doors, and record what happened. You do not need volunteers or any setup first.

Pick your districtWalk packetsTurf cuttingPermitted use
The field flowDistrict to doorstep
Step 1

Pick your district

Open Districts, find the seat you are running for, and press Walk list. That turns your whole voter file into just the doors in your district. If you would rather narrow it yourself, filter the voter list and press Knock doors instead.

Step 2

Choose how the route is split

On the Walk packets page, Route has two settings. Whole streets keeps both sides of a street together, which is what you want if you walk a street end to end. By precinct keeps each packet inside precinct lines, which is the reporting unit. Canvassers sets how many packets the list is cut into.

Step 3

Take it to the doors

Press Knock doors for the phone version, or Preview print stack for paper. On a phone the current door is at the top of the screen, with Next door to move on. Walk sheet (print) prints a plain list instead of packets.

Step 4

Record what happened

Mark each door as you go. The phone version saves your turf to the device automatically when you open it, so it keeps working with no signal, and syncs when you are back online. Field sync at the bottom shows anything still waiting.

Step 5

Close out

Mark the packet complete when it is walked. Results land in the voter record, so the next list you build already knows who you spoke to.

Which route setting to useThe Route toggle on Walk packets
Whole streets

Both sides of a street stay in one packet, and the doors are ordered up the odd side and back down the even side, so you are not crossing the road at every house. Precinct lines often run down the middle of a street, which is why the other setting can split one.

By precinct

Each packet stays inside precinct lines and the doors run in plain house-number order. Use this when you are reporting by precinct or handing packets to a party organisation that expects it.

Assignment statusOnly matters once you have volunteers
Unassigned

Cut, but not yet handed to anyone.

Assigned

Given to a canvasser, not yet started.

In progress

Someone is working the packet.

Completed

Walked and closed out.

Two ways to walk it

Use either, or both. The doors are the same list.

On a phone

Knock doors shows one door at a time with the outcome buttons underneath. Your turf saves to the phone when the page opens, so a dead zone does not cost you the list.

On paper

Preview print stack gives a packet per canvasser with a cover sheet. Walk sheet (print) is the same doors as one plain list. Both warn on the page if the list was too big to print in full.