Not every advocacy campaign benefits from directly messaging public officials. Sometimes, a campaign is focused on collecting "proof of support" in the form of signatures, e.g., to then present in person to the respective officials.

For campaigns like this, you can now use "Petition-mode" on an action center. This works almost identically to a regular action center, except no messages are sent out. Instead of presenting an exhaustive copy of every unique advocate message, the PDF messages report lists signing advocates under each official's addressed message.

When petition mode is enabled on your account, you'll have the option of choosing the mode for your action centers. Messaging sending will always be the default.

When you choose petition mode for an action center, the "Communication Channels" option will go away since it is no longer relevant.

If you don't see the petition-mode option enabled on your account's action centers, you can turn it on by adding a note in the Intercom widget.

Target selection works exactly the same for petition-mode action centers as for message-sending action centers, with one small difference.

For petition-mode action centers, the non-geocoded action center constraints no longer apply. You can create a petition targeting members of Congress or a twenty-person caucus.

Unlike individual emails to targets, petitions are by nature non-customized. The options to allow advocate editing in your message and the personal message are disabled.

Similarly, your message is singular! - It will make use of one content block.

Since the purpose of a petition is to show agreement with a singular message, the message PDF reporting aggregates advocate "signatures" together under the message.

For non-geocoded action centers, this will consist of a single message followed by the list of signatories.

For geocoded action centers, this will consist of one addressed-message per official followed by signatures addressed only to them.