Door knocking

List and map views, outcomes, support scores, offline sync, live teammates, and map colors.

For admins and canvassers

Open the canvass

From the canvasser home screen — after saving DoorLine to the home screen if you have not yet — pick a canvass and tap Start canvassing. Lists are grouped — Signs, GOTV, Lit Drop, then door knocking — so a split (1/7 … 7/7) sits together at the top. Search, filter by type (or Mine, if a piece is labeled with you), and sort by newest, name, remaining doors, or progress. Canvasses marked complete, and older ones that are far enough along, stay off this screen. You will see progress (done/total) and a List / Map toggle.

Canvasser home with canvass cards — Open canvasses, grouped by type. The whole team sees the same list.

Choose List or Map

List sorts by street then house number — great on foot. Map shows door pins and live teammate locations. Tap Sync now anytime; the sync badge shows online/offline and how many knocks are waiting to upload.

Address list with status pills — Status pills: Pending, Answered, No answer, Lit dropped.

Live map with door pins — Map view with door colors and teammate GPS.

Tap a door and pick an outcome

Three primary outcomes:

No answer
Answered — then How did it go? (Conversation, Brief, or Indifferent), support 1–5, plus toggles for Volunteer / Lawn sign (with size) / Donate / Already voted, whether they can vote, optional contact fields, issues, notes, and any custom intake questions. Brief is a door that opened and closed in ten seconds; Indifferent is someone who listened and had no view either way. Either one can be saved without a support score. Already voted marks a supporter who is already on the GOTV list and asks whether they said it was For us or Won't say. It does not add an opponent to that list.
Literature dropped — for lit-only passes without a conversation

Under the 1–5 buttons, each number has a line. That wording is the same cut Estimated Votes uses. A 4 counts the same as a 5, so a mild lean is a 3, not a 4.

5 — they said they'll vote for you
4 — values line up, and they're very likely to vote for you
3 — undecided, no signal either way
2 — values don't line up, or they signal they won't vote for you
1 — they said they won't vote for you, or there's a competing sign

Estimated votes count a 4 or 5 as a yes. A 3 stays undecided.

Input sheet with outcomes and support scale — Large buttons work with gloves on.

The first step shows Other signs on the lawn: chips for a mayoral sign and a ward sign, unless the owner turned that off in Settings. They are optional. A no-answer can still record a sign you can see from the sidewalk, and it does not block No answer or Answered. A house can have both. The names come from the city list the campaign chose to show.

Print a walk sheet

Print sheet opens a paper list in the same street order as List view: result boxes, support 1–5, Sign / Vol / Don, and notes. Eligible-voter and sign size stay on the phone form — they are too cramped for a photographable row. The first page is a full map of the canvass. It names the smaller streets as well as the main roads, and prints the house number on each door on the sheet. Under the title, a line says how to use the phone instead: ask your campaign team to add you, sign in at the link on the sheet, and open this canvass. Every address page has a small map in the top right. The footer asks you to return filled sheets so they can be uploaded to DoorLine. When you are back, photograph the sheet in Manual Input.

Walk sheet with a cover map and a small map on the address page — Print sheet: map on the front, mini-map and return-sheet footer on the list.

Add a missing door if needed

If a house is on the street but missing from the list, use Add a new door while online so the team shares the same address going forward. Remove this door takes the whole building off the turf, including every recorded unit. The knocks stay. It is for a commercial building or a vacant lot, not one suite.

GOTV canvasses look different

A canvass with a green GOTV badge is a get-out-the-vote list: every door on it is someone who already told us they support the campaign. Tapping a door shows who to ask for (and their phone if we have it) and offers one-tap outcomes instead of the full form: Already voted, Reminded — will vote, Not home, Not voting for us, or Moved away.

Voted doors turn green and drop off the campaign's GOTV list for everyone. Not-home doors stay on it for a second pass. The full story is in the GOTV guide.

A canvass with a Signs badge is a deploy piece. Tap Add a sign if a neighbour wants one, you plant an extra, or you see a damaged sign. Full story: Lawn signs.

Offline sync & live teammates

Knocks save on the device immediately (IndexedDB). When signal returns, they sync automatically — or tap Sync now. Basements and dead zones should not lose an evening’s work.

While online, teammate GPS appears on the map so captains can spot who is where. Presence is scoped to the canvass.

A canvasser stays on the map for ten minutes after their last position update, so a long conversation with the phone in a pocket does not make them vanish from the captain's view.

Pick up where you left off. If a phone call, a locked screen, or the browser interrupts you, the home screen shows an amber card with the canvass and door you had open. Tap it to land back on that door. The card lasts twelve hours and has a dismiss button.

Map colors (door status ≠ support)

Door pin colors mean knock status, not the 1–5 support score:

Not knocked yet — black (outdoor readability). A colored ring around it means the campaign already visited this house on another list; tap the pin to read that result. This list still counts it as not done.
No answer — grey (not amber, so it is not confused with mid support)
Literature dropped
Answered — colored by support 1–5 once recorded

Zoom in for house numbers when you need them outdoors. Full legend also appears on the admin Map & Turfs sidebar.