A field exists in the Names file, called Staff Assigned, which would
serve this purpose. I don't know where it shows up currently but it
would be easy to drop it onto a layout, say Bio for example, and
assign a value list to it that contains all your staff and board
names.
At 10:31 AM -0200 10/25/00, Warren Goldstein-Gelb wrote:
>Here's a question about linking names in ebase to people who personally know
>the contacts. I've asked around a little about this, but I'm wondering
>whether people have tried different options and have suggestions about the
>best way to do this.
>
>We are asking our board and staff to identify people on our list that they
>know, and also to give us the names of new prospects. Now we want to put
>something in the database so that the names on the database are linked to
>their contact on the board on staff. We will use this info to personalize
>letters, notes, etc... Ideally, we would be able to print out a list of
>"John's contacts" or "Amy's contacts" The options I am aware of are:
>
>1. Add a memo in the memo field with the contact names (but may be more
>difficult to generate lists).
>2. Use the notes function to generate lists of people that should be
>contacted (But this seems less permanent...harder to generate a list of "Who
>at our organization knows Joe Smith"
>3. Create a new field with a pop-up memo for "Primary Organizational
>Contact"
>
>What do you suggest. What else is possible. I'm concerned that if I add a
>new pop up menu then I will also have to design a new format for generating
>the lists. Did the e-base designers have a preffered way to accomplish this
>task.
>
>Thank you.
>
>-Warren
>
>Warren Goldstein-Gelb
>Alternatives for Community & Environment
>2343 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
>Roxbury, MA 02119
>
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>
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