Thanks Dave, Actually, it was me that 'customized' (actually, I just changed the household name line) our database so that the household name line would read "Doug and Sherry Smith" - We wanted to be able to print lables like this:
Doug and Sherry Smith 123 Alpine Way Ketchum, ID 83340 rather than: Doug Smith Sherry Smith 123 Alpine Way Ketchum, ID 83340 ... so I changed the HH name line from "Doug Smith/Sherry Smith" to "Doug and Sherry Smith" in the household maintenance screen, but once I did that, the household salutation changes to "Doug and Sherry Smith" rather than the two first names. I definitely have not customized (programmatically) Ebase to do this - and I would like to be able to override it and just use the two first names as the salutation rather than what I have in the household name line. Is there any way I can get the household name like to read 'Doug and Sherry Smith' while also having the salutation read 'Doug and Sherry'? Thanks again, Calista ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TechRocks Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:45 PM Subject: [support] Re: Household Salutation Line > >I'm playing around with using the 'Salutation Household' field in a > >personalized letter we are sending out. While for an individual, this > >field defaults to the First Name1 field, (Sherry Smith = 'Sherry'), the > >same field for a household record defaults to the Household name line - > >(Doug and Sherry Smith = 'Doug and Sherry Smith'). > > > >Since I need both the full first and last names for the mailing label > >'Doug and Sherry Smith' as well as a first-names-only salutation i.e.: > >'Doug and Sherry' for the letter, I don't want to change the Household > >name line to read 'Doug and Sherry', but at the same time, I don't to have > >the option of modifying the HH Salutation that's visible at the top of the > >Household Maintenance screen. > > > >Does anyone have a work-around or a better way to do this this? Am I > >trying to use the wrong field? > > There are two separate fields in ebase for the two functions you need. > > Name Line\Household defaults to both full names. Using your example > it would be... > Doug Smith > Sherry Smith > The order depends on who you have set as primary record. You can > change the value to something other than the default on the Household > Maintenance screen. > > Salutation Line Household defaults to first names only (unless there > is a value in the Salutation field, in which case it uses the > salutation). For example, > Doug and Sherry > > I note that in your case a field called Salutation Household defaults > to Doug and Sherry Smith. If you are reading that right, I'd say that > someone has customized your copy of ebase to attempt a different > solution to your problem. > -- > -- > Dave Shaw H4 Consulting > tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338 > > ------------------ > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
