Alumni Directory Searches: person to person however the other party is deceased

Jayne OLeary

For any users of the alumni directory in BBNC-Grow do you have a situation where one alum may search for another alum, but that person is deceased, how does that read? Do you see nothing or is there an info box that simply states that person is deceased?

thanks for any situation or tips to handle.

Jayne

Tony Williams

Hi Jayne,


Hope you are having a great week! The Directory part in BBNC allows you to include deceased constituents. When you edit the part, you'll see a checkbox for Include Deceased under the Records to Include section. You can then include the Bio.Deceased field in the Listing Fields section. If someone is deceased in the search results, you'll see 'This person is deceased' next to their name. 


Please let me know if there are any questions.


Thanks!

Tony

Jayne OLeary

Thank you Tony. That is good news. The text is static or can it be manipulated ie, instead of "this person is deceased" can it read something else such as "we regret that this alum has passed away"?


Tony Williams:

Hi Jayne,


Hope you are having a great week! The Directory part in BBNC allows you to include deceased constituents. When you edit the part, you'll see a checkbox for Include Deceased under the Records to Include section. You can then include the Bio.Deceased field in the Listing Fields section. If someone is deceased in the search results, you'll see 'This person is deceased' next to their name. 


Please let me know if there are any questions.


Thanks!

Tony

 

Tony Williams

Hi Jayne,


The language on the Directory part cannot be updated at this time. Our product development team is always seeking ideas for future releases, however, and I would encourage you to submit this in our Ideas portal. The team frequently reviews the portal for suggestions for upcoming releases:


https://community.blackbaud.com/products/netcommunity/ideas


Thanks!

Tony